Justin, so you have made your virtual race car like a real race car, just keep throwing money at it, that has to make it faster :-)

 

LOL! It's part of high fidelity simulation.

 

Well are you certain the "car" was completely stopped before you tried to get out? If the car was rolling at 5mph you'd just be getting the "Car must be stopped" error on the screen... you just couldn't see it.

Quick and dirty way I've always used (since the DOS days) to tell if things are locked up... hit the CAPS LOCK or NUM LOCK keys. Does the little light go on/off as you hit them? If so... then keyboard is fine/machine is not completely dead.

The fact that you can still hear the engine tells me that the machine itself is likely OK.

PSU could be a culprit too - perhaps the GPU isn't getting enough juice. If your PSU supports it, you might try switching to a different rail to drive the GPU. I'd think if the whole PSU was going bad, you'd also get CPU lockups, but if it's just the screens then maybe you've just got a bad rail in the PSU.

 

Easier to hide from the wife, too. Computer parts are more easily delivered to the office.

 

So what track are we doing? I didn't see anything posted this morning. I might not be able to join the official practice session tomorrow night as we host Mother's Day so our moms just can come over and not have to do anything.

 

Good question. Was just looking through things.

Not sure if I'll even bother scheduling a practice unless I for sure know people will join? Last couple weeks I scheduled it and nobody used it.

Today being Mother's Day I figure an even lower chance of folks showing up.

 

I've run for almost 2 hours now with no crash on the new PSU. It sure makes more fan noise than the old one when I'm working it. I wonder if the fan in the old PSU wasn't keeping up and it was overheating. Fingers crossed it was the $60 part and nothing worse!

 

Should we take a break for the real racing season and then get back at it again in September?

 

Well attendance has been low, but the small handful that have been showing up have been pretty competitive, really. Kevin, Michael, myself, Doug all seem to run pretty tight. Justin you've missed a few weeks with PC issues but you're usually right there with us too.

I know Michael have expressed interest in continuing. I might miss a lot of Sundays but can probably keep up the Wednesday nights myself. I think if we can be pretty confident that at least the 4-5 of us can make most Wednesdays, maybe we try keeping it going? Might help pick up some stragglers along the way and give us a stronger Fall season?

What I don't want to do is schedule events out, then nobody (or only like two) show up... I think that'll hurt us overall (as new folks might show up once, only see 1-2 people and say 'meh nobody shows up' and never return.)

Maybe we just drop Sundays officially but keep Weds nights going if at least a core group of us can make it?

 

I already have another league night on Sunday, so dropping that is a-ok with me. I do still want to race on Wednesday nights.

 

Sure, that sounds good. I should be back more consistently.

 

Ok.

Any requests for where to run this week?

 

Imola?

 

We were there in February.

But Monza is less than 3hrs away....

 

Monza is Ok. I just don't get the Italian obsession with chicanes!