OMG DUDE!!!! You saved my life, was having huge problems with sttutering and unstable FPS a now every single series works fine. I couldn't play Le Mans series for an example and now getting more than 100 FPS frequently.
Willbe trying this tomorrow for VR ( rtx 3070 and oculus quest 2 ) . Hope it looks good . What gpu and cpu do u have and what headset if you re on vr ? I m curious if i czn get better graphics than the settings he did in the video since the gpu is better but not sire which settings are a killer for fps and which arent.
Man - i build a pc coz of ir (since i build i had black screen crashes only iracing did this) i spent 2-3 months with ir support - nothing helped. I had totaly random crashes - i did your steps from the vid and tested with 6h of gaming and without any issue. I dont want to celebrate to early but it looks like you really saved me from goin to be crazy of this unhappy situation. I will confirm it but it really looks like problem solved. Anyway many thanks for this video you really saved me, man. Thanks a lot, Jan.
Awesome guide. I was skeptical at am first, but it looks great. These setting keep a strong 90 FPS and removed a lot of the shimmering shadows which made it hard on the eyes. Thanks a lot!!
I have a quest 3 , and the gpu is a 3060ti. Would these settings be relevant? Also thank you for the no nonsense straight to the point tutorial man. cheers.
If you set Low Latency Mode to OFF you allow the game to pre-render frames. Is that really optimal for a game where it's all about knowing exactly where you are on the track?
You are a legend!!! Tried a couple of other tutorials that were no where near as good as this. Hitting the 90fps again easily and its running as smooth as a babies bum using the G2. Thanks a million. I'm subscribing. One question though, How do I get the CPU and GPU readouts on the overlay that gives the fps in the top right hand corner?
Thanks for this buddy. Going to setup tonight. I like to vary between monitor and VR. When editing the files should I set it to 1 above the monitor in this case?
Hello and thanks for the video ! Just a quick question please : on iracing, graphics settings, "Max prerendered frames" is by default to "off" and i can't update this setting. I have a GeForce RTX 2080 super. Do you now how i can update this ? Thanks for you help !
This did help me! I do notice tho I do drop to about 50 fps for a short amount of time and then go back up to 90. I don’t have a super powerful computer. Any tricks or tips to get it a constant 90?
Great Guide. Only thing I noticed was it had me running at 350 plus on the FPS. My monitor will only do 144 so had to select limit FPS. Other than that the game looks great! Thanks
I don’t know what’s happened But before I was hitting 90fps all the time Now it’s dropping to 50 then coming back up to 90 then dropping down Any ideas
Does it happen at a certain place on the track? If it has more objects to draw, try increasing the minimum LOD from 100 to 200 and see if that helps. Do note that it could cause objects to start popping in and out
@@frasergeraghty1617 Sorry it didn't work, I would try to revert the nvidia control settings first and see if it improves, then if it doesn't work revert the game settings as well
Hello beenCrazy , subbed. Great video good In depth information. Do you know , does iracing currently make use of Sli / Nvlink ? I'm running a Hp reverb G2 90hz With (2) 2080ti, I read somewhere to turn off sli for iracing Vr that it doesn't make use and causes input lag ?? Thanks
Very helpful, thank you! But I didn't see where you went back to the graphics tab and told us information about the two sliders for Max GPU video memory and Max system memory. Or was that what was involved in physically editing the .ini files later in the video? Also being over a year later, did they ever increase the MaxWorkingSetMB_64Bit or VidMemMB numbers? Mine were set to 12112 and 3686 respectively. Thanks!
8192 was the max that iRacing would use no matter how high you set them unless they have changed that recently or will in the future. The sliders should be next to the Done button on the graphics tab in the settings. You see it in the video in that section thats timestamped
I may have just completely broken my FPS. Whatever I do, no matter what I do, I am stuck barely above 20 FPS, sometimes as low as 10. This frame rate struggle has only started for me recently and every time I try to fix it it only gets worse.
In your situation, use the performance bars that you can enable in the options or the f key in the game and see if your cpu or your graphics card is getting hit harder. If it's your cpu, try closing programs running in the background. iRacing is more cpu bound than gpu bound. For the graphics card, try increasing the numbers in the LOD fields
Great video but I do have a question. I have triple Samsung Odyssey G7 monitors which have a 240hz refresh rate but in the the graphic menu the fps setting only goes to 180.... Do I shift it to 240 in the .ini file or do I just leave it at 180?
