supercross playable on pc yet

[Lemiwinks]

iv heard alot about supercross being terrible to run on pc but all these comments are from the end of last year, has there been any optimisation for pc since then?

[mcm2boys]

There have been improvements but it's not there yet. There is supposed to be another update with performance update coming but no release date. I run on a laptop with i7 Q820 1.7GHz, CPU and nVidia FX2800 gfx card and get between 30-40fps on Sx that drops off for other activity types, eg Nats Waypoint etc - seems anything with trees or grass and a bigger environment seems to slow things down - to 20fps and under.

The visual quality has improved by a big step with frames rendered at the selected resolution instead of 1280x720 and scaled to the selected resolution, so the quality settings now afffect the frame rate - though of course to increase fps you will need to lower visual quality.

[Lemiwinks]

alright cheers i guess ill hold off buying it then till it gets sorted, only running 512mb gpu

[Bulldog]

I broke down and bought this when it was on sale at Christmas.  Even though Reflex runs decent on my home PC I have to crank everything all the way down on Encore to be able to play it.  It looks like crap and gives me a headache.   At work I can crank everything all the way up and it runs smooth as silk.  Personally I like the physics of Reflex better.  The only thing in Encore that I like better is the clutch action.  In Reflex the clutch doesn't really do much and it responds as I would expect in Encore.

[mcm2boys]

Hey Pete

Not sure what the sale price was but i still think it's worth the money, though if you can't run it at a reasonable fps then that'll suck the fun out of it. What are the differences in spec between your work and home PCs.

[Bulldog]

Home PC is an older Dell Optiplex 780 running Windows 10 Pro x64 with Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 GHz, 4GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD 4600.  So it's just above minimum requirements.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not surprised it doesn't run very well on this machine, but since Reflex runs OK I expected it to run a little bit better than it does.

At work I have a custom built box running Windows 7 Pro x64, Intel i7 6700 3.4GHz, 32GB DDR4 RAM and Nvidia Quadro M2000 video card (not a gaming card but still runs games OK).  I can run the game with everything all the way up with no issues on this box at 1920x1080.

When I bought the game it was only $7.50 but they had a package deal with all the MX vs. ATV games and DLC that I didn't own for like $33 so I just bought that pack.  What I didn't realize was that MX vs. ATV Unleashed was part of the package and I already owned it.  Actually I had bought it twice already, once on CD and once through GOG.com, so now I have purchased it three times!   

[Bulldog]

I forgot to add that my home PC's are always older specs because I don't buy home computers.  I wait for boxes at work to be going to recycling and I recycle them at home.   

[mcm2boys]

ok so you weren't expecing lightning performance - encore does a little more under the hood than Reflex so slightly less performance shouldn't be a complete surprise. But it probably could be better than it is, but that goes for Reflex too - they both seem to suffer from CPU and GPU usage both way less than 100% which seems to point to inefficient code.


+1 on the recycling.. 

[Bulldog]

Yeah, neither of them seem to be coded very efficiently.  Do they even properly utilize multithreading?