Well, well, well... I've had the latest versions of CSP (0.3.0 p140) and Pure (3.0) installed for a couple of days now (along with the latest Content Manager 0.8.2782.39874 version), and I must highlight as a positive point that, just as Peter said, Pure seems to have less performance impact on the hardware than Sol.
Under the same conditions in my usual testing environment, a trackday at Kunos' Circuit de Barcelona 2015, CF1 skin enabled, 24 cars (Reboot's BAC Mono, usually), I've noticed that the consistency in the framerate is way better and the frametime has improved tremendously; at many points, when I active the framerate limit with RivaTuner at 100 FPS, the frametime graph is as flat as a zombie's encephalogram, whereas before it was common to me to have small, very regular spikes every few milliseconds. The improvement is consistent across all scenarios, although naturally, there are some combinations with mods that aren't very optimized where the miracle doesn't happen, but as I say, the improvement in this aspect compared to the versions I used before (Sol + CSP 0.2.5 preview) is evident, at least in my case.
And now for the not-so-good stuff, some details not very important, and others somewhat more...
- I don't know if it's possible to change this menu style, which I don't like...
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... back to the previous old one.
- With the default settings, the game looks in my monitors too washed out for my taste; the colors appear very muted. I suppose I'll have to spend some time playing with the HDR settings and the endless options of the Pure apps.
- The grass: with Sol there were tracks where the grass looked magnificent (special mention for the skins by
@racinjoe013, a true MASTER in this area); now... I don't know how to explain it: it seems as if the blades of grass don't give a sense of depth, they don't have "volume", as if their color were too flat, without detail... As an example, here's a picture of the before...
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... and the after...
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(Sorry for the photo quality; I took it with my mobile phone directly from the screen; the screenshot app doesn't work as well as it should either...)
Obviously, driving at full speed it doesn't matter, but since I also like to enjoy taking screenshots for previews, or lingering over realistic details of the tracks, it bothers me to lose that aspect. I don't know if it has anything to do with the previous point, that is, the need to play with Pure's settings.
- And finally, what I'm most concerned about resolving: now, both while driving and while watching replays, there are elements of the track that suddenly appear and/or disappear, like lampposts, grandstands, posts... something that didn't happen to me so frequently before.... On the track I mentioned earlier, Circuit de Barcelona, it's curious to see that when I enter the start/finish straight, I can see the leaderboard totem from afar, it disappears at mid-distance, and when I'm closer, it reappears... I suspect the reason is one of the CSP options, Lod settings, Adaptative clip planes, or whatever hell knows, but no matter how much I've tried, I can't figure it out,damn it...
If anyone has any ideas, please share them, and maybe I'll get another pleasant surprise like
@Swisss suggestion for correctly viewing the three monitors. Thanks in advance, pals!