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Stargazer Woods
Joined: 06 Oct 2003
Posts: 68
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 Posted: Thu Jan 12, 15:21 |
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I have so far been able to run rFactor with the graphics setting almost at maximum level. Everything looks great and all but two or three of the downloaded tracks play smoothly...
That is until the sun sets anyway. As soon as the cars have to start switching on the headlights, the framerate crashes through the floor. Now, I dont claim to have a great PC. Far from it in fact. I built it about two years ago and it could do with a bit more power but I'm still disapointed about this drop in performance.
I tried dropping the settings down to medium accross the board in the graphics options but there was no improvement. I now have the settings all maxed again and I only race during the day.
I enjoy the experience of nighttime driving, especially now that I can drive through a sunset. Could someone please tell me what harware specifications will run a grid of 16 cars smoothly during the night on the maximum graphics setting. I'm sure there must be a few of you out there who are doing it.
Or... Could it be some bad code in the game that causes the bad framerate. One of my Flight Sims played like five kinds of poo until the developer released a patch and it fixed a lot of performance issues. Maybe this is similar? One can only hope.
My specs are as follows: Processor-AMD Athlon XP2600 @2100Mhz, 256mb RAM, NVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 128mb.
I have the game running at 1024x768 resolution with Texture Detail, Opponent Detail, Player detail and Special Effects all on full and the shadows set to high.
Cheers,
Rob.
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mbj
Joined: 03 May 2003
Posts: 224
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 22:39 |
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Night Time Driving is a resource Hog I must agree!
Could you imagine Nightime with rain? LOL
If you wanted to try to tweak your Player file to get a few frames you can.
Go to your plr file file
C:\Program Files\rFactor\UserData\yourname
Open your plr file with notepad or wordpad
Look in the
[ Graphic Options ]
Max Headlights="12" // Max headlights visible relative to your car.
Headlights On Cars="1" // Headlights illuminate other cars.
You can turn down Max Headlights to 6 or so and if it doesnt bother you to much you can turn Headlights on cars to 0
With headlight On cars turned to 0 which is off then headlights dont shine on other cars (not realistic)
it looks bad but "increases" graphic performance.
I used that tweak on my brothers machine with similer specs as your computer to make night time driving a little easier on his graphics card.
Play around with it and the other settings in the game and you might be able to run at night and maintain acceptable fps.
Might not look the best but atleast you can drive at night!
I know it doesnt answer your question as to what hardware will run it at night with everything on full but I thought i would pass that info along to you to try.
Hopefully someone will eventually answer your original Question. |
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splashman
Game Master
Joined: 26 Jan 2002
Posts: 4132
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 03:42 |
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Excellent tip mbj 
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