Chasing Cars In The Arctic - BeamNG Drive 

Race the flood was so entertaining

Amy still does a lot of Beam multiplayer on her channel. Idk why Alex hasn't been doing it. Some of my favorite content on this channel.

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@@davidtt8372Alex needing a more powerful computer so it could handle it is what I recall, hopefully that's being built soon if that was the case.

His computer wasn't really hacking it, in terms of having to run the game AND record the video at the same time. The long running stream donation goal recently was to fund an upgrade. Hopefully whatever can be got for ~£2200 these days should be more than capable of doing both of those things simultaneously, maybe even streaming it. Beam does seem to be a bit heavier than it used to for having multiple vehicles at once, at least when I tried out AI for the first time under 0.31 (after a while away) a few days ago. Weirdly seems to vary map to map, but it was hard to get better than a variable 20-30fps (seemed most consistent when locked to either 20 or 24... but sometimes could fall into low-mid teens) with 15-20 cars on Italy (with simplified models turned on for at least the parked cars), and that's without the internet and video encoding overhead. Admittedly that's with Ultra graphics on a late-2021 midrange laptop, but I'm sure I used to get more, and running solo I could generally hold 60+fps instead, nudging 100 at times. Utah was a bit better, but only by degrees rather than radically. Like it was more in the 30-40 range and I could leave it locked more comfortably at 24 or 30fps. Of course you get better frames with fewer cars, but it starts to feel a touch sparse if you go that much lower, and the figure is only a max, most of the time it doesn't seem to get too close to that, so really what I had it set to was probably closer to what would be experienced with BeamMP with their usual number of players (as they're not AI they wouldn't despawn once a certain distance off camera, and the physics would still have to be calculated even if the graphics aren't). In particular, it's pretty heavily CPU-bound, and I dunno what his exact processor is but I think he said it's a 6th or 8th gen i7. That'd put it on the same level as mine, but 3 to 5 generations earlier. Not as efficient per-clock, may not clock as high (particularly with all cores in use), uses slower RAM, and a good chance it has fewer cores, despite comparing desktop to (relatively beefy, 95W TDP) laptop. I was doing the above testing as part of a burn-in stress test where I was trying to get my system warmed up with extended full CPU load (and as much GPU and SSD as practical)... running solo the chip wasn't super stressed but the GPU was maxed. With the additional vehicles and thus physics calcs, it was the other way around, all sixteen threads were capped out but the GPU was hitting maybe 50%... His twin 1650s (IIRC) may be somewhat close to my actual GPU power, if we ignore the RTX, or certainly at least half of it and able to keep a solid 30, even 60fps with a slight compromise on the settings, but I bet the processor is sweating bullets. Add in the additional load of recording video, and having to do so at a fixed framerate without dropouts and corruption caused by thread overload, AND deal with the extra netcode overhead and network I/O of BMP, and it might just not be practical right now. Rimworld is a heck of a lot lighter in that regard, and indeed simpler Beam maps like this (the strong default fog may be to hide deliberately steep LODing for performance's sake, as seen on the ported NFS:MW map shown off by Joe last week) with a rather smaller number of AI cars for the races and police chases. Amy's computer (and those of, say, Neil / Camodo) is a bit spicier (heck, she uses it to host a BeamMP server and a Minecraft one as well, alongside the actual gaming) and I expect would completely kerbstomp my laptop, so she's got a much better chance of being able to run the game smoothly with a lot of online players and record in HD, maybe even 4K at a solid 60fps. Alex should be able to get something a little better still, spending that money now. Another advantage of the newer GPUs and CPUs is that they have video encoding functions built in which can do that processing with almost no load on the main cores, vs it being a significant task for older processors, and graphics cards simply not doing it at all.

Its an awesome map, thank you for making something that awesome

i haven't had the motivation to play beam in awhile, but your map is exactly something i need to get back into playing; thanks :)

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Yes! It has become so iconic I would cry if he stopped! "And until next time, a goodbye" at the end leaves me with a smile.

