I wont pretend to be a programmer, lord knows what little C++ I had in
school is long lost in my brain somewhere, but is there that much of a
resource savings, to pick the "buggy" over the generically skinned &
included with the game-> car? Yeah OK, I would have to "guess it is so"
with this "LSI? engine" I guess, seems that is what they picked to fix it...

so this whole post is more or less rhetorical then, aint it.


Dave Henrie enlightened us with:
> "Plowboy2" > wrote in
> news:xGImd.1470$wC.1273@lakeread08:
>
>> ROFLMAO...
>>
>> that car without the "skin" is what you see when someone joins & gets
>> on the track, until you go into the garage... it is a generic
>> placeholder of sorts, why they chose that instead of the default skin
>> is a mystery.
>
> There is a good reason for the car. In all ISI based sims, there
> is a big screen freeze whenever somebody joins an online session.
> Even GTR has this. Well, the ISI guys seem to have figured out a
> fix. They have a pre- loaded carshape for everyone who joins. Thus
> the server does not have to send out any info for that car/driver and
> freeze the session. I think the car is automatically replaced when
> the driver goes back into the pits. So next time out, you will see
> his proper car... I'm guessing they chose such a generic shape was
> to conserve system resources. Who knows, in the final release, they
> may have a VW Beetle or some other unique car. I wonder if the mod
> guys may even be able to craft their own server cars.
>
> dh