Interestingly enough, the game doesn't expose Unreal's Reflections Quality setting, and locks it at Epic. Forcing Low reflections results in a noticeable quality degradation, but saves only a few FPS for me in an extremely GPU bound scenario (1440p, 150% res).

Oh, I slightly misremembered - it was about FOLDERID_Screenshots, aka %USERPROFILE%\Pictures\Screenshots. That one isn't guaranteed to exist so apps should ask for it to be created if they query the path for writing

Bonus points for when they assume this directory exists, which isn't always the case and you should pass a create-if-needed flag to SHGetKnownFolderPath

2005, I finished 2012

So back to how it was in the 1990s and 2000s

I since realized there is SOME logic to it, as those gamepad mappings are menu actions. This DOES make sense, but they should have given them a separate sub-section

No luck sadly

Not bad looking at night, very simple but with a clear and sharp image. Unfortunately, they don't even let us hide the HUD, let alone offer Photo Mode, so the only trick I got is taking screenshots directly at the start of the race...

Tried the option in TXR so I know what to expect, then tried it in Nascar and it shows nothing. So engine.ini is either not read, or there's zero Lumen.

It runs well! I'll note that I didn't see extensive options for things like lighting and global illumination. There were only options for dynamic and screen-space reflections. You'd obviously have a better sense of what is going on under the hood, but I think the result looks great.

It is 5.5 indeed. I will try that, thanks! The game creates engine.ini by itself, and puts a lot of paths in [Core.System] at the moment

OH! I was asked about this issue recently and I could not reproduce it, but "Advanced particles" could be the missing piece.

I plan to look into 04 and 2005 at some point, but at this point I can't promise anything, I already feel like I'm overpromising

And indeed, UUU and UE4SS both insta-crash the game on some random thread with a scrambled rsp value and a bogus address (20000 in my case). Very clearly getting slapped by anti-tamper right there 🤕

Yes of course the "best" approach would be to preload all cars, but I was thinking more in terms of a classical "show a loading screen, and do not show the car until it's -fully- done loading, highest mip levels and everything". That is the part I'm not sure Unreal can provide.

Isn't this that Unreal gives you a load completion delegate before the highest mip is loaded? At least this looks like they are showing the asset ASAP and not waiting for a full load.