I was talking about the dynamic LOD FPS counter, only goes to 180 and then edits itself down to 160. Should I run it at zero then? Sorry if this is a dumb question, new to iracing and still trying to get my head around it
Great tutorial man!! One question for me please…in my case, I’ve an intel 10900k with 20 thread, so for me in task I put 10?? Is there a limit of 8 or can I put 10? Thank you very much.
Very nice setting tutorial, quick & to the points. I assume any settings that you did for Rift also apply on Quest, right? Also, you set the VidMemMB to 8192, is that okay to set on a graphics card that has 8gigs of memory total? i.e. im running a gtx 2070 with 8GB GDDR6 memory and wondering if it will not start throttling or something if i set the limit to the very max
Yep, these settings should work great for all headsets. As of now, 8192 is the max iRacing setting and in practice I haven't experienced any crashing problems with graphics card that have less then that
My Nvidia 1060 has none of that. I spent $1200 on a computer that has "insufficient graphics" even though the graphics card is supposedly compatible. So slow and glitchy, can't even get around a test. Feel like I got swindled on the whole iracing thing.
Looking back into the sources (at the bottom of the description), I couldn't find an explanation. My guess is because we make the change in the graphics card, doing in the game will add to what we did. This would be bad due to increasing the time the frames reach your headset causing a delay (even a small delay in VR can cause headaches and nausea so keeping it as low as we can will reduce this, especially if you participate in races that last hours)
Can you address the issue of users losing a lot of FPS after dialing in your settings? I've had to uninstall iRacing, delete it's x86 file, globally reset the Nvidia Control Panel to default, and still my FPS have gone from a stable 89/90 FPS down to sub 40's after these settings tweaks. .
If possible, when you uninstall and reinstall, see if the iRacing folder stays in the document folder. If so, delete that folder as well and reinstall. These settings are supposed to be lighter on your PC then the default settings so I don't know why it is hitting your frames this hard. I also recommend playing around with the LOD settings which I went to more detail in the description. Higher the LOD, better your frames will be.
The LOD (level of detail) setting is what frames have to drop down to for iRacing to start lowering the quality to try to maintain frame rate. Why would you set this to one frame ABOVE your screens max frame rate. That doesn't make sense. I have 120hz screens and let the LOD drop setting to kickin at 60. Never usually actually drops that low so my detail setting stay high. Am I missing something?
LOD in iRacing works in both ways in lowering the quality if it reaches the target and raising it based on the targeted FPS you set it to. Setting it at 1 above the refresh rate makes sure that you will hit that framerate (bounces between 120 and 121 when set to 121 or bounces between 119 and 120 when set to 120. Honestly not the biggest deal on a monitor but is in VR when you are trying to hit a steady 90hz it is). The Min and Max settings tells iracing what to do when it drops below or above the target fps you enter in. So for the video example, when my frames are above 121, it goes off of the min setting (25) but when it goes below it reads the max (400) to try to maintain the 121 frames. Then you get into the nitty gritty of lowering the max to 200 or 100 or 75 because it really doesnt need to drop that much in quality to hit that framerate and then you realize 3 hours have passed. LOD is the most challenging setting in iRacing to nail down. The video gives a nice baseline to start with but I highly suggest tuning the max to your computers specs or your taste.
They should, as long as your pc is powerful enough. If not, try lowering some of the graphic options and raise the lod amounts to reach the 90 frames to match the 90hz refresh rate
This definitely helped! I was actually getting worse performance afterward (the R bar indicating CPU usage was maxed out despite no core on my cpu (7900x) being even close to 10% usage) until I set FullyWaitForSync to 1 and it's been great since! Here's a video about that: czcams.com/video/BfXU-rx0RUY/video.html Also I had to make my changes in a seperate ini file for oculus rather than just the standard rendererDX11. They must have made seperate files for each one at some point recently...
