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When I first jumped into the A320 I was basically alt-tabbing from sim to my Google searches. I figure it's a good time to properly learn a 'bus' because X-Plane 12 is around the corner with their A330 and I have the Toliss A430 in my repertoire. I do prefer the manual nature of the classic 60s Boeings, but the A320 is an absolute joy to fly when you disable the A/P. I messed up my descent into KPHX yesterday, but still managed to just float in (after some questionable deceleration with the spoilers on descent).

 

It depends car to car, I think the Formula Classic G3M2 was the first non-Retro car with a removable airbox and I think the most detailed damage model overall is the Stock Car 1999/2019

 

Again with the “people like you” talk. I have never once complained about a delay, or complained about a particular promise not being fulfilled. This was my first time mentioning the lateness, but somehow you invented some boogeyman troll that must fit whatever profile you created in your mind.

We are now multiple months passed the last dev update. And then almost a week now passed since Renato said he just needed to sleep on the dev update and proofread it in the morning. I’m sure I could find the other Reiza posts and tweets promising similar. So I called a spade a spade, they are late.

I also said being late shouldn’t bring out the pitchforks for Reiza, but I should have known that posting anything that isn’t 100% cheering or excuse-making brings the pitchforks out for that poster instead. Talk about “negativity” and “toxic”, look at your responses to what was a relatively level headed criticism about the situation. Maybe you’ve just been on here too much and posting too much.

 

Comments like these are taken as "We want (whatever is the delay)" when all I really feel like you are saying is for Reiza to communicate differently. You don't see a chip maker wait until the scheduled release day to say "Sorry the chips aren't ready there has been a delay" they get ahead of it and manage expectations.

If you move to a new house and the internet/cable guy says he is going to be there somewhere between 10am and 12pm and never shows or phones to say he is running late are some of you still sitting on your couch at 5pm waiting for the guy to come... or are you calling the company?

 

When you run a dedicated server for ams2 you can advance to next session,and restart race, but only the race, you can run the dedicated server from home if you want.

 

I keep track of updates to see if I need to update or revise set ups, etc. It's also nice to be excited for what's coming next. Honestly, though I just read this forum when I'm trying to figure what car/track combo to try next in AMS2 or when I know I am too tired to race but don't feel like going to bed next.

Driving makes me a better driver. Updates to me are like sprinkles on my ice cream. They're tasty but I'd still enjoy the ice cream if I didn't have any.

 

Special request: Please dedicate some time to optimize the graphics for VR...do whatever it need to increase the frame rate. Some tracks are being hit hard in fps than others...probably due to too many extra contents within the track. During rain....please switch off all AIs from turning on their headlights. I think that will save a ton of frame rates.

 

nice request, but i think if AI's head lights are off, then there are immediatelly 10 ppl who complain or report that as bug?

 

Or as an option…

 

Wait, what!? I don't want the AI head lights off. That would be totally immersion breaking.

 

it tanks the performance in VR for little benefit (in VR at least). I'd like the option to limit the number of AI headlights (say, only 1 or 2 AI cars' headlights are actual light sources)

 

„Or as an option“

 

Here's a quick fix... don't race at night while being in a thunderstorm on high quality graphics. Turn the settings way down if you enjoy this crappy scenario when everyone slides off track.

Very few races happen in real life that way anyhow. You are trying to smoothly run the worse possible and most demanding graphical combination. I have the fastest GPU money can buy, and I don't even try to this this bad combination of weather/time since I know it will never run smoothly.

 

Well it doesn't look like Reiza are finding other solutions to the frame drops so limiting the headlights would be a decent work around to get the frames up in the meantime.

 

Even with a high end gpu, you can't drive at night in the wet? I have an rtx 2080 and I can get decent night races in the wet by having few cars and turning settings down. It's not perfectly smooth, but not terrible. That's disheartening if even those with high end cards are struggling too

 

It's not so bad, you need to reduce a couple of settings that don't really impact the image quality that much. Basically reduce shadows, reflections, environment mapping, set track detail to high and turn off enhanced mirrors. With those settings I can race a full field on a rainy night, but FPS drop to around 50ish at the start of the race when the cars are packed together. After about a thrid of a lap when the AI have spread out a bit it's stable 60FPS all the way. Depends on the track as well. The Nürburgring is a good test for this, the Stadium section is very FPS intensive.

If I'm racing during moring/day/evening in the dry I can run the same race at stable 60FPS with all maximum settings (apart from shadows, they're on high). The same race at night with rain with max settings drops FPS at the start to around 40 and it takes about 1.5 laps to get back to stable 60FPS.

 

I will try your settings, thank you

 

The terrible fps is only relevant in VR. Its impossible to maintain 90fps which in VR is critical, and not possible regardless of your graphics settings. If you are racing on monitors, enjoy your rain or night time racing, for us in VR, we need a fix!

 

I found AMS2 pretty damned well optimised for VR tbh... especially with this: FSR for OpenVR

For sure there are scenarios in VR that will hammer any system but the same can be said for any sim - you should try ACC.... looks loads worse and worse performance in VR.

AMS2/PC2 and iRacing are really positive experiences VR wise compared to the competition but you have to accept some scenarios just are not possible yet.

Im running at 100% resolution (3172x3100 per eye in Steam VR) and mostly have consistent 90fps in day time races with a load of high settings in game. If I want to do Long Beach at night with rain - for sure it will fall apart though - I just have to be prepared to lower settings when that is what I want to do.

 

It only makes sense to turn on headlights at night or in foggy condition, not raining in daylight. I don't know about you but I don't ever turn on my headlights while driving in the rain in real life. So I was surprised to see all AIs headlights on...I mean it's not like you can't see where you're going...there's freaking light outside in broad daylight.