Forza Motorsport General Discussion Thread

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For me, I've been playing this game at least twice a week every week since launch, but as soon as the last update came out and all that extra content was added, my interest has waned. With no urgency, with no threats of content being removed, my motivation just isn't there anymore. Can't explain it.
 
I return after a month of travel with no sim racing, glad to see some communication from turn 10 finally though not saying much. I missed playing the game and intend to continue to play. I agree that no longer knowing if more cars and tracks will come (seems most likely not) does reduce some of the interest. We shall see if I continue to play daily now that I can progress through the remaining content at my leisure.
 
How many Tours and Reward Cars from the past are unavailable currently?

That should give an expectation of how many months of “content” will be added to the game (though I suspect almost all of this work is already done and scheduled through their online services backend).
 
WHO1
For me, I've been playing this game at least twice a week every week since launch, but as soon as the last update came out and all that extra content was added, my interest has waned. With no urgency, with no threats of content being removed, my motivation just isn't there anymore. Can't explain it.
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Yeah. I turn it on, but there is nothing forcing me to grind my way through the career events, seeing that they aren't going anywhere and there's no incentive car to get. I'm just trying to get the Caterham to a point where I like can gel with it. Besides that, one or maybe two races from the WTCR events that I haven't done. The rest of the time I spend/spent fiddling with FFB, Reshade and placing cars in the home space bays.
 
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I'm just trying to get the Caterham to a point where I like can gel with it.
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I meant to comment on this when I first read it on the other thread with all the smooth brained window lickers in it. The car is super squirrely. It's wild how fast they made that thing. lol
I don't know what you tried for a setup but I was able to make the car drivable.
The most important thing you can do is turn the steering lock percentage up to 120. The steering is just way too quick causing most of the problems right off the bat. This might be the only thing you need but other things that helped me was evening out the suspension tightness. Zero out the suspension geometry rear. Bring values for front and rear to more even levels.
And then if I remember correctly, the tires are a bit underinflated so do about 3 clicks up on both. Check your temps in telemetry to see if they are evened out to the camber.
That should help.
 
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syphe
Nice, although I wonder how long it'll stay up, I hear DeWalt are one of those brands that issue take-downs, dumb as it's free advertising.
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Apparently it's only a Gran Turismo issue - baffling, truly

Since @PJTierney is showing an Indycar livery, I assume tonight's Casual Monday race is the Hakone Special Event... In which case, I guess I'll show (again) some liveries of my own:

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For what is worth, the latest Nvidia drivers (581.08) that launched today bring Smooth Motion to the game in RTX 40-series cards. I have to say the gains in fps are impressive (150-160 fps in cockpit view, 170-180 elsewhere, with no visible tearing) together with image stability while using DLSS (quality), even when the graphic settings are high and using RTGI @ 1440p.
 
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For what is worth, the latest Nvidia drivers (581.08) that launched today bring Smooth Motion to the game in RTX 40-series cards. I have to say the gains in fps are impressive (150-160 fps in cockpit view, 170-180 elsewhere, with no visible tearing) together with image stability while using DLSS (quality), even when the graphic settings are high and using RTGI @ 1440p.
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Would you say that it’s worth updating to this driver if you have RTX 5090 GPU ? Any issues so far since you updated playing Forza Motorsports? I am throughly enjoying this game on pc with Fanatec DD+ & Dbox motion without any issues so I’m always wary of updating
 
HoldenOn
Would you say that it’s worth updating to this driver if you have RTX 5090 GPU ? Any issues so far since you updated playing Forza Motorsports? I am throughly enjoying this game on pc with Fanatec DD+ & Dbox motion without any issues so I’m always wary of updating
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It's been running very stable so far, but for 50-series cards I don't think the update is essential.
 
Nacho Libre
For what is worth, the latest Nvidia drivers (581.08) that launched today bring Smooth Motion to the game in RTX 40-series cards. I have to say the gains in fps are impressive (150-160 fps in cockpit view, 170-180 elsewhere, with no visible tearing) together with image stability while using DLSS (quality), even when the graphic settings are high and using RTGI @ 1440p.
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Thanks for the post, I've got it on now. Turned up my DLSS quality to compensate, game looks sharper than ever (also updated the game's DLSS of course) with the only real issue being the UI not reacting well to the fake frames :lol:

It works surprisingly well in-game, not seeing a ton of HUD smearing like I expected and the car interiors aren't affected negatively. If you have the driving line or track limits on, you might see those smearing around the edges of your car though, and windshield wipers have some artifacting.

It's all a game of tradeoffs, until we have the hardware to run this natively. We might need bigger computers for that though. :lol:
 
Noticed this game is on sale on Steam, due to the nature of it being "live service" with new events coming and going on a timed basis and the structure of the car leveling etc. not gelling with me, I decided not to take the plunge earlier. But I have seen with a recent update, all the events that were time limited are being reintroduced permanently and the car leveling is not really a thing anymore. Is this worth the plunge at half price or is it very similar to GT7? I'm on the fence at the moment.
 
Dave A
Noticed this game is on sale on Steam, due to the nature of it being "live service" with new events coming and going on a timed basis and the structure of the car leveling etc. not gelling with me, I decided not to take the plunge earlier. But I have seen with a recent update, all the events that were time limited are being reintroduced permanently and the car leveling is not really a thing anymore. Is this worth the plunge at half price or is it very similar to GT7? I'm on the fence at the moment.
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IMO, the base game right now at half-price is OK, although the Premium gets you about 30-40 more cars (Car Pass/Race Day Car Pack/Welcome Pack). They changed the leveling part and now you can purchase any parts if you have enough in-game currency, although you have to go through a cumbersome exchange every time you exceed your XP.
 
