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Referring to Fergus and Tantalus i believe

There's one track towards the end of NFS The Run which is pretty... and pretty awesome. God rays and leaf-littered roads with both sharp and medium twists and turns make for some unique scenery in the racing game world. I think there may be a stage either side of this one that's even better but I can't find it.

Kelekole, Fergus, Lake Louise, California Highway, Mt Chilliad... these are but a few of the famously named roads in recent video games. But which is the best... ever? Does it even have a well known name? Submit your ideas below, then we might be able to name some of these bad boys and vote for the community favourite. Ignore driving physics for now, only focus on the road itself. If they all existed in real life and you could only visit one, which one would it be? You may wish to consider roads from: Open World driving games Test Drive Unlimited Forza Horizon The Crew Need for Speed Burnout Paradise FUEL Racing Simulators (plus track mods) Assetto Corsa Project CARS GTL GTR Race 07 Other DRIVECLUB GTA Call of Duty Just Cause etc Be sure to include screenshots and/or video footage of your suggestions. Include both the map and scenic shots along the way. Also a brief 5,000 word essay on why you think it's the greatest. :)

We already knew the show was a collection of 'TG specials' from around the world, where they have various car themed missions, so I guess the name kinda fits. It's just not... amazing. I guess they also think it's clever as it links to GT cars. If it turns out they all did in fact have to agree on a name then it's also not surprising that it turns out to be a tad dull.... like a Ford Mondeo or Subaru

The only problem with this idea is that you'd end up with a completely different community shaping the game. The kiddies that rule The Crew's forums would drown out the few sim-racer types from WMD that are interested in open world. Of course, a $$$ barrier to entry of such a forum (like WMD 2.0) should prove effective.

That's quite a big call there Tim. Maybe we ought to make a new thread on the subject and see what everyone else thinks is the best road in any driving game (regardless of physics, I guess). :) I've since noticed this is but one of a series you're running but I reckon the new thread idea still stands --- Post Updated --- btw, you forgot to post this one, Tim :lol:

The only reason I haven't mentioned this game yet is because it's still kinda new, but no doubt it's right up there (warts and all) Just gotta see if I can find any video of Tiff having a go

Delayed again until August now: Assetto Corsa for consoles... :: Team VVV

Either get a 1070 or make a note of current 9xx prices and wait for them to drop :) I'd try using it with your current CPU/system and if you're happy with performance, then great. If not, then carry the GPU over to a new PC build and attempt to sell your old PC.

Interesting 2nd video but it creates more questions than it answers

The DVD version doesn't not include a Steam-based product key, so you won't be able to activate it on Steam. You'll want to focus on eliminating that error message instead. Are you trying to execute the game exe directly or are you trying to run the launcher exe? Is the game up to date (patched?)

The steering is driving me mad in this game. Normal is way too damped and slow, and Simulation is the other extreme. Needs to be a middle ground.

NFS II SE - don't know why I love it but I do GTR2 - mods! some great tracks you'll never find shipped with games NFS The Run - easy for many to dislike this game but when you break it down to the individual races it's the closest thing to a retro NFS. Handling was ok, and tracks/graphics were sublime. GT5 - had some great online races here Rocket league - I wouldn't call it a racing game but apparently it won best racing game last year so may as well add it

When I said pre-2010 I had old NFS games and GTR2 in mind. Hardly anything amazing graphics wise. An old nVidia 460 card probably will outperform the latest and greatest Intel onboard graphics when it comes to gaming. And the price can't be that bad. Have you ever watched Scrapyard Wars on Youtube?

Nothing will compete with escaping from a police chase by going offroad between trees to emerge on some other road nowhere near Waikiki and not having a clue where I was.

So I found myself in a Samsung store in Melbourne today, where they had a Gear VR on demo next to their Galaxy S7's (get a free Gear VR with S7 purchase before June 30 btw) The screen was a little blurry (not focussed right) and I think someone else may have left a little hair product in one spot of the screen. My thoughts: The screen was VERY dotty. Much more than I expected. I sure hope the Rift is MUCH better. The demo consisted of various short scenes that suddenly switched. Despite standing I had no problem looking around as 'I' skied down a massive mountain, or surfed on a large wave. I even didn't have anywhere near the amounts of problems standing still for the rollercoaster scene compared to other clips, although it was the only scene where my heart sank a little and I had to brace my footing in advance - similar to if you stand in a moving train). The movie theatre scene was pretty good, as was the one where I appeared to have a private concert with Bono. While not perfectly adjusted, the front still seemed a little too heavy. I didn't find myself looking around that much in the moving scenes - basically just looking where 'I' was going, so the 360 aspect was a little lost on me, although practically flawless - no stitching issues. I wouldn't recommend buying one though. Maybe wait for version 2. I had no problem adapting - it feels a little like poking your head through a hole in the wall where the scenery is completely different. Standing in the noisy store certainly didn't give me any chance to feel fully immersed however. I'll be back with more feedback with the Rift whenever it arrives, expecting a better experience with the improved hardware and interactive content. I'm pretty sure VR is here to stay, much like 3D TVs.

Downloading. For such little content I'm very surprised to see it weigh in at 18GB. That's much the same as The Crew.

bump. Any new pics, gents?

RAM on a video card stopped being most important quite a few years ago. tbh the only time it's really useful is if you mod a game with much larger texture files. 4GB is plenty for now.

Let's not restrict potential future upgrade plans for the sake of what is usually only ~$20. The brand/quality is probably more important than the number. Especially if you care about noise. I went from an old $400 1200w Gold PSU (2012) to an 800W Platinum one last year to reduce the 'jet effect'. Rave reviews said this thing would be near silent, but well I'm going to have to watercool my GPU to find out if that's true. I wouldn't mind W/C'ing my next build and getting a fanless PSU but then they wouldn't have quite enough power to deal with the pumps.

Might be a good time to promote the tduck PC Benchmarking Thead | turboduck forum again to see what hardware conclusions we can draw

Checked online for second hand 980 Ti's just in case? 970 is still good though. Besides the CPU (unsure of it's modern gaming performance - check for benchmarks) the other specs are good. No need for more than 16GB of RAM when gaming. Keep in mind that a brand new CPU will mean DDR4 RAM.

I think because the aerodynamics and steering rack are tuned to go left as fast as possible, evasive actions (which will require some sort of right turn) will cause major instability issues anyway, especially when you factor in the aero effects of all the other surrounding cars.

There seems to be a fair bit of strange CPU recommendations lately. Perhaps it's either some sort of partnership with Intel or just inability to go far back enough to test. Remember that in the last few years improvements have been pretty small - around 10%. Some are still comfortable gaming on the 2500K. While I certainly have room for improvement with my 3750K I don't feel like it's causing any major performance bottlenecks on my system (that's with a Titan X graphics card too, btw). Maybe VR will change that, where high FPS is more critical.

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