Cross Platform Australian Dirt Rally 2.0 Club • GENERAL DISCUSSION

Discussion in 'DiRT Rally 2.0 Cross Platform Club' started by KoAStR, Sep 7, 2019.

  1. KoAStR

    KoAStR Like a bowss Team Raceonoz Gold Member Super ROOZ

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    Thanks mate should be working again now.

    P.S. put another weekly event up just now, Germany, H2 RWD.
    Last edited: Oct 28, 2022
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    Germay H2 Escort was a blast. Especially enjoyed all the consecutive hairpins in the final stage. Shifter malfunction got me selecting 1st instead of 3rd on a downshift in stage 1 which wasn't fun, but other than that pretty tidy.

    Got a new screen this year, really enjoying DiRT Rally in 4k and Germany's looks especially amazing with HDR effects. Thought my frames might suffer but with AA off it's good, and with 4k I find I don't miss the AA. It's like a new experience compared to 1080 non-HDR!

    p.S. would like to have slipped a wet surface stage in there again, but at Germany that wasn't an option with just cloudy weather and I really don't enjoy the limited visibility in heavy rain, so stuck with dry!
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    I think there might be a graphics setting you can turn down/off to improve rain visibility?
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    Nice combo. I'll take the stage 1 provisional win, even if you were having shifter problems! Stage 2 and 3 not bad, but rolled the car stage 4 on the square right square left combo when I cut the corner too much with too much speed, lost 10-15 seconds there, but otherwise not too far behind on the splits.
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    Sounds like you're advocating for some bad weather next time. :p
    Well done ;)
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    Cheers! I'm in VR, so yeah, the rain does make it hard to see, but that is half the fun!
    Rain's a lot in Wales :whistling:
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    After the rally today I found it hard to let go, so made this for GT7,,,
    Pretty weird that PD censors the word Escort now.... even though up until last month there was plenty of content published with that uncensored. Perhaps it's a dirty word now or perhaps they just don't like car mentions that aren't in the game?! EDIT it seems that it's just english language profiles, there's current posts by users only from other non-english speaking countries with Escort uncensored.
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    :):):):)ing censorship! Can rename it the Potato!
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    What GPU are you running? I have a 3070 and no matter what I do I cannot get this to run smoothly in VR. I'd love to know any tricks you might have.
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    It's nothing fancy: a Dell gaming laptop G5 15 5500 10750h 2070 8GB Max-Q 32GB RAM.
    I have ASW enabled and FOV Tangent Multiplier 0.9 horizontal 0.7 vertical in Oculus Debug Tool to gain some performance. Slight overclock and undervolt of gpu, undervolt of cpu. Was using FFR from vrperkit in Oculus mode, but just recently changed to Opencomposite + OpenXR Toolkit FFR. In game settings 4x MSAA 16x Ansotrophic, car details on high, but most others on off, low or medium (I'd have to double check these)
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    That rally was a blast. I was keeping up with you Koastr until the last stage where I lost 6-7 seconds. I did slam into the timing gate at the end of stage 3. I'm not sure if I carried over some damage because I had done a 38.8 in a recky run, which would have seen me in P1 provisionally. Oh well, that's rallying I guess!
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    Thanks mate, I'm running the Reverb G2 headset and my PC is a 5600x CPU, 3070 GPU, and 32GB of fast RAM. I know with my rig I should have no issues running it in VR but it runs like a dog. I have been looking into OpenComposite and OpenXR recently, I may have to do a deep dive there.
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    Well done! Very close. :geek:
    I don't bother with recky runs. There's no options to set track surface degradation in single player free run time trial so you're not practicing in the actual same conditions as the online event, and that of course means times aren't strictly comparable. Not sure if you're using garage cars in the SP TT either which may have upgraded performance.
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    G2 is a GPU hog, but are you sure you're not CPU limited? OC + OXRTK not hard to set up, will get rid of SteamVR and should give a bit of a boost. Get onto it!
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    I don't think I've used the Escort before this so I doubt it has any upgrades. I am still fairly new to this sim so I do a recky to get the vibe of the stage. That was a super close rally though, I'm too old for these kind of stress levels haha.
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    I can run other titles perfectly so I don't think the chip is slowing it down. The only sims that run like garbage are DR2.0 and ACC, they're both known for poor VR performance so I'm not super surprised. I'll have to have a play with the Opens and get it figured out, I much prefer driving in VR.
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    Haha I know how you feel, can only do a few stages at a time now before I am ragged!
    Good idea to do recky runs when you are unfamiliar with the car. Glad you joined in :)
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    I decided after last time's complete F up to more of the stage in time trial first to try and get some semblance of familiarity with the car.

    I am happy to report, I finished!

    A few low gear spins and one run off the road running over a tree but quite fun around germany. I think the fact there seems to be more width to the road generally helped me
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    Glad you gave it another chance mate!