Officially my working hours are 06:15 - 13:15 on Saturday and Monday and 06:15 - 11:45 on Tuesdays (only part time cos I don't really need any more money at the mo). But I usually finish before 12 on Sat. and Mon. and at about 10 on Tues. and still get paid for the whole shift. AND I get lots and lots of exercise while working. I also got given a variety of hats with my uniform and a really big, really flourescent coat. Can anyone guess what I do?

For me it's King Tubby (which usually results in me driving really slowly) and Carcass (i'm not picky about which album.. unlike most carcass fans). I like to listen to fairly simple stuff when driving because otherwise my mind gets a bit caught up in the music and then bad things happen.

Just a thought.... are you trying to do it in hotlapping mode? cos that doesn't work.

I get that strange thing you mentioned at number 5. I put it down to my PC being a bit crap and not really having decent cooling.. and a lack of RAM. It does it in pretty much every other 3D game I play so I doubt that it's LFS. I just alt+tab out of the game, then restore and everything's fine from then on. It never does it twice in one session. Sorry I can't be any help... just thought it might be reassuring to know you're not the only one it happens to.

Quote from Vendetta :

It would be awesome if the weather forecast was generated from where the server is located.

Hmmm..... nice idea. But it would be a bit crap for all the servers located in England. We'd get maybe 2 good racing days a year.

Burberry's puke from the tartan monster.

We just need good AI really.

I imagine that a ghost car... which isn't a ghost at all would be quite fun. So you're racing against yourself but to be quicker you have to actually pass... not go through. I reckon it could teach people a thing or two about racing.

Quote from bo-kristiansen :

wuh... so THATS why my fps has gone up.

My AC97 recently started to distort when turning up volume more than 1/3,
so I replaced it with SB live.

-didnt know that the onboard soundcard could cause lower pc performance.
is that true?

It's logical really.... If you have a soundcard then you have a device dedicated just to doing that task. With onboard sound you have something that has to use shared resources in order to work... resources that could be better used for other things.

It's a kinda crap explanation... but I'm too high to do any better.

Quote from vpr01 :

nothing will be noticable, of that i can guarantee you. sb live value is a pretty naff card anyway.

When you're a musician or sound engineer of any form you can spot a huuuge difference as you've trained your ears to do so. If I used onboard sound I think I'd be forced to cut my ears off... I just can't cope with it. I could even spot a difference with new drivers (those kX ones).... totally tightened everything up.. and there's no dodgy peaking or anything.

But the average person with average ears should still be able to pick up differences... if not so much.

I was a music student.... but the whole lack of money thing and the fact that the teachers had to ask ME how to do things half the time made me quit. I'm now a part time postman to earn money for recording equipment/bits and pieces for instruments. Hopefully I'll be a session drummer in a few years... just need to brush up on my theory a little and get my grade 8 so I have formal proof of my abilities.

MK1 Lotus Cosworth
RS1600
R32 GT-R V-Spec
A split screen Morris Minor with a V8
'67 Mustang Fastback
HPA Golf R32 Stage II
Nissan S14
an old Beetle with a supercharger
Yamaha XVS 650 DragStar Classic
hmm... no supercars... so i guess the last one has to be an F40

Quote from farcar :

Some great replays on show here.

I've noticed that all the close racing so far is in tin-tops. What about the open wheelers?
Is there such thing as a close FO8 race? When I say close, I mean wheel to wheel.

I know I've never seen one.

Best I've had is a few laps pretty much side to side with someone in an FOX. If I remember correctly I fudged it... after a while racing I always end up overestimating the capabilities of that car.

I'm guessing a dumb valve's one of those things chavs whack on their cars that makes a sound like a dump valve when they change gear. Who on earth would believe a Nova has a turbo?

Quote from Sgt. Stinger :

I really think that ppl are rude. for example (in demo version but still) i was in a race on blackwood GT track, doing my 1.40 laps in the XF GTi (im improving :P)
and some knucklehead who is goin round 1.36 rear ends me because i didnt let him pass, only 2 secs after i got the blue flag (right in first corner and chicane i got it,where he and i was almost as fast))
and he says "get out of the way of real drivers n00b"
sure its the demo but honestly dot many S2 drivers drive on demoservers sometimes? I'd say so, since some ppl on the servers is going REALLY fast....

