Graphics are quite poor

[Nats]

I think the graphics are quite poor in this game. I especially hate the look of the road surface near the car. There is no way you see all the grain in the road like that travelling at 100mph. Even on max motion blur you still see it. The AA is better than the older games mind but you still see the textures resolving in the medium distance. The wet tracks could do with a lot of improvement they should take a look at ACC for that. I guess it has to be simple for the consoles market but its a shame the PC players are suffering because of it.

Of course the worst things in these games are the controller based UI (no mouse ability) and the terrible EA Life rubbish stuff that you have to wade through to get to the actual gameplay you care about, but we wont get into those .....

[FaultyJawa]

Really? What settings are you running? I'm at full blast on 4k and I think it's best looking F1 game yet.

[Roddy]

Originally posted by FaultyJawa:

Really? What settings are you running? I'm at full blast on 4k and I think it's best looking F1 game yet.

I gotta agree, on the flat screen or in VivePro2 it's looking great.

[Roddy]

There is no EA Life thing this time.
There is F1 World and in that you basically just hone your skills and upgrade your car.
Sure you can buy your driver some different clothes, but it's not any kinda major thing.
I will agree about the user interface not supporting mouse.
After the last few years they should have fixed that, but it's not a deal breaker.

[Nats]

Well I was in a wet race (not very wet) and there wasn't even any spray ??? I dont get it. They probably are not that much worse than previous games and AA seems better, but they are nothing like as good as AMS2 for example, or even ACC. Dated for a modern PC game I think.

I think the handling is better than other F1 games I've played - I could control the slips better which I liked (that said you still slide off to the side ridiculously during the start launch - a weird effect to be sure) and I felt I could control the car a lot better without traction control on even in the wet.

[FaultyJawa]

Weird. The last wet race I did there was a bunch of spray and it looked better than F1 23. I still think ACC looks the best in the rain, but this game is definitely in my top 3 right now for graphical fidelity. If the race you did wasn't very wet (inters?) then that could be why there wasn't spray. Unless you're running the game on lower graphics with less post-processing effects. I dunno.

[Nats]

Even mildy wet with inters would create spray. I did see some minor spray occassionally presumably on the wetter parts of the track. Still not very accurate though.

[FaultyJawa]

So, there was *some* spray in a race with *some* rain. I'm not sure I see the issue. Still not sure what your settings are; I've had spray in every wet race I've done.

[Killersjp]

RTX 4090 looks great. Nuff said

[Colfer]

There's supposedly a graphics update coming post-launch, not sure what that is going to include. I do agree generally though, the fidelity has barely moved in 4 years or so, and I think you're right that it's to do with the consoles and still supporting last-gen.

I think the lighting is the main culprit, just somehow gives everything a very slight cartoony look. There are textures that are pixelated at 4k on the cars/track and the wet weather looks awful compared to whats possible in other games. The spray looks nothing like the race yesterday for example. I swear they have like 3 models for a tree and just reuse it constantly.

It's been a recurring issue but they just cannot get matte finish right on the cars either. No matter what they look reflective on the track.