Any seen specs yet??

[Ron_Schuermann]

I am going to be building a new PC, and I figure I might as well power it up enough for RFactor2. Any seen specs anywhere???

[baristabrian]

I would suggest you use the most powerful components that you can afford

[Flyer23]

Give this a look......

System requirements - rFactor 2 Open Documentation

[davidan]

Ron, check out some of the hardware discussion threads we have going in the rFactor 2 section. But you definitely want as much as you can get. Modern for sure. I would say a dual/quad core processor, and 8 GB of RAM if you can afford it, and something along the lines of an AMD/ATI HD6870 or up for optimal experience. Hope to have you racing with us again soon, really miss having you on the track - you are one of the original guys!

[Troy Dalton]

Give this a look......

System requirements - rFactor 2 Open Documentation

DON'T believe those system requirements. I have a system that is better than the recommended requirements and it doesn't come close to running the game properly.

[Flyer23]

DON'T believe those system requirements. I have a system that is better than the recommended requirements and it doesn't come close to running the game properly.

Mine is better too, but I have not jumped yet to Rf2 so I can not comment just trying to share what I have read. It is my understanding that you will need at least a DUAL CORE processor over 3.0 ghz and over 4Mb of ram. Mine is a Quad i7 950 12GB ram and GTX570 2560mb.

[Troy Dalton]

Mine is better too, but I have not jumped yet to Rf2 so I can not comment just trying to share what I have read. It is my understanding that you will need at least a DUAL CORE processor over 3.0 ghz and over 4Mb of ram. Mine is a Quad i7 950 12GB ram and GTX570 2560mb.

You should be good to go.

[David Kessler]

Like many apps, rfactor2 isn't going to use more than a couple cores, so given a choice go for clock speed over core count. Things like hyperthreading won't help a bit, so a fast i5 is plenty of CPU.

8 GB of RAM is a must. The faster, the better. If you're going Intel, pay the premium for a Sandy Bridge CPU so you don't get bottle-necked by the bridge chip.

I'm getting a solid 60 fps with a GTX 560 Ti on a 1080p lcd. If you have more screens or higher resolution, you may need more GPU. Nvidia cards seem pretty solid in rfactor2 right now. Radeon cards seem to be more problematic, though many work fine.

Last but not least, Win 7 64-bit so your system can use all that RAM. rfactor2 is only a 32-bit app, but this way it gets a full 4GB of physical memory instead of having to share with the OS.

[JETninja]

PC I built last year runs it just fine with almost all on full, and if need be I could overclock it (first PC I've owned that I've not OC'd it) if need be someday. Need to put it all on full and see what it does. Ha Ha.

Intel I5-760 Quad Core
Asus P33 MB
8GB DDR3
nVidia GTX460 1GB (factory OC)
Asus 24" 1080P Monitor (the only way to play games!)

Andandtech has great build guides on low, med, high priced PC's....and PCperspective is another great place to learn bang for buck.

[Christopher Snow]

I built a new box recently with rF2 in mind, and went with the fastest SINGLE video card (Nvidia) I could find, a MSI GTX580 3GB "Lightning Extreme." It's showing me about 150 FPS on average with the 60's cars at Spa.

Two points here: 3GB was the highest GPU memory I could get (at the time of purchase), and, since it's Nvidia, it's all I'll be able to use even if I buy a second card down the road for SLI.

2): usable SLI apparently requires previous experience--namely that "profiles" be built for any given application. As I understand the current situation, the profiles are not yet in place, so SLI users are experiencing WORSE performance than are single card users like myself.

I believe most also expect SLI to catch up soon...and surpass single card solutions (at least as far as Nvidia GPU boards go).

I race myself using only a single image (projector) so I'm personally feeling I won't now add that second GPU, regardless of any FPS increase that might eventually be realized from SLI--I can't see any point (since the projector only puts up 60 FPS anyway)...unless I move again into 3D. And that's going to require a new projector anyway (or another of the same model I have now, plus a lot of other parts, one set for each eyeball).

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Rest of my box is a i2600K on aircooling. i2500K will do pretty much the same, and for 2/3 the cost (so go with that unless you need other multicore/hyperthreaded apps).

I did also go for max memory (16GB when I bought)--make SURE you buy into at least Win64-pro if you go this route, as the "home" versions will not support full systemboard (and GPU) memory usage.


CS