rFactor 2 - Whats your Video Settings?

[Abdul Al-Amry]

Would like to get some feedback especially on guys using Eyefinity.

I have everything in-game to either Low or Off in the graphics section but only 30fps. My card is ATI 6870 which handles a constant 84fps in iR and can play all games without major issues. rF1 was over 100fps.

Early days I know but still...

 

[Brian Clancy]

What is the best way to uninstall the old ATI drivers before I install the 12.1a preview drivers? I'm getting pretty decent FPS with my 4870, 50-60 with everything at Full/Max except shadows (high) and HDRI off, but I'd like to get it to be a little more fluid.

Jason

Just a normal uninstall with windows....But check the new drivers are for your card first, think that they might be for 5xxx and 6xxx series cards

 

[Jason Quinn]

I saw that they are for the 5k/6k series of cards but have seen a couple of people with 4870s say they use the preview drivers. Ross Garland has the same model card as me and claims they work. I'm willing to give it a shot. With all the talk of completely removing the old drivers I just wanted to make sure I didn't need to go to extra measures before installing the new ones.

Jason

 

[Paul Lock]

I'm running 12.1 with my crossfire 4870s no problemo.

i7 930 @2.8ghz stock
6gb triple chan 1600
2x 4870 1gb with 12.1 CCC

Pulls in between 45-50fps round Monte Carlo with all details set to full/max, level 3 AA and 16x anisotropic @ 1920x1080.

@Jason - just dl the 12.1 drivers and run the installer - you get 2 options, uninstall or install > chose uninstall first to get rid of your old drivers. Follow the process, you have to reboot, then run the installer and install the 12.1 - simples.

 

[Kyle Puttifer]

I got rid of my old drivers, and installed these ones. No performance difference whatsoever. Typical.
Radeon HD 5450

 

[Mick Martin]

My spec: (No clocking)
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
AMD Phenom 9500 Quad 2.2Ghz (old, I know)
2GB Ram dual 666Mhz (slow, I know)
NV 8800GT 512Mb (old, I know)

With this spec I can achieve 50-60fps @ 1920x1080

In game settings:
HDR - OFF
AA - X4

Track LOD - HIGH
Car LOD - HIGH
Op car LOD - MEDIUM
Texture LOD - HIGH
AF - X4
SFX - HIGH
Shadow - LOW
Shadow blur - OFF
Movies - OFF
Sun occ - OFF
Raing drops - ON
Road reflection - OFF
Enviro reflections - OFF
Wind & croud - OFF

Visible cars - 10
in game cars - 20
2-3fps drop with mirrors - ON

NV control panel: v285.xx - rfactor2.exe
Multi display - set to single display performance mode
Texture filtering Anistropic sample op - ON
Texture filtering Negative LOD bias - CLAMP
Texture filtering Quality - Performance
Texture filtering Trilinear op - ON

To get to this point I had to disable some processes to lower the RAM & CPU load:
*wmpnetwk.exe - This is the big one and one that took me a while to completely disable. After stopping the service then disabling it then removing WMPlayer from windows features, it was only then when this process stopped restarting itself.
*Nvidia stereoscopic 3D driver service - Stopped & disabled.

 

[Kyle Puttifer]

My spec: (No clocking)
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
AMD Phenom 9500 Quad 2.2Ghz (old, I know)
2GB Ram dual 666Mhz (slow, I know)
NV 8800GT 512Mb (old, I know)

With this spec I can achieve 50-60fps @ 1920x1080

In game settings:
HDR - OFF
AA - X4

Track LOD - HIGH
Car LOD - HIGH
Op car LOD - MEDIUM
Texture LOD - HIGH
AF - X4
SFX - HIGH
Shadow - LOW
Shadow blur - OFF
Movies - OFF
Sun occ - OFF
Raing drops - ON
Road reflection - OFF
Enviro reflections - OFF
Wind & croud - OFF

Visible cars - 10
in game cars - 20
2-3fps drop with mirrors - ON

NV control panel: v285.xx - rfactor2.exe
Multi display - set to single display performance mode
Texture filtering Anistropic sample op - ON
Texture filtering Negative LOD bias - CLAMP
Texture filtering Quality - Performance
Texture filtering Trilinear op - ON

I have a better PC than that, running lower settings, and performance is terrible! (about 15 FPS, w/ about 70 on rF1)
Of course, ATi vs nVidia could make a difference...