Hi Ben! I keep having massive stuttering, even with this changes. I’ve tried multiple times to find an answer with iRacing support, but they just keep telling me to lower my frame rates🙄. Could you please help me!? Please!🙏🏼
@@Flyboy0985 Yea, it sounds like your computer is really struggling to run iRacing. Another thing to use to see what is causing the issue is turning on the graphics performance bars from the options menu. R = CPU usage for render (red means CPU is the bottleneck) G = GPU usage (red means graphics card is the bottleneck) L = Latency Q = Quality of connection C = CPU usage for physics thread S = Service sync state F = Force feedback indicator
TheBenCrazy yeap, checked that already. All bars are in grey or green all of the time. And changing the resolution didn’t worked. I don’t know we’re is the problem😣
I don’t understand I have a 1660 super and mine looks way worse than this. The only thing I can think of is I have a shitty tv. That’s the only thing I can think of. Because my game should not look as bad as it does
You never went back and explained the bottom sliders on the graphics tab. Stood around for another 6 minutes to no avail. Also I noticed you dont answer those people that tell you your advice prevented them from using full screen.
@@intentninjateamamsterdam3800 Its not a good card period but it should get the job done if you're running it at 1080p. If you're still struggling with low frames, try setting the dynamic lod settings higher. Worst case, lower the shader quality to medium or low. Yes it will look like Nr2003 but it will run better
@@ryancruze5396 I went back into my graphics settings within the iracing settings and clicked full screen resolution. I'm pretty sure that worked for me.
OMG DUDE!!!! You saved my life, was having huge problems with sttutering and unstable FPS a now every single series works fine. I couldn't play Le Mans series for an example and now getting more than 100 FPS frequently.
This is hands down the best tutorial I have seen. Thanks!!
This video saved my marriage, paid my mortgage, paid all my hospital bills and paid my debt. Thank you you are a legend!
Even after a year this helped me. Butter smooth and crisp. Thank you. You got my sub.
I meant 2 years lol good stuff
Willbe trying this tomorrow for VR ( rtx 3070 and oculus quest 2 ) . Hope it looks good .
What gpu and cpu do u have and what headset if you re on vr ? I m curious if i czn get better graphics than the settings he did in the video since the gpu is better but not sire which settings are a killer for fps and which arent.
Man - i build a pc coz of ir (since i build i had black screen crashes only iracing did this) i spent 2-3 months with ir support - nothing helped. I had totaly random crashes - i did your steps from the vid and tested with 6h of gaming and without any issue. I dont want to celebrate to early but it looks like you really saved me from goin to be crazy of this unhappy situation. I will confirm it but it really looks like problem solved. Anyway many thanks for this video you really saved me, man. Thanks a lot, Jan.
Awesome guide. I was skeptical at am first, but it looks great. These setting keep a strong 90 FPS and removed a lot of the shimmering shadows which made it hard on the eyes. Thanks a lot!!
i realize I am pretty randomly asking but do anybody know a good site to stream new movies online ?
@Finn Callan Flixportal :D
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tnx buddy the LOD and memory & core changes did A LOT to my triples and 2070s
This is gonna be so helpful in the future, thanks Ben!
hi, about Max GPU Video memory to use and the max system memory , what is the criterion to set them ?
Great tutorial Ben, thanks heaps!
I have a quest 3 , and the gpu is a 3060ti. Would these settings be relevant? Also thank you for the no nonsense straight to the point tutorial man. cheers.
If you set Low Latency Mode to OFF you allow the game to pre-render frames. Is that really optimal for a game where it's all about knowing exactly where you are on the track?
In my experience (yours might differ) it caused stuttering in iRacing. If it doesn't for you, go for it!
You are a legend!!! Tried a couple of other tutorials that were no where near as good as this. Hitting the 90fps again easily and its running as smooth as a babies bum using the G2. Thanks a million. I'm subscribing. One question though, How do I get the CPU and GPU readouts on the overlay that gives the fps in the top right hand corner?
So my graphics are now beautiful but I’m running 15fps, which is literally undriveable.
Thanks for this buddy. Going to setup tonight. I like to vary between monitor and VR. When editing the files should I set it to 1 above the monitor in this case?
Hello and thanks for the video ! Just a quick question please : on iracing, graphics settings, "Max prerendered frames" is by default to "off" and i can't update this setting. I have a GeForce RTX 2080 super. Do you now how i can update this ? Thanks for you help !
