How to make iRacing WAY More Immersive on any Sim Rig
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- One of the most common complaints when it comes to iRacing graphics is the generally washed out low contrast look, as well as the warm colour temperature.
Today we're going to take a look at an easy way to adjust the contrast, brightness and colour temperature to your heart's content, resulting in what I think is a far more immersive experience on just about any sim racing rig.
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I think I’ve gotten to the bottom of the issues some people are having with error messages saying a supported game is required.
Make sure you don’t have any 3D accelerated windows open in the background. So Chrome/Discord/etc.
Minimising them seems to fix the issue. You don’t need to close them completely.
yesss thank you it works for me now time to mess with the filter 🤪 thanks man
Still no joy
Good to know. So Racelab may be also an issue. =)
Seems to be ok at least for me.
Hi Will, thanks for the video :-) Any idea if this work on rFactor 2? I'm trying to open the filter using the hotkeys (ALT+F3) but I get the message saying that a supported game is required. Many thanks!
wow makes it way more realistic, especially in Lacuna Seca that is so yellowy it looks ridiculously like an 80's serial Mexico effect.
I've always hated that washed out grey look in iRacing. This fixes it completely. Nice job.
Thank you very much Will, the hugest benefit of this for me is I suffer from eye strain at times and turning down the warmness and enhancing some other colors has made it much easier to drive for longer periods of time
That's awesome!! As a commercial photographer, and having an understanding of color and light, I've always hated the rendering in iRacing. One thing to keep in mind while making these adjustments... Dropping the highlight down is always a good idea for the reason you explained....blowing out all the bright areas. However, with the shadows, remember when you darken things that in the darkest areas, you should still have minor details like maybe dash texture or something like that. The only places I wouldn't expect any detail would be in the vents because obviously there's nothing there to give any texture. One other thing you may want to try is the HDR setting. Maybe turning this on before you make the adjustments might give even a bit more realism. All in all that was a great video and I appreciate the info!!
I will follow this advice, soon I will have my VR headsets coming so I will try turning on the HDR if it adds even more to realism :)... Have to build a rig soon and as soon as the CSL DD comes I will be able to thoroughly enjoy racing
I'm kinda getting old, and losing pace with technology. I don't even know exactly what HDR is. But people say it improves things. So I want to try it. I know my system should be very capable.
But where is this setting? In the graphics card settings, or in iRacing?
@@sethrenigar6012 the setting for HDR that I was talking about is in iRacing/options/graphics, where you adjust your settings for the graphics like sky, grandstands, pit box, etc. It will be in the 3rd column. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. Basically what it does is it finds a way to compress everything into a range thy you can see instead of having highlights that are too bright to have detail at that same time as having blacks thy are too dark to have detail. It may have an adverse effect in morning and late afternoon or evening races when you get the Orange glare of the sunrise or sunset on the track in certain turns. Hopefully the other adjustments in the video card will curb thy issue.
@@Simlife101 your correct in the sense that because there’s a wider selection of lights and darks, all the shades and color temperatures are also increased within the parameters. Lumination changes apply to all colors and shades, not just to whites and blacks.
This is definitely simpler than using reshade and messing with luts. I did it last week and it's made a world of difference for me
Never knew about filters being build into the nvidia software I normally play around with reshade filters, but may now see how this works. Thanks Will.
I didn't either. I know what I'm doing this evening!
Nvidia filters are literally just Reshade, except integrated into the driver and simplified with less options. The same guy is even working on it.
Reshade is better
Use reshade. Nvidias comes with a bit of a performance hit
So does Reshade. The performance hit depends on shaders in use, but there's always a drop. Roughly the same as with Freestyle.
You may have also noticed the colour blindness options in there too. They're fantastic. I don't need it for iRacing but in some other games they make a big difference especially for map icons and opponent labels.
Finally!!! I should have known to do this as I'm a regular Adobe Light Room user and do this to my photos! Thanks Will!
I can only get it working using the old website but will have a play and it totally transforms iracing thanks will great work as always and your hard work and dedication is much appreciated
Once again you come through for the team Will! I've not been racing much lately but I always disliked the washed out look of iRacing compared to some other sims. I did not like to use the GeForce Experience app for my 3090 card actually as some suggested settings on other games didn't work for me. Reinstalling that app now and will give this a go. Confident I will see an improvement. Thanks mate!
