Cars in front popping in and out existence

[Crabbit Wife]

Anyone else experiencing this bug? In some races a few cars, maybe 5 or six in front of your car momentarily disappear and appear again. I've had this a few times now.

[NairBoT]

This might be a feature added in a recent patch that allows you to limit how many cars are visible.
I would look for that setting.

[Miro]

I have the same problem. I have AMD 5800X3D, RTX 4070ti, fast SSD M.2, 64gb memory and play only single player.

[Super Vinni]

Yeah, this seems like the new feature of limiting visible cars on track..

Go to your performance settings and set "Maximum visible cars" to OFF

[Saab Jitsu]

Noticed it yesterday. A Porsche kept flashing in and out 2 cars in front of me.

[Oggmeista]

well can't know for sure but that sounds suspiciously like a lag spike to me, that could be individuals or it could be the server

[Saab Jitsu]

Originally posted by Oggmeista:

well can't know for sure but that sounds suspiciously like a lag spike to me, that could be individuals or it could be the server

That may be. When I look in the main lobby page, everyone shows the little signal triangle in green. This is rare as I'm in the US and it's usually yellow at best. When you pick a lobby, when you get in they are all red.
For reference I'm on gig fiber line hard wired with cat 8 and it was never like that before the last major update

[NairBoT]

Originally posted by Quick☢420™:

Originally posted by Marcos Santos:

Yeah, this seems like the new feature of limiting visible cars on track..

Go to your performance settings and set "Maximum visible cars" to OFF

Sarcasm? Anyways this 'option' has always been available in the game,reducing visible cars will improve fps performance for those struggling with low fps.

It was recently added on 12/31/2023 with V1.5.5.0 patch.

V1.5.3.5 -> V1.5.5.0 CHANGELOG

GENERAL

• Added option to limit maximum number of visible vehicles

Regardless of when the option was added, it sounded like this might have been be the issue since the OP called out the number of cars that would fade away.

[Crabbit Wife]

This happened in single player for me not multiplayer

[DC2Dixon]

Probably to do with the recent addition to limiting seen cars?

On the first release, most of the cars in front would disappear and the ones in the mirror/behind would remain. They recently changed it to prioritise the cars in front to be shown. It probably still needs tweaking?

[Oggmeista]

Originally posted by Crabbit Wife:

This happened in single player for me not multiplayer

single player, right well forget any lag spikes then there is a setting though which changes the distance when cars pop into view ( draw distance) , i usually set this to max even if it means on some games having to compensate other gfx settings like shadows lighting scaling or whatever