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Project CARS (crowdsourcing) racing sim by Slightly Mad Studios (fully funded 3.75M)
- Thread starter markao
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GMG delivered my code and am pre-loading it on steam right now.
Seems this game is cpu bound (at least on some effects) i5 4690 3.5 ghz am cry? Might need to check some overclocking I guess, maybe DX12 will help in the future also.
Oh shit, i just got to work
ah well.MrJustinius
Member
The game responds pretty well to CPU overclocking so you should be able to get a few frames out of it.
Reflections on High compared to Ultra also give a significant boost to CPU limited situations like wet weather racing and large AI fields without really looking noticeably different in motion.
I do OK on an i5-2500K @ 4.4 unless I'm doing wet weather races or playing with 30+ AI cars.
MagnetoWasRight
Member
Please report back how the wheel works asap.itshappening.gif
Nobody has volunteered to do it.
So I was doing the first race of F1 aka Formula A career mode. I think this is going to be the best part of the career mode because the F1 car is probably the most fun in the game and it has my favorite career structure. Practice, qualifying, one really long race if set to 100% length and a 19 race season each at a different location. Most other careers I tried had 2-3 mini seasons in different parts of the world over the course of the year. So a GT3 career season might see you in the US championship for half the year then the world championship the second half the year and it is the world championship that really matters. Each race weekend in these careers you would also race twice. A short race followed by a longer race. I'm not quite sure why they handled it like that. Each mini season typically had 3-5 different locations with those 2 races in each location. The F1 having 19 races per season each in a unique spot is way more attractive. The point structure also seems more realistic for it.
So because I had been looking forward to F1 career part of my career so much I wanted everything to be perfect. So I was starting the first race over a few times to get the right AI setting to be a challenge but not impossible. Get the car setup how I want as well. At some point I must have messed up the fuel load in my car's default setup because lap 20 of a 52 lap race I realized I had used 70 liters of my starting 100 liters and had to make 30 liters last the next 32 laps. The max for the car is 240 liters. Like current F1 no refueling is allowed in F1 in the game. Another restart I guess. It was the most fun I had racing in the game so far though.
So because I had been looking forward to F1 career part of my career so much I wanted everything to be perfect. So I was starting the first race over a few times to get the right AI setting to be a challenge but not impossible. Get the car setup how I want as well. At some point I must have messed up the fuel load in my car's default setup because lap 20 of a 52 lap race I realized I had used 70 liters of my starting 100 liters and had to make 30 liters last the next 32 laps. The max for the car is 240 liters. Like current F1 no refueling is allowed in F1 in the game. Another restart I guess. It was the most fun I had racing in the game so far though.
About 9 hours according to my Steam. Weird time. I'm US East.
Hip Hop
Member
I have the exact same setup. I pre ordered already so I'm hoping we can, respectively.
Won't be able to play it until UK midnight I'm afraid..!
But I need more than hope! I'm still willing to settle for the console version if these rigs don't cut it. That many cars and rain aren't always a thing. I'd just rather have the best version, if I can.
Oh shit, just saw this. Maybe it doesn't matter what someone in my case gets...
MrJustinius
Member
You should be OK at medium-high settings most of the time for 1080p60fps. Performance with loads of AI and rainy weather will drop though so be prepared for that.
Yeah, I am having a dilemma, stay up late, or get up early.........trouble is, being as old as I am, I'm not sure I could make it to midnight!
That set-up will do everything the PS4/Xbone versions will do and then some. I can understand wanting to get a console version, but performance and graphics should not be one of them with your PC.
You'll be okay. Probably you'll need to play with mid settings, some highs, probably.
I thought about doing it. But this game deserves better English than mine
MrJustinius
Member
You should get there at medium with that resolution but the game is currently heavily unoptimised for AMD users (both CPU and GPU). A 290X is performing worse than a GTX 660Ti at 1080p at the moment.
Probably wait and see for other AMD reports first I guess.
Oh well :/
Maybe I will just wait until next week for the console version....
Or is this something a patch can/hopefully will fix?
MrJustinius
Member
At this point I reckon it's more down to AMDs drivers than anything. AMD performance has never been good in pCARS at any point during development.
Dave_6
Member
I was just checking Steam on my work PC (not logged in) and it says 6 hours. Anyways, wasn't expecting to play this tonight!
MagnetoWasRight
Member
Then that's as soon as possible.
This is a whole new world for me as I had a laptop before and just put together my PC a few weeks ago. Thank you for being helpful.
I will wait it out I suppose.
If you do it and I can proof-read it and fix any sentencesI thought about doing it. But this game deserves better English than mine
(Seriously though, it'd be nice to change from development, I think I'm starting make bugs rather fix them...)MrJustinius
Member
Yeah, that's basically how it works.
Not that I'm expecting anything more than a few bucks as a Junior Member, but I never bought into the funding stage with investment as an aim so anything is a bonus.
Hmm.. Not really sure what to expect in terms of how much I'm gonna get. I'm a full member though.
The Elite
BOSS
It's normal to have the game available on different dates in different regions.
Is US Steam getting this today?
Edit: Apparently so. I am really thinking of dumping PSN and going with Steam. My PC isn't great at the moment but it should hold its own until I build a new one early next year. I will mull over the idea.
My 660 2gb doesn't look too great for this. It doesn't look bad either.
Vinsanity.
Member
I booked Thursday and Friday off work...
Ooossshh.
I spunked all my holiday in one go when I went to Australia for a month in March