System requirements for ACC

Thank you Serge.
I'm just running a single TV screen, newer Vizio 32" 1080p for now.

 

No worries. Inevitably you will get addicted and you will want more
It all starts with an entry level gaming pc, before you know it there’s motion rigs and direct drive wheels set up and about $15-20k missing from your account... and then you come on here and see people complain about spending $15 on a dlc... lol

 

Given the state of the graphics card market, i do rather wonder how well ACC will run on a GTX 1030 or similar tier card. Will it run with two 4gb DDR memory sticks in an AMD Raven Ridge system?

 

Your best guess might be to check on other games' benchmarks on UE4.

 

Not sure that'll help much. How many other UE4 games will demand as much in terms of physics and AI processing?

Very much doubt the minimum memory would be more than 8GB, although more will no doubt help.

 

A 1030 will struggle, I’d say minimum settings at best. I would expect mid settings to be in a quad core cpu starting in the 4th gen i5 range, 8gb ram and 1060 6GB. From there it’s the sky’s the limit situation

 

Pretty confident that it will help. With a 1030, it's unlikely that there's a CPU bottleneck. And if you're still worried about that: take the benchmark from another game and assume that's what you'd get alone on track in practice mode in ACC.

It's possible to "connect the dots" and get a ballpark figure of how your system will perform ith ACC. I don't quite see how more than 8 GB system RAM will help, though. I never had more than that and system RAM usage never ran that high (neither in AC nor another game).
With GPU RAM it's a different story: according to my findings you should always aim at staying below ~75 % usage to prevent stuttering. In AC, on a Nordschleife Trackday server with many cars that would mean that you'd need 4 GB GPU RAM.

 

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/116354-amd-nvidia-working-closely-microsoft-dxr-api/
so the above has come up recently in the tech world, i was wondering if this going to be implemented in ACC?

apparently from nvidia's side they will be concentrating on their new volta architecture for max performance with this, so even this gen of cards may be struggling with that running too..

depends what sort of machines the games will be built and rendered on too.. Kunos, lost of tasty Quadro's in your pcs?

 

Doubt it, too new and too limited in support. Will likely not make it in the build of unreal engine used for ACC

 

Here is a realtime ray tracing demo in UE4 which looks interesting.

Epic Games Demonstrates Real-Time Ray Tracing With Star Wars
By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/22/2018 07:43 AM | 0 comment(s) ]
Continuing the theme from the Game Developers Conference this year, Epic Games in collaboration with ILMxLAB and NVIDIA are showing off real-time ray tracing in the Unreal 4 engine. The video is using Microsoft’s new DXR framework and NVIDIA RTX technology for Volta GPUs, powered by Microsoft's DirectX Ray Tracing API, or DXR.

 

All the ray tracing demos i have seen in the past make 3d graphics look photorealistic, this looks cartoony to be honest, i dont think this raytracing tech we are seeing since the last couple of days is the same as what professional CGI teams use for their productions.

 

Time to replace those 1080's? May I recommend: https://www.ple.com.au/Products/631420/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-TITAN-V-12GB-HBM2

Buy two, just in case...

 

Lol completly useless cards those even Im not stupid enough to get that.

 

They sure are, lots of the stuff on them is not used for gaming and they aren’t meant for that anyway. But it is a card that answers the most important question with a yes for the first time: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12170/nvidia-titan-v-preview-titanomachy/8

 

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Regarding this I read that for this demo to run in realtime they needed 4x volta GPU's so RTX is not something we will be getting in games for quite a few more years.

The next gen Volta or whatever it will be called will likely not surpass the Titan V and so needing 4 of those means its a completly useless feature for even 2 card sli at the top end next gen gamer gpu's.

Kind of funny how NV is pushing a feature thats going to be far from useable in any real games for many years to come. Maybe the 4080ti can manage this but by 2020 8k displays will be available so 8k60 with rtx is not going to be happening at that res for at least 5 more years beyond that.

 

I’m hoping for a minimum of 30% performance increase in the next gen card over a 1080ti, that should give a bit of headroom for a few years. 1080ti is fairly boarderlone for high settings in VR now I find.

 

Its kind of where VR SLI really needs to be supported, currently looking at many Benchmarks Titan V is still slower then gtx 1080 SLI in many games and 1080ti SLI will still be considerably faster then a single Volta TI card. With VR SLI if done properly can render 1 card per eye with less latency then a single card and considerably better performance. Unreal engine supports NV VR SLI so displays like the Pimax 8k+ (2x 4k90) will be useable but sticking to single card solutions even current gen vr displays will struggle getting high settings at their considerably lower resolution without dipping below optimal refresh rates.

 

There's a site that you can directly compare video cards and see the performance differences and it seems that 30% is about right between a 980ti and 1080ti but Nvidia typically don't release the ti versions right away. Comparing a 980 and a 1080ti the 1080 is about 50% faster.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-980-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1080-Ti/2576vs3918

 

This is an issue that SMP is supposed to fix as there really shouldn’t be a need to render the same scene twice. Hopefully we see support for this become a bit more standardised