rFactor 2 Build 298 Released

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In my case, a good increase fps, road reflection now don't kill the frame rate. But, I thought, reflection on the machines have become worse. And now disappeared chrome... temrs of mod-making now need to convert color chrome? How to get it, there are instructions?

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build 298
 
KILL BILL said:
In my case, a good increase fps, road reflection now don't kill the frame rate. But, I thought, reflection on the machines have become worse. And now disappeared chrome... temrs of mod-making now need to convert color chrome? How to get it, there are instructions?

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There is a static reflection issue only, that we know of, and that is fixed in a future build (don't know yet whether very soon, or waiting).
 
Hello,

Thanks for this update :) .
About graphics, I find some improvements with global rendering, now it's good with standard HDR too. But I find that we lost something on car reflects, ISI car's bodies are looking "flat", like in some old builds (and yes, now chrome from T5 Mod don't work :( ).
 
I guess I don't need to ask again if something is going to happen with the UI.

But I can request a 4124 x 1024 resolution support. :D
What are actually widescreen HUD and widescreen UI doing? Nothing changes for me if I select them.
 
Mrslfrsl said:
I guess I don't need to ask again if something is going to happen with the UI.

But I can request a 4124 x 1024 resolution support. :D
What are actually widescreen HUD and widescreen UI doing? Nothing changes for me if I select them.
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As you can probably imagine, UI is just so far below some of the other things that are still a part of the driving experience. Of course, this does not mean it can't happen soon, the person who would do it obviously doesn't do a lot of the other technical or programming roles.
 
Mrslfrsl said:
Finally somebody, I've noticed that too. Much more confidence whilst driving. The point where tires loose grip is much more pronounced. And racing on fresh tires feels really good. FFB changes are superb IMO.
I liked the Vette before but now it's a freakin session with that car, no matter if rain or not or which track this car is my favourite car all time.

The most important part for me is that the braking improved a lot now. I had so much trouble when braking in the past, just no feel at all. Now there is much more room to play with the brakes. Just awesome.

Also not sure but I think there were some changes to the real road.
I have the impression that in rain the racing line is not drying that quick as before.
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That were exactly my first thoughts after firing up for the first time. But who knows, the placebo effect is never far away:) I had to get a new batch of activations ater I used them trying to get the launch issue sorted, but now it's running I'm a happy man. Thanks ISI!
 
Tim Wheatley said:
As you can probably imagine, UI is just so far below some of the other things that are still a part of the driving experience. Of course, this does not mean it can't happen soon, the person who would do it obviously doesn't do a lot of the other technical or programming roles.
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Ok, good to know. Thx!
 
just to mention, I am on an AMD card, and the game runs fine. Slight boost, nothing major. Runs between 80-120 fps on max settings. So some with AMD cards, your issues may certainly lie elsewhere as well.
 
Un-installing and then moving Searspoint rfmod out of my packages folder fixed the crash issue for me. Fyi, i don't have every mod out there.

stonec said:
In terms of colors there is less of a reddish look now which seems more natural, at least on my monitor.

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Btw, i really like the new colour palette and the performance gain feels real as well as stonec's fraps counter appears to confirm this (assuming the scene and gfx settings are comparable....a whooping 32% boost) - Thanks ISI! :D :D :D
 
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About the movement; I too have some more fps (between 10 and 15) and that's nice of course, but the shadows falling over the car, are not smooth anymore.....not smooth at all(!!) They go over it step by step and it hurts the eye.
It is irritating and it make the whole game look like it's doing 3 fps. It's not; all runs fine except the shadows on the car but you see them good, it attracts the eye.
 
speed1 said:
What ? Whiskey does but not fps. :)
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Try running your sim at 20fps and see if you can catch a slide. You won't find it as easy as 30fps, 40fps, because you didn't see it as quickly as you would at a higher framerate. Those minimal differences are huge when it comes to information passing into your brain, and the more fluid the movement is, the easier it is for your brain to understand.
 
Tim Wheatley said:
IMHO you guys just have more FPS. It can really help your brain to 'feel' movement.
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You sure there Tim?

It felt really different to me after the update, all the things I mentioned earlier.
I just can't believe it's that different only due to the FPS, as I race often on min GFX settings with about 140-160 FPS and never noticed such changes in FFB. Car is easier to control in high speed and mid speed corners, fast turn changes with more FPS but here it was deffo different in the slow stuff and under braking. Just had more feel (FFB) for the car. Although I had a few beer but don't think it was that much. :o

I'd bet 5 bucks there is something different now. ;)
 
Deleted Searspoint and couple mods that were reported to cause problems, did auto-update and it went ok.

I did the same test for fps as before : http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.p...ack-conversion?p=189398&viewfull=1#post189398

I gained few fps with this build ( probably only few because I'm using v-sync). not sure if it feels any smoother though...maybe not. Pretty much the same.

Still can't say much about physics or ffb, at least as good as before but I have to do more driving.

My only hope is that this attracts more people to online.

Thanks ISI for finally giving us new build... I felt that 240 had some problems that kept many away from online.

Ps. hope the problem with reflection (bug?) will be fixed soon.
 
O.M.G.. I've uninstalled and re-installed all sodding night. The best I get is welcome and little green icon above multiplayer and that's it. Everything else is white (greyed out)... I'm well moody. Why can't a update be double click forget without all this bo**ox.... not impressed, call me dumb, stupid or what ever. But WTF...!!
 
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