Thank for for taking the time to make these videos ! Makes such a difference
Awesome tip. Lost about 7 FPS but Looking much better, and much kinder on the eye strain.+1 for keeping it simple! Thanks Will
Thank u boosted this changed my experience wow, and it's small change too it's mind blowing.
Glad it helped :)
I did this a few months back and had iRacing looking great finally and then Nvidia did an update and my settings disappeared . . . So you might want to write down the filters and values in case that happens to you too. Cheers :)
Great idea! I have all the steering locks saved in a file also
Dude thank you so much. This looks so much easier than with reshade
combining the nvidia filter with iRacing's built-in gamma adjust and it's quite easy to dial the cooler colours in!
The Nvidia overlay did throw an error for me on my first session after installing the latest driver and restarting the PC, but reloading iRacing again with exactly the same session settings meant it seems to be working as suggested
Ahh that’s good to know. You’re running the latest driver now?
@@boostedmedia yes indeed
Ahh great. So it’s probably just a matter of making sure it’s a clean install. Once again Yeaman to the rescue.
Thanks for the tips it works very well,, much better colors now
by turning ''game filters'' I have in the window where you have 1,2 and 3 preset, only ''image sharpening'' on 50% and its not even active
me too.. how to fix it?
@@A320_driver It works only when you star iracing from browser, not from UI. Stupid, but thats how it is.
Bookmarked for when I jump on next, good video!
I never comment on videos but I love you for this
UPDATE: Ok so it appears the latest Nvidia driver (472.96) breaks this for some people. I've now tested myself on another PC and also had a few friends test and it seems a clean install with DDU resolves any issues with the latest driver.
Alternatively, previous drivers can be downloaded here - www.nvidia.com/download/find.aspx
Damn… can we download the older Version?
It seems to only work when I use old website version of iracing. Using the new UI it doesn’t work. I get the nvidia pop up saying to use it but doesn’t load the filters.
What driver is everyone rolling back to?
Wow O Wow What a transformation to iracing thanks Will i didn,t know about this great job mate.
I agree with @Jeffrey McDonald I am also a professional photographer and VR SIM racer and I have been looking for something like this for a while. I recently tried a VR reshade plugin without any visible effects, and I didn't know nVidia had this option. I am ruining an RTX 2080ti on an i7-7800 with a Pimax 5K+ and I have been trying to get a more realistic lighting on my gameplay and videos for a while but didn't know this option was available, I will try this tomorrow. Like Jaffrey said on the other comment, I will try HDR and then adjust highlights and shadows to begin with to mimic the human eye dynamic range. I greatly appreciate that you shared this piece of information with the rest of us.
Nice work again Will, thanks mate
That is damn epic! I was just thinking about fudging around with LUT's and whatnot, but this is so much more simple.
Thanks Will this really helped
SICK! Didn't know that. 😎🙌
Wow you’ve found a reason to install GeForce
😂
Good evening all.
I have been trying to figure this out for a few hours and here is what I came up with. Latest driver installed (497.09). I start a "Test Drive" session and it seems to work. From there any other session I join it still works, (AI, Test Drive, Etc.) As long as I do not close iRacing it seems to keep.
Once I close iRacing and try to go into let's say an AI race "not supported". I go "Test Drive" works as well as other sessions.
Don't know why, and what changed, but seems to work for me.
Cheers, and good luck!
BTW. Thanks Will for all of the great content over the years.
I love your content so much
Awesome little tip here dude!
That is awesome mate, many thanks
Looks great! I play in VR and still watched the video
All I can see when I press alt f3 is image sharpening?
Thanks mate great work
Great video as always. I've been using a similar setup, but utilizing ReShade instead. A bit more of an fps hit with it, but more granular control over the colour, contrast and various other settings. Also never been a fan of Nvidia's GeForce Experience. That being said, it truly does make a huge difference and sometimes games/sims just need a little colour correction TLC.
Awesome mate! thanks
Will, id be cautious about using those same settings in a night race. I did a night race at Bathurst yesterday using the same settings and wondered why it was so dark. When i watched the replay today and turned the filters off it was so much lighter.
Toggle it off when driving in night
VR solves the contrast / screen end issue.
That's great, thanks - might also use this to take some of Ermin's favourite colour yellow out too :) NVIDIA Experience is going back in.
Done. First cut just about removed all of that yellow, and made colours look a lot more natural! Thanks again Will!
Can’t get it to work ! Says error re start game in top corner !
