Graphic Settings Guide Part Two: Everything You Need to Know about iRacing's Graphic Settings

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    Chapters:
    00:00 Start
    00:53 Testing Process
    04:18 Replay vs. Graphic Settings
    05:30 The Most Important Setting
    10:55 FXAA vs. SMAA
    12:33 Anisotropic Filtering, AA Samples, and Shader Quality
    14:34 High Quality and Two Pass Trees
    16:21 Sharpening, HDR, Heat Haze, and Distortion
    20:25 Show driver arms, track objects, crowd, grandstands, cars
    32:13 SSAO
    38:51 Wrap Up
    43:30 End
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  • @Buzzdog1971
    @Buzzdog1971 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    The answer for those that do not want to wait 7 minutes, turn off dynamic shadows.

    • @didioliverf1
      @didioliverf1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      AA 8x, HDR and Dynamic Shadows this is the most FPS killers in iRacing

    • @Daz555Daz
      @Daz555Daz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@didioliverf1 HDR makes zero difference to my FPS so I wonder what the difference is with your setup?

  • @smoove7932
    @smoove7932 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Yes thank you for taking HOURS of your own time to test this so others dont have too. That means a lot :)

  • @mjpagliaro
    @mjpagliaro ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Best guide I've seen on TH-cam, thanks for taking the time and all the detail and explanation!

  • @JohnLewis-gi5vp
    @JohnLewis-gi5vp ปีที่แล้ว

    This has been one of the best videos on Iracing even made. Did some of the simple suggestions offered and my frame rate has been increased. Thanks again.

  • @andyprociuk
    @andyprociuk ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thanks for this Tommy. This has really helped me, with a midrange 3070 based system it’s really important to save FPS where I can. Appreciate the time you’ve put in.

  • @greenfrog42
    @greenfrog42 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What a wonderful and thorough series of videos for iRacing graphics setting! Thank you so much for the hard work!
    A couple of thoughts: 1) you can enable/disable temporary camera edit within iRacing - it is under Ctrl+F12 -> Group tab. 2) in iRacing's graphics settings, some are CPU (render) related, and some are GPU related. If someone's PC has big disparity between CPU and GPU, one of them could be a bottle neck and therefore changing settings that uses the other processor unit may not have much effect on FPS at all - but that could mask the true FPS impact on a more CPU/GPU balanced setting. One way to tell which processor unit is the bottle neck is to turn on the meter box and watch the R (render or CPU) and G (grahics or GPU) bar. If both bar's value in milliseconds are close, then they are balanced. If one bar's value is much higher than the other, then that bar related processor unit is the bottle neck. In theory, only A/B test on the bottlenecked processor unit can truely reveal that setting's true FPS impact.

  • @irock5758
    @irock5758 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much for this. After watching I immediately went and checked out my settings. Now I’m running VR(HP reverb G2) on a RTX 3080 and a lower end CPU(I7 10700f)
    And only by turning the dynamic obj setting off I now basically get 90fps locked 70% of a race. Now it’s just little tweaks.
    And with dynamic obj off I did notice shadows in the car is gone more than anything else it effect, but having the extra fps in VR is way more important than losing that nice shadow effects.
    Well done on this test man!

  • @Rgmekanic
    @Rgmekanic ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just wanted to say thank you very much for your testing. Just getting back into iRacing and bought a new GPU for my rig PC, was really nice to finally see what effects these settings have. Since it's such a niche game, there is a severe lack of information, and you filled in a massive gap.

  • @insidethreewide7133
    @insidethreewide7133 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well done, Tommy. I really don't have any problems myself, of course as you mentioned, it varies from track to track. "Oh look, that's a nice redwood there" lol! But I did learn from this, where the differences were in the sub settings of each configuration. (Insert crowd applause here)

  • @shawnrigby1866
    @shawnrigby1866 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you so much for all of your work and time. It's so much appreciated. Absolutely the BEST graphics video on TH-cam! Amazing work.

  • @stuartdad5417
    @stuartdad5417 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much for all your hard work and then being selfless and sharing all of your data with the sim racing community. Very informative and detailed hypothesis.

