iracing graphics quality

[pyney]

Hi all , have just come back to iracing after many years away, the graphic's quality is quite good when everything is set as high as possible but not sharp , however comparing this to ACC or Automobilsta 2 it's not as good ? And alot more money you would think iracing would be better in this respect , am I doing something wrong with the graphic settings ? Any advice to improve, cheers

[Nats]

The only thing you are doing wrong is buying the wrong game lol. Try Project Cars 2.

[pyney]

I've got it for 3 months to try it out after many years away, yes I have project cars 2 great game and graphics are very good , really want a sim with more dedicated drivers that dont crash into you iracing has a good community and the races are very competitive and clean most of the time , just iracing lacks a bit of polish in the graphics

[Pug]

I'd say iRacing looks quite good, although ACC does look beautiful, and better than iRacing. I think the problem is just having a wide userbase, some with good PCs and some with bad. ACC has great graphics at the cost of high requirements. I don't think graphics is necessarily a focus as car interiors and tracks are fairly up to date, off-track stuff could use a polish though. Although if there was any major overhaul, there would be massive complaints about performance, and you can trust me on that. This game can be ran on triple screen setups and VR quite well, the same can't be said for ACC unless you've got a beefy rig.

[rola]

Even though iracing costs a lot, a lot of that money goes into developing the sim. The time and money they would have to spend to update the graphics to "2020 spec" would be way too high, and would ♥♥♥♥ over a lot of the players who use lower end PCs, and people who barely get by in VR.

[pyney]

Good comments from you both thank you, I'm getting use to the graphics now although not as good as acc or other newer sims it makes up for it on the sim racing side of things, in the last week I've had some of the best racing in years , competitive and I've not seen any players deliberately crashing into each other. I do like the fixed setup racing idea you know all cars are equal it just comes down to your experience in handling your car.

[LithiumFox]

"good" is subjective. iRacing can have much better graphics, however it depends on what you're looking for. Overall, in VR, it's the best looking sim. It also has incredible draw distances (shadows will literally still render up until the track itself disappears if you use fly camera into the sky)

You can increase shadow resolution by changing ShadowMapRes (i think) = 3 (it's default is 1 at 1024, it can be increased to 4096)

NumDynamicCubemaps= can change how many % cube maps are rendered per frame. This is a bit nicer than using the in-game control because in game control will set this to 100% of the frames! So, if you use something like 9-20, you can get live reflections in the game, which is super awesome at night, not gonna lie.

https://i.redd.it/9erbnf9q1q551.png

(this image shows Cubemaps on vs off. You can see the interior reflecting the wheel LEDs, which yes, if they're yellow or red, do show up on the ceiling of the car which i just think is neat. Runs HORRIBLY in vr though)

So yeah. It really just varies on how you set it up. :D

[LithiumFox]

Also here's a video for better reference of what i'm talking about

https://www.reddit.com/r/iRacing/comments/hbsx3w/another_cubemap_post_but_this_time_in_video_form/

[vjollila]

the main reason why this game does not that good is probably that this game is over a decade old but good enough for me

[Fivecorr]

Graphics are the most overrated thing nowadays. I rather take boring and "not so good looking" graphics over some flashy sunflair (which is the most unrealistic thing ever) and 10000 effects at once.

Gameplay over graphics!

[pyney]

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[pyney]

The Entity, thanks for the info , can you advise more on cubemaps , I can run dynamic cubemaps at 30 and still have 85fps , however fixed cubemaps is very fps hungry set at 2 and get 85 fps set at 5 and 45fps , your advise, thank you

[pyney]

edit , just restarted the game , can only run any cubemap at 1 or 2 before fps falls to 75fps anymore and its less than 40 to 25 fps

[Denko]

iRacing is the best optimized racing sim on the market. It looks good and I get more than enough FPS with a triple screen setup (incl. gtx 1080, i7 6700k), while in other sims I cant reach constant 60 fps with triple setup