 

[Paul Lock]

As mentioned I'm playing with old ATI cards, 2 4870s in crossfire, but I have a 6950 laying around somewhere, so I might give that a go and see the difference.

Anyone tried turning off/on hyperthreading to see any difference?

 

[Alex Brumpton]

My system:
AMD Phenom II X4 925 OC @ 3.4GHz
4GB DDR3 1600MHz
GTX 560 Direct CUII OC 1GB (850MHz Verison)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Personally i think i should get more than what i do with my system, hopefully it will be better and more optimized at full release
With these settings i achieve 35 - 60fps at 1920x1080

In game:

Circuit Detail - High
Player Detail - High
Opponent Detail - High
Texture Detail - High
AF - Trilinear
AA - None
Special Effects - High
Shadows - High
Motion Blur - Off (Personally dont like it)
Sun Occluision - Off
Road Reflection - Off
Environmental Reflection - Off
Wind and Crowd Motion - Off
HDR - Off
Amount of Cars: 10 - 20 (Doesnt change the fps between 10 and 20 cars for some reason)

Nvidia Settings:

AF - 16x
AA - 8x CSAA
Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames - 1
Power Management - Prefer Maximum Performance.
Texture Filtering (Quality) - Performance
Texture Filtering (Trilinear Optimisation) - On

(I did notice an FPS boost using the AF and AA in the Nvidia Control panel instead of in rF2)

 

[Søren Holm Pedersen]

I have maxxed everything out to the absolutely most high quality setting, even HDR even though, as far as I know, it is not fully enabled, and I get a solid 120+ fps out of it.

EDIT: The fps I get is in non-multiplayer/non-AI games where I just drive by myself. With 20 or so cars on the grid with me I get 70 or so, evening out to about 100 with close racing after a few laps when racers are spread out.

(important-hardware) specs as follows

I'm running an Intel Q9550 at an overclocked 4.8ghz with an aftermarket cooler, 4gb's of DDR2 RAM (I know, DDR3 is the new-new! ) along with a Zotac 580GTX Amp! Edition (from standard it is overclocked, but I clocked it even further) graphics card.

 

[Jonney Richards]

Would like to get some feedback especially on guys using Eyefinity.

I have everything in-game to either Low or Off in the graphics section but only 30fps. My card is ATI 6870 which handles a constant 84fps in iR and can play all games without major issues. rF1 was over 100fps.

Early days I know but still...

Where is this low or off graphical settings? on my game i can only turn on HDR, add af/aa, and change resolution.

 

[Von Butters]

My main pc has no problem running rFactor 2 fully maxed out at 1900x1080 with full AA/AF and HDR on, and running at 70/80ish fps.

What id love to do though is set my spare/backup machine up for my nephew with his own copy as he is wanting to get into sim racing.
Does anyone have any xp with a machine with the following specs running rF2, and at what setting/performance do you get?

Cpu / Amd Phenom II x4 965 BE @ 3.8
Ram / 8 gig OCZ Special Ops 1600 DDR3
Vid / 2gig Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 5850
Mobo / Asus M4N98TD EVO
Cooler / Titan Fenir Xmas Special
Wheel / Logitech DFGT FFB wheel

I think thats the main specs, obviously theres a case, keyboard, mouse etc, but i'd love to know what people have had frame/playability wise on a machine like or similur to this.

Any help would be good guys, thanks.

 

[Jim Gallahan]

Christopher, my machine has the same cpu, the same amount of ram (G. Skill), and I was running a HD 4870 but I put my kid's Sapphire HD 5850 toxic 2 gig card in to see what it would do. The thing is I believe the card is flaky and always has been, it wants to run at 400MHz on the core and it is stable there but problems started to show up when I clocked it to it's default at 765MHz. With everything maxed out in rFactor 2 including HDR on with 10 or more cars on the starting grid, the fps would drop below 30 with stuttering, it wasn't pretty. I went and bought a PNY GTX 560 Ti OC and under the same circumstances the system delivers 43-44 fps and is solid and by the time you get to the first turn at Spa it's running at 55-60 fps with vsync on. Of course the HD 5850 was fine when HDR was turned off. I was disappointed with the 5850 but like I say, this particular card is weird and I'm not sure how much that played into it. It was better than the 4870 but not by that much. I should mention this was all running at 1680x1050. I have to say the HD 4870 was a great video card but of course the GTX 560 beats it handily, as well it should. It is a great upgrade from the 4870.

