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Today's the day to get your first second free Porsche (anyone know where the good jumps are?) Also the Expansion Pack Season Pass (Blizzard and unknown expansion #2) seems to be on sale but only 30 minutes remaining.

I was about to ask if there was some snooker tournament on as I hadn't seen anything popup since the Ford GT episode a few weeks back. The only disappointing thing with a Cuban episode is that has already done it, and recently did it as well.

Some karting action with friends

Bathurst 6 hour race with many different cars (i.e. Ford Focus RS, Mercedes Benz A45 AMG, BMW M1, M4, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo, Toyota GT86, Ford Falcon, Holden Commodore, even a Hyundai Excel.

New screen, new piccie - tried quite a few and settled on this one. I've installed the free version of Nexus' dock as it allows me to display folders as menu's - cleaning up loads of game icons, etc. Dock Sections: Computer Recycle Bin - Apps (General) Audio/Video apps (including video editing) Games Game Tools (things like Device calibration, Discord, Launchers) - Downloads folder OneDrive folder Work folder TV folder (TopGear, etc) Shutdown icons (i.e. shutdown in 0/30/45/60/75/90 minutes) Network Settings - Weather CPU RAM I've also installed Launchy and will see if I remember to use it Icons from Free Icon Vector Illustrations - FindIcons.com

Why thank you. The designs are required because I'll need (to build) a new desk, so want to ensure everything will fit together somehow. That said I splurged on the new monitor, which is huuuuge. :eek:

Some initial plans - Ignore the desk colour (just need something to stand out).

I also take it to mean that a sequel of some sorts is in the works, but I'm not expecting any reveals this year. I wouldn't mind if it was titled something completely different, to go along with a new open world to explore. The last one took them 5 years to make, so hopefully they've come up with an improved method there.

I was thinking about this again the other day... the only real shame is that MS think that 30FPS is fine, compared to reviews of recent PC hardware only suggesting items as 4K ready if, and only if, they can average over 60 in most titles. Obviously the GPU's that can do that cost more themselves than an entire Xbone, but I hope there's some option to crank up the effects for 1080p60 rendering. For driving games I would prefer that and just let the TV upscale to 4K.

Hey mate, you'll want to get involved with the entire forum first before requesting new mods, which you can do here: Just don't spam if you can help it :spammed:

G'day Mark. Welcome to the forums. :welcome:

I would have titled this thread "Gran Turismo Sport Does Porsche. You guys knew that, right?" :nods:

Q&A with Phil Spencer on Scorpio and Xbox future in general, including VR Gamasutra - Q&A: With Scorpio rising, Phil Spencer looks to the future of Xbox Info on the dev kit Gamasutra - Inside the next Xbox: Project Scorpio and its brand-new dev kit

Totally agree with you - basically we can interpret this as Jaguar being confident with how desirable their current models are. Let's just hope their 4pot sounds somewhat decent.

Sounds more like it's competing with the Audi S3/Golf R, except that it's slower and costs more. :confused:

Rallycross will come fully-loaded to Project CARS 2 with an array of licensed cars and tracks in late 2017. With superstar drivers and their popping, anti-turbo-lag fire-cracking 600-horsepower race cars banging doors in arenas crammed with passionate fans, rallycross is a sharp, loud, violent motorsport featuring the quickest accelerating cars on earth—0-100kmh in under 2 seconds—hurtling over 70-foot jumps, and battling side-by-side on dirt, mud, and asphalt. Step one when building a rallycross car? Get rid of the weight. Step two? Get rid of anything crucial up-front because the nose of a four-wheel-drive rallycross car is mainly used for two things only—sucking up air for turbos boosting grenade-like motors, and none-too-delicately nudging opponents out of the way. This is not a sport of delicate manners; short races mean the action is always intense and immediate and the only strategy is when best to get the Joker Lap in. The engines on these cars have short lifespans for a reason—600hp from 2-litre lumps means highly-stressed components that sound like a pistol-led invasion. There’s nothing subtle about rallycross. Drivers banging-in gears from perfectly-placed gear-levers somewhere at elbow level while locking-up all-four tyres as they dive into a gap that didn’t exist right up until they shifted the car ahead, that’s rallycross in all its crazy slip-angle fun. From the cockpit, it’s all-action-all-the-time; breathless, chaotic, and intense. ​ Project CARS 2 drivers are in for a whole new experience with rallycross, that’s guaranteed. Guaranteed, too, is the fidelity of the sport in the sim. A technical partnership with one of the sport’s most legendary teams, OMSE—19 X Games medals, winners of every rallycross championship title in the US, and official suppliers of Supercar Lites rallycross cars —means rallycross in Project CARS 2 comes with complete authenticity. Real-world Honda Factory Global Rallycross racing stars Mitchell deJong and Oliver Eriksson—OMSE team mates for the Red Bull Global Rallycross Championship—have also worked for months as official consultants to ensure not just the physics, but the frenzied feel of rallycross is as brutal in-game as it is in real-life. Mitchell and Oliver’s Honda Civic will be joined by licensed rallycross racers from MINI, VW, and Ford, all ready to do battle on scanned real-world rallycross tracks including US-based DirtFish, and Daytona, the iconic ‘Hell’ at Lånkebanen in Norway, and the rallycross tracks at Hockenheim, Knockhill, Loheac-Bretagna, and, of course, the track where it all began half-a-century ago—Lydden Hill in the UK. With small grids on tracks of ice, mud, dirt, snow, and asphalt, and LiveTrack 3.0 ensuring the organic development of every surface throughout a race, this really is rallycross in all its glory. Project CARS 2 will deliver the most faithful recreation of this exhilarating and unique motorsport ever seen. The only question that remains is—are you up for it? Sweet'n'Sour Source

