Thanks for the list, having recognised your name from the Official AMS2 forums I know you're a nice chap, so let's go through them together:
Okay here we go, time for some Venting-Steam-Rantdepartment.
At first, i have to say rF2 used to run fine on my system and some issues just took months to be fixed, or are still not fixed yet and not all these problems are persistent on my end (yeah because i actually took time to fix problems on my end, instead of S397 doing their job of fixing things):
It's not S397s job to fix things on your end, by all means do a fresh re-install or Verify Files to perhaps help matters. As any RF2 installation can become flooded with 3rd party content & changes to various files over the years, then a a fresh reinstall once in a while is good way to "clean up the crap"
Why are mirrors in OFFICIAL CONTENT adjusted wrong out of the box? Some are blurry, some in the wrong position. Easy to fix with our synthetic Mee-Rooor combination friend and....editing text files, but this isn't necessary, eh?
Firstly it's not hard to adjust the mirrors, this has to be done in Other Sims from time to time. Granted it's not ideal and needs a bit of work, but it's far from a game breaking "not working" issue and no you shouldn't need to edit any files for the mirrors to work in official content so that point is redundant. As for the blurry mirrors they're usually found on 3rd party content, if you're taking about Official Content then which content exactly please?
Why had an Aston GTE cockpit a "GT3" badge on the Dashboard, what needed MONTHS to be fixed.
A non-game breaking extremely minor issue that was dealt with, why did it take so long? who bloody cares - it was fixed!
Why is the tarmac purple on Le Mans after updated shaders (for everyone, so must be on the users end, yeah) and took weeks to months to be fixed.
It was'nt purple for everyone, this is misinformation, it affected a select few users and again AFAIK was fixed.
My rF2 doesn't start with the old UI after the last build update. NO other sim is doing this kind of stuff. Opting into the public beta branch fixes it for now, at least the new UI is usable now, but still horrible clunky.
Not aware of that Bug, have you reported it?
Why is it stuttering online for many, for example? Why does it start so unbelieveably slow? Why is the graphics device switching to "Auto" on its own sometimes?
- Stuttering online is still an ongoing investigation, it doesn't happen to everyone so it makes it much much harder to track down, perhaps they should've found a cause by now but for whatever reason they haven't.
- Start times are reflected by lots of Content, if you own tons of Content ask yourself "why?", remove the cars & tracks you never drive on for starters as it's pointless having them. Also a known issue is loose RCD files causing long load times, find (easy enough) and delete them.
- Graphics Device to "Auto", if you mean in the Settings Tab that only affects Laptop owners whereby it sometimes kicks the built-in GPU and not the dedicated GPU, for Desktop owners it should'nt be an issue (I seem to recal this was acknowledged by S397 at one point)
Why is the performance and loading time so poor on large tracks regarding the look, that comes from 2014? "Experimenting with screen space reflections"...that it concerning.
Nordschleife, Sebring and Le Mans are looking pretty nice, but not that nice, to justify it.
Track Loading times have been improved significantly (there was an update to this last year), sure they still take a while (especially with more AI drivers) but it is was it is, could they be shorter? Yes, it would be nice but for now they're OK and ceratinly much faster than they once were.
Why are cars (Tatuus for example) way to twitchy on the brakes, without adjusting setup values. Even racing drivers were stating, that this behaves weird.
What Racing Drivers were stating this? As you'd know all cars go through Testing and regardless of the Sim in use cars are released with little quirks to the various physics department, therefore every Sim releases updates for their Cars at somepoint and if there's something significantly wrong with the Tatuus cars then they'd be no different. But please state which Drivers & link to their quotes of possible please.
Why do GTE cars have such low engine inertia?
No idea on that one, S397 get their Data direct from the Licensee so you may need to ask them.
Why was the Oreca 07 strange in downforce utilization and laptimes.
No idea on that one, , S397 get their Data direct from the Licensee so you may need to ask them.
Why are temperatures not dependent on ambience values.
Not coded into the Engine, never was by ISI in the first place.
Why can i reduce tyre pressure to the minimum, gain grip and don't overstress my tyres with it, it's basically the most famous exploit of the game.
I've yet to see an official explanation for this, I have seen reports of it but not to the extent it's a massively known issue.
Why you have to edit out the "heat-glare ring" by yourself in the user file? But this isn't necessary, eh?
That's an old bug that appears to resurface every now & then, bugs in software happen and sometimes they're a right bitch to kill off - this is one of those!
Why are some users still lose FFB between session (The necessary FFB-Reset mapping still needed) and also don't have working Auto-DOR with wheels, able to usually set Auto-DOR.
No idea, happens to me in RF2, RaceRoom and ACC so it may be Driver related.
Why is often opening the showroom leading to a game crash?
Official or 3rd party content?
Why is this workshop rfcmp dependent system spamming my drive with so much unnecessary space for one mod.
Agreed, it's a pain.
Why is the AI such a hit and miss and tend to get more and more worse? (I just say Mercedes AMG-GT3 and st...st...stu....stutter throttle)
My area of "fix it now!" and yes S397 have for the most part largely ignored AI, they are on the verge of fixing some issues though - trust me on that one!
I could continue...but it's probably all on the users end. I'm just trolling and this is all misinformation.
If you really think, this runs fine out of the box for any user with a running system, YOU are misinforming out of rose tinted glasses, sry.
Yes a lot is on the users end, a lot of it isn't, but the game works and from your list there's nothing to suggest the average Joe couldn't load it up and have a drive easily enough. Usually issues develop because users have messed with JSON settings, installed broken 3rd party content or they're just not aware of how things work in the first place. Fact is RF2 works out the box, it has done for many years and does to this day.
As for the "rose tinted glasses" then I'll just say this; Having been a Private Tester for RF2 I have shared my fair share of issues & bugs with the game directly with the Devs, I'm only too aware of the ongoing issues with the Sim and am not blindsided in anyway shape or form - I know they exist - but when people say the game doesn't "work" then I'm sorry but I cannot agree with that whatsoever, that is misinformation
Happy Racing, see you on track
