tannji

Wow. I would love to say I can relate... but that is beyond me now.... I have matured, which is to say I am apparently too feeble and suceptable to germs to pretend I am Zeus. Now I get the flu once a year, and a miserable cold once a year, and try to time it so it only ruins a perfectly good weekend, instead of part of a work week I cant miss. I still get the female performance, because I generally refuse to go to the doctor, but 9 times out of 10, my routine of drinking lots and going into semi-hibernation under a sweat-inducing load of blankets does the trick. Go to see you survived.... all joking aside, there are things the doctors can only diagnose and wait to pass... and then there are things that will gleefully use your stupidity to do you in. So far, I have survived that too = )

I am set up for Vent, or Teamspeak.... Vent works ok, but is more bandwidth dependant and seems to use weaker codex's than TS... but hey, free works = )

Anyone having problems connecting to the multiplayer server? I attempt to log in and it hangs for a moment then says it cant connect to the server. Was working fine last night... I spent a half hour or so watching Cygnus running some pretty consistent lap times... after I embarrassed myself by over-estimating the brakes on a 700hp car.

What an incredible feeling it must have been! Congrats, wish you had vid... but I am sure there is more to come. tannji

I run it on a Socket A 1.6ghz processor, 1GB DDR ram, ATI 9600 Pro vid card, with a 19" LCD. Runs fine, I have the same freezing problem that others do with current graphics and processors. I tried removing a specific Windows update file, seemed to help a little. I decided that with the current joystick I needed to run the school for a bit... biggest problem is steering wander... I cant get the dead-zone, sensitivity, and speed sensitivity to a comfortable compromise. I also wish I could calibrate brakes and throttle independantly, as I want quick and high brake engagement, but a longer accelerator throw. I am going to by the Momo wheel for now... possibly go to better wheel or DIY at a later date.

LOL! I had to watch it twice... you are a hoot, and the enthusiasm was obvious and contagious. Love the vids, cant wait to be at the point to do that myself.

I am still trying to dial in some settings, more on my joystick than the car. Throttle in particular is giving me some problems, which makes 1st and 2nd gears challenging at the wrong times. Sorry for not sticking around Gollum... I tried to change some settings and got DQed, then someone started a kick vote on me (lol) and then I froze in the garage. Guess its time to get some upgrades to my computer... built it in 2001 or 2002, its showing its age.

where!!?! lol, I dont know where you guys are.

Well, I went and got the game from Best Buy for $20. Installed, updated, registered, and spent about 10 minutes setting up what I could. Couldnt find a server online with the name posted at the top of the thread. Fooled around in a couple of servers anyway, driving (so to speak) the Lotus Elise. Sure feels like a car I would love in RL... but its sad how easily I get out of shape in the game... a good wheel with supported force feed-back would help loads, the joystick (as much as I love it in FPS games, lol) just doesnt cut it for driving. I am looking at the Logitech Momo wheel, goes for about $100 at Best Buy, can be had for as little as $30 to $40 bucks on Ebay. Anyone used this one? Seems to have decent reviews, and I sure as hell am not springing for the top of the line Logitech wheel, as tempting as it may look. Also, I am experiencing hard computer freezes, not often, but at times when I change something, like exiting multiplayer, or leaving a server. I have most of the eye candy and such turned down... but it hasnt helped. Any ideas? Where did anyone end up playing tonight? I am going to go back in in a bit to try the Elise with a little different brake bias and a smidgin of over-steer... the noob settings are probably safer for me, but definitely dont feel right.

OK.. played the demo for about 15 minutes, liked it enough that I am going to buy the retail version. Playing with a force feed-back joystick though... no decent wheel in the house... may pony up for a Logitech, or just grab an older MS off ebay. This reminds me of Grand Tourismo, except the physics feel crisper, if not quite as edgy. I was decent at the original GT on PS1... but it has been YEARS, and I mowed grass and stirred gravel big time, lol. What are currently considered to be good wheels on the market? I bought 2 different wheels by MS and Logitech back in the late 90's and didnt like either, but I imagine Logitech has improved a lot since then.

I am liking the screencaps and reviews I am reading of this game... but I dont imagine it has any Z's in it, correct? Also, is anyone running it on an older processor, something like AMD 1.6 through 2.0ghz? I have DX9 card and 1gb ram, but wondering how badly my cpu will choke on this game. Found the demo, but the demo's are not usually as optimized as the retail product.

