When racing in the Nürburgring with its maximum racer count of 30, we found that out minimum framerates dropped by almost 45% when we simply changed the game's weather from 'Clear' to 'Thunderstorm', showcasing a huge level of performance variance on the game as a whole, depending on the exact racing conditions used (see page 6). This is why we say that the game is exceptionally demanding 'when push comes to shove', as when users commit to racing in unfavourable weather conditions (framerate-wise) with a large number of racers they can expect their system to be hit extremely hard by Project Cars 2. To make things clear, our benchmark runs were conducted in an area of the game that we have deemed to be a worst-case scenario, which means that during the majority of gameplay performance will be much higher than in our stress test/ general benchmark run. There is no getting away from this simple fact, though to say that this game is a 'unoptimised' or 'badly made' would be doing a huge disservice to both your our reader and to Slightly Mad Studios as a developer.

When push comes to shove, Project Cars 2 can be an exceptionally demanding game on PC.

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