Graphics not great

[IC]

I'm a long term fan of AC and for an old engine it still looks good. However ACC even with everything on EPIC it just looks soft and reminds me of Golden Eye on the N64. Obviously I'm joking but it just looks really soft compared to AC. I'm running it at 1080p so I know it's not comparable to 4K but with AC looking fine I'm not convinced the Unreal engine is working for ACC. It might just be my setup but every other game I play is fine. Does anyone else have the same issue?

[DrSmile]

Have you set sharpness at 100%? Default is i think 80% or so....maybe it helps at 1920.
Unreal engine looks impressive at some parts and others...well worse.
I go with RX580 and 2560 and cant complain at all at the moment (The Tarmac is on a level on its own...massive thumbs up....and the lighteffects are also superior) thats the parts where the unreal engine really shines.
The only thing i see in all unreal 4 games is, that the textures dont load properly on all items in the game (weapontextures, car textures, etc)

[IC]

I can't see it being a system issue when it's the only game in my collection that looks so bad. I don't think it's running at 1080p, there is no way a 1080p game could look so bad. No matter what changes I make, it's still the worst looking game I own. I can't believe the difference between AC and ACC, to me and friends AC looks like the newer game.

[DogonCrook]

AC looked and ran so much better. Its almost laughable how bad it looks on anything but the highest settings and 4k. They really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up going with ue4 im thinking. I hope they figure something out or switch engines this sucks. we cant have jaggies in racing we are literally staring at lines its impossible to ignore how bad that looks so it needs a non resource intensive solution and ue4 doesnt have one that looks acceptable. Its either jaggy, blurry, or terrible fps and you have to pick one.

[CSL-Drive]

Originally posted by ianc:

I'm a long term fan of AC and for an old engine it still looks good. However ACC even with everything on EPIC it just looks soft and reminds me of Golden Eye on the N64. Obviously I'm joking but it just looks really soft compared to AC. I'm running it at 1080p so I know it's not comparable to 4K but with AC looking fine I'm not convinced the Unreal engine is working for ACC. It might just be my setup but every other game I play is fine. Does anyone else have the same issue?

No, it doesn't look soft unless you specifically make it look soft by turning on temporal anti alias, which makes it soft. You can choose fxaa which is more sharp. Also there is a sharpness slider recently added, that goes all the way up to 300% with 0 performance impact, that you can increase to make it even look sharper than iracing to the point that the sharpness will kind of bother you, even tho you are playing at 1080p 100% renderscale, even WITH temporal aa. And if that still isn't enough, you can manually increase the sharpness of your monitor display or tv, if that is also possible.

But I personally like the softness smoothness of temporal aa on 1080p. Compared to project cars 2 for example, there is 0 possibility of making the game look soft on 1080p. F1 codemasters has checkerboard aa to allow for softness, the engine is optimised for that to even improve performance by miles, but people dont like it because they use too big of a field of view. And gran turismo sport, 0 possibility to make the game look sharp on 1080p. So everyone uses bumper cam.

But for lower resolutions temporal aa looks great when it makes everything smoother. Also you have to lower the field of view 34 degrees for a 40 inch screen that is 1.8 meters in front of you. So if you have a smaller screen, you really need to make the field of view smaller. Unless you wanna ductape the entire monitor around your head and hurt your eyes being so close to it. Cause otherwise you're basically seeing 25% of what a real driver sees in real life, no matter what resolution you play. So often people think they see less when they lower field of view, but truth is, in racing you just look 1 milisecond in your mirror to confirm you passed someone and continue racing. Side view is not necessary if you know already someone is next to you, you leave room untill you see them in your mirrors or in front of you again. Looking to the side is certain death, taking your eyes of the road in front of you is certain death. Especially at such high speeds. So np if you lower field of view.

For me cockpit cam is 34 field of view, vertical. And hood cam is 40 degree vertical. So if you want the absolute highest field of view, you can at the very least use a lower field of view in hood cam. Or just go full guardian angel mode in the flying car following cam. Then you can choose higher field of view.

But people playing 70 vertical or 90 horizontal on a small 20 inch screen that is so far away. You can't expect to see as much as in reality. But what you can do is flying cam behind the car, that way you can gage distance and see everything your car is doing, like a guardian angel you will be driving then. You see more in a different way that way. But inside the cockpit, increasing field of view, just allows you get a sense of speed from the sides of the screen a very little bit, which isn't really that beneficial, unless you are performing at lewis hamilton level of performance, which then you would rather use vr or an expensive simulator with 180 degrees field of view, and the rest is all just car interior that is only appreciated if you stand still and dont drive.

[in memoriam of Sharky]

Originally posted by CSL-Drive:

Originally posted by ianc:

I'm a long term fan of AC and for an old engine it still looks good. However ACC even with everything on EPIC it just looks soft and reminds me of Golden Eye on the N64. Obviously I'm joking but it just looks really soft compared to AC. I'm running it at 1080p so I know it's not comparable to 4K but with AC looking fine I'm not convinced the Unreal engine is working for ACC. It might just be my setup but every other game I play is fine. Does anyone else have the same issue?