Dude.. just found this vid..can't wait to get home and try
This is great but have you an update one for later hardware and all new setting and design in iRacing?
Thanks man, you save my life. I love you!!! 😘
And Vertical sync setting is not also avaiable (displayed) but no activated. Thanks for your help !!!
This really helped me. I gained 100 FPS!!!
I play with an oculus quest 2but my computer and vr headset still freezes. My graphicscard is a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 OC 6G
This did help me!
I do notice tho I do drop to about 50 fps for a short amount of time and then go back up to 90. I don’t have a super powerful computer. Any tricks or tips to get it a constant 90?
Great Guide. Only thing I noticed was it had me running at 350 plus on the FPS. My monitor will only do 144 so had to select limit FPS. Other than that the game looks great! Thanks
you'll still get the most up to date information though so its not wasted running it higher
NIGHT AND DAY! THANKYOU!
I don’t know what’s happened
But before I was hitting 90fps all the time
Now it’s dropping to 50 then coming back up to 90 then dropping down
Any ideas
Does it happen at a certain place on the track? If it has more objects to draw, try increasing the minimum LOD from 100 to 200 and see if that helps. Do note that it could cause objects to start popping in and out
52 fps in practise 49 in race, same fps all track, will be putting settings back to normall, hasnt worked for me sadly
@@frasergeraghty1617 Sorry it didn't work, I would try to revert the nvidia control settings first and see if it improves, then if it doesn't work revert the game settings as well
@@TheBenCrazy I did that made no difference just redowning the original files again
@@TheBenCrazy same thing happened to me. Went from 90 FPS down to 44 FPS. What could it be?
Hello beenCrazy , subbed. Great video good In depth information.
Do you know , does iracing currently make use of Sli / Nvlink ?
I'm running a Hp reverb G2 90hz
With (2) 2080ti, I read somewhere to turn off sli for iracing Vr that it doesn't make use and causes input lag ??
Thanks
I do no believe iRacing has the ability to use sli or nvlink
I have AMD 5800x and 3080. I am getting around 50-60 fps with these settings. I don't get it.
For some reason iracing doesn't properly detect my 1440p ultrawide and doesn't allow metro choose the correct resolution. 3440x1440
Very helpful, thank you! But I didn't see where you went back to the graphics tab and told us information about the two sliders for Max GPU video memory and Max system memory. Or was that what was involved in physically editing the .ini files later in the video? Also being over a year later, did they ever increase the MaxWorkingSetMB_64Bit or VidMemMB numbers? Mine were set to 12112 and 3686 respectively. Thanks!
8192 was the max that iRacing would use no matter how high you set them unless they have changed that recently or will in the future. The sliders should be next to the Done button on the graphics tab in the settings. You see it in the video in that section thats timestamped
Thx men, very good tutorial !
Hi Ben, Why you increase parameter Antialiasing - Transparency, you increase the charge of GPU?
This is great, well done, it might just get me through another 12 months before RTX cards are reasonably priced again, maybe???
We can only hope
I may have just completely broken my FPS. Whatever I do, no matter what I do, I am stuck barely above 20 FPS, sometimes as low as 10. This frame rate struggle has only started for me recently and every time I try to fix it it only gets worse.
In your situation, use the performance bars that you can enable in the options or the f key in the game and see if your cpu or your graphics card is getting hit harder. If it's your cpu, try closing programs running in the background. iRacing is more cpu bound than gpu bound. For the graphics card, try increasing the numbers in the LOD fields
great info, I have a similar system. question though, is the tutorial for the bottom sliders in another video?
Those sliders were changed in the .ini file at 10:33
@@TheBenCrazy thanks, missed it
Fantastic!! Great simple video!!
I did everything in the video and my game is not full screen. Can you help me out?
Great video but I do have a question. I have triple Samsung Odyssey G7 monitors which have a 240hz refresh rate but in the the graphic menu the fps setting only goes to 180.... Do I shift it to 240 in the .ini file or do I just leave it at 180?
