rec.autos.simulators

Well I decided to mess with it some more tonight because of everyone raving
about the
sim and discovered that simply turning the color depth from 32 bit to 16
made all the
difference for me.

I can now run with everything turned to full at 1280x1024 and it looks
marvelous and has
great frame rates.

Hope this helps some one else out there - and sorry if this has been covered
and I
simply missed it.

Thanks rFactor team
Dave B

shadows on full have been causing some issues with frame rate.  to increase
the frame rate a little bit more, just drop the shadows down one notch.

different systems have been giving varying results as to frame rate.
although people hate when its said, I'll say it anyway :)  but if you head
over to RSC in the rFactor forum, there may be some more tweaks and hints
there to improve things for you.

cheers

steve

That's odd, that changing the color depth made such a dramatic difference.
In doing so, was it possible that the shaders also changed, maybe from D9 to
D8?  I know that, though my system is not as fast as yours, once I went to
D7 for the shaders, the frames improved greatly.  Using D8 for shaders is
not all that bad, but I like the better frames when I use D7.

I have a BFG6200, running a P4 2.4 with 512 RAM.

Glad to hear you're getting better frames and enjoying rFactor.

Here, I'm still waiting for a decent track to run the F1s.  :)

Alanb

Yeah, he ought to be getting much better framerates.  He has a little
better of a system than me, and I can run at max details including
shadows and haven't had any framerate problems in car.

Someone released an alpha/beta of a conversion of Imola from F1C.  It
looks ugly but someone also released a texture update for it.  I haven't
gotten it, but people were saying the times in the FIS were about right
for modern F1 and not too fast as has been the critique of those cars.  
I'm holding out for the 1994 Imola that someone is making from scratch,
however.

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Ped Xing

With everything maxed out (including 16x ansiotropic filter) the lowest FPS
was just after the start, dropping down to 25.

Setting shadows to high instead of max increased this lowest FPS value to 48.

Reducing filtering from 16x to trilinear sped things up even more, but
the shadows seem to cause the biggest jump in settings.

I have a ATI X850 XTPE video card, and a P4EE 3.4ghz.

Alan,

I put the color depth back to 32 bit and it stayed solid. Last week I
updated
the Nvidia drivers from 77.77 to 78.01. I can only assume that made the
difference,
Not the color depth.  Sorry if I steered anyone in the wrong direction.

Anyway I am just loving the F3 mod with the new  MethylEthyl sounds, This is
just
awesome :)

PS: I had tried DX7 8 and 9 previously, I am using DX9 now.

Dave B

I also noticed the difference in the drivers, a big difference, in fact.  I
still run the game using D7 for shadders, mainly because my computer is
going on four-years old.  :)

Alanb