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But if they add more content then they'll have to do more testing and bug fixing, so will need another delay, then if they use that to add more content still, they'll have to do yet more testing and bug fixing.. :p So no, I hope they're just bug fixing and polishing :p

Hmm I should probably stop writing those.. :p I know what you mean, it would be a nice consolation and a lot of other publishers do the same. Hopefully they've got a nice ramp up plan as we near release. But when did they first show something for TDU2? The first time I heard about TDU2 going ahead was way back in May 2008 and there was still quite a delay before they released the first pictures and so on.

I'm pretty sure the community is capable of staying alive - we'd be a bit fickle if we couldn't :p

Or you could apply Occam's Razor.

The delay is really good news. If we're going to be playing this as long as we've been playing TDU then a few months here or there is nothing. The other thing that's great is it also suggests to me the current beta testers are doing a good job and finding/submitting bugs in a way that Eden are finding useful, so kudos to them to.

Hehe he didn't moan much for once, just said 'I've probably done worse than that in my time - racing is racing'

Anyone watching the coverage today? Adrian Newey (Red Bull F1 Technical Director)just had a very heavy crash in the Ginetta support race at Snetterton. Still wasn't out of the car after 5 minutes :(

Fab jump shots DiSCiPuLo. No humans ever let me take portrait shots, so I have to stick to cats :p -- OLD IMAGE REMOVED (imageshack) --

I don't know. I finally earn enough to buy a car featured in the first game and they go and announce the sequel :p

A function that detects if you're using an illegal version of the game/add-on pack and automatically replaces any forum posts you subsequently make complaining with "I'm an idiot, ignore me" ;)

Please put me on 'The no-snow (please, we're British)' list :( It's fine at home, but not work - so if you wanted to detect browser and allowed for FF but not IE that'd be cool, but is the only classifier is username then best just disable for all. Cheers,

And it was the one in blue and white too... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8388128.stm

What did you change since the last time it worked?

Does it work if you try a different profile, like say an offline one?

Which? Won't start up, or lost connection?

Are you running from the original DVD? Are you using the megapack, and if so, did you enter the same serial key as you used for the game? What version number is showing at the bottom of the menu?

Well, it's a financial report :P So it's not targeted at the general public, but instead corporate people who understand all this :) In that case sfy, the write off would be incurred if champions online caused them unexpected net losses, for instance if it didn't sell as well as expected, or they binned the assets created by a bunch of development.

We'll see. The good news is that they've talking about the title officially. The optimistic approach would be to say that they might have just dropped some of the existing developments (ie chosen to start again on something, or dropped code developed for a system they're no longer going to release on etc.). rather than the whole thing.

Since when is a development cost a write-off? It should have created assets with a tangible value. Unless :(

So, I've finally cracked up the overclock, optimised my win7 build and I'm ready to try and get FSX running on my system. What do you recommend as the essential add-ons (preferably free ones)? I'm not really interested in additional aircraft, as much as scenery, performance optimising things etc. Cheers!

If you were curious you should have tried the RC :p It's good. Not a huge step over Vista, but much improved (behind the scenes) from XP, especially in terms of security.

Only if Dell gave you a retail copy of XP, which is really unlikely. Instead they probably gave you an OEM copy, which is tied to the motherboard they supplied it with (actually, tied to the whole computer, but you are allowed to change a certain number of non-motherboard components). If it's OEM then it's tied both in license (IE a contract you agreed to when buying/installing your old system that you wouldn't use the XP disc with a different computer) and with Microsoft's activation servers. I think you can run XP without activation for a certain evaluation period but you get lots of annoying pop ups and you won't be able to update it to protect yourself from attacks that exploit old vulnerabilities (which will happen if you connect it to the internet - no need to even download anything or browse dodgy sites!) edit: actually, I think they've changed policy for the latter, you might be able to download critical updates these days.

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Actually it's not really anything to do with pay. But regardless it doesn't seem very wise at a time when postal revenue is so low anyway.