Thanks for the replies, I think for half price, I might as well take the plunge. The things that mostly put me off buying the game earlier in its life seem to have been removed or workarounds implemented. The game still doesn't sound perfect, from what I've read, what I really want is a modern version of Gran Turismo 4 or Forza Motorsport 3. Earn currency, buy and tune cars, win events, win cars, unlock more events etc. with a solid single player career.

This live service stuff with limited time stuff, really doesn't suit me and the limited time I spend gaming these days. Having all of the events that were time limited, being added back in is a big part of why I'm interested in buying it now (the half price doesn't hurt either), I imagine they flesh out the single player contaent considerably (or at least will once they're all added back in).
 
Dave A
Thanks for the replies, I think for half price, I might as well take the plunge. The things that mostly put me off buying the game earlier in its life seem to have been removed or workarounds implemented. The game still doesn't sound perfect, from what I've read, what I really want is a modern version of Gran Turismo 4 or Forza Motorsport 3. Earn currency, buy and tune cars, win events, win cars, unlock more events etc. with a solid single player career.

This live service stuff with limited time stuff, really doesn't suit me and the limited time I spend gaming these days. Having all of the events that were time limited, being added back in is a big part of why I'm interested in buying it now (the half price doesn't hurt either), I imagine they flesh out the single player contaent considerably (or at least will once they're all added back in).
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The readded "tours" will add a lot of content to Single Player yes. There is also the "Champions Cup" which was added in the last update and is a decent sized Racing Car only collection of single player events, which is in addition to these.
 
I decided to buy it, and have spent about an hour with it this afternoon. My verdict is that it's ok, the races are actual races, not a single file procession of rolling roadblocks, which is a positive over GT7. The cars aren't overly expensive, so I think the level of grind will be somewhat ok.

I did make the mistake of purchasing the version that came with access to the DLC, and that's bombarded me with free cars and stuff right from the start, which kind of breaks the game, I expected the DLC to appear in the dealership to buy, and forgot it was just given to you in Forza. That's my mistake, I should've bought the standard version and progressed a bit then paid for the upgrade when I started to get bored.

For half price, I think I'll get my moneys worth, it's not a fantastic game, but I don't think any modern new game will ever really capture that magic the earlier GT and Forza titles did. The structure of the game is ok, there's some progression through the tours, even if I don't need to buy cars for many of them anymore.

The AI seems faster in the earlier laps then slows down and once your ahead the races are a breeze. But I haven't played around with the AI difficulty too much yet, I put it up a couple of notches, so I probably just need to put it up a bit more. And the collision penalties are a bit all over the place, I seem to get a penalty when an AI car hits me more frequently than if I hit them. I might just turn those off entirely.

Overall, not a superb entry into the series, but for half price I think it's worth it, especially with the older events being readded over time which will keep expanding the career as I never did them the first time round.
 
Dave A
I decided to buy it, and have spent about an hour with it this afternoon. My verdict is that it's ok, the races are actual races, not a single file procession of rolling roadblocks, which is a positive over GT7. The cars aren't overly expensive, so I think the level of grind will be somewhat ok.

I did make the mistake of purchasing the version that came with access to the DLC, and that's bombarded me with free cars and stuff right from the start, which kind of breaks the game, I expected the DLC to appear in the dealership to buy, and forgot it was just given to you in Forza. That's my mistake, I should've bought the standard version and progressed a bit then paid for the upgrade when I started to get bored.

For half price, I think I'll get my moneys worth, it's not a fantastic game, but I don't think any modern new game will ever really capture that magic the earlier GT and Forza titles did. The structure of the game is ok, there's some progression through the tours, even if I don't need to buy cars for many of them anymore.

The AI seems faster in the earlier laps then slows down and once your ahead the races are a breeze. But I haven't played around with the AI difficulty too much yet, I put it up a couple of notches, so I probably just need to put it up a bit more. And the collision penalties are a bit all over the place, I seem to get a penalty when an AI car hits me more frequently than if I hit them. I might just turn those off entirely.

Overall, not a superb entry into the series, but for half price I think it's worth it, especially with the older events being readded over time which will keep expanding the career as I never did them the first time round.
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I play at 6-7 difficulty and start from 10-8th place. I don't win every race, so the challenge is getting podiums and/or enough points to gold the tour events. Do you use the radar in the HUD? It's very useful for avoiding most collisions/penalties.
 
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Not to continue derailing the thread, but how do I do this?
I seem to be entirely stuck with only being able to use earned car points to buy upgrades (and rarely the ones I want).
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You should just be able to select the parts, put them on the car, your car points will be in the red and then when you confirm, it will ask you if you want to use (in-game) credits to pay for it.
 
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You should just be able to select the parts, put them on the car, your car points will be in the red and then when you confirm, it will ask you if you want to use (in-game) credits to pay for it.
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Ooooh... oh well that changes everything, I have seen that "in the red" thing and assumed I can't apply said upgrades. Thank you.
 
For the Indy Car champions cup series oval races, do you need to find an oval tune or just switch out the rear wings? Looking through the tunes none of them specifically say "oval" just top speed which I'm assuming has an oval rear wing on it.
 

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