  • @joeyladouceur3483
    @joeyladouceur3483 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you for breaking this down so well! Your channel is a true asset to the sim racing community!

  • @theseusf147
    @theseusf147 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you so much for putting this together and taking the time

  • @tt350zJason
    @tt350zJason ปีที่แล้ว +1

    New to IRacing and this was AWESOME. Thank you!!

  • @GitGudRacing
    @GitGudRacing ปีที่แล้ว

    This is pure gold. Incredible work, thank you!

  • @FamNation
    @FamNation ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks a ton for putting this work in! The settings really helped figure out why I was struggling with FPS

  • @jassonco
    @jassonco ปีที่แล้ว

    You are a lifesaver! I lost all my settings/reconfigured hardware but, your tutorial got me back to where I needed to be, even better this time. Thank you!

    • @jassonco
      @jassonco 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      iRacing graphics setup reference video. New card and these settings are still relevant!

  • @stevencorner7241
    @stevencorner7241 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great information.Helped me make iracing look so much better.many thanks for the time you took to do this video

  • @seansowden8358
    @seansowden8358 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks Tommy, great video, really appreciate the time you’ve spent. 👍

  • @julienguyot6400
    @julienguyot6400 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bravo. Great job. Very precise and well explained.

  • @pierregodts6791
    @pierregodts6791 ปีที่แล้ว

    really good,super info. Not all was good for my setup but overall i now have better view and more fps. Thanks man !!!!

  • @shelsmith2001
    @shelsmith2001 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant! Thank you for all your hard work. I just discovered your channel. I’m a happy new subscriber😊

  • @oleboy4332
    @oleboy4332 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for your time! I’m not great with computers but I’m learning since joining iRacing,

  • @AT7_Racing
    @AT7_Racing ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow! Thanks for sharing this info!

  • @matthewgaffney853
    @matthewgaffney853 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ya I reconfigured after an upgrade and ran 20 races or so battling low fps. Watched this video and ran upstairs fired my rig up at like 2 am and BAAAM!!! the most important setting had a tick mark, I unticked that setting and literally doubled my fps. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME!!!. Ran laps at darlington same night in bclass. Smoked my best time. 👌

  • @tapatsos
    @tapatsos ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Super nice Video! So helpful man!

  • @vincentgravel92
    @vincentgravel92 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you so much for all the work and sharing this with us

  • @amsden6327
    @amsden6327 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great content big help, thanks Tommy!!

  • @jakeham1860
    @jakeham1860 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And HUGE shout out for the vide, I removed the dynamic objects and helped me be able to run the daytona 24hr this coming weekend - infield I was getting 40fps, turned this off......running around 75-85 on the infield, LIFESAVER!!!!!!!!

  • @snuitmanschz2870
    @snuitmanschz2870 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im graphic minded and experienced with settings in games, but even then i enjoyed your movie. Well done sir, you earned a subscribe from me !

  • @SeanClarkUK
    @SeanClarkUK ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the awesome guide, my iRacing experience looks absolutely brilliant now and at 250fps too!!!

  • @MrChiquierdi
    @MrChiquierdi ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank´s from Spain, you has help me a lot!!

  • @davidnance3938
    @davidnance3938 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks Tommy good stuff really helped

  • @19Silverboy82
    @19Silverboy82 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much for your 2 videos this has made my sim look amazing to how it was I can’t thank you enough even better now the rain is here

  • @natemorga
    @natemorga ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing Detailed Video and Process thank you sir !!!!!

  • @davidtidbury9395
    @davidtidbury9395 ปีที่แล้ว

    Graphics seven never been any better. Thanks for the hard work dude.

  • @Mandord
    @Mandord ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Work mate!

  • @iRacerUSAF45
    @iRacerUSAF45 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another great video...thanks!

  • @AaronGoSoFast
    @AaronGoSoFast ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome! That helped a lot. I also found the number of lights to be a major contributor as well. At least for me. I didn't really do any rigorous testing though. I just dialed the number of lights up to 20 and immediately watched my fps plummet down to mid 20fps territory. Then I tried it with 4 and was getting around 55fps. I ultimately settled on 3 where I got a tolerable 63fps. This was also with OBS, VRS, Firefox, and TH-cam (idle) operating in the background.

