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MH2707's avatar
MH2707
Rising Traveler
23 days ago
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New

Certain cars with distracting interior windshield reflection bug

On some cars, there is a bug with the windscreen reflections where the bottom part of the windscreen reflects the road surface in very low resolution on the inside of the windscreen. This is very off-putting and is made worse in snowy or night conditions as it creates a glow effect. I found the attached video on YouTube of this happening on the Ford Focus RS Rally 2001.

I've experienced this with the following cars but am not sure if this is all of them: Ford Focus WRC '99, Ford Focus RS Rally 2001, Peugeot 206 Rally, Lancia Stratos. It was also there on the Citroen C3 WRC but I believe it has been somewhat rectified. 

The best way to reproduce this is to choose a snowy night stage in Monte Carlo, Sweden or Norway and drive in first person mode. This is particularly bad on the two Ford Focus' as the headlights illuminate the reflection.

4 Comments

  • pyide_maybe's avatar
    pyide_maybe
    Rising Veteran
    10 days ago

    The last update seemed to break that workaround, the glitchy reflections are back in the interior views. Huzzah.

    Still don't know why they don't let all players disable them (consoles included). You can play from an exterior view where they aren't ever a problem so what difference does it make? They're anti-realism, anti-immersive with how poorly done and completely broken they can be, even reflecting things hidden by the dashboard (instruments and pedals etc) in some cars and setups. Not to mention the heavy performance hit they incur. 

    It's beyond stupid at this point. Unless they actually go in and test and fix every single broken/wrong/impossible windscreen reflection in every car and every single time of day / lighting setup, which they'll never do, they need to get rid of them, or give us the option to get rid of them. 

    Absolutely no quality control here. Baffling. Even if more people complained about them they still wouldn't do anything. They clearly do not give af. Why do these stupid forums even exist? 

  • MH2707's avatar
    MH2707
    Rising Traveler
    14 days ago

    Cheers. Sadly I'm on Xbox, so there's no fix. I just hope they fix the two MK1 Focus'. It makes them very unappealing to drive, especially with the headlights on. 

  • natj910's avatar
    natj910
    New Traveler
    15 days ago

    This has been noted so many times, it'd be nice if we could at least get an acknowledgement that they're working on it :/

    There is a sort-of fix, add the below code to the bottom of your engine.ini file and set car reflections to ultra low.

    [/script/engine.renderersettings]
    r.AllowGlobalClipPlane=0

  • Very bad in Citroen C4 (WRC 1997-2011 class) also and can be much more cars. Especially if u run car reflection quality ultra-low (as it's very demanding setting) it creates huge white blob that shakes like crazy (could cause issues to persons with sensitivity to flashing stuff etc).

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