Whiskey has a point there. At the start of the race with full grid (12 racers) the FPS its quite low 15-20 (on first corner) because of all the physics that are calculated by the CPU. You can imagine that havin about 6 racers in front of you won't do that much damage to the FPS. Its always above 35-40.
Point is, if you have an Atom, you have to overclock it to its max. They cannot be compared with Core2Duo as brute force so you need a higher frequency to compensate that. And since your Atom is clocked at 1,8GHz from the begining, I think you could easly overclock it to a 2,1-2,2GHz.
Mine for example is clocked at 1,5 and overclocked at 1,85Ghz.
Well I guess that's going to happen tomorrow since today was and still is Sunday. All I can say is that playing LFS its going to be LEGEN, wait for it.. DARY.
It really depends on what video card you use aswell and (why not?) how much overclock you can apply to that Atom.
From my own experience on Atom DualCore N550 1,85GHz + NVIDIA ION 512GDDR3 (GT218) + 2GB RAM you get 20FPS on average when the grid is full on Blackwood (12 racers). High textures and stuff included.
Same thing is happening to me. Stranger is that I cannot install any older versions back, because it won't recognize my gpu anymore (no compatible hardware detected or so). Anyhow, if it helps, I'm using a NVIDIA ION (GT218) + Atom DualCore N550 1,85GHz.
Good to know! I haven't played a lot in the past few days cause I've got a wedding coming on (my sisters, not mine haha) and I had no time, but I will get my hands on this game again soon. Hopefully I'll be getting an S1 aswell. Too bad there's not an S 0.5 licence available, cause I would have asked for the least.
By any chance, can I get an upgrade to S1? I do know about the existence of the game since it first saw the daylight, and it fascinated me from the begining because I've never owned a wheel to play race sims and this was the first game that gave me the feeling of having the wheel in my hands (as in, I'm playing it by mouse). Lately I started to play it a lot, and about 2 weeks ago I was doin 1.39.00 or so on Blackwood and I was always like what the..?! Why they all go much faster than me no matter what I do? So I decided to pay more attention to the track, and there you go, got my PB to around 1.35.
My stats aren't great, but I'm proud of them and the only reason I would like an S1 licence is because I want to drive the FXO Turbo. Probably best car in this whole game.
I don't mind if I won't get one, as long as you guys make me aware of this thing. I'll keep playing it and maybe someday I'll be able to upgrade it by myself.