Hey guys, I was playing with my video card today, and made a change in the catalyst control center that may help you get more frames. Under my Digital Flat Panels tab, and click Properties(Digital Flat-Panel) Then under Image scaling preferences, check enable GPU up-scaling, then below under Preferred Scaling Mode, select Scale image to full panel size. I had Maintain aspect ratio selected, but when I selected Scale Image to full panel size, I got an increase of over 100 fps. I was at 120 ish, but after the change I went up to 280 - 300 with no quality lost. I run all graphics on high. Also under the gaming tab, anti aliasing mode, I have selected override application settings. I use 8xEQ for samples, but saw no visual advantage over 8x and there is a fps gain there as well. Then inside the game, under display, choose bilinear for the texture filtering. Because you told your video card to over ride application settings, the texture filtering wont try to add 16x in game, it is only trying to add bilinear so you will have a few fps to play with if you want to increase your other video settings in the game, shadows etc, to make the game more immersive.

Warren,  that is an incredible  post and so true of Mike, and who he was.  It really  made me pause to think.  Mike never used his condition for an excuse or complained.  He just kept on fighting and moving forward. Instead of making excuses,  he just kept working to get better and stronger.  I think we all can learn from who Mike Koon was to help us face our own daily battles that there is no comparison as to what Mike and his family endured,  but they kept up the fight with a positive attitude. I didn't know Mike nearly as you and Ray knew him,  but reading your post,  I could not remember him ever complain or use his condition as an excuse. Thanks again for the wonderful post,  and it will stick in my mind and heart.
Greg

I posted this over at SCE in their forums, but thought I would post it here as well
I just reinstalled a fresh copy of sce, and I was looking for the download of the 2 files online that removes the rfactor tach, but leaves the speed/gear/fuel showing in the game. In the process, I found an interesting read that I was not aware of, maybe I just missed it along the way. But lets say you have a wheel with 900 degrees of rotation, if you look in your user data/your name here/ and look for the controller.ini file. Double click on it, or open it in word pad or note pad, and look for the following line under general controls, "Steering Wheel Range="200" // Degrees of rotation of in-game steering wheel" which is set at 200 by default. I changed it to 900 degrees which is what my wheel is, you will have to enter the degrees of rotation that your wheel is, and what I had setup in my Logitech profiler. Last year I tried all different settings within the profiler but didn't help me. I then went into the game and my laps were a lot more consistent within a couple of hundredths a lap plus the time you loose from tire wear. But it gave me a very consistent predictable feel. If you ask Tom and Phil, last season I would piss and moan, and thats stating it nicely lol, as to why my setup feels different on different servers, or is reacting different like snap loose entering when the setup didn't do it before, or get way tight for no reason and it was very frustrating because I would keep making setup changes to compensate for it only to make things worse. I cant say 100% that this was my problem or will help you for sure, but I have done some testing the last couple of days, and it feels a lot better and more predictable. You may have to adjust your speed sensitivity, x axis sensitivity and what wheel lock you use initially to find whats comfortable to you, but I am very pleased so far. The only thing is, there were a few times when I felt the car and wheel acting funny like last season after making changes within the games controller settings. So I rechecked the ini file and the setting went back to 200, not sure if this is from creating different profiles or loading different profiles within the game, but it only happened 3 times. So you might want to check it from time to time.

Should have stated it better. I was trying to compare the fan interest in a points standings that has the leader up by 200 points to if we were running that point system. I believe the SIM racers would enjoy having a chance to compete from the fun factor of a chase format compared to not having a chance in the old standard point system. It was my opinion, nothing more.

I know we talked about it the other night, but did you look into that thing I mentioned, I bet it would help a ton, just a thought.

Nice job Marc at Chicago, tough track especially turn 3. See you next week

Thanks Phil

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2014/1/30/chase-for-the-nascar-sprint-cup-championship-format-changes.html
Seems more like an ncaa basketball tournament