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DasKlee
S3 licensed
I tried it and it actually does work quite well - still 60+ FPS with rFactor on maximum resolution, maximum effects and max. anti-aliasing - and LfS runs at least as good

I even have a spare Nvidia Quadro FX card left
Will this work?
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Hi

I have been offered a system with the following specs and want to know if it would work for gaming (mainly LFS, rF, Race07) as well since it isn't based on desktop technology.

Price isn't a issue here because the whole system will cost under €500 so I don't care that Xeon processors or Xeon ready mainboards are more expensive than the unsual desktop/gaming PCs.

System specs that I know are:

Intel 5000X chipset
Intel Xeon Dual Core 5160 @3000mhz 4MB cache
8GB RAM DDR2
1 TB Samsung SpinPoint F3 hard drive
Gigabyte GeForce 560 GTX 1GB
Win7 home

From what I know the Xeon proceccors should be a little more reliable and moch more expensive but shouldn't affect gaming in a negative way but I'm not sure if I should go for the offer.

Any thoughts on this?
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Quote from Breizh :How would you design the RB4 GTR to not be redundant with the FXR?

Not that hard I guess - a little different weight distribution, maybe some more kilos but a slightly different engine characteristic (torque/power curve) and a slightly different aerodynamic (more or less drag)

Should be possible to make both cars feel different enough and still be competivie in the same class

Right now all 3 GTRs have the same power and FXR/XRR seem to have the same engine (with the same tourque, power, engine size etc.) and the XRR and FZR have the same weight and RWD concept and yet all cars are pretty unique. I doubt it would be that hard to design the RBR within the GTR power/weight/aero specifications of LFS and still different from the FXR.
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Well I did this 2,5 years ago but since then some things changed (like the information about the VWS and Rockingham) so I changed my wishlist a bit to adjust to these announced changes...

So here is my 2010 LfS wishlist - with Duke Nukem Forever coming in 2011 I won't give up hope on S3 - even though i doubt that it will include anything from my wishlist
DasKlee
S3 licensed
The broken part isn't really a very important one - it's used as a damper when you reach the end of the steering radius and usually sits on a bolt in the center above the wheel

If you reach the end of the 270° radius a metal part hits this bolt ending the wheel movement - and from whar I can see on the picture this looks like the rubber ring that sits on this bolt to soften it when the metal part reaches the bolt.

You should hear a metallic sound when you reach the end of your steering radius to each direction right now the the rubber-ring not in position but apart from that you shouldn't have any problems

So if you replace it, this sound and the hard impact to the end of the steering radius will go away - it's pretty easy once you opened the wheel cover
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Hmm it's been 2,5 years since i posted my car here and in the time since 2005 i changed it quite a few times

Here's what I had between 2005 and now:

-1988 Porsche 928 S4 (sold)
-1997 BMW 520i touring E39 (sold)
-1994 BMW 318i touring E30 (sold)
-1992 Honda Legend Coupe 3.2 V6 KA8 (sold)
-1998 Opel Omega-B Caravan 2.5 V6 (sold)
-1994 Nissan 200SX 2.0 16V Turbo S14 (still here but currently not running)
-1992 Nissan Sunny GTi-R (sold)
-1998 BMW 528i touring E39 (sold)
-2003 BMW 525d E39 (still here)
-1998 Subaru Impreza GT Wagon (blown engine 7 days after purchase - gave it back to the dealer)
-1998 BMW 328i touring E36 (still here)


That makes it 11 Cars in 3 years - I think i should try and stick with what a buy a little longer in the future

Here are my current cars I still have:
DasKlee
S3 licensed
A dedicated host or ingame host?

If it's an ingame host, check if there isn't accidently 'S1 Mode' set in the menu
DasKlee
S3 licensed
A big YES since not only the track (BL) changed but also the online balancing made some older PBs on cars like the FZR or the FXo pretty unbeatable.

I cleared all my old PBs myself and started new with patch Y and i hope the other PBs will be deleted as well.

Should happen very soon though because the longer you'll wait with cleaning up the PB charts, the more patch Y times will be deleted as well
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Try the testpatch - that's exactly what they are trying to do right now..

The cars of the 2 classes (TBO and GTR) should have been released as 'equal' but after a while (and also due to setups which didn't exist at the time they were released at first) it showed that some cars are inferiour and a few superior

Thats why the made the 'forced balancing' via the master server to keep online races close

With the next patch, there will be some small changes on the cars itself (smaller tires, less weight, different gearboxes) to keep the classes balanced - take a look at the different threads concerning class balancing with the new patch in the TEST forums...

If they manage to balance the cars correct, there won't be any differences between offline and online driving with patch Y anymore
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Quote from mattlikespeoples :not anything major but when selecting the number of laps I think we should be able to right-click like every other setting and enter it in manually. For instance, training the new AI for 50 or 100 laps. It'd be nice not to have to click that much. Anyone else with me?

Ever tried a right klick?

Shouldn't be that much klicks to get to 50 Laps when you actually do klick the right mousebutton instead of the left one :rolleyes:
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Quote from Highsider9 :Sounds like S1...

Just what I thought - we already had this - and people started complaining that they couldn't drive the faster cars

Now that it's gone, people want it back

I agree that there should be a little better offline mode (like Season/Tournament or something) but since the AI still doesn't change their racing lines when a players car is on it, everythin involving AI would scare new players away rather than convincing them to by a license
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Quote from marcione :there is an error msg in dedi hosts:

FATAL NET ERROR NOTCONN

it comes up every ~3min when someone is online on the server.

