New graphics engine

Anyone have any screenshots that show off the capabilities of the new engine?

Or before and after benchmarks?

 

My first impressions are not very good but because its in a testing fase we have to wait. Right now colours are washed out compared to previous version. Sky is burned and tree self shadows are almost black. Light intensity is completely unbalanced. AC now looks much more to older generation games than before this update but as I said it could be a temporary step so I don't think its fair to do a bad judge of this new shaders.

 

It is not shaders. Try to switch off HDR. You will loose some post effects, but colors will be much more balanced.

 

It's probably a good idea to try default settings in any external gfx driver programs you may have. Nvidia Inspector and such.

It's easy to forget that you've changed things months ago.

 

raw pic, pp on max, fxaa off, 72% saturation

 

Gorgeousssss

 

Is it the same on non modded tracks?

 

It's not default AC look, I got sweet-fx (rs&s) + NL mod
But I am not completely sold on how it looks, need to fiddle with settings again

 

medium graphics, NO HDR, NO Bloom.

 

Look and see for yourself. This new update destroyed the pleasure to play! Just look at the difference :S As you can see everything is much more whiter now Before you could almost say it is a real world and now it is like a to much shiny day! Just please fix this

 

What are we supposed to see there?

Also, with that GPU, I'm pretty sure you could run 16x AF and at least 4xAA. Not sure why you've got those dialled down.

 

Look at the sky and surface. Its to bright. Look at the color of the sky. It's to bright. You can compare this picture and one from the above...both taken on Nurburgring with Cobra.

 

Lowering GPU temps and memory usage xD

 

Aris, here it goes. I've made 3 screenshots with diferent exposure values to mach as much as I could with this old screenshot that I made to show my sky colour mod. I'm not sure what version of AC I had when this screenshot was made but it what taken on 2 april. Both are raw images with only a resised aplied.

Old screenshot:




new screenshots taken today. Same settings with 3 diferent exposure values:







As you can see, light distribuition across all objects is completely diferent. When I have the same light on grass and track, trees and back wall are almost black and when I have trees almost good, everything else is over exposed. Colors are also washed out and I have the same color saturation in game.

My GPU is a GTX 770 and both GPU, system and settings are the same between these screenshots.
As I said on my first post I assumed that this was a necessary step by you guys to fine tune graphic engine, but if not then any help is welcome.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

I tried all 5 settings and honestly did not see a difference, all looked the same....

 

Hi,

Is it possible something can be done about the trees? I really feel like they could use some improvement generally. However the latest HDR and post processing changes have just made them look really unnatural in my view.

I have included these shots below.

The in-game shots show an overly bright top part of the tree, and then a very dark bottom section. I have included a picture of a real set of trees (from Oulton Park in case anyone is wondering). This "bright top part, darker bottom section" might work on some trees (Pinea etc) but I think on most trees it looks a little off. The light falling on the real trees in the bottom pic is quite uniform all the way down.

 

left is preset 3, right preset 4, maybe my eyes but looks the same to me, quite bright