That's just mean... 1.40's hardly far off 1.36 reaaally. Some people are just impatient.. I bet they drive a BMW in real life.

Quote from Spinjack :

How else is noob going to race against other drivers? The LFS AI is as bad as any noob for running people off the track and very difficult to train with. My only beef will noobs is when they think they can race and don't hang back a bit, staying out of the way. The flip side is that some of the so-called 'expert' drivers can't pass a back marker to save their lives. If you see an obviously nooby driver, give him/her some room and be smart about making the pass. You may loose a little time, but its better than forcing the issue and loosing a lot of time.

But, back on topic. I consistently use a pretty effective traciton control system whn I race. Its called my right foot.

It's ok once they've learnt the track and that because at least they can get round and their driving shouldn't be so scatty you don't have to crap yourself when passing them... It's just when someone joins a race with a track/car combination they have no experience of whatsoever.. that's when bad things happen. I probably should have been more clear, but I'd just had a crap day at work when i wrote that.

Also, it'd help if some people were told what a blue flag meant... there are a lot of people who honestly don't know, and that causes trouble as well.

Quote from steve30x :

what is it with all you elitist drivers. you all think your gods at lfs or something and you all think noobs shouldnt be allowed to play online. This LFS community used to be nice but now its full of elitst drivers that gang up on noobs. Give the noobs a break.

if the launch control was there there always could be an option to turn it off. I think traction control and spin control should implemented and if so there could be an option to turn it off. yes i know theres a similar option to traction control in LFS but it isnt very good and doesnt realy work.

just because you guys are good at this game and dont like the traction control , spin control and launch control dont mean you have to laugh at those or be down on those of us that like the idea.

now let the flaming begin. (i realy dont care)

A "noob" is always going to be slower round a track regardless of what driving aids they have. They WILL get in the way of serious racers when they are learning. That's why they should do it offline. I see it as rude to enter a race with a car/track combo i'm not comfortable with as I know there's a decent chance I'll mess up someone's race. If you don't know how a certain car should be driven round a certain track driving aids won't make any difference.

Last edited by budabudabass, Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:11.

Quote from ColeusRattus :

At close races, victories achieved by psychological force are sweeter than those achieved by physical force.

Oh that's sooo true. There's nothing more satisfying than sticking really close to someone's bumper (no contact of course) until they get scared into a mistake, allowing me to zoom past. It's the most fun type of overtaking I can think of.

I don't drink much at home any more. Drinking and playing LFS is impossible... obviously. It's a good job the pubs i frequent don't have PCs in them

I mainly play driving games.. but after playing LFS everything else seems really crap. So that's about the only driving thing play. I've got rFactor and GTR and occasionally give them a quick go but they just feel so cheap in comparison. I'm constantly trying to find another sim that can compete with LFS but haven't managed yet. I used to play a lot of CS 1.6 and then Source when it came out. I only play that when I'm drunk now and it seems a lot easier than it used to :P
I enjoy the GTA games.. but once you've completed them the fun wears off pretty quickly.

this is my uf1 skin.... i'm bored of it now though. I'll probably make a new one soon (like I do every week or so).

First skin I've made that doesn't have my name on somewhere... yet. So other people can use it

I've seen people doing wheelies in drag servers too. I've tried to do that for so long... best i can manage is getting the wheels up maybe a 1cm at the most. Ah well, at least I know it's definitely possible.. somehow.

Quote from L(Oo)ney :

http://www.fat-pie.com/chavs.htm

Cracks me up with each new episode.

Ahhh... good old devvo. Proper boshty as owt.

Quote from danowat :

What I find, is that whenever I go online there are about 200 servers that are empty and about 70 odd that have people racing in them.

I guess its not too bad for us europeans, as I usually go on in the evening and there is always a good selection of different servers.

Dan.

I find that... and the occupied ones are always servers I don't want to play in. I've found that if you go in an empty one (tracks and cars you want to race, of course) then within a few minutes people start joining. Well... It's worked every time I've felt like racing the UF1000 recently.