Can't wait! I love using the DK2, it's an incredibly cool piece of tech to have, I'll be putting in a day 1 pre-order without doubt. 
All the dSRC old boys are coming out of the woodwork! 
I've still got all my skins on LFSW.
I've still got all my skins on LFSW.
Oooooh yes! I do have access to a server should we need one (which I pay for!).
Nice to see you Jack! Things are about 6 years more advanced!
I miss the days of UF1 racing and those UF Baby-R's! Is it time to bring them back yet?
Another old name checking in... Still lurk here far too much!
Edit - I must get around to changing my avatar at some point.
Edit - I must get around to changing my avatar at some point.
Would be interesting to see what that would be. I bought one of those Fiestas last June (astonishing engine, same power, more torque, more MPG than 1.6l), my girlfriend passed her driving test last May, when my insurance renewal came around in September I added her to the policy and it was a total of £304. I was expecting double that. Now what helps is when I took the policy out I was 26 with 6 years NCB, she's 25. But it would be interesting to know what insurance on the 1.0l Fiesta would be like with someone younger. I don't think insurance companies look at engine power, just engine size.
I've got an AOC 23" screen similar to that one. It's a nice screen, I do have an issue with the colours being ever so slightly too far on the red side (and have done since owning it). I've recently discovered that it overclocks to 75hz without any problems at all. No extra heat or messed up pixels at all.
I agree with that!
I am suffering from a huge amount of pop-in from trees to the road itself on one corner - it's a see through hole until my front wheels touch it and it loads in. I've got world detail on medium (also tried low initially) so I can keep the magic 75fps on the rift.
Apart from the pop in it's the first Nordshleife I've enjoyed driving on, loved my lap in the KTM X-bow!
I'd buy the Focus. Although I am biased having owned 2 Focus and now a '14 Fiesta.
The 1.0l engine is astonishing. I have it in my Fiesta and it puts a grin on my face whenever I put my foot down. Still returns 35MPG when I'm driving it hard, but when I drive like my grandad it gives me 58MPG. The 1.6l Focus I had gave me 32MPG when I drove like my grandad.
Oh and road tax in the UK is £0 on the 1.0l too!
Titanium spec is great too. I had an 03 Focus LX with no many toys and went to an '08 Focus Titanium and the extra features made it worth while. Went with Titanium for the Fiesta now too and that has more toys than the Focus did!
So yes, happy Ford owner here and have been for many years. My next car in 2.5 years will be a Focus.
The 1.0l engine is astonishing. I have it in my Fiesta and it puts a grin on my face whenever I put my foot down. Still returns 35MPG when I'm driving it hard, but when I drive like my grandad it gives me 58MPG. The 1.6l Focus I had gave me 32MPG when I drove like my grandad.
Oh and road tax in the UK is £0 on the 1.0l too!
Titanium spec is great too. I had an 03 Focus LX with no many toys and went to an '08 Focus Titanium and the extra features made it worth while. Went with Titanium for the Fiesta now too and that has more toys than the Focus did!
So yes, happy Ford owner here and have been for many years. My next car in 2.5 years will be a Focus.
Been on this server a few times over the last week and enjoyed it. Even though I'm very very slow!
I used to be quick in the XFG. After 5 years racing elsewhere I'm at least 2 seconds off the pace.
I used to be quick in the XFG. After 5 years racing elsewhere I'm at least 2 seconds off the pace.
Got rid of my 2008 Focus Titanium back in June as it cost too much to run! 32MPG, £175 road tax, other half just passed her driving test.
In it's place I got my first brand new car. A Ford Fiesta Titanium with the 1.0l EcoBoost engine in it. 2.5k miles in returning about 55mpg, also free road tax and £200 less to insure. So can't complain at all!
Even though it's a 1.0l engine, it's an impressive little unit, pulls more power than the old 1.6 Focus. Very nice car to sit in too - feels much bigger than it actually is and it's great for driving around the city in - those who have been to and driven in Newcastle will know what it's like! Putting it onto country roads is a laugh too!
In it's place I got my first brand new car. A Ford Fiesta Titanium with the 1.0l EcoBoost engine in it. 2.5k miles in returning about 55mpg, also free road tax and £200 less to insure. So can't complain at all!
