The two directions onf Racer CG and NON_CG

[Ian Strom]

As long as you were using a decent car and track I never though of Racer as being very visually limited before CG was implemented. But I guess that was just me. Ok, so most tracks were and are pretty bare but that comes with user created content that is such a massive size. I do not expect Racer to look like a pre-rendered ray-traced scene. I expect a self proclaimed "driving simulator" to simulate driving with reasonable graphics and not too many bugs with the simulation aspect.
Sure, it should look nice but it does not have to be over the top and try to compete with things like GT5 in the graphics area.

*shrug* Racer is not my project/job and on this topic I probably do not have the same opinion as most other users here. My opinions certainly do generally differ from those of most. I guess you and Ruud just have to ignore me.

 

[MitchVL]

We have got a black sheep currently developping with an ATI card only, so the ATI vs Nvidia discussion is off the table.


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[Mr Whippy]

A black sheep?

Sounds good either way... 24hrs after I just paid for an nVidia I find out I could have got a 25% faster ATI card for the same money haha

Dave

 

[mdbobbo]

some more info on my setup

I set up racer today using the config.exe as shown in the pic below and updated to DirectX 11 as you can see in the third taupo pic the older setting gave me 13fps and the lights are a bit too bright but the new one, (4th pic) although saying 19fps with the mountian view ( Mt Tauhara, I think ) the taupo track still run mostly above 20fps and upto 25 fps.

the second pic "Swiss roll" show a cleaner view of the mountian and scenery. and I've also attached a replay via my drop box where you can view the skid marks in the second or third lap around the hairpin looking almost like real live footage well done Ruud.
in the BMW M1 folder there is a CG folder auto-built but the Taupo track has non so I'm not sure if I should call Taupo a CG track or not .. but running Taupo in the non-cg mode the background scenery is so close it covers most of the track your driving on. well that's my 2 cents worth today .. EnjoY

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2660558/taupo_test.rar

here are the graphics I'm working with..

NVIDIA System Information report created on: 07/15/2010 11:16:05
System name: TREEZONE
[Display]
Processor: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor LE-1150 (2009 MHz)
Operating System: Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium, 64-bit (Service Pack 2)
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce 8600 GT
Driver version: 197.45
CUDA Cores: 32
Core clock: 540 MHz
Shader clock: 1188 MHz
Memory clock: 300 MHz (600 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 128-bit
Total available graphics memory: 1279 MB
Dedicated video memory: 512 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 767 MB
Video BIOS version: 60.84.54.00.00
IRQ: 17
Bus: PCI Express x16
[Components]
nvCplUI.exe 2.8.313.10 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Video Server
nvMoblS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Mobile Server
NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.11.9745 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Display Server
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.11.9745 NVIDIA Compatible Windows7 Display driver, Version 197.45
PhysX 09.09.1112 NVIDIA PhysX
NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.11.9745 NVIDIA CUDA 3.0.1 driver
nvGameS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server