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