So, the demo was released a couple days ago, and I finally figured I'd see what my computer would do on the dark side (aka Windows) with it. I found an extra spinny hard drive and loaded up Windows 10 (don't do that; use an SSD if you value your life) on it. I managed to set up my wheel and pedals.
My poor GTX 950 seems to be about the bottom of the curve. I had it on 1080P and it was hitting roughly 30FPS on the benchmark. (The CPU is an i7-5890x, so the HDD and the GPU are the slowies. Also, I didn't fiddle with the image quality. I just used their suggestions, but bumped it to 1080.)
Honestly, my initial impressions were that the physics were much better than Forza 4 that I last played, but I was having ridiculous lift-throttle oversteer on the Porsche (that might be realistic, though.) and I wasn't sure that the steering was set to anything over 90 degrees in either direction. Seems like a decent replacement for Forza 4 if I can get the inputs more in order.
As far as graphics... well, I think I need a better video card? It turned off anti-aliasing and it looked pretty bad.
Anyway, I only got an hour to play with the demo over the weekend, since I had to set up Windows 10, twice, including all the updates and such to get it to work.
Yeah the addition of the Porsche 935 is huge. Now if somebody will put a 917 in a game I’ll be a happy man.
I've seen lots of FM7 hate on Twitter from longtime console sim racers, but to be honest I really like this game. The physics are still not 100% sim but better than previous installments in my opinion as a low end grassroots enthusiast who prefers racing crapwagons over state of the art LMPs and F1 stuff. My biggest gripe is an overabundance of SUVs and Offroad vehicles in a game that is all tarmac.
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