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[Spastic Hamburger]

And another one came in: City Car Driving. It has VR support, which the other two do not, but its wheel support isn’t as extensive according to the reviews but it definitely warrants some additional research to see which one of the three programs is best suited to me 🙂

[DeVaultSetter]

Which one made it to pole position?
Can stock folded, sad as was a subscriber. The Splashy image was purchased for a couple of bucks, presumably the rights to the image don’t change.

[Spastic Hamburger]

Looks like City Car Driving is getting an updated version in May so I may start with Beam.NG drive when it goes on sale and go from there. Or Euro Truck Simulator. Need to look into the latter more but it I think I read that it has good hardware support. It also has a ton of DLC but I may not need much of it, will need to take a closer look. Would also be nice to have something to mess around with outside of learning so I’ll take that into consideration. Will pick up the research again this weekend. 🙂

Always sad to see a service fold. 🙁

Weird that the Wikipedia page is so inaccurate. The issues have already been mentioned on the talk page so hopefully it’ll get changed

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[DeVaultSetter]

Tried a hand at the MSN games Spades, the first thing was the old login is deprecated, now it’s either anonymous or only the MS account to login through FirebaseApp.
Fun, except the game screen won’t maximise in the browser and there’s a bug in the sound volume slider. The chat icons take a bit of getting used to as well.

[DeVaultSetter]

In response to this observation, there has been more action on trimming the Wikipedia content down as per e.g the 2007 Wikipedia: “In Popular Culture” Content article. Do like the xkcd ref. 🙂
Take, for example, this revision of the page for What Are Little Boys Made Of before the section got chopped. This is the current page.
There are some interesting references that have been moved on, it’s possible to argue the items are all relevant because they satisfy certain criteria. In the olden multivolume hardcopy days, one was obviously restricted by physical media, here there is no such restriction. Wikipedans have become too encyclopedic! Having some of the most “important” references in popular culture now as links in the page below, does take something away from the article. Bring them back I say!
Edit: Having said that, references are a thing though, one can’t, for example, say something happened in a film without references. If the movie, or at least its transcript isn’t at IA or one of the official video channels that provide access to the film for everyone, the reference might be rejected. Snippets from movie reviews from syndicated sources might be acceptable as long as they are not behind an impervious paywall.

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[Spastic Hamburger]

I like how the popular culture section lives on in See Also but without the descriptions. The section doesn’t really detract too much from the articles as one can easily skip it and, often, the references are pretty interesting. I think they’re doing too much to make things more concise and, as a result, making it a bit less useful. To be fair, some of the articles were getting out of hand such as the Wile E Coyote and Acme articles. Especially the latter: people were adding every reference to Acme, even companies that predated the fictional corporation, so they had to do a bit of a purge. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was one of the inspirations behind the xkcd strip. Love xkcd still. Been reading it for close to twenty years now 😛

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Tried a hand at the MSN games Spades, the first thing was the old login is deprecated, now it’s either anonymous or only the MS account to login through FirebaseApp.
Fun, except the game screen won’t maximise in the browser and there’s a bug in the sound volume slider. The chat icons take a bit of getting used to as well.

Didn’t know MSN had a dedicated game zone. Looks like it hasn’t been maintained very well. Some of those look like web clients for the desktop versions that weren’t ported very well. Maybe they were the original versions that were brought over to a standalone program later and then forgotten about?

[Spastic Hamburger]

Alright, picked up BeamNG.drive as it was on sale. The physics are good. Really good. And the UI is a lot more intuitive than in Rigs. As expected from being the same team, there are a lot of things that are similar. The controls are also pretty fluid. Not yet sure how well the AI controlled cars work out but we’ll get there 🙂

Passed on Euro Truck Sim 2 for now as I had a hard time finding ways to turn it into a car sim

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[Spastic Hamburger]

Looks like Windows 11 24H2 is being pushed out. The changes don’t look too significant. The biggest change is support for AI compute cores. Another notable one is support for WiFi 7. Other than that, it looks like it’s mostly minor tweaks to the UI in addition to other bug fixes under the hood.

[DeVaultSetter]

Just got it here as well, the install, as with on the last occasion was through the WU interface, relatively painless as an ISO was not required. Also ran GPEdit to prevent the well meaning but “flawed” WU downloading OEM driver updates. That is, funnily enough, has not to-date existed a policy of HP to tinker with WU, as everything driver related (including Intel) should be dealt with through their provided Support Assistant. Not bad in that respect. 🙂
Edit: Oh, and the current official known issues list, for the unofficial ones it’s easy, just Google “<an_expletive> W11“. 😛

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[Spastic Hamburger]

Yeah, I’ll be on standby to fix the drivers. I usually wait until it’s automatically installed just in case. 🙂

Yep, the big vendors are pretty good about sharing with Microsoft so things go more smoothly 🙂

Good catch! Also, there are known issues with Ubisoft games so definitely something to keep in mind

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On Spastic Hamburger said

Alright, picked up BeamNG.drive as it was on sale. The physics are good. Really good. And the UI is a lot more intuitive than in Rigs. As expected from being the same team, there are a lot of things that are similar. The controls are also pretty fluid. Not yet sure how well the AI controlled cars work out but we’ll get there 🙂

Passed on Euro Truck Sim 2 for now as I had a hard time finding ways to turn it into a car sim

Update time!

Been spending the last few weeks getting acquainted with the realism and different vehicles in short bursts so today I gave it a longer session. It went rather well. They’re still working on the AI traffic so that it’s not basic but I did a decent job of driving in it and got some highway driving in. Also tried out some of the scenarios and they’re pretty fun. One of them has you driving a police car with your objective being to drive a semi of the road. Others are more basic, having you simply crash your vehicle. Still need to keep practicing, though 🙂

Edit:

Still don’t have a real car to practice on, though. More on that in the private thread later 🙁

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