No, it doesn't look soft unless you specifically make it look soft by turning on temporal anti alias, which makes it soft. Also there is a sharpness slider, that you can increase to make it even look sharper than iracing to the point that the sharpness will kind of bother you, even tho you are playing at 1080p 100% renderscale. And if that still isn't enough, you can manually increase the sharpness of your monitor display or tv.

But I personally like the softness smoothness on 1080p. Compared to project cars 2 for example, there is 0 possibility of making the game look soft on 1080p. And gran turismo sport, 0 possibility to make the game look sharp on 1080p.

But for lower resolutions temporal aa looks great when it makes everything smoother. Also you have to lower the field of view 34 degrees for a 40 inch screen that is 1.8 meters in front of you. So if you have a smaller screen, you really need to make the field of view smaller. Cause otherwise you're basically seeing 25% of what a real driver sees in real life, no matter what resolution you play.

About the field of view. I play with low fovs because its more realistic view but it does not make you see more but less so its the other way around. You don't set small fovs to see more but to have better view on the focus (the road) helping you to find the ideal breaking points easier and more consistently but the negative side of this that you will have harder times in sharp turns and you have to rely on your "muscle memory" because you won't be able to see the corner enough
and visually follow the curbs in these sharp slow turns like (for example the first few turns at the nurburgring).

[CSL-Drive]

Originally posted by Sharky:

Originally posted by CSL-Drive:

No, it doesn't look soft unless you specifically make it look soft by turning on temporal anti alias, which makes it soft. Also there is a sharpness slider, that you can increase to make it even look sharper than iracing to the point that the sharpness will kind of bother you, even tho you are playing at 1080p 100% renderscale. And if that still isn't enough, you can manually increase the sharpness of your monitor display or tv.

But I personally like the softness smoothness on 1080p. Compared to project cars 2 for example, there is 0 possibility of making the game look soft on 1080p. And gran turismo sport, 0 possibility to make the game look sharp on 1080p.

But for lower resolutions temporal aa looks great when it makes everything smoother. Also you have to lower the field of view 34 degrees for a 40 inch screen that is 1.8 meters in front of you. So if you have a smaller screen, you really need to make the field of view smaller. Cause otherwise you're basically seeing 25% of what a real driver sees in real life, no matter what resolution you play.

About the field of view. I play with low fovs because its more realistic view but it does not make you see more but less so its the other way around. You don't set small fovs to see more but to have better view on the focus (the road) helping you to find the ideal breaking points easier and more consistently but the negative side of this that you will have harder times in sharp turns and you have to rely on your "muscle memory" because you won't be able to see the corner enough
and visually follow the curbs in these sharp slow turns like (for example the first few turns at the nurburgring).

Yeah better view, I like that term better also. So you see less, but you see more of what is important, and thus you see more value, and thus you see "better"

I guess reality is always awesome. This game looks real as hell.

[Chris Delpinsky]

To me ACC graphics is way better than AC. With sharpness 100% I find it really good. And as said before, you can improve a lot the sharpness. With this second build I have to try the other AA filter instead of temporal and see what changes, but as it is now, at 1080p, I find ACC really really good and runs smoothly with 20 AI cars on track. There's still room for improvement as Kunos learn two or three things about the new engine, but the direction is really good. To me it looks 1080p and not at all an old game. Then check the night races and woow effect is there! 😍

[Audax]

So, yeah, I went to the video settings and changed sharpness to 100%. It's looking very nice now. I don't know why they left 80%, it makes everything ugly. Are you sabotaging your own game Kunos?

[Lordka-VR]

Originally posted by Audax:

So, yeah, I went to the video settings and changed sharpness to 100%. It's looking very nice now. I don't know why they left 80%, it makes everything ugly. Are you sabotaging your own game Kunos?

how launch the game in vr plz? im blocked in menu i cant select it

[Audax]

Originally posted by Lordka OCULUS VR:

Originally posted by Audax:

So, yeah, I went to the video settings and changed sharpness to 100%. It's looking very nice now. I don't know why they left 80%, it makes everything ugly. Are you sabotaging your own game Kunos?

how launch the game in vr plz? im blocked in menu i cant select it

You choose VR when you click Play on the Steam page. Do you want to run in VR from inside the game? I don't think there's a way.

[Lordka-VR]

Originally posted by Audax:

Originally posted by Lordka OCULUS VR:

how launch the game in vr plz? im blocked in menu i cant select it

You choose VR when you click Play on the Steam page. Do you want to run in VR from inside the game? I don't think there's a way.

hi ib laucnch the game in vr but after im blocker dont have mouse on the game. so i cant start the game for testing runway

[Audax]

Originally posted by Lordka OCULUS VR:

Originally posted by Audax:

You choose VR when you click Play on the Steam page. Do you want to run in VR from inside the game? I don't think there's a way.

hi ib laucnch the game in vr but after im blocker dont have mouse on the game. so i cant start the game for testing runway

Hmmm. I think is better you create a discussion and ask this to people who use VR. I don`t have one, so I can't help you in this, but a lot of people who bought this game have a VR set.

[Lordka-VR]

thx u

[BRT Cobra]

have you tried tweaking it in nvidia cp? maybe adding 8xmsaa in cp?

[Kobold]

OP is playing AC in 4k Native Resolution, shot in your own leg to even to buy a ugly 4k 60Hz Monitor...

But playing in not native resolution... really?