less cpu intensive ai would be great

Oh are we talking about a mod?
Losing time here.

 

I thought it may have been the mod to start with. Then I realised it's the actual game itself that's the problem

 

No. It happens to Kunos cars too

 

It's frustrating when people want to find excuses to not see possible issues...

Ps. There's already an image above where the same symptons are captured with Kunos car.

 

Maybe you could log your cpu and gpu usage and clock speeds to see if something is throttling or idling.

 

I cannot see the difference in swarms of AI cars around my car dogfighting me matter whether they use simplified physics, or real physics like my own car. The AI cars in Raceroom around me during a race, and the AI cars of AC around me during logging my laps, look both physically convincing to me. I see no difference there between AC and Raceroom. I simply have no time to check the AI cars physics behaviour during the race, I am busy with staying in control of the physics of my own car, no matter what physic engine it uses, AC or RR.

What I note very obviously however is an AI behaving more stupid, and one behaving much less stupid. And there is where the problem with AC's AI lies. Its not about top speeds. Its not about lap times, AC's AI is damn fast, way too fast for me. Its their behaviour, the lack of fighting, the habit to line up like pearls on a string. Them beeing too slow is not the issue.

Other sims are not perfect in this. But they are way much better in this, especially Raceroom, which currently has the best AI I have ever seen in a racesim I tried.

I assume the basic design of AC has original physics embedded so deeply into the AI calculation that it now cannot be changed anymore, and I also assume that this costs more CPU ressources than needed (to have AI cars on original physics - why the investement if the difference is not noticable to the player? Sims create illusions, and whether they use shortcuts or not to create them, is not relevant as long as the illusion is convincing. Its also about immersion: and the way AC's AI cars behave, is very immersion-breaking).

And maybe this link between AI calculations and complex original physics also is the reason why the AI in AC since over two years is so inferior, compared to other sim's AI, and seems to be set to be left there.

Again, since this comes up as a counter argument time and again: laptimes and slow driving are not the problem. Its about the lame behaviour of the AI, especially if left to itself (AI-AI fighting which is almost non-existent).

 

Believe it or not - but that guy looks like me. Really.