Allan964

Skeet has asked me to post a picture of it on his behalf.

Really? I did not know that. That is completely stupid on Dell's part.

Brilliant, cheers mate.

600w Seasonic mate. I will try an FPS limiter as i am definitely not going back to vsync as the game felt horrible ! Strange problem eh? In my 10+ years of gaming i've never heard of such a problem.

Says they have been sent. Done it via upload tool last night but has now pm'ed you?

Sparky is gonna send you them Dave, ill text him.

Made a wee recording so you could hear it. This is me holding my microphone beside my GFX card while on the rFactor front screen looking at my car: http://soundcloud.com/allan-obrien/nvidia-electrical-noise

Hi mate. It's not the fan, i run a huge arctic cooler on my card rather than the standard cooler. It's definitely electrical noise, i run EVGA precision to manually control the fan speed on my card. When i googled it, apparently it's electrical noise coming directly from the card which i have never heard before, its the weirdest thing. For example, when your in game and you click between monitor, garage and settings, the pitch of the whine changes, its crazy. I might download an FPS limiter and limit my FPS to 110, that way the noise will reduce as its directly in proportion with the FPS you get. On all the latest drivers etc. It was Rfactors vsync i had turned on, i probably should have mentioned that, i didn't force it on via nvidias control panel, that is set to let the application decide.

Hi Al, sadly the only way was changing the card. Although you set RF to DX9, if your card/onboard does not support DX9, it will just default to the lower version and this is the reason it won't load. Sparky's card wasn't old but it obviously just didn't support DX9. Can you not pick up a cheapish card that supports DX9 Al?

So my graphics card (GTX 280) makes an electrical squealing noise when playing RF and after a bit googling i figured out it was due to my card producing extremely high FPS, roughly around 260 in the pits and 180 on track. I think a lot higher in the menus as the squeal is extremely annoying. Turning Vysnc on fixed this instantly in game and vastly lowered the noise in menus, as some will know, vsync limits your FPS to your monitors refresh rate, in my case 60. Now, you would say to yourself, just leave vsync on? I went in for a practice with vsync on and my car handled completely different. I thought i had to be making it up in my head so i turned it back off, practiced, car went fine. Turned it on and the car felt less responsive to the throttle and steering once again. Anyone else had anything like this or even heard of this problem? Some people wouldn't even notice to be honest but i am so fussy with things that i noticed straight away. Anyway, the solution for the moment is leaving vsync on and putting up with the daft noise, its only in RF it does it!

Thanks

Can someone please upload this, cheers.

Up to blue next week don't forget Oh dear.

Enjoyed the meeting, gutted my GN was so clean, never seen another car until lap 10! Wd Tom on Euro.

It's Harsh man, just cancel the holiday.

Looking forward to this meeting.

Watched my replay and i was an unlucky victim of a train in the final, if anyone fancies a chuckles, watch my car from lap 8 through to 11. After that my car was buckled six ways from Sunday and barely drivable.

Some of the hits are fine, but some are bordering on ludicrous. My final was ruined by how hard i got put in, not bothered watching the reply to see who it was yet as it was a train of cars, so wasn't a blatent follow in etc.

THRUSMASTER FGT Rumber 3 in 1 I go in the control panel for it? status says 'Ok', wheel moves about when testing but pedals aint working. How do the pedals connect to wheel? On my wheel the pedals plug into the back of my wheel. Has this wheel worked before with rF or this your first time using it?

Just incase it's off interest to anyone, replaced Sparky's old ATI X600XT with me old Nvidia 8800GTX and Buxton loads fine. Would like to know what the cause is with the old card but this will do as a temporary fix.

What wheel you got mate? I know the some wheels require their own drivers for windows.

I don't use msn mate but if you post your problem in here, i can help you out.

Won't let me edit my reply but this seems to have been a problem dating back more than a year with no solution: http://www.ukdirtforum.com/index.php?showtopic=35903

Last night i was in practicing and Sparky was going to join me but he kept getting an error that PEAK could not load for HORIZPEAK. This is when you load into the game and try and load the actual track. Every other track works fine. I got Sparky to bring his PC round to mine, i uninstalled rF and reinstalled but it was the exact same. Now i think the problem lies in his graphics card. I have been trying to update the drivers but it suchs an old card that it's now pretty obsolete. I am trying to find out if drivers are going to make a difference or if there is something in the Buxton track that his graphics card just can't handle. His PC ran the old Buxton fine, just not the new one. His graphics card is an ATI X600, and he runs Windows XP. I have tried everything i can possibly think of so far. I tried to download a driver from AMD's website for a "legacy" driver for his card, but the link was broken to the driver so i have sent them an email. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks mate.