Why such an so extreme Hardware claim ??? (aka "will it run on my pc?")

Imagine this thread if the West Brothers had released World Sports Cars 15 years ago

 

Exactly. So my Way is to be sure the fps is always higher than my syncrate (120 Hz). So i am very excited for the update tomorrow to see how much headroom i got with IA on track.

But there is some to do for Kunos. Even vsync is on, the smoothness is not as good as it could be. In other Sim - gmotor2 based (rfactor, gtr, gsc ...) or in iracing the look is very very smoothed. IMO AC has a problem with frameflow in corners, there the stuttering is annoying - but hey its 0.4 and it feels quiet good.....

 

Both aspects work together. A very well spaced frame sequence (no stutters) with low FPS (35 FPS as example you mentioned) doesn't help at all. In other hand, 400 fps with stutters (the rF2 nightmare) is also unplayable.

If you have no stutters, 35 fps to 90 fps is night-and-day difference.

 

I'm still waiting for racing legends.

 

For you maybe, but you can't just say that's a given. For me there isn't any difference between 1 ms+35 FPS and 1 ms+90 FPS. Having said that, i only have a 60 hz monitor, so @ 90 FPS i feel that it's worse then @ 40 FPS.
And on top of that: I really don't care that much, at best I'm an average driver, so what is the point in having a 5000 € rig - doesn't make me a better driver. So just because YOU feel that difference, doesn't mean everyone else does too and should care about that aspect.

 

The user can influence the fps by selecting lower graphics settings and/or buying better hardware. Micro-stuttering however (the result of varying frame times) is mainly down to the software design, e.g. doing a lot of work in some frames and much less in others. I can't complain about AC in that regard so far. The only thing the user can do to avoid micro-stuttering is not using SLI/CF.

The main purpose of having a higher framerate is less tearing and lower lag.

 

That is true David, but as I am getting 80-90FPS and have no stutter or lag I would say that it is the settings or something wrong with the PC setup, over Assetto Corsa causing a problem. Don't worry much though, we are still in early days and I am sure the developers will make it smooth and even more optimised over the coming weeks, months and years.


P.S. My monitors are 60Hz also, but I turned down and off the really intensive aspects of the graphics to get a smoother game play. All swings and roundabouts when we are all using different hardware, play with the settings some, turn them down and then slowly build them back up one at a time and see what you can find to fix your problem and it could help others and maybe the developers. I'm not the fastest driver but I don't want to push my machine to the point I lose the smoothness that is inherent in AC.

 

Huh...? What problem do i have? As i said, i don't really care about the Number in front of the "FPS" - i care about having a pleasant and nice looking car simulation that i like to drive without any stuttering or something like that - which i don't have

And that's exactly what you are talking about - compared to LFS for example, which runs at 250 FPS btw, i can feel absolutely no difference. What i can feel is a bit of lag from steering input to actually steering the car, but that's also at 150 FPS in AC. So that is not a problem of how many FPS i'm running, it's how AC is "using" those commands from the Logitech Driver. So in the end, i just put the FPS Limiter to 40 FPS to have a bit of "headroom" - which didn't do anything. Nevertheless, having high FPS is just not usefull for having a smooth experience - IMHO.

 

David, did you change the prerendered frames setting in your cfg? There is no input lag at 60fps/120Hz for me.

/%gamefolder%/system/cfg/dx11.ini

MAXIMUM_FRAME_LATENCY=1

Also can be done via the driver profile settings for game executable acs.exe. I don't know how the setting is called for AMD gfx cards though.

 

I'm getting 140 FPS with near identical hardware. Its completely maxed out apart from cubemap resolution is on medium. If your not getting anywhere near that then there has to be another issue somewhere.

Edit - I only have 1 screen @ 1920 X 1080 but use head tracking instead

Hope you get it fixed.

 

Oh Oh, this is what i have talk about, for 5 Months ......this Day with 9 AI
i have lost 20 Frames. And what comes next? When we want to drive with
20 AI and Weather Effects???

Sorry lovely Kunoz.... i have no enougth Money for a 4 x QUAD SLI Titans....

And i dont want to drive with low settings and poor AA without SSAA :-(

At this Moment i am a little bit dissepointed. Sorry.

(Windows 8.1 - i7 4 x 4,5 Ghz - 3 x 27" 5760 x 1080 - 2 x GTX 780 TI SLI)

 

The new Update fixed that. Solid 45 FPS (limited) @ about 82-85 % GPU-Load and about 45% CPU-Load, rock solid 17 ms Frame-Times - perfectly fine with that. Even with 25 Cars on the grid i don't get any drops - neither in the Frame-Times, nor at FPS it self.

 

What did you expect? Rendering more cars wouldn't cost any performance?
And 20fps, what's that for an statement? 20 fps from 200 is nothing, while 20fps from 30 is massive...
If you still didn't get that there is no need to max everything out, then I'm sorry, you will be disappointed. SSAA, lol...

On my system I lost about 20-30% with 11 cars in front of me, which is reasonable I think.

 

Please look like my firsts commentary, than you can known what i mean. I drive ever only with 60 Frames
locked. Thats the smoothest driving ever, with my configuartion. And now i have 40-47 Frames an massive drops.

Non drivible.... and thats the whole message from beginning that thread..."What for a hardware we need, when the Game is Retailed ??? Horrible plans.

 

Actually, i meant the full compliment of AI Cars - thought they were 25, but it looks like there are only 12^^