  • @richardlee846
    @richardlee846 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Tommy, great info!

  • @runofthemillz
    @runofthemillz ปีที่แล้ว

    Straight up.. thank you!

  • @davidharris6977
    @davidharris6977 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well done mate 👏

  • @holgerm420
    @holgerm420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the videos. One thing I noticed. You set Antialiasing in iRacing to FXAA, but in the first video, you set it to off in the nVidia driver. You might want to reconsider the driver setting.

  • @Tuganotube
    @Tuganotube ปีที่แล้ว

    Great work. Thx a lot! 🙌

  • @Kozi03
    @Kozi03 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing thank you so much for this!

  • @RalfBlees
    @RalfBlees ปีที่แล้ว

    This is what I wa looking for since I got my new system.
    My visual experience is now so much better with the same FPS.

  • @alexanderstratmann9478
    @alexanderstratmann9478 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good video, just a tip: Link your first video on the discribtion, makes it easier to watch.
    High Tree is only on a few Tracks like hungaring, with the newer tree model.

  • @markvollert2234
    @markvollert2234 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you so much for doing these videos

  • @Sl0wL1f3
    @Sl0wL1f3 ปีที่แล้ว

    One at a time. You must be an engineer or similar too 🙂Thank you for doing all of this!

  • @henryjames3580
    @henryjames3580 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video bud 👍

  • @SIMSTAGE
    @SIMSTAGE ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks bro, very cool work, regards from Russia, now iRacing looks great!👍✌👍

  • @kevin8798
    @kevin8798 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really helpfull! Thank you

  • @SizzlingPopcorn
    @SizzlingPopcorn ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, Tommy! Much appreciated! 😎I've got an RTX 2080Ti with i9 9900K. My issue is not FPS while racing, but with the FPS on my streams. I lose frames or it stutters. I'll try some of these adjustments and see if it improves the streaming.

  • @Kingdlee_
    @Kingdlee_ ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video 🎉

  • @Bayareabuttons
    @Bayareabuttons ปีที่แล้ว

    It really helps thank you

  • @mateuscrv
    @mateuscrv ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm brazilian and my English is terrible, but I need come here to thank you for this video!
    Solved my graphics settings, looks like another game!

  • @JSmith73
    @JSmith73 ปีที่แล้ว

    I for one find that the dynamic objects don't have *that* much of an impact, and add a huge amount of life to the car cockpit especially. Eg in a GR86, full field at Rudskogen. It might be because I'm GPU limited by triple QHD 32s, an overclocked 3070 - the 5800X3D with very decent memory not breaking a sweat? I lose 5-10fps, find the extra atmosphere well worth it.
    I am also a lot more meh about sharpening, but will try having it enabled to see how that feels.
    After your video I turned off the 3D crowds, helped claw a tiny bit back.
    Thanks for your stellar work.

  • @hasole9669
    @hasole9669 ปีที่แล้ว

    Appreciate this vid

  • @JCrowe86
    @JCrowe86 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, thanks for pointing these things out! Now that I see it A/B, the dynamic shadows don't even look good to begin with. Will absolutely be turning them off.

  • @Keny-Quintanilla
    @Keny-Quintanilla 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you.

  • @pwh__66
    @pwh__66 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very reasonable guide. I am mindful that you are referencing static images with and without the relevant settings. I was hoping you would cover drawing of cars, and memory allocation; perhaps next time? Thanks…

  • @CarlWicker
    @CarlWicker 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You da man!

  • @vikingkombat9389
    @vikingkombat9389 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've been using FXAA by default in all games for years and I have a killer rig.

  • @TPA_JW
    @TPA_JW 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing video. I just switched from an AMD to an RTX4080 Super and am looking for guides on how to maximize the settings in iRacing. Your three videos are amazing; thank you for creating them. What I have found is that most videos for iRacing graphics are 1+ years old. Are there any updates to your series? Also, you reference the Dynamic objects kill FPS while showing Replay settings. Are you just referring to Dynamic objects in Reply graphics or in both reply and gameplay? thanks!!

