Moonhawk FPS

First off, I absolutely LOVE the Bruckell. But, when using a fully loaded one (Chrome, hubcaps, etc) I get like 20-25 FPS. (It's the GPU that's lagging) When using something like the Terrible preset my FPS is pretty much normal. The other cars' parts don't affect my FPS nearly as much as the Moonhawk. Why is this?

BTW, this is on my Radeon HD 7750. I just bought a 650TI that I'm still setting up and I haven't played Drive on it yet.

 

Yeah, same for me, FPS drops considerably when running the full beef Moonhawk (still playable but noticeable), FPS rises considerably when using the Terrible variant with all the shiny bits removed. Does it with the Cadillac too, so its probably just the amount of detail on each car slowing things down. Will perchance be improved as we head towards Beta etc.

 

Ok, thats interesting. I wasn't implying there was anything wrong with the Moonhawk, I merely meant that there is a nice amount of detail on the car; looking at it as a layman it would suggest more data to process and therefore lower framerates. This is an assumption that is also given weight by the fact that the FPS is higher when using the stripped back Terrible variant, which I imagined would be essentially identical in terms of main physics set up as the full fat Moonhawk, but just has less geometry detail to process. So relating perceived higher model detail to lower FPS is not an outlandish suggestion.

I'm genuinely curious then, if the actual graphical geometry of the car makes a negligible difference to frame rates, what is it about the fancy full fat Moonhawk that makes FPS lower than on the stripped down version of the Moonhawk? Is it just an increased node/beam structure on bumpers and so on?

 

Full version has more n/b to calculate.

 

Heh, I still need to get my head around the fact that everything on the car is being calculated in real time. Its so ingrained that bumpers and so on are just geometry objects that just drop off as oppose to a proper physics object that reacts and deforms correctly. Its pretty f*****g clever stuff.