Occasional Stuttering/Slowdown

[snow osprey]

I've been experiencing occasional slowdown and stuttering while playing - it happens maybe one or two laps out of ten, where the game will either run at a slower frame rate or have a choppy frame rate for a few moments. Anyone have any settings changes they recommend? Running an i5-9400, 16GB (2133) Ram, and an RX 6700.

[tawdry pilot]

Car track combo
Nuber of ai
Where on track
Screen/ refresh rate
Gpu driver

[snow osprey]

Hyundai Elnatra TCR
Slovakia Ring
None
Generally in corners but usually turns 8-10
60hz
22.11.2

[snow osprey]

NSU TTS
Hockenheim Ring
0 & Online races
Intermittently throughout
60hz
22.11.2

[celest wadi]

Do you use otterhud?

[snow osprey]

I do not

[celest wadi]

Okay, otherwise i would have said play without it. but well 😅

[jagged basin]

and crew chief?

[snow osprey]

it happened with and without crew chief

[snow osprey]

The graphics issues on Hockenheim ring are getting pretty bad. I might have to see if there's just a setting my GPU doesn't like

[tawdry pilot]

Try and get your cpu to run at max , and not powersaving etc so it sits at its max 4.1ghz because if its trying to save energy and dropping to 2.9 ghz that will cause stutters

Use thepcs power settings to create an ultra profile , and change settings so it doesnt powersave

[snow osprey]

Under Processor Power Management, I have Min processor state and max processor state set at 100%

[snow osprey]

I dropped all the graphics settings to medium and it seems to have resolved the stuttering on Hockenheim. I'll have to do a longer session to confirm

[lunar pebble]

You should use something to monitor your cpu and stuff, f.e. opening taskmanager and and have a quick look when game stutters if something was busy, or others processes are working too in that moment.

[snow osprey]

I might do that. I thought I fixed it but uhhh Salzberg got pretty bad after a while

[neat sail]

for me, decreasing resolution worked well

[jagged torrent]

Installing and starting to use DXVK (vulkan) made a big difference for me. Got occasionally pretty bad stutters and fps drops before, both offline and online, with big grids despite good system but now it's butter smooth with huge fps boost. A real game changer for my system (ryzen 7 5800x & rtx3080) graphics basically maxed out.

[snow osprey]

@jagged torrent is Raceroom DX9?

[jagged torrent]

Yes

[snow osprey]

do you just copy over the d3d9 folder to steamapps/common/raceroom racing experience/Game/x64?

[jagged torrent]

This video explains the install in Raceroom. I just copied the x64 folder and then files. Very simple. I use the latest 2.1 version. I didn't even edit the system variable to enable the dxvk hud. https://youtu.be/cYcunmawBBA

[snow osprey]

well, I'm not sure it has completely worked

but also, it made the motion blur into hyperspace and it has made my wheel unhappy

[jagged torrent]

I never use motion blur so can't comment on that. But very strange if it affected your wheel in some way. 🧐 I've read that it doesn't help everyone so there must be something in the system that makes it work for some and not for others.

[tawdry pilot]

Your having fps issues but your running motion blur ?

[snow osprey]

I've tried with all the different motion blur settings

it's the same on all of them

[snow osprey]

so I didn't get any of the worst graphics issue which is graphics stop, sound keeps going on Salzburgring when I turned on the Afterburner FPS counter - however I did have FPS flying all over the place from 113-205

[spark lily]

i found reseting gpu settings to default sorted things a lot for me once, diddnt know i had altered them ..

[snow osprey]

I am running some driver updates