Project Cars 2 PC Performance Review

Project Cars 2 PC Performance Review

Graphical Options and Settings

Project Cars 2 contains a highly detailed graphical options menu, giving users the ability to easily cater the game to their own hardware/system or to their own performance requirements.  

In Project Cars 2 aliasing is very noticeable, especially when viewing certain track markings or straight lines on vehicles. This means that MSAA will be a must for those who require the cleanest edges, though at the same time your choice in AA will be a huge factor when it comes to game performance. 

 

Project Cars 2 PC Performance Review

 

Project Cars 2 does not feature any graphical presets, which means that users will have to configure the game’s performance/graphical settings manually. Please note that we have not conducted any game testing using the game’s supersampling mode. 

Below is a list of the graphical settings that we have used to create our graphical comparison screenshots and benchmarks. 

 

  Low Medium High Ultra (SMAA) Ultra (MSAA)
Texture Resolution Low Medium High High High
Texture Filtering Trilinear 4x 8x 16x 16x
MSAA Off Off Off Off MSAA High
Post (AA) Off FXAA (Low) FXAA (High) SMAA (High) Off
Reflections Low Medium High Ultra Ultra
Environment Map Low Medium High Ultra Ultra
Car Detail Low Medium High Ultra Ultra
Track Detail Low Medium High Ultra Ultra
Pit Crew Detail Off Off Player Only All All
Shadow Detail Off Medium High Ultra Ultra
Enhanced Mirror Off Off Yes Yes Yes
Motion Blur Off Medium High High High
Render Frames Ahead 1 1 1 1 1
Detailed Grass Off Medium High High High
Particle Level Off Medium High High High
Particle Density Low Medium High Ultra Ultra

 

  

Below is a secondary options menu for the game, which offers several additional options that will affect the appearance of the game, some of which will have a small performance impact. We have opted to keep this menu in its default configuration, as changing anything will add a lot of unnecessary complexity to our testing. 

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