I was having the same error about restarting the game and unsuported game error. I rolled back to driver 466.77 and it works fine now
Interesting! Does anyone know if this can be done in VR as well? Great video Will!
I’d like to know this one as well, good question
Apparently not.
ooooookay so. this works if i start iracing through the website, but not the UI.... SETTING DO NOT STAY. Also through the website, the game does not apply my screen settings i have set in the ini file, and only shows the game horizontally half way across the tirple screens.... this is fun lol...
Either way, thanks for all the awesome content
cheers
Looks awesome.... any way to make it apply for VR as well?
Tried it but only aplied to my destop screen, while HP reverb was the same as before
Thanks for tips !
Dont work it always says I need to restart the Game but I did all the changes you showed...anyone else running into this problem?
the reason theres a "stark contrast" is because in the game there is a sun shining into the car... as to where in your room there isnt a sun shining. The 'Before' is more realistic than your after, but your after looks better.
For some reason I cannot get iRacing to register in the Nvidia Experience software. I keep getting the error message back asking to restart the game.
same
First I love your vids bro keep them up and you should do more vids with your wife
Love your videos, I am just skating into iracing and it has helped me immensely. I love your racing cockpit, can you tell me what size of 4K TVs you run in your triple set up?
Watch the video.
@@New_Identity I did, and thanks for your HELPFUL comment.
Thinking about that for the use on 3 led projector screens. Blacker blacks and better contrast. No bezel frame or plastics edges to dick with.
The first time i ever used a projected screen was on the playstation (1) at the old Wangi workers club 1996. I couldn't aford a commercial unit, but you could book in through the club for members. In the function room and turn off the lights. it dominated the whole wall : ) that an the PA sound system, full on. ( Vralley & F1) Great thing was, we were close to burbon food and beer.
Great video - Will out of interest what frame rate are you getting on ACC with your 3090 and running those 4K triples?
all i get with alt + f3 is (image sharpening) auto set to 50%, cant change anything. tried all the suggestions here, nothing works....
Launch from the website. Try again. Lmk if it helped.
@@iiiTYMENwon’t help soon since you will only be able to do it from the UI. I’ve tried changing settings in Nividia to allow it but even that hasn’t helped.
@@DAVE0DENIS01 that's such a shame... It never opens on the UI for me only the website. Reinstalling GeForce Experience might help? I'm gonna try that later.
@@iiiTYMEN didn’t work although I’m assuming one of the settings I changed did work though because after I loaded the sim up and closed it I have it 😁😁
@@DAVE0DENIS01 what setting did you change lol 😭😭
It’s really a shame these filters don’t apply when using VR.
I found HDR on certain capable monitors also really helps the immersion.
yesterday I tried to do this and all I could get was a side panel, but no options. It just had a box at the bottom saying 'Done'. Today however, I did a great (in my standard, getting round the track in one piece is great) lap, I saved it. When I went back to view, I did the ALT F3 and it worked I had the full menu. So it seems, just doing a test lap does not work, but viewing a saved replay will get the menu to be showed.
Worked great for me and now racing with a much better presentation and not a single hit in fps. Now just gotta get good and out of Rookie leagues for Oval and Road. :P
Nice vid will as always. Quick question do you use surround nvidia on your triples or fixed settings in you ini file?
this would be great :) if only it worked lol. all i get is " a error occurred please restart your game to use this feature" tried all the fixes and nothing seems to work.
same here :(
Yup, current everything and getting the same error.
Same with me, tried old drivers, fresh install drivers, closing everything including background apps, nothing I can find online works. It does work in AC though, so seems to be related to iRacing.
been using these filters for months now told poeple it would help..
Awesome!
Great video, but I have never been able to get the thing to work. I have never been able to get the window to pop up where I'm able to start making changes.. Oh well, LOL
Wow, i will try this tomorrow!! Does Geforce remeber the settings or do i have to choose them every time i load up i racing?
I have a AMD GPU and got really good results with MSI Dragon Center. Maybe look in to that one as well? :)
Mine keeps saying an error has occurred please restart app. Can’t get it to work.
sigo tus videos desde españa ...mis monitores son 2k de 27 pero sigo yus consejos igual gracias
You could also use Reshade.
Great!
For those trying this in 2023 using the UI, I’ve found a hack for anyone seeing only a non-adjustable “image sharpening” slider. If you first open an iRacing replay file, you can then open up the overlay filters and they will appear normally. You can then close the replay and so long as you don’t exit out of the iRacing UI, you can continue to use the filter/s in any practice or race mode. Kind of a long process, but worth it in my opinion.
