The Ultimate Guide to iRacing's Graphic Settings Part One: GPU Control Panel 

Can you expand on this more or do a video Chad? I’m just so god damn dumb with computers. I like your thought process here. I would love to change it just for iracing and no the whole computer. Cheers

Yeah im wondering about that too.

the short answer, yes. there are ways to minimize the drop though. easiest way is have a 2nd pc and run the stream over your network to the 2nd system via NDI plugin inside obs. it grabs the frame buffer and ships it over ethernet at insane quality for so little of a hit to your performance its kinda silly. but it definitely requires a 2nd computer to do it. its how i am able to stream/record in vr using the quest 2. the effect is the same though, it takes less than 1% of your performance from the main system, and offloads the actual encoding/streaming burden to a second system. vs taking (my experience personally) up to 20% of your performance, and still having stutters in the stream under heavy gaming loads. NDI and a 2nd system completely eliminated all my stuttering on stream, and gained me back a lot of lost performance vs not streaming. hope that all makes sense. the short, get ndi plugin for obs and a cheap second system to offload the burden.

So I read you last sentence and was wonder, how big or cheap of a computer I need just to stream with as a second computer. How cheap can you go and would a laptop work? Just curious. Would you mind posting a link to a cheap second computer that you would buy yourself to use for streaming. Thank you!

@@adamthompson8432 I personally use a laptop as my streaming system. It’s using an i5 6 core cpu and a gtx 1650 max q gpu. It’s plenty for a 10mbps stream at 1080p. I paid $550usd for mine at my local Walmart 2 years ago, and you can likely find something second hand for a lot less. Basically anything with 4 cores and hyper threading, and anything 1650 max q or higher for the gpu.

I couldn't find it either, then I updated the Nvidia drivers!

Just open the start menu and type "Nvidia"

I usually find it by right clicking on an empty space on the Desktop

Depends. What's the rest of your system specs, and what's your budget?

3090-4090

My recommendation is a 3080. I currently use a 2080 (MSI Gaming X Trio 8GB) at that resolution and it gets the job done (CPU: 8700K, RAM: 16GB 3500Mhz DDR4). Running 4x FXAA and tweaking several settings I got it running between 100 to 140 FPS (about 125 avg.) on all road tracks tested so far (Suzuka, RBRing, Nordschliefe, Long Beach) and it looks great and runs silky smooth. A 3080 would definitely help to keep it pinned at 140 FPS, but I don't think the extra VRAM in the 3090 will be that useful, and a 4090 for that resolution is overkill. I would only get a 4090 if I planned to upgrade my triples to 1440p; it was made for higher than 4K pixel counts, which Triple 1440p is.

Yeah, what he said...

Agreed. One should use program setting and find iRacing from the drop-down list to make the changes there.

I always thought the same thing so I wasn’t going to change any of mine but I noticed he’s also in the global settings next to it in the Program Settings you can select iRacing and change some of the settings around. I’m gonna try that out and hope for the best, not sure it’ll work but 🤞🏻

he explains what each one does, that still is very helpful, regardless

@@liuyinzuo5765 Absolutely. The fact that he takes the time and put in all the effort that he does benefits all who choose to view

@@insidethreewide7133 I was going to ask about this .... won't do it globally 👍🏾

what pc did you get?

You obviously have a very low budget pc

@@TommyBrandon I have a 4 core 6gb ram 2gb gpu idk I just wanna play my game I’ve spent over 300$ on tracks and cars and Saved for so long and my pc just doesn’t like the game like I don’t even have a mouse I have to use my keyboard

@@TommyBrandon I just wanna play but I just never do cause I have to wait 45 mins for once ai race can’t even load online cause it takes to long and I can’t get in with enough time

@@Terencemoore121 ok, so I really hate to say this, but your system is way underpowered. Unfortunately, you are in a real need of an upgrade if you want to be able to play the sim at an enjoyable level.

Also he is just wrong on aa transparency, this is a gpu hog but also the one that improves the quality most cause of many fences and other transparent textures. It is even mir important in VR!

@@saxxon66right on! Nothing bothers me more than fences and fence shadows flickering and jagged.