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The detail in the Gumpert is amazing. downloading now.

Is the physics on C.A.R.S. good? 

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It’s only 10€ for the junior access (1 build every 2 weeks I believe) and for 25€ you get the weekly builds to keep you entertained while helping development…

I don’t think my E7500 will handle it very well. :(

It’s early stages, but the physics so far are more sim than arcade.

I overclocked my E7200 from 2.53 gHz to 3.6 gHz and it’s more than enough. A fast GPU is what is really needed.

The Track looks better.
Did they improve the track accuracy?

thanks for the heads-up. I’m gonna get and see what happens.

I have a GTX 260, lets hope C.A.R.S. don’t get bottlenecked with it because of the core2duo.

Honestly I think the GTX260 is by far the lower performing hardwarepart than the Core²Duo. Core²s have always been the best CPUs for rFactor, they even outscore current Core i7s – not with modern titles but with ISIs GMotor 2.0 engine- titles.

 I didn’t know that, nice to know.

Altought for example, for frostbite games like Battlefield 3 / Bad Company 2, the card even on highest settings never go above 50% usage while stays below 30 fps. Same happens on Crysis 1. I have to turno down resolution and AA to get 50-60 fps on those games (BF3 I set to low)
On a friend’s rig, with the same card and core2quad, gets way better performances and increased usage from the card.

I think its all about the aplication in the end. But I’m getting an I5 next month.

I see them adding lots of new tracks which are not laser scanned. I wonder if those tracks will be laser scanned later if not I won’t bother spending time in unrealistic tracks!

what does it really matter if you dont truly know the differences? dont believe everything you read on the internet :)

Just lmao. “unrealistic track”. iRacing victim. As if someone here could judge if a straight is 5 meters longer or shorter than in real life.

With my GTX260 in the latest build i can run the game at 1920×1080 with 4xMSAA, all settings high except Shadows and Reflections on Low and get 50+ FPS, in earlier builds i had to run 1280×720 as 1920×1080 was just unplayable even without AA.

Shouldn’t need a laser scan to make a track that is accurate within 5m…

It’s all about the cambers and bumps, just makes a track feel natural and driven on, rather than contrived. That said, I’m alright with running non-scanned tracks, I just prefer one laser scanned if I can get it.

@ SBK – LOL what a tit! Big fail!

It’s the bumps that add so much to the iRacing tracks, the driving feels so much better for feeling a little FFB whilst driving down a straight and having to take those bumps into consideration when braking/cornering/accelerating.

Been running around spa with the gumpert. That thing flies! TBH, I’m over laser scanned tracks. It was fun in iracing for a while, to be on a lifelike track, but i’m no pro racer and i’ve realised i’d rather have excitement over laser scanned tracks anyday. If you are using it as a training tool than laser scanned is a must but i’m not going to shit on a sim because the tracks arent done that way. As long as it gives the basic feel of the track and it makes for good racing, than i’m going to be happy.

Project CARS will be getting some laser scanned tracks. The difference to iRacing is that they will not leave out tracks just because they cannot be laser scanned :)

That kind of stuff can be done without laser scanning really, it just wont have the bumps and stuff in the same places as the real one. Which, lets face it, doesn’t matter unless you’e training for the real thing.
Anyway don’t despair if you love accuracy, they will be laser scanning tracks. Brands Hatch and a bunch of other tracks will be laser scanned.

GTX 260 still ‘s a good card. The E7500 holds it back immensively.

That depends on the game. 
If you ask me, I’d say the bottleneck is the GFX card, not the CPU, which, as Ricoo said, is easily overclockable. Thing is : to update your GFX, you just need to change the card, but if you want to change CPU, you have to change the mobo, CPU and RAM… LOTS more of $$$.
All in all, your system should be enough to give CARS a try, even not in full resolution with all the effects.

Core i5 2500k – or core i7 2600k???

i5 2600k  does not exist.

On my Z68 the 2600 runs 4500 GHz without any sweat.
With my Ati 6970 the CPU does not even come close to 20% utilization.

My CPU upgrade did hardly give my any extra FPS.
With my previous GPU – a GTX 260-216 frame did not go up more than maybe 1fps.

So get yourself a better graphics card and see your frame-rate double

Here is a little video i made from build 91 :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBuIUDSzGs

Or if they’re famous bumps…

Saying tracks are unrealistic, just because they are not laser scanned
is a big fail. Do you get a hard one just by the word “laser scanned”?
You never were on most of the tracks and in exeptions to very famous
bumps you wouldn´t even know, where bumps are or not. And if you do not
laser scan tracks, you model the bumps manually….that easy.