I would make it unlimited or off
I was talking about the dynamic LOD FPS counter, only goes to 180 and then edits itself down to 160. Should I run it at zero then? Sorry if this is a dumb question, new to iracing and still trying to get my head around it
Im sorry, in your case try to edit the ini and see if it applies correctly. Otherwise on the + or - objects and cars, set them to off
Great tutorial man!! One question for me please…in my case, I’ve an intel 10900k with 20 thread, so for me in task I put 10?? Is there a limit of 8 or can I put 10?
Thank you very much.
Try 10 but I don't remember if there's a max or not. I think it says what it is in the description to the right of it
Very nice setting tutorial, quick & to the points. I assume any settings that you did for Rift also apply on Quest, right?
Also, you set the VidMemMB to 8192, is that okay to set on a graphics card that has 8gigs of memory total? i.e. im running a gtx 2070 with 8GB GDDR6 memory and wondering if it will not start throttling or something if i set the limit to the very max
Yep, these settings should work great for all headsets. As of now, 8192 is the max iRacing setting and in practice I haven't experienced any crashing problems with graphics card that have less then that
My particles full res box is greyed out, any reason why?
Check if your shaders are set to low or medium. Lowering the shader makes some settings greyed out
hello! These settings are for witch GPU? I've a GeForce 1080 Gigabyte and i5 8600k: they are good or too much?
Are these settings proper to use for a triple monitor set-up with a GTX 1060?? I never use VR. Thank you.
I have a rtx 2060 super & intel i5 10400f &16 Gigabyte RAM how much fps in 1080p and max settings?
for some reason when i open iracing my pc restarts every time and how can i fix this ?
I don’t have any of that on my windows 11 pc
On windows 10 do I want xbox game on or off I got 1660 ti with a rift s
yup - good stuff here! thanks
Thanks so much this helps out a lot!
Anybody know how to turn the brake (rotor) glow on or off?
Clicks into video
Hears Moon Over the Castle
Hits Like button
Goes back to the beginning
My Nvidia 1060 has none of that. I spent $1200 on a computer that has "insufficient graphics" even though the graphics card is supposedly compatible. So slow and glitchy, can't even get around a test. Feel like I got swindled on the whole iracing thing.
It might be compatible but a 1060 is a pretty slow gpu. Try lowering your resolution and try increasing the LOD settings explained in the description
Good content, subbed!
Amazing, went from 25fps and computer crashing to locked steady 90 FPS with a full grid of cars .
I cant find the pixelperdisplay for the openvr (vive) how would one change that? Do i need too?
You don't need to. I believe this can be done through steamvr and upscale from that but I don't know
Hi.
In nvidia control panel, max prerendered frames set to 3 and in the game to 1 why?
Looking back into the sources (at the bottom of the description), I couldn't find an explanation. My guess is because we make the change in the graphics card, doing in the game will add to what we did. This would be bad due to increasing the time the frames reach your headset causing a delay (even a small delay in VR can cause headaches and nausea so keeping it as low as we can will reduce this, especially if you participate in races that last hours)
When i use your settings i cant get full screen??
thank you
Can you address the issue of users losing a lot of FPS after dialing in your settings? I've had to uninstall iRacing, delete it's x86 file, globally reset the Nvidia Control Panel to default, and still my FPS have gone from a stable 89/90 FPS down to sub 40's after these settings tweaks. .
If possible, when you uninstall and reinstall, see if the iRacing folder stays in the document folder. If so, delete that folder as well and reinstall. These settings are supposed to be lighter on your PC then the default settings so I don't know why it is hitting your frames this hard. I also recommend playing around with the LOD settings which I went to more detail in the description. Higher the LOD, better your frames will be.
Same what worked?!
The LOD (level of detail) setting is what frames have to drop down to for iRacing to start lowering the quality to try to maintain frame rate. Why would you set this to one frame ABOVE your screens max frame rate. That doesn't make sense. I have 120hz screens and let the LOD drop setting to kickin at 60. Never usually actually drops that low so my detail setting stay high. Am I missing something?
LOD in iRacing works in both ways in lowering the quality if it reaches the target and raising it based on the targeted FPS you set it to. Setting it at 1 above the refresh rate makes sure that you will hit that framerate (bounces between 120 and 121 when set to 121 or bounces between 119 and 120 when set to 120. Honestly not the biggest deal on a monitor but is in VR when you are trying to hit a steady 90hz it is).