LOL, here comes the flames.... so just a word of warning, that video has to be be one of the most widely seen and commented upon Z videos on the net. Darius is famous and infamous for his exploits and that Z is an on again, off again hobby of his. Do a search for Darius here and you will see the new version, much more radical, far more evil.

LOL, I let my subscription run out, but still have the account.... I have good friends in WoW and wanted the option to go back if I really felt like it. Its been over 6 months now, I think... and still doing fine.

I think the biggest thing you have to know initially is, aside from whether or not your business model is a realistic one, do you have the determination and discipline to do what needs to be done... day in and day out. My GF started caring for kids out of our house several years ago. I was working a temporary job, that I knew (denials from my company aside) was going to die a messy death. GF got fired, decided to watch some kids for some cash flow while she waited for a decent job to pop up. I got layed off when my store was suddenly closed... and we were looking at bills and about $150 a week income. We managed to hang in, get some more kids to watch, get me re-employed, and scrape through. Over the next 6 months, the daycare grew so much we needed a larger home. Tough thing to consider when your real job is pretty marginal, and the home business needs a new location, just so you can have the space to earn the money to pay for that new location. We scraped through again... and kept growing. We grossed about $40,000 the first year, combined. We grossed about $85,000 the second year... but my GF had a minor stroke, and my job was about to get terminally marginal again... and the stress of running a large daycare with no office or organization skills was killing the GF. I made the decision to quit day job and come home to work. Of course, we felt we had to add clients to cover the lost income... next thing I knew, I was working 5:00AM twenty hours to 1:00 AM the next morning, allowing my GF to sleep in a little and get to bed a little early. Lessons learned: It takes commitment, up front and all the way through. Very few things from your old life remain "essential". You need to be able to cut the fat from your budget and your schedule. Working from home allows you to take some short cuts, but you have to be able operate like you are in an office with a zealous boss watching over your shoulder. New clients, regulatory or licensing visits, and your regular customers all deserve and have the right to expect some degree of professional standards in your work, presentation, and dress. Just as important as sacrificing to get jobs done or income rolling in is the ability to recognize when you need to set limits, arrange for down-time, family time, sleep, ect. Last but not least: learn to properly evaluate your product or service, and bill accordingly. The most common mistake I have seen from people who are newly (or even not so recently) self-employed is: not setting the proper value on their service and product. It takes valuable time and skill to do what you do, and people pay you to do it because they dont have the skills or the time. Dont figure your real material costs, and forget or underestimate your immaterial costs. Sorry for the book...

I dont see a link to a Z32 Primadonna.... is it in this thread or elsewhere?

they do make outlets, we sell them frequently, as well as the male end for replacing your power lead on the welder. You should find that at any decent welding shop, as well as most home improvement warehouses, I would think.

Could you add a link under the poster's name to their photo album? I hate trying to search albums here, and as a result, never do. A link next to their name on the left of the post sure would simplify things, otherwise I would like to see a specific project section as well.

Hijackthis is perfectly trustworthy and does exactly what it says and what you tell it to do. The problem with both that program and editing the registry is the user not know what THEY are doing. As long as you back up your registry properly, either way will work just fine with minimal risk.

If you look closely, I believe the Subaru also has the spoiler at the top of the hatch, like Mitsubishi.

Braap was drunk, but not so drunk as to foget to edit that horrible typo. Need some higher octane rootbeer, I'm thinking.

lol, his best was the sentra.

Have you actually gotten under the car to take a look? Dont want to get your hopes up, but perhaps something got bent and is rubbing against the drive shaft or other spinning part.

So, aside from the valve tolerances, is there anything in runner design, length, injector placement/design, ect that will help limit the reversion pulse effects?

would love to see pictures of the setup! Very nice car = )

Thanks, I was thinking along the lines of what Grumpy posted, just wasnt sure if it was realistic. The pics show a very clean engine, with what looks to be red plastic plugs blocking off lines that would seem to be oil, coolant, and vacuum. The fly in the oinment, and probably the reason it sat in the warehouse so long, is that the intake manifold has a chunk broken off. It would need a new intake, which of course it would be getting anyway. That concerns me as to how the intake took the damage... during an accident, or during removal... If i can free up some cash (Christmas is complicating this, of course) I think I will grab this engine. It is the cheapest I have ever seen it, and at 300 miles, like I said, the freshest I have seen as well.