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- MannyMoenjack1
I thought it might make more sense to review the effects and effectiveness of the recent patch in a new thread
Ill start by saying Im playing on a 40GB PS3 (about 2 years old), that was updated recently to version 3.10. I downloaded the Shift patch as soon as it went online and have about 4 hours of play time with it.
-General game stability and performance improvements On my system, using the G25 wheel & pedals and playing in Career Mode with Tier 3 and up cars I still see major framerate and slowdown issues in races with 10 or more cars. The Invitational race at Spa with the Carrera GT is ridiculously slow on my system. The lap which in real time should take 2 minutes and 30 seconds or so takes about 3 minutes in real time, while the game lap time says 2 mins 30 seconds. Not good! So, on my system, I dont see the game performance improvements that the patch promised.
-Improved car handling and the bump-bounce problems Both of these are greatly improved, although some cars like the Corvette for instance seem to have actually lost a bit of traction, the BMW e46 M3 & e92 M3 have definitely been improved and the Porsche 911 GT3 & GT2 have been fixed. So overall the patch worked as advertised for these problems.
- Fixed car tuning settings sometimes not taking effect This has also been fixed in the cars Ive checked that had this problem. For instance, you can actually set the Aerodynamic downforce to the maximum (right) slider position and it doesnt re-set itself.
- Fixed invitational event cars getting their setups corrupted and becoming undrivable (e.g. Veryon and Carrera GT) These have been fixed, well the setups arent corrupted at least, but the framerates on both of these races are awful on my machine.
So, although some of the major issues like the bouncing problem and tuning issues have been successfully taken care of, at least for me the game performance is still very poor. It may be only the 40GB PS3s that have these issues with slowdowns, I dont know. Id be interested to hear from others who are having the same problem.
Ill start by saying Im playing on a 40GB PS3 (about 2 years old), that was updated recently to version 3.10. I downloaded the Shift patch as soon as it went online and have about 4 hours of play time with it.
-General game stability and performance improvements On my system, using the G25 wheel & pedals and playing in Career Mode with Tier 3 and up cars I still see major framerate and slowdown issues in races with 10 or more cars. The Invitational race at Spa with the Carrera GT is ridiculously slow on my system. The lap which in real time should take 2 minutes and 30 seconds or so takes about 3 minutes in real time, while the game lap time says 2 mins 30 seconds. Not good! So, on my system, I dont see the game performance improvements that the patch promised.
-Improved car handling and the bump-bounce problems Both of these are greatly improved, although some cars like the Corvette for instance seem to have actually lost a bit of traction, the BMW e46 M3 & e92 M3 have definitely been improved and the Porsche 911 GT3 & GT2 have been fixed. So overall the patch worked as advertised for these problems.
- Fixed car tuning settings sometimes not taking effect This has also been fixed in the cars Ive checked that had this problem. For instance, you can actually set the Aerodynamic downforce to the maximum (right) slider position and it doesnt re-set itself.
- Fixed invitational event cars getting their setups corrupted and becoming undrivable (e.g. Veryon and Carrera GT) These have been fixed, well the setups arent corrupted at least, but the framerates on both of these races are awful on my machine.
So, although some of the major issues like the bouncing problem and tuning issues have been successfully taken care of, at least for me the game performance is still very poor. It may be only the 40GB PS3s that have these issues with slowdowns, I dont know. Id be interested to hear from others who are having the same problem.
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