The thread with some useful info... and some not.

You don't get it, do you?
People here are always demanding. Demand this, demand that.. how about we wait for the release and then see how it'll be? If some trees aren't there or are placed extra on non-important spots where you don't really need many realistic reference points it doesn't matter. All we've seen is that single pic where it's not 100% as in real life. Yeah, boohoo!
Also, read what @Michael Hornbuckle said and someone else as well. It can also be to make sure the game doesn't use too much memory etc so your or someone else's potato of a pc won't freak out and eventually crash due to the game.
As I said, as long as all the reference points for turn-ins and braking points are correct, it doesn't matter.

 

Stop me if im wrong here, but I was under the impression that DX11 was much more efficient than DX9?

 

I'm sure they also haven't modelled every tee beside the track either, they have to make do with their standard model tree for all the different types of tree. So what could have been a bush in real life turns into a tree on the kunos track. I don't see anything particularly wrong with that.

 

100% realism and accuracy would be great but, it is unrealistic to have such expectations. There will always be a need to balance such goals with ROI, resources, etc. There are far more important aspects to get right than a few trees IMO. If you are focused on the trees while racing in AC, you may want to look into buying "Logging Simulator" or get into Forestry where you can actually admire the real thing. There a time to enjoy nature and there is a time to Race!

 

Btw you never ever use trees etc as reference points. Where there's a tree in one year, there could be no tree the following year.

 

Also at that section of the track you go full throttle. No need for reference points!

But end of discussion. If it's for the performance it's fine with me, I had great fun on snoopy's version and that is far off from reality. I was just pointing it out

 

its not about reference in this case, its just weird to place trees where there has historically not been any, any youtube video, even the com8 version of the track there are no trees there.
forza 4 non laser scanned version: no trees but some random trackside objects like we seem to have here
forza 5 laser scanned version: no trees

i couldnt care less on any other track, but this is the most visually jaw dropping track in the world, so why mess with it

"We will be bringing you the most faithful virtual representation of the track ever to be released, based on our laser scanning technology."
from https://www.assettocorsa.net/nurburgring/

this is not faithful, its fictional...

even if it is for performance thats annoying, reusing some already in use grass texture on that area is surely less demanding than extra trees and tents and caravans. and no other game has had to block off that area with trees, it doesnt matter if what would be behind those trees is low detail because you cant see it when driving, and make the replay cameras face the other side of the track, job done. the trees though, you do see when driving, every single lap, knowing that the forza 5 one is more accurate

but yeah enough whining, too many people get upset whenever anything kunos does is questioned

 

How true.

 

I wonder why that would be...

 

The hypocrisy on this forum is sometimes staggering.

If Kunos had announced that they now need an extra 6 months to accurately model every last piece of foliage, because "enter pretentious reason about the 'spirit' of the track or whatever", ALL of the usual suspects (they know who they are) would be jumping up as high as possible to be seen supporting them saying how they're the best and it makes such a difference and everyone should be grateful and stop whining etc etc etc.

And yet when someone makes an accurate observation which raises the question about trackside detail accuracy, guess who's there to shout it down.

 

Last minute addition to the DLC pack???

 

but.... all thats being questioned is trees that are placed where there are actually no trees, deleting 5 trees doesnt take 6 months

edit: oops misread your post

 

Since when was that an Audi R8?

 

It's does if you have to program the physics for lumberjacks.

 

Couldn't be more true.

I'm also not a fun of this fictional stuff, when the chance is obviously there to make the best ring possible. Generally, track making (attention to details stuff) doesn't seem to be Kunos' favorite thing eh.. Just look at the Paul Ricard mod track here, i would say in it's incomplete state, it's better then any Kunos track, sorry if that sounds 'harsh'.

 

yeah expect no on the second part.

iRacing released long beach in wire frame "tech track" claiming nobody could run it without extreme high end pc's.

essentially abandoning it due to graphics/cpu demand.

AC to me does unbelievable job running smooth and high FPS with even decent pc's.

 

SIMCADE!
TOTALLY NOT WORTH BUYING!
HOW THEY DARE TO DISPLACE A TREE WRONG