I got so excited when i saw this comment, as I am having this exact issue. Sadly this work around hasn't worked for me :(
I've always thought iRacing was a bit warm on the color side - this helps a ton! It does make the in-sim UI look a little odd but you'll never be looking at that for too long
Hi Will ...thanks for being a great asset to Sim-Racing! I don't have that issue ...I like my black to be BLACK ...& set up my displays that way ...& I still see the stitching in the Hans straps. I DO have one question ...
We run identical PC's ...except I have a single 3080. I run three 4K screens 43 inches each. However: I bought cheap ones that have a 60 Hz refresh rate ...so I limit all my games at 60 fps. This less taxing on the GPU is it not? ...&
Will I see a big difference in faster screens? ...enough difference to upgrade ...in your opinion?
I can’t do 60Hz these days. Anything less than 90 and I really struggle for sim racing.
I'll take a look at this for my AMD Radeon RX 6800. Not sure if there's a similar function for those as well
See my earlier comment
@@sdtunstall Just saw it. Will check it out. Thanks!
It does not always work. Only when I go to the server at least one more time can I select it. Otherwise nut depth of field is missing. No selection of the 3 presets. Does this have something to do with the ui.
Thanks for that. Will, I have always wanted to ask what seat you use in your rig?
Luso Motors MK2
Very usefull, THY very much ! - Very nice music at the end of the video, what is the title of the song and artist ? - Greetings from France !
This doesn’t work anymore. iRacing has disabled. It always shows a pop up saying game not supported
I wish this would work on my 3090, every time I try the colors go crazy posterized
I'm having the same issue with the 3070
I like it , I hope it work with fly sim as well :)
me: *gets 22 seconds into the video*
also me: welp... I've already failed
Doesn’t work for me. Says game not supported.
i was just searching for fix like this and saw the discord :D
Any way to do something like this in VR?
If anyone figures out how to get this working for the Valve Index, please let me know! Looks a lot better on my monitor, but nothing changes in VR unfortunately
What's the purpose of changing the core setting?
If you don't change it, you'll get a 10057: Error detected on network device
So I think you need to logon via the member website as opposed to the UI icon to get this working!!
I’m doing it though the UI.
@@boostedmedia will keep trying. Hopefully I can work it out!!
After reading the comments, i dis-regarded the first step (just in case i had the same issue), and just kind of followed the adjustments recommended. Very nice change i have to say. Looked and felt much more natural. I run triple 160hz 27in curved UWQHD's utilizing a 3060 card and the immersive factor is now really nice compared to the default setting. Cheers
nVidia says: "A supported game is required to use this feature."
So much for that fix since the last driver update. It seems nVidia wants its pound of flesh from iRacing before it will allow this mode to work.
I too had this message in the menu. But when I went in to a session it then worked.
I also have this problem. Have a 3080. Would love to use this, but can't get it to work.
This is the error I'm getting too when using the UI. Works great going through the web site. Did you ever find a solution?
Does it work on VR
The pit exit marshal looks like he really has to pee badly.
Doesn’t work anymore. IRacing gives an error and disconnects from the server. Maybe for anti cheating.
Thanks for the tip ! Would that work with VR ?
I believe so. haven't tested it personally.
Was just gonna ask this!
Just tried it, it doesn't work unfortunately.
@@MattDignam thanks for the update
When I do this it’s saying the game isn’t Supported?? Any ideas?
Quick question: does this work on VR? More specifically, WMR VR (such as the HP Reverb G2)?
In for answer
Nope :( you have to use reshade unfortunately but Dan Suzuki does a good tutorial on it
Yeah need Reshade. Definitely check out Dan’s guide.
what is your brightness and gamma in iRacing ?
also if there is a performance hit, why not do this stuff in the regular nVidia contrast settings ?
The brightness and contrast settings don't remove the yellow in iracing. These are filters to make games look better
@@TheBallisticSerb Hue does that, underneath Digital Vibrance - or you can adjust the brightness/contrast/gamma for R G B channels separately
well. You can do this amd cards too with radeon software.
Any tips for a night, sun- rise/set setup?
For some reason GeForce experience won’t recognize our racing doesn’t work for me, disappointing
me too....poo
does someone know if this works for VR as well?
usually VRs excluded from susch things as my experience from previous atempts showed.