Hello, and welcome to the snow

Probably not

@@longbowxmkii Dang. Just have to make our own then. At least the map is on the repo...

The wheel probably goes through a good 540 degrees each way from centre, so the movement will seem amplified (the use of both is probably so the wheel can highlight very small steering inputs whilst the bar clarifies the big ones). Though it does also feel as if it runs at a lower framerate than the bar / everything else and could do with being a bit smoother, plus maybe blessed with a little motion blur to better emphasise the direction of spin?

No survivors

Actually flinched at the sheer CRONCH of that impact. They're not going to be doing any more crimes, that's for certain.

..and i am the executioner too

The former is literally one of the very few cars my parents banned me from considering for my first. Even though they were prepared to okay an AX (ie what the Saxo replaced), so you know it must have been bad.

I think he's doing it on purpose at this point ;)

Downloaded it but didn't get to try it yet because I have a horrible mess of mods. Hopefully it'll hold up :)

Yeah I agree and I wish I could but it’s unfortunately a limitation of the BeamNg terrain model on such a large map. Unless I wanted the snow banks to be a meter or two wide lol

@@trackbroseff3986 Is there a resolution limit on the map polys then? :o

@@tahrey Yes

@@trackbroseff3986 Any way to increase it or is there like a hard limit on how fine the terrain detail can be?

Side impact bars? Feh. Weak willed pinko commie stuff! Sweden is basically Russi---- *splat*

...you're not familiar with typical US policing style and the influence it's had on the FRPD, are you

Can't be more than two weeks since the last one? Edit: My mistake, the one with Dagon causing a red flag was exactly 3 weeks ago. Seemed a bit light on players though, maybe people are little short of time (or motivation) to take part in them right now? Been plenty enough other content however.

​@@tahreyThere just isn't much to do in it, atm

@@longbowxmkii Fair enough... and it's not like you can all go join in a Gfred or whatever given that you're playing on Xbox. Things evolve.

@@tahrey I mean, I personally wouldn't do Gfred anyway even if given the chance x) But I'm sure there will be more stuff. Just not immediately

@@longbowxmkii NP, it was just the first example that came to mind of a novel GTA game mode (at least, from an FR perspective, certainly not in overall terms), probably because watching the Broughy kamikazefred video then filled my recommendations with similar stuff for a while.

It's giving me some serious chills.

dunno what wokeness has to do with anything, but, much as that's a good idea for a chase, that'd probably murder the framerate on Alex's current PC, same as running BeamMP with that many players. Besides, that's a wholly different map, the difficulty is caused by the lack of grip and the snowbanks on this map. He did end up with supposedly 7 cop cars after him at one point, though a couple of them were stuck in the snow.

@@tahrey I meant single player challenge, with AI cops in hot pursuit. Usually in Italy you get Scintilla, Bolide, and Fiat 500 cop cars, all at once, which is quite a challenge, so much so that I had to heavily customize my cars to even have a fighting chance against those cops ramming attacks, and other shenanigans (I can share those configs).

@@wheelwrightpl9429 Yes, but that's still a whole bunch of cars needing the AI and more importantly the collisions calculated, graphics rendered, sounds generated etc. (And when I was loading up my own machine recently, it's the sound that started giving out first of all). Plus Italy is a fairly intensive map, it's not huge but it is very detailed and already has a lower framerate when running solo, before you add on the other stressors. This looks like a fairly lightweight map in terms of details that need to be rendered, even if it's large. And there's not been any more than 8 vehicles at once, which means it's more likely he can keep up 60fps, or at least a locked 30. If I have as many AIs as you describe on Italy, it can really tank the framerate, particularly when parts start to fly. Like 20fps or less, and that's where the kids who have never known a time when all 3D was choppy come in and start complaining about how it's "unwatchable".