Assetto Corsa EVO made its huge Early Entry launch on Steam yesterday, bringing the subsequent iteration of the racing franchise to each flatscreen and PC VR headsets. It’s getting blended opinions, though VR customers particularly are warning that you need to look forward to incoming patches, which is able to hopefully tackle the sport’s at present questionable optimization.
KUNOS Simulazioni, developer behind each Assetto Corsa (2014) and Assetto Corsa Competizione (2018), launched their long-awaited follow-up, Assetto Corsa EVO. The Early Entry model boasts 5 tracks, 20 automobiles, single participant, assist for SteamVR headsets, in addition to triple display screen assist.
Whereas the studio guarantees the complete slate of content material is about to reach in successive updates, which is able to embody a complete of 100 automobiles, 25 tracks, open world map, profession and multiplayer mode, for now it seems VR customers aren’t precisely pleased with the state of the sport.
Consumer opinions are pouring in, with the sport now counting over 2,700 opinions, garnering it a ‘Combined’ rating. Though some complaints point out the shortage of options, which KUNOS Simulazioni guarantees are nonetheless but to come back, lots of these particularly mentioning VR assist are pretty cut-and-dry. It’s merely not optimized effectively sufficient, which has left it largely unplayable in VR.
“I received’t touch upon the efficiency points, as that is early entry, solely comment is that VR is at present unplayable,” says Steam person Poloman. “I’ve 150 fps on 3440×1440, however can’t get extra that 30 [FPS] in VR.”
“Unplayable in VR with a RTX 4090 and i9 13900k at lowest settings (solely concentrating on 80hz too). It has fixed latency spikes making the sport unplayable at any setting,” reviews Mattios. “Flatscreen works nice, maxed out it barely hits 80% GPU and 10% CPU utilization with out upscaling”
“Can’t suggest it in its present state, efficiency optimization is simply not there, at the least for VR. [I have a Radeon] 7600X + 7900 XT getting 50 fps working on a Quest 3 with Hyperlink and OpenXR, and that’s with a single automotive on monitor in follow, on the minimal graphics settings,” says Dan of their person assessment. “And that’s already disregarding visible glitches, that occurred totally on the menu for me. Moreover that, the default FFB settings are in no way what I anticipated from Kunos. All in all, look forward to the approaching patches to even think about it.”
All of KUNOS Simulazioni’s Assetto Corsa racing video games have adopted comparable Early Entry launches in years previous, which makes the gradual drip of options no actual shock. And whereas VR hasn’t at all times been a day-one function, it has been an integral a part of the sequence.
The unique Assetto Corsa was an early champion of VR, having beforehand included experimental assist for Rift headsets beginning again to 2013, and later gaining assist for added headsets in 2017 with the adoption of OpenVR. Full VR assist for Assetto Corsa Competizione was launched a month after it was obtainable on conventional displays.
The studio maintains its full 1.0 launch shall be prepared “inside lower than one 12 months from the beginning of Early Entry,” and we’re undoubtedly hoping to see extra optimizations between from time to time to make VR well worth the $32 price ticket.
