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Anyone has any information about when Reiza should be dropping another paid DLC? Should I start saving money now or can I spend it on booze?

 

Start saving money is never a bad thing.

 

Of course but that should be adjustable - U have better PC ok, but on lower spec you should have option to turn it off if this issue makes game uplayabe... before update i had smooth 60 fps...

 

I also wonder then why are the 3D trees not tied to "Enviromental detail" and when set to low / medium it would be 2D trees, higher it would be 3D, or have it as a separate "Tree detail - 2D/3D", problem solved.

 

I can imagine that with these game engines that are a bit older scaleability is incredibly difficult between the low and high end machines now in use.

You want it to run well on as many machines as possible but people who have invested in newer CPU/GPUs etc really want it to take advantage of the higher end kit.

A lot has changed since the Madness Engine was originally created so it’s probably quite a bit more work than people imagine.

 

Maybe because they don't want the graphics artists to be tied into maintaining two different art assets for each circuit. They already have enough work to do with LODs, winter textures, and such.

 

Thats fair enough, but I have a lower spec pc running at 3440 by 1440 and I haven't noticed a significant drop in frames. AMS2 is by far the easiest sim to run on lower spec pc's.

 

I think they said that there was no performance loss with the new trees.

 

What pisses me off with rF2 and LMU is the absurd loading times and the awful optimization

I find astonishing that a game that doesn’t look better than AMS 2 runs so much worse than AMS 2

I have less lags and FPS issues on AMS 2 or even on ACC than on rF2 or LMU

 

As someone with a low spec pc I can confirm this

 

probably next month idk

but next update is gonna be big so I wouldn’t expect it this month

 

The loading times for me in rF2/LMU isn't much worse (if any) for me compared to AMS2. In LMU, the first time you load a track, it takes longer (shaders I think), but after that it's much shorter. Maybe it's worse on lower end PC and definitely probably on non-SSD.

btw. those games also look really good on higher graphical settings (but require a lot more from the computer) and rF2 can especially look great with re-shade added.

but yeah, AMS2 is usually been great for lower end machines.

 

For me, every time I race at lemans in LMU with a full field of AI it takes around 2 minutes to load the track. In ams2 similar conditions take 10 seconds. Both on the same SSD.. it's pretty insane actually

 

Agreed, the loading times are very ordinary for nowadays, it reminds me of the old cassette games in the 1980s. I find even after a track has loaded once it is no quicker second time round and things like driver details and textures are like from a 20 year old game. It also doesn't matter if I crank the graphic settings up to full it never uses all my gpu or cpu capability, this was also an issue in rf2. So I don't even reach my fps cap at my refresh rate but my gpu ticks over at 60% usage and my cpu gets nowhere near 100% usage, even on single core.

 

I think if the skies/clouds on RF2 weren't so ugly it would go a long way to improving how it looks.

RF2 could have easily been what Assetto Corsa is now if it was managed and developed properly from the start. It is a last generation sim,clunky and full of flaws,, but everyone else is still behind when it comes to physics and FFB. That's the biggest puzzle.

 

I just wait, the driving experience is worth it. I do think light effects are better done, more real, in rF2 (I just love when everything goes darker, it often makes me look outside to check if is a game or a reality thing ). Many tracks do look great (both DLC and mods) but they are overall "flatter" than in AMS2 (I mean, visually). AMS2's ME takes shortcuts to achieve great, pleasing visual effects, but screenshots from rF2 often look more real (cars are great and they use camera DOF to good effect, hiding graphic's shortcomes of the background).

AMS2's "jump in and have fun" factor is compelling and the reason I wish Reiza achieves AMS1/rF1/rF2 kind of driving experience.

 

Yes totally agree. I really couldn't care less what the trees look like, usually far to busy trying to keep the car on track to have time for sightseeing .

 

I think some trees should be 3D as it's creepy when you can see the 2D trees rotating when passing by. The rotating trees don't even need to be at the centre of attention. It's something that when caught by vision cause the brain to issue an alert that something is not right. Even when not focusing on them or sightseeing.

Most trees are fine, but some definitely need changing.

 

Since we're talking about trees, what's even creepier is the billboard clouds suddenly doing a 180 because they reached the midpoint of the skybox. Any plans to do actual, volumetric clouds? I've noticed the billboard clouds significantly more than I ever did the trees.

 

I don't remember what they said, except that it will probably add cars to the endurance classes. There was more speculation on specific models, classes and tracks (Sebring) but that usually turns out pure phantasy. Instead I got the remaining DLCs with the All-Inclusive bundle and now have enough content for a while.

What I do remember them saying is that it could be some time until version 1.6 which is supposed to drop in summer. Therefore I assumed that the next DLC is also not coming in April/May but could be completely wrong.