Assetto Corsa EVO Early Access Discussion Thread

[seco46]

AC EVO is probably the one that will keep GT out of the PC realm for good.

Well, I sincerely hope that GT one day comes to PC, not only to have even more competition and options on PC but because it is literally the only franchise that would make me buy a console.

Assetto Corsa have been putting videos out like this for years now. This video is 7 years old. I think people will just think it's a good AC Evo demo video.

But in this particular trailer there is a clear declaration of intention to be very GT-like.

Btw You don't need to tell me the story of Kunos and AC, I know that the idea of the first Assetto Corsa was born after the cancellation of a game of the Italian GT racing championship and after Marco having tried GT5.

 

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Assetto Corsa EVO’s First Early Access Content Update Arrives February 19: One Track, Two Cars​

Kunos Simulazioni has announced the first content update for the Early Access version of Assetto Corsa EVO will be with us soon, arriving for free on February 19...

 

[Alfa Romeo GT]

AC Evo will never get close to the number of licensed cars in GT (or Forza for that matter). The priorities of the two franchises remain different.

AC Evo will also have quite a struggle for user base since it can't rely on endless mods to make up for the relatively small licensed car content.

This is completely normal for a pure simulation.
It's not the same physics, the same details (not visual).

In assetto evo, you have different driving modes (sport / eco / normal) for the cars concerned
With on-screen indications, just like the real thing.
What's more, when you switch on the vehicle's ignition, they've had a hell of a time making the animations.

Launch Control is managed for the vehicles that manage it with the same sound and the same behavior. (well more or less...)
There are different versions for vehicles (petrol or diesel, gearbox, sunroof with animations, different driving modes, different sounds)

It's a monstrous amount of work for a small team.

And kunos has about thirty (33 if I remember correctly) developers.

We'll never have 400 vehicles with all those details. (and that's sad)

And I have hundreds of quality mods on AC1, but for acevo, the quality of the cars (behavior) is so good that launching the mods will probably be something of a pain.
Nevertheless, having great maps from the community will be incredible.

I can already see myself driving around the Isle of Man in my alpha romeo Giulia with my mates.

 

[Goldin]

I really want them to keep going in right direction, to get as many new and relevant road and race cars and as a GT fan, I will buy AC Evo as soon as arrives on PS5.
They maybe won't get to number of cars availible in GT7, but let's be real and count how many cars we have in GT7 when we remove VGT and their duplicates that are just waste of resources.

 

[Ande3200]

AC Evo will never get close to the number of licensed cars in GT (or Forza for that matter). The priorities of the two franchises remain different.

AC Evo will also have quite a struggle for user base since it can't rely on endless mods to make up for the relatively small licensed car content.

The user base will possibly grow quite massivly when the open world part is added. To me it looks like they will do so much more with evo than gt and forza ever has done.

Ac evo is track racer and sure looks like it will have more in depth open world than forza horizon 5 witch is an open world racing game.

 

[skazz]

The user base will possibly grow quite massivly when the open world part is added. To me it looks like they will do so much more with evo than gt and forza ever has done.

Ac evo is track racer and sure looks like it will have more in depth open world than forza horizon 5 witch is an open world racing game.

That's very ... optimistic....

Open world games like Forza Horizon are based on carefully adjusted physics and controller support to allow people to have fun while in a mostly believable world. This requires comprehensive matchmaking and multiplayer environmental support, which has to work seamlessly for most people. The amount of players in FH5 who actually join convoys (prebuilt multiplayer groups which can then race together or hoon around the world together) is absolutely tiny compared to the vast majority which just clicks "play multiplayer now" and has fun.

ACE has already demonstrated physics and controller support firmly in the sim category. Do you think they will have dirt/gravel physics? Do you think they will let you drive around and hillclimb across the entire environment? Absolutely nowhere off-limits?

So yeah, I think you are basically ignoring what open world semi-sims like FH5 are actually about and why they have their audiences in the tens of millions.

 

[Famine]

Do you think they will have dirt/gravel physics? Do you think they will let you drive around and hillclimb across the entire environment? Absolutely nowhere off-limits?

