As long as it is consistent while your playing surely that's the most important factor, not sure how you can find the frame-rate distracting when your not actually playing the game.
Forza Motorsport 3 Demo Discussion Thread
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As long as it is consistent while your playing surely that's the most important factor, not sure how you can find the frame-rate distracting when your not actually playing the game.
Soldato
Distracting was probably the wrong word, annoying is better.
Could just be my aspergers kickin in tho
Could just be my aspergers kickin in tho
Caporegime
I'm actually contemplating NFS Shift (even after I vowed to never buy another NFS game after Pro Street), because it looks gorgeous and sense of speed is immense.
Caporegime
Downloaded this yesterday and have to say im really looking forward to it coming out...cant wait...i loved FM2 and ill probably fall in love with FM3 as well...pretty polished game imo.
Thats because it isn't a sim. Unfortunately in FM3, if you're going 60mph, it will look like you're going 60mph.
I was one of the people who started a thread over at the official forums about the LOD in the cars compared to the pics that were posted.
Most said they couldn't see a difference and a lot were saying its just because its a demo,but a few backed me up on it. It looks fine from a distance but if you flick through a few of the different cams in the replay, the car models are a lot poorer than the pics we have seen.
I don't believe that the car models are 10x that of FM2.
It doesn't bother me though, i still think its a fantastic demo.
Soldato
From a very quick play last night I think it's better than the last one, mainly because it feels more like PGR3/4 in terms of handling. Won't be buying it though I don't think.
Soldato
I played this game all day yesterday with the gamepad and loved it. So today I decided to get the MS wheel and wow it makes the game so different! It really makes the game very realistic!
I really can't wait until this is released now.
I really can't wait until this is released now.
Soldato
It feels the same. Not exactly, but more similar than FM2 was.
PGR is the better game anyhoo.
Soldato
PGR cars feel ridiculous and nothing like the ones in FM3. I wouldn't even compare the two.
Soldato
Just got the missus to download this badboy so it's waiting for me for when I get home 
Soldato
PGR is the most fun racing game available. It's good FM3 is a little more like it I think.
And considering both games are racing games I don't think it's that far fetched to be comparing them.
It is when you consider Mario Kart is a racing game
PGR games handle brilliantly, but they are different to Forza and totally different.
Soldato
It is when you consider Mario Kart is a racing game
PGR games handle brilliantly, but they are different to Forza and totally different.
Mario Kart is the best racing game of all time! I would chose to play that over any of these mentioned.
Associate
There will be more than 2/3 LODs, but thats to be expected. 10x more detailed models is probably true, but it will only ever be used on the very closest cars, possibly even just the player car. There's no way they can have 5 cars with 200,000+ polys each. They'll quickly half that, then again and again it will drop fast as the cars get further away.
The demo may have poor LOD distances that they hope to improve as the game is optimised for release, if they do eek out any more performance it will be high on the list of priorities. But don't go expecting massive improvements.
GT5 has the same limitations, they just hide it a bit better, look at Prologues rear view mirrors though and it's very obvious.
Played the demo a bit today, it's pretty much more of the same, which is no bad thing. Much nicer cars, but they had to do that, Forza 2's were shocking in places. Colours and shading was poor but I was playing on an old LCD. Handling, didn't seem massivly different to me, which I'm pleased about.
A probable buy for me, which is rare these days, I just need to decide if there's enough new stuff to interest me.
Soldato
i got to agree the handling is a lot better than Forza 2, but in doing so has made it a lot easier. I'm not one to spend hours trying to get a perfect setup on a car or its controls, and even in hard mode it just feels like any other decent car game and is easy to come 1st, certainly nothing really sim like to me just feels like another arcade mode racing game which is no bad thing
Soldato
Its a bit to sterile and clinical for me
Soldato
Is there a decent wheel coming out for this? Just got in the 1:14:053 in the Evo for the Time trial, rekon I can get it better than that though!