Use the "carsel " app by @Stereo . It allows you to scroll between drivers when spectating. But useless when racing of course
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Upgrading to Windows 10 helped me gain 5-10 fps. Locking fps to 45max helped cpu occupancy.My specs aren't superior stuff (GTX 570, 3,2 GHZ Phenom II X4), but my FPS are pretty decent for it.
I'll do some club races and see how it works. For the M235i races I had to leave the custom skin folders empty, so the video card etc. had not to load in all the custom skins and so it used the simple default white ones by default automatically. That solved it back then and the performance was fine from then on (before I had 5-10 sec. freezes in FP, which was undriveable of course). However, now it seems to be a different problem than then.
Sometimes I think, it's just Win7 in the background running not smooth anymore (since the AC menue movements sometimes stutters and pauses as well, but as far as I remember that has been always the case, so..). Who knows. At least the (in general known) issue "svchost (netsvcs)" process in Win7 occupying 25% of CPU load all the time is gone now since 1-2 weeks, after the latest Win7 updates !!
Thx, for the tipps (though I know al lof it already). I'll check, if the steam offline mode makes a difference. But I don't think so in this particular mattter.
The improvement of fps comes with a price, but fps outweighs immersion I think. Still I am satisfied to race with 45fps, my eyes and mind seem that sufficient enough to race comfortably.Waving/moving grasholms is missing as well, but that's of course not important for driving. Since it is (was) also only visible in TV cams / replays.
@Tobias Röhner ? Any thoughts on this?
You said the 4K skin pack caused network issues?
. However, nevermind .. ]
No upscaling from 2k to 4k must be done before any painting with just the empty template. Then when finished the psd (painting ) file with all its seperate layers must be downsized to 2k and then saved as dds file.[Does that even make sence to convert the skins to 4k, when the submitted skins are 2k or 1k whatever big ? Because upscaling things (from for e.g. 1k to 4k size) will not magically add any quality normally
The same logic goes in the other direction. If one has a mediocre gpu it is agreeable a lightweight skin pack is available. You won't see much difference in the designs when driving but fps will be way better. It's only when taking screens and watching slomo zoomin replays one will clearly see the difference.
A lightweight skin pack is definitely a good thing, don't get me wrong on that
. I was just curious if there was any server related issues when using high resolution skins, which would be a huge issue. Now I see you were trying to say that the local problems may affect other users and I agree 100% with it.
Maybe for future leagues set as rule for skins. I would suggest to test this with a 1k, 2k and 4k skin pack online and see if there are significant performance differences when hosting and broadcasting. Especially stuttering issues I guess. Of course besides that the connection to the internet is also important but I am convinced the lower the size of the skins the better the playability.
