Bumper shows you the street-level view devoid of any of your vehicle's details. Close and Far show your car from close rear or far rear positions. The options are Close, Far, Bumper and Hood. If set to Manual, make sure to check your key bindings under the Control section to assign a Shift Up and Shift Down function to the relevant keys.Ĭamera: This determines by default where your viewpoint is when driving your vehicle.
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Transmission: Determines whether you race with Automatic (Auto) or Manual transmission in the car. Set to suit your taste, disabling the map may gain a small performance boost. Race Map Mode: This setting determines whether the Race Map is disabled (Off), shown in the bottom left corner and rotating to always correspond with the way you're facing (Rotate), or shown but static (Static).
Units: Determines whether you use the Metric or Imperial scale for gauges shown in the game (e.g Miles vs. There may be a slight performance impact on some systems from enabling this option. Rearview Mirror: If set to On, whenever you race in Hood or Bumper view your rear view mirror will be visible at the top of the screen. This can improve performance slightly, but obviously reduces realism. If set to Off, no damage is shown and the car remains pristine. If you find this distracting or annoying, set this to Off.Ĭar Damage: If set to On, your vehicle will show the damage and marks from collisions throughout the game. For example certain car jumps, running through certain objects, etc. Game Moment Camera: If set to On, particular circumstances in the game will be slowed down and played from a third-person detached camera angle. If set to Off, you will be prompted to save at certain points, and you will also have to remember to save your profile regularly if you want to keep things updated. Note: If you only want to disable certain elements of the Visual Treatment (such as motion blur) but not lose all the appearance of High Visual Treatment, see the Advanced Tweaking section.Īutosave: When set to On, your game progress will automatically be saved as you win/lose races and challenges. Choose whichever you believe is more realistic to you, and note that the performance impact will vary depending on your graphics card's age - older graphics cards may get a noticeable reduction in FPS with this enabled. This setting also controls the various motion blur effects as well. As you can see, with this setting at Low the colors and lighting are much closer to that of other games, and when set to High they take on a completely different characteristic. Fortunately the designers have provided this setting for you to enable/disable this feature, and the concurrent image quality impacts are shown in the screenshot comparison above. However, it is a stylized image quality which may not suit some people. The game developers have purposely designed the lighting and color of the game to be very rich and almost photo-realistic in places when 'Visual Treatment' is enabled. It is controversial in that some people like it (like me), and some people hate it.
Visual Treatment: This setting controls the overall 'atmospheric' image quality of the game.