Hi All. Just a quick update to the below.
I’ve now had someone with working eye’s look at it. And although It seems OK from an audio point of view, it’s really not doing well with the on-board graphics from a visual point of view. Even the menus are rendering badly and when you’re in a race any speed over 2 MPH turns everything red and its unusable. I suspect this is having more impact from a game playability point of view than I thought, and I’m guessing it’s probably not a good idea to be running the hardware in such a way that it doesn’t cope. So, I think the answer to my question of can you play it with on board graphics is “Kinda” but its probably not a good idea. Happy to hear any thoughts. Thanks. Nick. From: Nick Adamson <n...@ndadamson.com> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2023 1:45 AM To: 'blind-gamers@groups.io' <blind-gamers@groups.io> Cc: 'Cara Quinn' <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> Subject: RE: [blind-gamers] (Forza Motorsport and onboard graphics, Hi Cara, Haylie, And all. Thank you both for the emails. I decided to get a £1 trial of the Xbox game pass for 14 days which lets me try out Forza on my PC with out having to pay the full amount, and this game is absolutely amazing. If anyone is a bit unsure if there hardware is good enough to run it, or if they aren’t sure if this game is for them getting a £1 trial of Xbox game pass is a much more affordable test over spending the full amount to find they’d have an issue running it. The level of detail in the accessibility is nothing short of wonderful. I’m not sure why I care what my driver looks like, what there rase gear looks like, but I found I totally do. And the racing accessibility is fantastic. If anyone is thinking it’s just like top speed 3 but just better, it kind of is, but just a million times better. It’s like comparing a pedal bike with an f1 car. To answer my own question. I’ve not had anyone look at it yet from a visual point of view but the game plays fine on my on-board graphics. It’s a bit slow, I hear “Loading” quite a bit on the video clips, but I suspect that’s because I’ve not installed it to an SSD, I didn’t have 118 Gig free on my SSD. I did see keyboard options, but I’m playing with an Xbox controller at the moment. I suspect it would be quite a bit harder to play just using a keyboard. I’m not sure how it would work with any other controller. The haptics on the Xbox controller are fabulous, although a little baffling at the start. So, I think It gives a little shake every time it changes gear, or if I’m driving over something a bit rough, or when I hit a barrier. It would be good to know exactly what all the little shakes and stuff mean. My 14-year-old son was pretty infused that I was thinking about trying this out so in the morning I’m sure he’ll be all over it and I’ll get a better idea of what the visuals look like using the on-board graphics card I’ve got. He’ll also be nagging me to get his Logitech steering wheel set up on my PC. It’ll be interesting to see how the force feedback impacts my driving. In my first race I tried, with very high level of AI support I came 3rd, so I’m quite happy about that. I’m following the advice to start with driver assists high and bring them down as I understand how all the sounds work together. There’s quite a learning curve, but it’s well worth spending the time on this one I think. This game could well be on my Christmas list. Sorry for the slightly gushing email, but I’ve wanted to play a racing game like this for as long as I’ve known racing games are a thing. Thanks. Nick. From: blind-gamers@groups.io <mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io> <blind-gamers@groups.io <mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io> > On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2023, 10:56 PM To: blind-gamers@groups.io <mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io> Cc: Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com <mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> > Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] (Forza Motorsport and onboard graphics, Not sure if this will help, but there is a benchmark option in the PC version which will evaluate your system. You can also adjust the game’s options for different frame rates and whether or not to use ray-tracing etc. I don’t know about compatibility, as I’m not using the PC version, as I’d mentioned earlier, but hopefully this helps a bit. Hope it works for you! Cheers! Cara On Nov 11, 2023, at 3:48 AM, Nick and Gemma Adamson <n...@ndadamson.com <mailto:n...@ndadamson.com> > wrote: Hi All. I’m really quite interested in (Forza Motorsport. My son has a force feedback steering wheel, so this could be fantastic. I’ve got a pretty good PC and easily meet the specs for everything other than graphics. For what felt like obvious reasons at the time, I didn’t bother getting anything other than onboard graphics when I specified my PC and concentrated on processor and memory as I mostly use it for audio design and coding. Has anyone tried playing (Forza Motorsport with onboard graphics or will it just not work? I did try a google but it’s quite an unusual question, <grins> According to the DX diagnostic tool my graphics card is: Card name: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 Manufacturer: Intel Corporation Chip type: Intel(R) UHD Graphics Family Display Memory: 8243 MB Dedicated Memory: 128 MB Shared Memory: 8115 MB Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz) Thanks. Nick. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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