You should loose a few FPS, but it shouldn't make a difference if you have 128 MB or more of GFX RAM.

Quote from Alan_Bernardo :

Okay, so I did enable the car skins download to 1024. The only thing is that I still get this on my account page:

Edit: I didn't have the helmet 512 enabled. I thought that was something separate which incured a separate cost.

All is fine and it shows on my account that I've used something.

One more question, though. The skins I already have-- are they converted to 1024? I went online to a server, just to see. Now my account page reads:



Does the number at "1" now go up each time I get a skin? I'm just a bit uncertain about how this works and how the skins are downloaded.


Thanks,

Alan

On that same page you can see the number of skin-downloads you have available. That line reads "Number of available high resolution skin downloads :"

Every time that reaches 0 and you download your next hi-res skin, 1 pound will be taken from your account balance, provided you have it of course.
_Then_ that number at "1" goes up by one - it indicates the amount of times you've been assigned 2000 downloads.

Quote from (SaM) :

No, it will not convert the 512² skins into 1024². If you want that to happen, you have to delete the skins first and let LFS redownload them everytime someone is using one of the skins online.

Are you sure about that?

Are there any good screenshots/vids that show the difference between normal and high skins?

I thought it redownloaded everything...

Me too. After enabling high res skins, I raced with people that I raced the day before, and I could see their skin in high resolution without having to delete anything.

Maybe the Devs can give us an answer

Quote from SpikeyMarcoD :

They are seperate. I only have cars on hi and helmets on normal. Dont want to use my credit on the helmets

Are they separate? I at first thought they were. But when my account wasn't billed and it didn't look like a thing was beging downloaded, I enabled the 512 helmet option.

It was only then that my account was billed the one pound and the skins were being downloaded.

As for the number going on your account page each time you get a skin, I'm not sure this happens. I'm still at "1". I know I've gotten more than one skin so far.

This whole skin thing is pretty unclear. I read what the patch notes said and it still is unclear.

I agree that the developers should write up an FAQ on the skins and make it a sticky.


Alan

you dont need to delete anything as the switch hi-res searches for the skin in another map namely 512 in skins_x and 1024 in skins_y

You might be right that they need to be activated both the 1st time. I did that, but later only cars.