Well, this video is about an update so maybe now it has changed?

Also, the menus have also been adjusted in the same update, maybe you could check it out if you haven't already?

My youngest has a thousand hours plus in this game, but every time I've seen him play it, he spends more time faffing about in the menus than driving it. I made a comment about it one day, and he said that's what's fun about it. (His Steam review just says "It's not bad" LOL)

I kind of agree, though, although I prefer just driving in it. There's a setting for everything. I wish more games were as configurable.

That said, I understand your frustration with that.

You can achieve a lot more with environment and time of day settings in the game itself than some random reshade preset. Especially now with these changes. Dramatic lighten is key

It's much more than that. It's essentially a driving engine. You can use it to model crashes, but since the cars are so well modelled, you can also race them.

It seems to be a really good framework for rally games for instance.

Yup, basically

the game has a verify files and cleanup tool, would recommend using that. i had some performance issues after updating the last few times as well, and these fixed it for me every time. could also be mods though

Some of the issues might fix themselves updating the mods over the next week or so. Most of my maps have missing textures and I'm waiting for the creators to update them to work with the new release. I'm not sure how long that usually takes.

I suppose this was meant as a joke? I play along...