Even though it's a 1.0l engine, it's an impressive little unit, pulls more power than the old 1.6 Focus. Very nice car to sit in too - feels much bigger than it actually is and it's great for driving around the city in - those who have been to and driven in Newcastle will know what it's like! Putting it onto country roads is a laugh too!
Target local office parks. There's a guy who cleans my car who does just that. The key thing is make your prices extremely hard to turn down.
The start lights on-screen are not synced properly with the start lights on the grid. They used to have a 2nd camera in a small box looking at the actual start lights, not sure why they've gone to this "virtual" start light overlay, it's very delayed!
My source - watching a race start at Oulton Park from the start/finish straight, nobody moved until the lights went out, watched ITV coverage when I got home and this on screen start light delay was present.
I had a race last night in an MX5 and was left with a massive feeling of disappointment.
The grip on the back end just disappeared suddenly without any warning. The FFB felt weak and not very precise, I had no feel for what the tyres are doing. rF1 feels considerably better than iRacing for me, a massive disappointment and left me wondering how they get away with calling it a racing sim! Feels more like an ice rink simulator which just so happens to be in the shape of a race track.
So what am I doing wrong? I'm running a Fanatec Forza CSR wheel with G25 pedals.
The grip on the back end just disappeared suddenly without any warning. The FFB felt weak and not very precise, I had no feel for what the tyres are doing. rF1 feels considerably better than iRacing for me, a massive disappointment and left me wondering how they get away with calling it a racing sim! Feels more like an ice rink simulator which just so happens to be in the shape of a race track.
So what am I doing wrong? I'm running a Fanatec Forza CSR wheel with G25 pedals.
Got this as well, not played since it was released. Applied the code and also found I had $1 in my account, so 1 year for free for me!
So... What's good about iRacing these days? What can a FWD driver play with on default content?
I played about half an hour last night and had a good amount of fun in it. Ended up spawning next to the southern airfield. Equipped myself with an M4, some ammo, large backpack, jacket, some food, but no water.
Came across 4 different people in that time, 2 of them armed. I saluted at them straight away and they left me alone - so straight away it's better than the mod!
I did see one guy with a crowbar who found me in a house bleeding from his penis. That made me laugh!
Performance wise I maxxed everything on the graphics apart from AA and got a solid 60fps throughout (I use driver-forced v-sync), no dips at all - so once again, better than the mod which even on an i5 2500k, 8GB RAM, GTX770 didn't run well.
Going to play for an extended time tonight. But after my first half hour I'm fairly impressed.
Came across 4 different people in that time, 2 of them armed. I saluted at them straight away and they left me alone - so straight away it's better than the mod!
I did see one guy with a crowbar who found me in a house bleeding from his penis. That made me laugh!
Performance wise I maxxed everything on the graphics apart from AA and got a solid 60fps throughout (I use driver-forced v-sync), no dips at all - so once again, better than the mod which even on an i5 2500k, 8GB RAM, GTX770 didn't run well.
Going to play for an extended time tonight. But after my first half hour I'm fairly impressed.
I found it at GAME for £25 (PC version, deluxe edition) on a 1 hour deal earlier today. Used my reward points to knock an extra £5 off to make it £20 delivered.
Spur of the moment purchase without thinking. I might have to sell it as I don't have much time for gaming these days. Seen them going for £55 on ebay.
All of your garages beat my efforts
Got some really nice wheels on the Blista, but the quality of the images from Social Club are bad!
Got some really nice wheels on the Blista, but the quality of the images from Social Club are bad!
What people need to remember is having millions of people trying to connect at the same time is going to cause problems. Look at the huge companies being taken offline by DDOS attacks over the last few years.
There's probably more users trying to connect simultaneously to the servers than one of these DDOS attacks. Then they're downloading more data than a DDOS attack. There WILL be issues - I'm fully expecting them for the next week or 2.
Call of Duty has problems every year when they release a new game, FIFA does too (not tried last 2 years though), GTA has probably double the user base of CoD and arguably Rockstar is a much smaller company than Activision, so it's asking a bit much for it to be 100% smooth instantly.
Rockstar have said themselves they didn't expect GTA V to be as successful as it has been, they've (apparently) been working 24/7 to get more servers online ready for GTA Online - but this also has its own drawbacks and initial problems (I've recently teamed up 4 servers in the server farm I look after and it was a nightmare!!!).
