I have an FX5200 too, and it's pretty slow by today's standards. In LFS your fps count may be fine -- in LFS the processor seems to be the major factor.
M3 Challenge is harder on the graphics card. I set it to 800x600, 16 bits, DirectX 8, and with all graphics options at "low". I got a fame rate that is barely acceptable, in single player mode.
There seems to be a fatal bug in the program (v. 3.0.0, downloaded & installed 15 minutes ago). Many setups can't be loaded. I get an error "This setup is for a vehicle not currently loaded in the program".
This happens for about half of the LFS cars: BF1, FO8, FOX, FXO, RAC, and XFG. The setups for the other cars work.
This happens for about half of the LFS cars: BF1, FO8, FOX, FXO, RAC, and XFG. The setups for the other cars work.
He did! Except that his idea of what is worthwhile differs from yours.
Hmmm. Estate, darkened windows, flags at the front... Who died?? :tombstone
(Lemme guess: it's a funeral car for ricers who overestimated their driving skills.)
I was racing on BL GP with the FOX, in mid-field. There were 3 fast guys way in front, no one close behind, so I did some nice clean laps and managed to beat my PB.
Then suddenly I was 1st -- the others had been taken out by some stupid noob. And when I realised I was on my way to my first FOX win, I lost my rhythm and spun the car.
Then suddenly I was 1st -- the others had been taken out by some stupid noob. And when I realised I was on my way to my first FOX win, I lost my rhythm and spun the car.
Holy sh*t! I knew Georgie's mates had their hands in the government's pockets, but I didn't know the thievery was this blatant. (And suddenly, the conspiracy theory about Bush having planned 9/11 doesn't seem so crazy anymore.)
I get the feeling I just watched America start its downward slide from superpower to banana republic.
I voted for "Lightest", but to be honest I would like to see a different colour combo. I get the feeling I've seen hundreds of sites using orange + blue(ish).
Usage of fonts and whitespace is very good, tho. Nice clean looks.
The tabs ('quote', 'what we do', etc.) could use some more contrast, to stand out against the background. They're barely perceptible now, which is a bit irritating.
Good luck with your company. Oh, and good luck to Matt in giving up smoking.
Usage of fonts and whitespace is very good, tho. Nice clean looks.
The tabs ('quote', 'what we do', etc.) could use some more contrast, to stand out against the background. They're barely perceptible now, which is a bit irritating.
Good luck with your company. Oh, and good luck to Matt in giving up smoking.
Wrong maybe, but understandable. Often, unnamed players on demo servers are wreckers or utter noobs.
Don't connect your manhood to a car! Please. It's gonna hurt awfully, especially on bumpy roads.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.
)South City Town reversed. But if you have no S2 licence, you can't watch the replay.
Request: Could someone write the "reverse" of this guide? That is, how to get the most fps out of a low-end system (like mine), without harming the appearance too much.
Could LRV also leave it unchanged (= under control of the user)?
When I watch a race, I tend to look for fast drivers, because they are likely to overtake a few cars, and because I can admire their skill and learn from it. Since patch X it's a bit hard to find the fast guys. A stats display in LRV (plus manual control of the focus) would be handy.
When one crash is quickly followed by another, you could
- switch to helicopter view, or
- "queue" the second crash, and only switch when the first crash has been shown for a minimum amount of time (4 seconds or so).
This looks very interesting! Some remarks:
- The names list suggests that you can also switch focus manually, by (double-)clicking on a name. But nothing happens, so I guess that feature isn't included. Would be very nice to add it, though. (It does conflict with the auto-switching that LRV does, tho. Maybe that should be disabled when you switch manually.)
- I like to watch the race from various views (in-car, helicopter, chase). But when LRV switches focus, it resets the view to default.
- What function do the password and prefix have (i.e., in what situation are they used)?
- Adding statistics to the player list would be very nice. For example: current lap number, fastest lap, latest split time (for each player).
- The names in list of drivers differ from the driver names in-game (account name vs. player name, I guess).
About the focus-switching algorithm:
- It should ignore cars whose speed is close to zero.
- Basing it on distance is OK, but a battle is less interesting when the cars are not in the same lap.
- "When a crash occurs and causes an yellow flag, the camera focuses on it immediately". I couldn't test it, but what does it do at the T1 carnage? Does it switch focus like mad?
Keep up the good work! This could become a really great tool.
- The names list suggests that you can also switch focus manually, by (double-)clicking on a name. But nothing happens, so I guess that feature isn't included. Would be very nice to add it, though. (It does conflict with the auto-switching that LRV does, tho. Maybe that should be disabled when you switch manually.)
- I like to watch the race from various views (in-car, helicopter, chase). But when LRV switches focus, it resets the view to default.
- What function do the password and prefix have (i.e., in what situation are they used)?
- Adding statistics to the player list would be very nice. For example: current lap number, fastest lap, latest split time (for each player).
- The names in list of drivers differ from the driver names in-game (account name vs. player name, I guess).
About the focus-switching algorithm:
- It should ignore cars whose speed is close to zero.
- Basing it on distance is OK, but a battle is less interesting when the cars are not in the same lap.
- "When a crash occurs and causes an yellow flag, the camera focuses on it immediately". I couldn't test it, but what does it do at the T1 carnage? Does it switch focus like mad?
Keep up the good work! This could become a really great tool.
Well... According to LFSW the cheater in question is only 12 years old. Let's say he needs to grow up some more.
Cheats like this are so glaringly obvious, they will always be discovered. It's the clever cheaters that you should worry about.
The biggest problem for the new ultra-lightweight model was sneezing spectators.
Onboard gun to blast away AI cars
Given the current state of AI, I'd like to have an onboard gun, so I can blast AI cars to shreds when they've driven me off track again. It would really improve peace&quiet in my home, and save me a couple of years in purgatory.
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I won? Oh blast, I suck at finding good racing pictures. Shotglass, could you take this?
New version (0.5) has been added to the first post.
Would you do the same if you had some time to reflect? If you'd read in the evening paper that the guy had been arrested, would you go to the police station and organize a lynch mob?
A solid reason for being against capital punishment, methinks.
Great! Finally you're starting to talk some sense!
Read this book for a well-founded explanation that killing animals is wrong.That's what they thought in England, around 200 years ago. And boy, was it a success... Not. Oh well, at least it helped with populating Australia.
The error in the reasoning for harsh laws is that a good citizen feels certain that he won't commit a crime if it is a capital offense. But he wouldn't do it anyway, so that makes no difference. And he doesn't really know how the mind of a less-well-behaved citizen works.
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As a matter of fact, yes. A large part of people who kill are unlikely to do it again after they get out of jail. The exceptions are the psychopaths, and the soldiers
. The former can be found and diagnosed. Many countries either give them life sentences, or only release them after long psychological treatment.Ironically, the parties who are most in favour of the death sentence (the conservative side) generally oppose support for the hungry and homeless.
That's a known tactic: first you dehumanize them by giving them other names (scum, trash, etc.), and exaggerate the crime (= present examples of the most gruesome murders). Then you're free to do whatever you want. That's not rational, it's rethorical.
If you stop seeing the offenders as humans, then you can just as well kill them and sell the bodies as dog food.
Send the guy to Iraq! Then he can kill loadsofpeople, get modern equipment for the job, a handsome salary, and maybe even a medal. It would be silly to execute a man who might become a war hero.
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