I believe, the GTX 570 would have been a more future proof purchase but I just couldn't spend that much more money:-(.

 

[Terry Rock]

I'm at 2304x1440 32bit@85Hz on an
I7-920@3.8GHz
MSI X58 Platinum (BIOS modded from X-fire to SLI)
Win7-64 Pro on AgilityII series
18GB Patriot Viper1333@7-7-7-20
2x 2GB Palit GTX560Ti (290.53 beta driver w/ SLI disabled for RF2 only)

Getting 76+fps most places on track at Spa. It drops to around 70fps as I approach and go through the La Source hairpin.

All sims are run from a Samsung Spinpoint F3 (HD103SJ) 1TB 7200RPM drive.

 

[Dennis Phelan]

I get a nice framerate but I also have been getting the nvidea lockup. This is happening a lot more than in Race 07. I'd rather keep the native resolution of my screen and would like to know which options I should turn down first to reduce the number of failures without losing too much of the great graphics.
This what's running, upgrades are in the future.
PROCESSOR-Intel® Core™2 DuoProcessor E8500 at 3.16GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 6M Cache
RIG-Vigor Cooler Master CM 690 Screwless Chassis
POWER SUPPLY-CoolerMaster Real Power Pro nVidia-SLI Certified 850Watt
MB CORE LOGIC-Asus P5Q-E Intel P45 DDR2 w/1600MHz FSB & Gen 2 Crossfire
MEMORY-4GB Kingston HyperX KHX8500D2K2/4G CL5 DDR2 1066MHz Memory (2X2048MB)
DATA HARD DRIVE-320GB SATA II 7200 RPM Hard Drive
VIDEO CARD-nVidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB Xtreme Plus Edition @700MHz
OPERATING SYSTEM-Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2 w/Original Disc
MONITOR-Viewsonic 22" 1920x1080

 

[Marco Bijl]

I really have not been playing with video settings yet. Can't really answer the question.

What I do know is that the nvidia video drivers are not the best in the world. Have seen several times that default drivers perform better then the latest nvidia. Perhaps that's worth a try to prevent the lockups?

 

[Kasper Stoltze]

Well, I dont have a triple screen setup, I only drive on my laptop (I know, should get a proper stationary), but I do use a ATI card.

My specs are:

CPU i7 2630 @2.00 GHz Not clocked
GPU Radeon HD 6770m with 2GB DDR5 Ram
6GB Ram
Windblows 7 64 bit.
Resolution is 1366 x 768

My in game settings are:

Circuit detail: Full
Player detail : Full
Opp Detail: Full
4 x AA
Shadows: low
Sun OC: no
Raindrops: yes
Mirrors: ON

I think the rest is either the lowest or off, I cant remember.

Online on the grid with about 25 drivers its down to 55-60 FPS, but right after the start it goes to 70-75. When Im alone and only a couple cars around me, its from 85-95. Sometimes it shortly peakes and goes to 135 FPS for a couple of seconds, anyone can explaine that?

These FPS Is from The cockpit of the Megane, on the circuits Full Loop, GT and Mills.

 

[Dennis Phelan]

What I do know is that the nvidia video drivers are not the best in the world. Have seen several times that default drivers perform better then the latest nvidia. Perhaps that's worth a try to prevent the lockups?

My upgrades will include an AMD/ATI card , this ongoing nvidea stuff is just crazy. But tell me, what is a default driver?

 

[Marco Bijl]

Have to look for the exact driver Dennis. There was a non-nvidia driver for geforce cards before. Not sure if it is still around, since I also have ATI card's these days. It's been a while since i last used a nvidia.

Will see if I can find some time to look for it tonight.

 

[Peter]

From what I read from users on Guru3d the last very stable driver is 275.33.
I use 285.62 because some textures screw up by the 29x.xx drivers in gmotor games.