Simple answer is. Be patient.
I do agree, however that the tutorials should be optional rather than forced.
I did manage to get a good stable and lag free connection for about 2 hours last night, played a couple of missions and some TDM's and it's very, very good!! Earning money is fairly quick meaning only idiots will be buying it with real money. TDMs are a bit like GTA IV online but with far better shooting mechanics, it reminds me a bit of Max Payne 3 online which doesn't surprise me either.
Looking forward to problems being sorted and giving it a good go with friends though.
There's probably more users trying to connect simultaneously to the servers than one of these DDOS attacks. Then they're downloading more data than a DDOS attack. There WILL be issues - I'm fully expecting them for the next week or 2.
Call of Duty has problems every year when they release a new game, FIFA does too (not tried last 2 years though), GTA has probably double the user base of CoD and arguably Rockstar is a much smaller company than Activision, so it's asking a bit much for it to be 100% smooth instantly.
Rockstar have said themselves they didn't expect GTA V to be as successful as it has been, they've (apparently) been working 24/7 to get more servers online ready for GTA Online - but this also has its own drawbacks and initial problems (I've recently teamed up 4 servers in the server farm I look after and it was a nightmare!!!).
Simple answer is. Be patient.
I do agree, however that the tutorials should be optional rather than forced.
I did manage to get a good stable and lag free connection for about 2 hours last night, played a couple of missions and some TDM's and it's very, very good!! Earning money is fairly quick meaning only idiots will be buying it with real money. TDMs are a bit like GTA IV online but with far better shooting mechanics, it reminds me a bit of Max Payne 3 online which doesn't surprise me either.
Looking forward to problems being sorted and giving it a good go with friends though.
In the UK the very first live BTCC race on TV was in 1997, and that was only the 2 races with very little coverage in between for just 1 race weekend!
In 1998 they expanded it a bit with live coverage from 2 weekends, but again was mostly just the racing. I can't remember what coverage was like 1999-2002, but from 2003 the full race day coverage began on MotorsTV.
It's only since ITV4 got the coverage (i think) 6 years ago when we got full race day coverage - that has really helped popularity and more cars/drivers/sponsors come in because of the bigger audience.
I agree worldwide sounds like it needs more coverage, but I don't think it'll get that for as long as the WTCC exists.
I'm not a BTCC anorak, honest...
Very true. I've been to at least 1 BTCC race every year since 1997 (usually at Croft) and the crowds there this year were quite easily the biggest I've seen. In the last 5 years popularity has rocketed! I wouldn't be surprised if within 2-3 years tracks will sell out of tickets.
If anything it's far more popular now if you take TV coverage into consideration than it was in the 1990s.
I can see the same happening. Truth be told though there's no need for a full manufacturer effort in BTCC because smaller teams can build NGTC cars (Rob Austin, Dan Welch etc....) and be fairly competitive with them, even win races. Alan Gow has pulled a masterstroke with NGTC and I wonder why other series aren't adopting the formula.
It's been proven to work even more recently with the Cicely Racing announcement that they're using Mercs from next year.
I suppose one reason for manufacturer teams is you get the best drivers - but the trend in recent years is even those teams need the drivers to bring in some money.
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The outside is the easy bit, the blueprints I found were very good so it made life easier than it could have been. It helps that Blender is fairly easy to use once you've watched some YouTube tutorials. I've tried 3DSMAX in the past and not even managed to place a single poly! The interior has no blueprints, so it'll be done by photographs. I've done an incredibly low-poly dashboard so far which looks really bad, but I think I have it in just about the right place.
It's supposed to be a 2014 Ford Mondeo road car.... Or a 2013 Ford Fusion depending on what side of the world you're on.
There's been a new update released today which apparently fixes a lot of the handling issues. I've not tried it yet as I'm at work, but will give it a go later.
I've found myself modelling for this game more than playing it recently. I've never done any 3D modelling until just over a week ago and so far I have this, pretty pleased so far, but still a lot to do.
I've found myself modelling for this game more than playing it recently. I've never done any 3D modelling until just over a week ago and so far I have this, pretty pleased so far, but still a lot to do.
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