The Min and Max settings tells iracing what to do when it drops below or above the target fps you enter in. So for the video example, when my frames are above 121, it goes off of the min setting (25) but when it goes below it reads the max (400) to try to maintain the 121 frames. Then you get into the nitty gritty of lowering the max to 200 or 100 or 75 because it really doesnt need to drop that much in quality to hit that framerate and then you realize 3 hours have passed.
LOD is the most challenging setting in iRacing to nail down. The video gives a nice baseline to start with but I highly suggest tuning the max to your computers specs or your taste.
@@TheBenCrazy Thanks for explaining that, I only partially understood this.
thank you so much!
Good stuff 👏
I thought turning up "Pit Objects" to high, gives you the ability to see your lollipop man earlier or sooner? I guess that isn't the case?
I don't know to be honest. I use Crew Chief which counts me down to my pit spot
THANKS!
Hi Ben, will this settings work with oculus quest 2?
They should, as long as your pc is powerful enough. If not, try lowering some of the graphic options and raise the lod amounts to reach the 90 frames to match the 90hz refresh rate
This definitely helped! I was actually getting worse performance afterward (the R bar indicating CPU usage was maxed out despite no core on my cpu (7900x) being even close to 10% usage) until I set FullyWaitForSync to 1 and it's been great since! Here's a video about that: czcams.com/video/BfXU-rx0RUY/video.html
Also I had to make my changes in a seperate ini file for oculus rather than just the standard rendererDX11. They must have made seperate files for each one at some point recently...
Does this works in non VR users as well? I’m getting massive stuttering and need help!
Yep
TheBenCrazy thanks Ben!
Checking Hide car numbers removes the trading paints numbers and you see the iRacing assigned numbers instead??
Hi Ben! I keep having massive stuttering, even with this changes. I’ve tried multiple times to find an answer with iRacing support, but they just keep telling me to lower my frame rates🙄. Could you please help me!? Please!🙏🏼
Try lowering the resolution and see if that resolves the issue
TheBenCrazy ok ok. Lowering the resolution below my monitors resolution then? It doesn’t matter?
@@Flyboy0985 Yea, it sounds like your computer is really struggling to run iRacing. Another thing to use to see what is causing the issue is turning on the graphics performance bars from the options menu.
R = CPU usage for render (red means CPU is the bottleneck)
G = GPU usage (red means graphics card is the bottleneck)
L = Latency
Q = Quality of connection
C = CPU usage for physics thread
S = Service sync state
F = Force feedback indicator
TheBenCrazy yeap, checked that already. All bars are in grey or green all of the time. And changing the resolution didn’t worked. I don’t know we’re is the problem😣
check to make sure that during the last update it didn't change the speaker input in all 3 places .this is what happened to mine
I don’t understand I have a 1660 super and mine looks way worse than this. The only thing I can think of is I have a shitty tv. That’s the only thing I can think of. Because my game should not look as bad as it does
Don’t do it would not let me load a new game so now I can not play
I think IRacing is the next step up from NR2003.
You never went back and explained the bottom sliders on the graphics tab. Stood around for another 6 minutes to no avail. Also I noticed you dont answer those people that tell you your advice prevented them from using full screen.
10:33 and nothing that I recommend in this video should prevent you from going to fullscreen. Make sure it's checked in the settings
Are these setting feasible for GTX1050?
Should be
@@TheBenCrazy i think gtx 1050 is not really that good for iracing
@@intentninjateamamsterdam3800 Its not a good card period but it should get the job done if you're running it at 1080p. If you're still struggling with low frames, try setting the dynamic lod settings higher. Worst case, lower the shader quality to medium or low. Yes it will look like Nr2003 but it will run better
Really would like to reset all these settings, as my screen is no longer full screen....😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬😤
That same thing just happened to me
@@ryancruze5396 I went back into my graphics settings within the iracing settings and clicked full screen resolution. I'm pretty sure that worked for me.
ain't working
it got even worse. I now got max. 9 fps. I am very disapointed
Same thing happened to me, but not that low. I went from 90 FPS to 44 FPS with these settings... What could we have done wrong??
I wish I had a vr... I wish I had iracing... I wish I had a gaming PC
Same man :)