There may be [memory] limits that you need to keep within. Some games need to use the same car model twice on the grid as loading more cars for only one AI takes too much memory. Perhaps there are different files/methods for freeroam and racing.

Wait so now you reckon I need an i7? :eyebrow: CPU's with >4 cores have historically performed worse than i7 CPU's because no-one developed for them, because hardly any gamers owned them, because they were far too expensive, because only Intel made decent ones. I see enough gamers getting 6-8 cores thanks to Ryzen which will incentivise developers to update their engines to make better use of them. One game/benchmark released a patch that saw Ryzen performance jump up 30% already. Don't forget that both PS4 and Xbox 1 have 8 core processors. Hopefully Skylake-X delivers the goods and at a competitive price. Rumor: Intel pulls X299 and Skylake-X release to late June - The Tech Report If benchmarks of either Ryzen or Intel X show much better rendering times and only minor frame rate losses in games I'll be all over it.

Sorry the inflation thing was a joke. I don't really want to go AMD either, although the main tangible benefits to Intel are Optane and Thunderbolt, neither of which I care for. If Intel release an 1800 killer in the next few months then I'll be all over it. The CPU would probably cost more but I wouldn't have to spend extra on 3200MHz RAM as it probably won't impact game performance like it does for Ryzen. The storage costs are both unnecessary but I like the idea of a fresh start (with the exception of carrying over my 1TB SSD) and ditching 4x noisy WD Black 2TB drives with one quieter 8TB WD Red. It only spins at 5400 RPM but would be more for archival of recorded video from motorbike rides, etc. For the extra silence I think I can afford a 1MBps slower speed. The alternative is to get 4 of them to upgrade my QNAP NAS, but that is (a) a pain in the neck to move files around again and (b) much more expensive. I was hoping a new version of that monitor would be out by now so that I could choose between a price drop (if anyone stocks them) or any new features. I have a basic LG ultrawide at work which greatly aids productivity. I do of course agree that the price is bonkers, but at the same time it's just as expensive to start cheaper and upgrade sooner. My only exception to that rule is graphics cards which I'm always going to upgrade every 2-3 years and cannot be future-proofed. The 1080ti is 40-80% faster than my current GPU and as quieter than my reference card. That's a surprisingly massive jump for just 2 years progress - too bad Intel can't manage the same with their CPU's. My bottleneck right now is the CPU, which requires a whole new system. I'd rather sell or repurpose the entire new system than save a relatively small amount to keep things like PSU and storage. If I really want to reduce the initial cost I can postpone the PSU, GPU and storage upgrade.

So I've built gaming PC's for myself in 2007, 2008, and 2012. The 2012 build started off with an nVidia GTX680, then in 2015 a Titan X Maxwell (900 series). I have always regretted listening to advice to get a $100 cheaper Intel i5 CPU over the i7 I had earmarked as it was slower at rendering videos than my previous Intel Q9550 Extreme. At some point in the past I switched PSU to reduce noise - I think now the Corsair H80i (set to Low) CPU cooler is the loudest thing in my PC at idle. I wonder how the fluid is after 5 years. I do a lot more than just game (but when I do I want max FPS for VR and 1440p Ultra). I also want to get as close to silent as possible without custom watercooling. Not shopping seriously just yet, especially looking at the total price so far (I also need to change my desk, and am not sure if I will build the PC directly into the desk or get a case). I'm sure I 'only' spent around $3500 on my 2008 build and closer to $2000 on the 2012 build (retaining some parts). Must be inflation. The ultrawide is for work purposes, to make it easier to design software interfaces, so obviously should be tax deductible somewhat (besides the 100Hz GSync specs, obviously). Seeing Rocket League opponents sneak up from the elongated sides may also be helpful, along with the higher than 60Hz refresh rate. The idea also is to see how much prices drop from over the next few months, and to see if Intel has an epic response to Ryzen.

Well at least now everyone who wants to bug you knows what to vote for :nnnn:

Sent us back in time 8 years to when Milli used to argue about cars? :lol:

I assume he means the resulting decision, not the maths But have another entry post