Tip: How to improve performance.

[linfosoma]

I was having some really bad performance when I first launched the game on semi-high settings, after some messing around I found this under the Compatibility tab for Light Maps, I changed it from all cars to "Me" and bam, massive performance increase.
Now I can run the game on very high settings and it's always smooth even with FSAA on.

I think that this option disabled realtime reflections for other cars, which is rather pointless since you barely get to see them anyway.

A few other similar things you can do in the Game tab allow you to disable shadows on other cars and decrease their quaility while keeping your on high.
I highly recomend thsi since the performance improvement is really noticeable and the game looks exactly the same.

Hope this helps someone.

[Trackmaniack]

Thanks, this will definitely help--I'm always looking for little-known tweaks like this

[Andi1996]

Unfortunately didn't change anything at me.
I'm playing on 1920x1080, and when I want a good framerate, I have to put down Antialiasing. I put it on 4x and so I get a framerate of a about 30 to 40 FPS, just enough.

[maniaman]

how can i turn on the drift marks
because right now i can only see dust and no marks

[Fiouch_hr]

I think that for drift marks you have to have particle quality on high for your car or for all cars if you want to see other people's marks.

I don't really see the difference between Nice and VeryNice shader quality. I can't seem to notice it and it's like 15-20fps difference. Am I missing some details?

[tomxp411]

Unfortunately didn't change anything at me.
I'm playing on 1920x1080, and when I want a good framerate, I have to put down Antialiasing. I put it on 4x and so I get a framerate of a about 30 to 40 FPS, just enough.

what kind of hardware are you running?

I prefer to keep my FPS to 50-60, with occasional dips in to the 30+ territory. Anything over 60 is wasted, since you can't see it anyway, and anything under 35 gets noticeably jerky for me.

[Mysteria9]

Shadows are indeed FPS killers!
I set the car reflection quality down to low, and my FPS went from 40 to 70.
30 FPS gain and barely any visual impact. I recommend it!

[airman]

Unfortunately didn't change anything at me.
...Anything over 60 is wasted, since you can't see it anyway, and anything under 35 gets noticeably jerky for me.

The human eye can't see anything over ~20fps statically. But if you take a blinking LED on a string and swing it in a circle, you'll see the little blips. Same concept for higher FPS in games - it's more fluid when there's a lot of action, i.e. going around a sharp turn.

I promise you that I'd be able to tell a difference in the way that a game looks between 300fps and 60fps.

[krone6]

Unfortunately didn't change anything at me.
I'm playing on 1920x1080, and when I want a good framerate, I have to put down Antialiasing. I put it on 4x and so I get a framerate of a about 30 to 40 FPS, just enough.

You don't even need AA at that res. The higher you go the less you'll see it do. You can turn it off, you won't really notice much.

[Andi1996]

Unfortunately didn't change anything at me.
I'm playing on 1920x1080, and when I want a good framerate, I have to put down Antialiasing. I put it on 4x and so I get a framerate of a about 30 to 40 FPS, just enough.

what kind of hardware are you running?

I prefer to keep my FPS to 50-60, with occasional dips in to the 30+ territory. Anything over 60 is wasted, since you can't see it anyway, and anything under 35 gets noticeably jerky for me.

i7 Quadcore/8GB RAM/Normal HDD/OEM graphic card by Nvidia which is the problem.

The human eye can't see anything over ~20fps statically. But if you take a blinking LED on a string and swing it in a circle, you'll see the little blips. Same concept for higher FPS in games - it's more fluid when there's a lot of action, i.e. going around a sharp turn.

I promise you that I'd be able to tell a difference in the way that a game looks between 300fps and 60fps.

Around 35 FPS are enough for me. Under this framerate the picture is too jerky. I feel the difference between 35 and 60 FPS (it looks even smoother then), but since I have a 60Hz monitor, I wouldn't feel the difference between 60 and 300 FPS...

You don't even need AA at that res. The higher you go the less you'll see it do. You can turn it off, you won't really notice much.

Oh no, I do need it, I tried it without AA and with maximum AA, there is a BIG differenc. With the worst option it looks very bad, even with 4x the quality isn't very good.^^