Scouting Wales with the Escort…
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
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I must say I’m finding the tracks in Finland tricky. With the ground being so uneven and the many crests and jumps it’s all too easy to go flying off into a rock or tree.
Finland suspension setup is key. adjust your dampers, leave the bump rate normal but increase the fast bump to pretty much max, and then decrease the fast bump threshold by a little. Then increase the rebound a little, then max out the fast rebound and decrease the fast rebound threshold. This should allow the suspension to take a much larger hit before it hits the bump stop and also extend slower so that the car remains stable after a jump. You can also do this to the rear dampers but they are much less critical in maintaining control and sometimes a little looseness of the rear can help you rotate the car.
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I would man but I’m absolutely shit at it.
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Good or bad, doesn’t matter.
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Challenge you to prove you’re worse than me…
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I got this challenge sorted already
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Sounds like I’m going to have to award special titles.
Any thoughts? I’m thinking :
- dead last
- 1st person to wreck a car
- most wrecks
Etc
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May as well award me this one already. Ok - I’ll give it a go - why the hell not. Just have to install it again.
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Maybe include a category for wrecking your car so badly that you can’t recover it…
Those dangerous, snowy mountain passes are notorious for cars disappearing over the edge.
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So notorious that it formed part of the FIAs decision to stop Group B rally.
Whelp, Debian 10 is running Wayland instead of X, and I’m having problems getting anything to run. 
It’s solvable, you need the latest drivers though. Debian is a terrible desktop os
I’m assuming you mean straight from AMD instead of the ones in the repository. Or, I can log in with Gnome classic and use X. Low priority though, I have to find a job 
You take that back!
Yeah, the issue with Debian is that the repos are all deemed “stable” in that it contains stuff that’s horribly outdated and only has security updates applied to it. As a server OS, that’s an OK space to be in. As a desktop user that’s scaping the bottom of the barrel. The problem is not Wayland vs X, the real issue is drivers. You’ll have the same issue with other “stable” enterprise Linux distributions though.
For gaming I find Ubuntu the fair balance between “stable”, usable and not horribly behind with regards to standard repos.
IF you’re wondering why I put stable in inverted commas; It’s because people misunderstand what Debian (and Red Hat, CentOS, etc) mean with stable. It doesn’t mean Debian will give you more 9s of uptime, what it means is that they wont release updated versions (and by updated versions I don’t mean security updates) of software during a release cycle unless it’s passed rigorous testing and approval cycles AND won’t break installed software ever.
But if you’re using an nVidia card and Wayland you need to jump through a couple of hoops…
Unfortunately Ubuntu is dropping 32 bit support, which is a good thing, but bad for gaming.
Gaming on my desktop is only a nice to have.
I’m considering going back to Arch
Uhmmm…yes they are, but you should also notice that Canonical has done a 180 on 32-bit support for packages that are essential for WINE and Steam to run, and will continue to support that for a while.
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Loaded the game up last night. Wheel was listed in Controllers but completely unresponsive. Spent an hour fiddling with drivers and rebooting machines. Eventually got it working.
Only to find the settings that worked when I was last in the game 2 years ago have completely crapped out. Used a Wales stage to test on, which probably wasn’t the best choice, but anyway. Drive 100m. Crash. Pause menu into Settings, make adjustments. Back to the stage. Reset the car. Drive another 150m. Crash again. Rinse. Repeat. Took me almost 10 minutes to get to the end of a stage that the low-level AI were doing in 3 
. And I still had next to no control of the car at that stage.
Think I need to find a couple of hours, reset everything to defaults and start setting it up from scratch again.
For the MEWRL Challenge, I know from the settings that if we don’t own one of the Group B cars we get a loaner. But can anyone confirm if they can be tuned for the League race, or is it like Autosport where if you use a loan car for a race all the tuning settings are locked? I really just want to know if it’s worth practicing with a tuned car or if it should just be left at stock settings because that’s what it’ll be in the League race. (Assuming I manage to get the damn thing to go further than 100m at a time of course.)
Loaners can be tuned; I’ve also disabled career vehicles to prevent upgraded cars from competing. Wales is challenging, but …
You can use the Workshop Setup(s) for your cars if you don’t want to sit and fiddle for hours.
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