  • @davidesterza6971
    @davidesterza6971 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Tommy,
    In the part one I saw that you recommended setting the anisotropic filtering to 16X in the Nvidia control panel settings.
    Now I see that even in the Iracing settings you have always set the same filter to 16X, does it make sense to do so? Wouldn't it be more correct to set it to Iracing only? Thank you

  • @Simlife101
    @Simlife101 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    These settings only work for 1080p. Do these tests at 1440p its a completely different story

  • @LithFox
    @LithFox ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah Dynamic Shadows are CPU based and some of the heaviest things you can have.
    In fact, now with more cars having NDM, the "cars" setting is also important again too (we used to lower this even back in the DX9 days)

  • @tonybellec2128
    @tonybellec2128 ปีที่แล้ว

    Arf... For my case in VR, all is on minimum (or OFF), VR optimization on the iRacing forum is done, openXR at 60% and still drop frames in many circuits. It seems like I can't take any advantage of my RX6700XT with 3600x config 😂 Thanks for your time, appreciate a lot !

  • @shreddedyeat5532
    @shreddedyeat5532 ปีที่แล้ว

    A bit you forgot to talk through was the "Cubemaps".
    I'm not sure what these are and the performance they have? Any tips you can give? Thank you :D

  • @jcsquared1111
    @jcsquared1111 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have a 4070ti, and g9 ultrawide set @ 240htz I notice after the most recent update it am getting some screen tearing and its glitchy at times. Think its racelabs but im not sure weather i should be using both gsync as well as the samsung adaptive as well? Also my FPS swings from 170s down to 120s during a race is this normal?

  • @airsiren
    @airsiren 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Incredible! I’ll try it later… 3080 here too, so how’s your NVIDIA configs?

  • @jordenetter7707
    @jordenetter7707 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🔥

  • @russ2387h
    @russ2387h 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for this! After following your steps, not only does the game look better but I went from avg 120fps to 170fps! Turn off Dynamic Shadows!!!

  • @kishdogg1594
    @kishdogg1594 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have a hp Victus 15L ryzen 5600 6600xt can i run iracing settings on High graphics 1080p? One more thing i have a Benq Monitor woth HDR and HDRI sould i use either one? Or keep it normal thanks alot

  • @racegrubb2152
    @racegrubb2152 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For some reason my computer does well at tracks with graphics at medium high range but when I am at Daytona with a 40 car field I have to adjust cars drawn ahead and behind down and other graphics way down. It is just Daytona and not sure why?

  • @taylorbertrim7625
    @taylorbertrim7625 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I use an 11900k snd 3080 12gb
    I isually lock thr FPS with Vsync.
    Do you know what causes the interior roll cage to lose it's shading and become brighter in night races?

  • @littlemuffin943
    @littlemuffin943 ปีที่แล้ว

    i press alt f3 and i get the window for filters but their are no filters i can mess with.?

  • @nicholasmarshall3191
    @nicholasmarshall3191 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What about using Windows or Nvidia Surround to run triples?

  • @oo7mech
    @oo7mech ปีที่แล้ว

    regarding Anti-Aliasing: months ago other testers (DaveCam) showed test using [Off] as much better for FPS and not much difference in visuals. You didn't show us the improvement of [Off], thoughts?

  • @02bluehawk
    @02bluehawk ปีที่แล้ว

    I have zero issues runing iracing on "class 2" settings (32gb ram, gtx1660, intel i5) with the fps uncapped or a capped 180fps until I go to mount Washington hill climb..... all those trees just destroy my frames to the point its unplayable (droping to 10 fps at times) in excited to try some of the tips in the video to see it I get it run decent

  • @caffeinepowered3957
    @caffeinepowered3957 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had fixed the trees issue but still had chunks of the track that just bombed from 120 FPS to 40-70 FPS. Those dynamic shadows were killing my FPS at VIR with the tire walls.

  • @myweirdtaste8090
    @myweirdtaste8090 ปีที่แล้ว

    Does HAGS on or off make a difference? In the past I heard that HAGS on can cause issues.

