Well, I have to say, car problems suck. Last week i was driving when i started to notice a vibration in the passenger rear. Since i was leaving for Texas the next day, i left it be. On Thursday this week, i took my car over to a friends house to see what it was. It turns out the tire had a huge bubble in the tread and the belts were visible on the outer edges of the tire. There was also a few bubbles on the inner sidewall of the tire. The truth be told, i'm lucky the tire hadn't blown already. Also, before i removed the tire, i noticed one of the lugnuts was missing. Once i got the wheel off, i saw the the stud was broken! Please remember i only bought this thing a few months ago, and there was a cover over it, so this was a nice little surprise.
So the story goes, i took the tire over to discount and when i showed him the tire, the first thing he said was, "lets get [... more]
Well, this Spring semester has been a rough one, heres everything that has happened in the last 16 weeks:
Mid January: School starts back. I'm enrolled in Calc 3, Diff Eq., Micro Econ, and History 102. Of course the 2 importaint classes are Calc 3 and Diff Eq. Also, i'm searching for an apartment. I also win to opening round of our slotcar season. The race is the final one ever to be held at our current house. This ends 19+ years of races at this residence.
End of January: Me and my brother find a place and decide to try living together. The price is right. We sign the paperwork and set Feb. 9th as our move in day.
Early Febuary: The move in day is here. This sets a long weekend of moving using only our small truck and trailer. I also have a slotcar race to attend which i do badly only fiishing 4th. By the end of the weekend, all my stuff is in my new apartmen [... more]
After driving in many R2P races and stewarding many others, I have noticed a steady decline in many driving aspecs. I am not here to name names or anything, and I have no interest in flaming anyone, this is just an observers point of view.
The biggest thing I have noticed is a huge lack of patients when overtaking. This is especially true in the doubleheader series when the fast drivers are placed at the back (either because of an accident in race 1 or the grid inversion). I have seen many instances of blatent ramming and very poor judgement of passing attemps. Most of these can't be explained away as simple mistakes either, as many are repeat offenders. Although these drivers (who are the definite minority here) do get penalties during or after the races, the race is already ruined for the other drivers involved.
I have also noticed many drivers that have no inte [... more]
Well, as of this passed Sunday, i have moved from home and now share an apartment with my brother. Of course moving in the middle of the semester really sucks, especially the weekend before a big differental equations test. Any way, it was a very strange feeling spending my last night in the room i had called mine for the last 19.5 years (since i was 4 years old). but i also felt like i was getting out of a rut. everyday our apartment feels a little more like home as we put up our pictures and setup everything.
Of course the move didn't go super smooth, especially when dealing with the cable company (god i hate it too). but thats another blog/rant.
I hope to have some pictures of my place up soon, when i finally get the place all put away.
David "Nissan Man" Banta
I now have GTR2, and all i can say is wow is it FPS hungery. especially with rain driving. i've tired everything to get FPS atleast into the 50's, but when around lots of "stuff" all i get is in the 30's, which sucks. any tips, i'm already running in DX7, with low Rez track textures, shadows and SE's off. i dunnow what else to try :(.
Well, i think my computer problems are fixed. I have been having corruption problems with my old harddrive (at least that seems to have been causing it). So i bought a new Segate 400 GB SATA harddrive for around $140 including tax. I also got a ATI Radon 9800 Pro for free form a friend from another club. I can't believe the huge difference. Now GTL and rFactor look awsome compared to before. and they run better too. I'm so happy :), Let the racing contiune!!!
For anyone who a) knows what a Porsche 956 is and b) misses the Group C glory days, then you have to check out the incar 956 video.
The video, avaible at motorbooks, has Derek Bell personally showing us around many classic tracks in their 1983 configuration from the cockpit of his Porsche 956. These aren't slow laps either, you can tell at many points he really is pushing the car to the limit. The tracks included are The Nurbergring Long Course, Silverstone, Le Mans, Spa, Kyalami, Fuji, and Brand Hatch. This video gives an awsome sense of the insanity of racing these cars on some of these tracks. The only cons of this video are that you can tell the footage is old and you wish there was more footage.
If you love Group C cars and wish you could of had an onboard lap at Le Mans topping out at 246 mph on the Musanne straight, then this video is for you. This truely [... more]
Dammit, i'm pissed!!!
I was surfing the net last night, got in somewhere i shouldn't of been and got a virus. I was a bad one my antivirus couldn't heal. And now I am reinstalling windows as we speak. What a pain in the ass.
UPDATE: I have a new install of windows and i'm getting everything back to normal slowly. I hope to be ready for the race tomorrow.
WIPs were just posted at rcentral, here are some pics:
One of the best years of Cart is finally getting a game, 8 years later. I call Zanardi's car.
As most of you know, I was very hard to convince to buy rFactor. But in the end of June 2006 I finally bit the bullet and ordered it up. My how my perspectives changed. Now I almost can't go back to GTR and GTL. With the F1 1979 Mod Demo and with the Prototype C mod being converted, I don't think I'll need another racing game for years. I have been looking into a multiclass series for rFactor, looking into cars already mad for rFactor by other people that match up well with minimum mods needing to be made. I'm so happy I bought rFactor now, I dunno how I ever lived without it.
