F1 24 delivers Codemasters’ largest-ever physics update with EA Sports Dynamic Handing, our most immersive driving experience...
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/f1/f1-24/news/f124-gameplay-deep-dive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWyNOpuzid8
Patch 1.3.55.0
Release Notes
-Improved the visual quality of dust
-Added Interface Text Size option in the General Settings menu
-Improvements to texture streaming to reduce memory usage and improve quality
-Updated Intel XeSS to version 1.3...
I don't think you have to have the EGS launcher installed to play the game, but it does require an EGS account for multiplayer, from what it sounds like, because it uses EGS servers.
The way the graphics pipeline has evolved since 8.1 I don't think modern graphic cards even know what to do with a lot of those functions and calls anymore. They have to be translated into something the hardware can understand, and that...
Oh, msi got some swag as well:
Unfortunately, it's on a separate magnetic plate, with a goofy "G" cutout for the fins. Still pretty nice, though.
MSI Gaming RTX 4070 Super 12G Gaming X Slim MLG Graphics Card https://a.co/d/hJj3chA
Lol, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who runs 3DMark2001SE when I upgrade for the lulz. It was the first benchmarking software I used, so it's always funny to see how things have changed, especially in areas where I remember it tanking...
Interesting that you got a higher score with a 4060 Ti than GotNoRice did with a 4080. That suggests that it's more influenced by CPU than GPU. Of course the extra cache of an X3D CPU won't help with something so old, so probably Intel CPUs are...
There's probably some cheesing going on (older 3DM versions were very easy to cheese higher results out of) but AFAIK it's mostly the hardware. Recent GPUs have atrocious DX8 performance and DX9 perf is not so great anymore either. I just checked...