  • @AlienWooshie
    @AlienWooshie ปีที่แล้ว +1

    only thing missing is a link to the first part in the description :)

  • @kitmilo
    @kitmilo ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing video, and what a difference to the graphics and visuals. Now feels as if I am truly there! Only issue is my FPS has now dropped from 120 to 53. I run a 3090RTX with an i9 i9-12900k Hexadeca Core Processor and ASUS Z690 ROG Maximus Hero D5 ATX motherboard. Any advice?

    • @Daz555Daz
      @Daz555Daz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You must have made some significant changes (increase in settings) to see a drop from 120 to 53.

  • @jakeham1860
    @jakeham1860 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Any chance I could ask you some questions regarding my car in races and my graphics being distorted, but all the cars around me being awesome? When I watch a replay back, all my decals are distorted, but all the cars around me are perfect and look high definition - I love to take pictures, but this pixelated stuff on my car is killing me. The paint looks great and no issues when you load it in the paint shop in iRacing to look at the Trading Paint I am using. Looks good in there..........load in to a private race/practice, my paint and decals look awesome.....go in to any race no matter how many cars on the track, go back and look at my paint in the replay, all pixelated on the decals

  • @Simlife101
    @Simlife101 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If you racelabs or another program for your relative and what not set max cars to 63

  • @jonde664
    @jonde664 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m sure the dyn shadows aren’t an immersion breaker with screens but in VR it absolutely is for me personally.😢 I’m just compensating for it with everything else off.

  • @bangkokstallion
    @bangkokstallion ปีที่แล้ว

    Tried with resizable bar?

  • @inthere2it
    @inthere2it 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What exactly are the “number of lights”, “pcf4 filter”, “dynamic cubemaps”, and “fixed cubemaps”?

  • @MRRedneck11
    @MRRedneck11 ปีที่แล้ว

    i did all of this and the first vid but my fps is 70 and was 200 before what do i do now?

  • @mrb552
    @mrb552 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What is the fps hit for just having Object Self Shadowing on?

  • @nicholasmarshall3191
    @nicholasmarshall3191 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to race in the past with no grandstands, and would get really bad sun glare (Depending on direction/ time of day) due to the sun not being blocked by the buildings/stands.

  • @regibson23
    @regibson23 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How do you have videos on graphics settings while your TH-cam videos look like they're running at 15fps?

  • @daboxownsall
    @daboxownsall ปีที่แล้ว +1

    39:34 for TL:DW gotchya screen cap.

  • @DreamstoRealityAutomotiveTV
    @DreamstoRealityAutomotiveTV ปีที่แล้ว

    What do replay settings have to do with gameplay though. Sorry I’m not a expert, honestly don’t know. Thanks for the video

    • @zacknelson6630
      @zacknelson6630 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They have nothing to do with gameplay. Your settings change when you're in car vs when you're out of car watching the replay. You can up your graphics a little bit on the replay side of things because it's not as taxing on your graphics card

  • @funkytransport
    @funkytransport ปีที่แล้ว

    why is resizable bar off?

  • @jensweber7106
    @jensweber7106 ปีที่แล้ว

    "High quality trees" have only impact on newer tracks, like the rework of VIR for example, I think. Test this option there and you will notice a huge difference. I turned it off because of the newer tracks. But, if you know you are driving an older track, you can keep it checked.
    But I think you didn't notice a difference on Daytona or the option will be ignored on such tracks, because Daytona has the old tree model.

  • @Titoo933
    @Titoo933 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can I play at maximum setting at 3440x1400 resolution with an i7 11700 and a RTX 3070 and 32GB? Thanks!

  • @gregfronek3252
    @gregfronek3252 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank You for putting this up. Unfortunately I followed every video and my fps dropped to 35 ??
    Not sure what happened.

    • @Simlife101
      @Simlife101 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Greg Fronek are you running the rtx 3080 and triple 1080p or do you run 1440p if yes thats why. He is only running 1080p triples

  • @JaidanBalban
    @JaidanBalban 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Does reply graphic settings affect in-game real time driving?

    • @TommyBrandon
      @TommyBrandon  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No. The affect all graphics when outside the car watching