KS already said that the map won't be restricted to roads.

 

[Ande3200]

That's very ... optimistic....

Open world games like Forza Horizon are based on carefully adjusted physics and controller support to allow people to have fun while in a mostly believable world. This requires comprehensive matchmaking and multiplayer environmental support, which has to work seamlessly for most people. The amount of players in FH5 who actually join convoys (prebuilt multiplayer groups which can then race together or hoon around the world together) is absolutely tiny compared to the vast majority which just clicks "play multiplayer now" and has fun.

ACE has already demonstrated physics and controller support firmly in the sim category. Do you think they will have dirt/gravel physics? Do you think they will let you drive around and hillclimb across the entire environment? Absolutely nowhere off-limits?

So yeah, I think you are basically ignoring what open world semi-sims like FH5 are actually about and why they have their audiences in the tens of millions.

The open world is completly open in evo already been confirmed by marco.

The controller support is much better than it was in earlier titles. Almost on par with forza and gran turismo. And a lot better than both forza and gt when you use a wheel.

What i was getting at is that evo will have much deeper open world with cooler features.
Much larger eventully it will be about 12 times bigger than fh5 map. And its not ruined by those festival things and to much supercars driving around. witch ruin the immersion for me. Fh5 is good game in its own right. But the maps has never been that exciting in the horizon titles. The evo map look far more intresting. And we will be able to experince the open world in vr witch we never have been able to in any other title before.

 

[Apocalypse211]

Well, I sincerely hope that GT one day comes to PC, not only to have even more competition and options on PC but because it is literally the only franchise that would make me buy a console.

Played GT Sport and GT7 to bits.

I liked GT Sport because you got all the cars you wanted rather easily. People say there's a big difference between the two in the driving physics and FFB but I don't agree. GT7 is a bit better but not significantly.

I really, really hated GT7 because you had to do all those endless challenges. I have zero desire to play through Lada Cup to graduate finally to VW/BMW level. Finally when I completed all those challenges and tasks I got the Nordschleife and Porsche 993, 964, AMG GT and Jaguar XJ200 and all the other cool cars I actually wanted to drive. It took weeks.

I have zero interest in that kind of stuff. The best thing about AC1 was that you had all the cars right away. The cars that you paid for. The Ultimate version was great. Just pure driving.

Of course there's nothing wrong with those challenges if they're 100% optional. But the GT7 concept to me is very gimmicky. I don't want that kind of stuff in a sim. Sure GT7 looks amazing there's no denying that and it's a decent product. But I never wanted AC to go to that direction.

Just my personal preference.

 

[PGMurphy]

Make sure you have 16gb or more virtual memory

https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/assetto-corsa-evo-on-steam-fails-to-launch-no-errors-given.74070/page-4#post-1235779

I've set both my C drive and F drive (the latter is where my games are) to 16384 MB virtual memory, but Evo is still crashing when trying to load to the track. Should I set one drive to that VRAM only? I did try just C, but there was no change.

 

[skazz]

I've set both my C drive and F drive (the latter is where my games are) to 16384 MB virtual memory, but Evo is still crashing when trying to load to the track. Should I set one drive to that VRAM only? I did try just C, but there was no change.

How much actual RAM do you have?

 

[phillgt2002]

I've set both my C drive and F drive (the latter is where my games are) to 16384 MB virtual memory, but Evo is still crashing when trying to load to the track. Should I set one drive to that VRAM only? I did try just C, but there was no change.

I've just uninstalled the game since I've been coming across issues similar, though my crashing issues have generally led to a complete system seize at the launch of the game.

 

[RMi_wood]

I've set both my C drive and F drive (the latter is where my games are) to 16384 MB virtual memory, but Evo is still crashing when trying to load to the track. Should I set one drive to that VRAM only? I did try just C, but there was no change.

You only should set 1 drive, VM is a global setting, noted by the screenshot
(C: is my system drive while F: is providing the VM)
Evo is actually on my H: drive. This setting absolutely fixed my EVO crash on launch.
specs:
16gb ram, GTX 1080ti (11gb ram)