It doesn't count any Laps/PBs in LFSW if that message appears. I guess there's too much load on LFSW rignt now, so the connection is lost somehow
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Offline some 40 Laps around Blackwood and online maybe 20 Laps
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Started as a joke - so don't take it too seriously, but here's my version of S3
DasKlee
S3 licensed
looks pretty much like the old one though
DasKlee
S3 licensed
well then i think it's time to post our team here as well - since that's the purpose of this thread

Rising Suns Motorsport [RSM]

founded june 23rd 2006 and consisting of 9 members so far, ranging from 14 year old school kids to real life race-instructors - so pretty much open for everyone who takes himself not too seriously

despite the asian influenced name, the team is based in germany

here's the current lineup of our team (the online nick in bold, NOT the license name)

A. Andy Wagner
A. Kobura Finke
C. mues-lee Tiemann
D. DaMobby Majchrzyk
M. Backslash Volkert
M. CWest Steinbeiss
M. K4ne Majchrzyk
R. DasKlee Grasser
Z. Zeno Endres

more info can be found here: http://www.rising-suns-motorsport.de.vu
DasKlee
S3 licensed
interesting project - you have mail

thanks for the welcome here
Rising Suns Motorsport (new team)
DasKlee
S3 licensed
we from rising suns motorsport are happy to announce the arrival of a new team

since all our drivers are japanese-car fanatics, the theme is pretty asian inspired

currently there are 9 licensed S2 drivers in the team aged 14 to 31 and we are stil growing

the main goals are having fun on the track and in the LfS community, so we do not take it all too serieously and winning isn't the most important thing in our team (although we wouldn't mind ending up first in a race once in a while )

despite the japanese touch, the team is based in germany and our team webpage is german only (at least at the moment) but feel free to browse through it - www.rising-suns-motorsport.de.vu

here's a little hint on how we'll look like in the future:

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DasKlee
S3 licensed
for us, obviously there is only a chance to participate, if the race is in december

since we are willing to continue (without the reckless behaviour seen in the past by a former driver), we have to send in 30 laps mpr's in the GTR cars with at least 10 opponents - impossible on public servers because of the number of laps and the fixed minimum of opponents, so we were planning to make a special event race with 10-12 other drivers.

if the race is on november 19th, i doubt we will have enough time to find these drivers and a date that suits all our team members that should participate in the MoE

on the other hand, i could understand very well, that twister is probably the last team you guys would listen to, when it comes to setting the event date - who could blame you after our performance in the last 2 runs
DasKlee
S3 licensed
31 in december - seems like quite a lot of us celebrate their birthdays in december...
DasKlee
S3 licensed
didn't have much luck with LfS here at first - until i started carrying a LfS CD with me all the time at work and i got one of our mechanics hooked - 2 days later, the others started asking me for the CD as well and right now, there are 3 of them racing in demo mode and one got a license..

@psycho
by the way - what'S the problem with those guys you mentioned, that download the crack? the crack is just an extended offline demo, so there'S really not problem with the crack at all..

it might convince much more demo-racers to buy a license than it prevents people from licensing their downloaded demos - since they are able to test all tracks/cars of the game but they just can't compete with someone (not counting the uncompetitive AI)
DasKlee
S3 licensed
Quote from xaotik :Well, the "<PLAYER> won the race" message was up quite a while before he entered the pits. However, I think he just didn't know LFS would do this or he would of limped it to the finish line - it was the same distance after all

i didn't watch the replay but if i remember correct, the DQ message came shortly after the XXX won the race message

so from what i remember, he was already in the pits - at least it looked to me (while being still in the race) that way.. could be wrong here though, since i was racing and didn't really look at the text messages as careful as the admin did

doesn't change the fact, that he did nothing to deserve a DQ and crossed the finish line on his own without using any illegal methods (shift+s, reset..), but you already mentioned that - so i'd still stick to my opinion that he should be counted as finisher and not as DQ or DNF
DasKlee
S3 licensed
i was in the P5 race as well and witnessed his DQ, so i think i can have a few words regarding this as well

with the p2 patch, you can't finish races in the pits to prevent last lap pitting in races with mandatory pit stops or to prevent last lap stop&go/drivethrough penalties

since pabs wasn't forced to pit in any way and also was 5 laps down and could not know that the leader crosses the finish line while he was pitting, i hope he'll get the points - everything else wouldn't be correct in my eyes

he didn't break any racing rules, didn't disturb the other pool5 racers on the track and did nothing that should have seen him getting a DQ at all - he crossed the finish line by himself without shift+s or reset, so no reason for a DNF as well

he should just appear as finished 5 laps down and get the points for it
DasKlee
S3 licensed
well if it'll be a not-very-quick to pretty-slow league, i guess i would be interested..

now you'll only have to tell us, who would qualify as old git
DasKlee
S3 licensed
ok then here again:

new:

- lfs-license-name: - country: germany

old:

Marius Golombeck
Falko Doerfel
Lennart Kaiser

(all german)

change in mail address as well: Daniel Hager isn't active anymore in the MoE team, so all mails should go to Lennart Kaiser, who did the qualifying.
i'll send the mail adress via PN
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