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Here are some useful tips to get the best performance out of your system
Recording your race
Turn this feature OFF for better performance but of course leave this enabled if you want to record replays to play back later.
Apps
Some apps can have a significant effect on system performance / framerates, so experiment with what apps are essential for you, vs performance. As a guide, RaceEssentials and Sidekick can have an impact of 30fps! As a general rule of thumb, the more apps you run, the more fps you will lose.
Graphic
Here you can make the most progress:
Display Page
As with all games, it's a case of trying various settings and seeing what works best for you on your own system. Except for the highest quality systems, there will always be a trade-off between visual quality and stable framerates, so set what is best for you.
If you find anything new or have some tips you want to share, post them in this thread
Recording your race
Turn this feature OFF for better performance but of course leave this enabled if you want to record replays to play back later.
Apps
Some apps can have a significant effect on system performance / framerates, so experiment with what apps are essential for you, vs performance. As a guide, RaceEssentials and Sidekick can have an impact of 30fps! As a general rule of thumb, the more apps you run, the more fps you will lose.
Graphic
Here you can make the most progress:
Display Page
- V-sync
Best to disable this, as it can induce significant input lag - Anisotrophic filtering
Higher settings here have a high impact on performance, so experiment with what works best for you. High quality vs stable framerates. - Anti-Aliasing samples
As with aniso-filter, this has a high impact on performance so, again, experiment with what works best on your own system - World detail
Low impact on performance so start at the highest level and adjust if necessary - Shadow resolution
Significant performance impact so again, adjust to suit
- Smoke generation
High performance impact, set to low on low-end systems - Post-processing effects
Very high performance impact but a significant improvement in quality. Experiment with the settings to find the best balance for your system and trade-off between visual quality and framerate - Crepsular rays, Heat shimmering effects, fast approximate anti-aliasing
Disable these for better performance but at the expense of missing some graphical "icing on the cake".
- Mirror resolution + high quality mirror reflection
High quality mirror reflection has a very high performance impact, so consider turning this off if you are struggling to maintain stable framerates - Reflection quality
Considerable performance impact. Experiment with the settings to find a nice balance between visual quality and framerate - Reflection rendering quality
Set to static and LOW reflection quality, or medium on faster systems
As with all games, it's a case of trying various settings and seeing what works best for you on your own system. Except for the highest quality systems, there will always be a trade-off between visual quality and stable framerates, so set what is best for you.
If you find anything new or have some tips you want to share, post them in this thread