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Yes but you're a fin.

While Jeremy considers whether to 'kindly cooperate' with a job offer from a Russian Broadcasting organisation, James has been learning to play the recorder Poor guy

I must've been the only person with a clutch and H shifter - I had an awful start and had to climb back through the field. Possibly the reason why my lap times were way off yours.

Will get a poll up in ~ 12 hours, unless I forget.

Glad to hear you're feeling better.

The plan is to get The Crew (PC) out of the way next week, then Stu will be back and could host a console game the following Saturday. Keep in mind the long weekend coming up, and changes to DST. If I understand correctly, you guys go forward an hour today, and I go back one hour next week. So that will probably change the scheduled time a little bit (hopefully making it easier).

I'd rule out the graphics card for now, as a PC should be able to boot without one (just pop in a bootable CD/USB, and you should see the relevant lights flashing to indicate that it's booting, assuming the BIOS defaults to checking those devices first). Graphics card fans will spin at 100% when you first turn the PC on, before returning to idle. If they're not returning to idle, then it's probably because the computer hasn't finished POST'ing. (Power on self test). Are all the jumper cables from the case correctly connected to the motherboard? Is the CPU fan cable connected to the motherboard? Are both power cables connected to the motherboard? (20/24 pin long flat one AND a 4 pin one usually in another corner)? Are your chosen CPU and RAM on the compatibility lists of your motherboard?

The handling just feels numb. I hopped into the game after some months last night, tried out the new Aston Zagato V12, and was approaching hairpin turns contemplating keeping the accelerator all the way down. I eventually hit the options menu to check if it had reverted into a driver aids mode, but alas it said I was in Hardcore mode. That said, we'll get it out of the way for next Saturday's td SMP session.

One thing you really want to get is a load cell brake pedal (braking force depends on how hard you hit the pedal, not how far you push it - is much more intuitive). If the pedal doesn't come with a load cell, search Google to see if there's a modding kit available to convert it. There's one for the G25/G27 for instance.

Indeed. I forgot to bring my B game tonight. Still fun though.

If you're looking to buy a new wheel it's probably worth either getting something that's compatible with whichever new console you have or are looking to get eventually, and/or a good wheel should you decide to progress into the world of sim-racing. The G25/G27 were awesome back in the day, but are regarded as toys when compared to other options now available. Also keep in mind that Logitech have stopped making gaming hardware, so I wouldn't recommend spending your money there unless you are an occasional casual gamer and it's cheap. The G25's are rare because they were discontinued years ago and replaced by the G27. If I had to make a guess for you, I'd say do some research on the Thrustmaster T300__

So for the PC events my suggestion is we join the tduck Steam group chatroom, like so: Plan is to join a tourist layout server first, have a bit of fun, then maybe get a bit more serious with the server that usually runs GT3 races on the endurance layout. Will discuss the server details and discuss what cars we're picking in Steam chat.

Adding the Next Car Game suggestion I wonder if we can also have some sort of Portal 2 comp where we get a list a co-op levels from the Steam Workshop, and divide into say 3 teams of 2 and see who can complete them first (take screenshots of the final exit opened). Am I right in thinking PC and PS3 Portal 2 are cross-platform compatible?

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Maybe, but a $65,000 6 liter 1 series with no equipment in it (overpriced Aus spec) seemed rather daft to me. V8's still have a place amongst petrolheads, and no doubt Porsche will hang onto their signature flat 6 for as long as possible, but most V6's can pretty easily be replaced by turbo-4's these days, as already demonstrated by Merc, VAG, and Ford (>300 BHP).

btw pCARS let's you get an AI to drive your car when you pit. Can't remember if there was a save/pause option ala GT5 but these PS4 features will be handy. Feels like such a long time since we heard these announcements at the PS4 E3 2013 reveal.

Let's just say we're dealing with a confident Camel ;) I played through the 3 demo tracks they first had an enjoyed it, then purposefully left it alone so as not to spoil the final release. Will be up for a sesh one day though.

It's worth a play-through, but the magic just isn't there. I think pCARS and Assetto Corsa have spoiled the fun I might have had with it 5 years ago.

I guess the only way to release a decent number of tracks as DLC is either (a) having a lot of track devs employed, or (b) keeping some of the tracks hidden away for months while the smaller number of track devs finish the rest of them. We know Kunos to be a small team, so I'm happy with the latter. Going off topic, with all the existing pCARS tracks all polished, there are a few devs assigned to making a new track from scratch (not seen official in any other game afaik) and they seem to be going pretty quickly by the progress screenshots. Not sure when it will be complete. Seeing a couple of DLC cars being built now as well (they're only basic 3D models at this point).

With a :new: name and a :new: host.

This will be the DGSotW.

It has the laser-scanned Nordschliefe circuit, the Nordschliefe tourist circuit, and the Nordschliefe Endurance circuit. And a bunch of cars.

In case this makes anyone care a little bit more... this will be the last DGSotW. :eek:

Sounds good. Stuey can host the Xbone events. Camel can host PS4 DriveClub events.