VEC Graphics Issue

[Mark Fuller]

Hi everyone, looking for some VR advice (or not). I was involved in the 24 hr Daytona race over the weekend and had a major issue on my 2nd stint. I started the race for my team and all was fine – VR running at 80 FPS with no issues. I use FPSVR to monitor the GPU and CPU in game and all green. This ran OK for 3 hrs.

I left the sim when my stint was over and returned for a further stint many hours later. However, having changed nothing, just loaded the sim and joined the server, the graphics were awful and I was only getting an average of 24 FPS. FPSVR for the GPU and CPU were registering almost solid red with the occasional orange. I am also sure that my lap times were being recorded as 2-3 seconds slower, even though I was going the same speed as my first stint.

Is this a known issue and is there anything that I can to reduce the effects?

 

[Enric Miro]

Hi, maybe there was running an update during this last stint?

 

[Mark Fuller]

Hi, maybe there was running an update during this last stint?

Hi Enric - I don't think so. I don't believe that an update would last for 1 1/2 hrs and the computer was running for over 12 hrs between stints.

 

[Enric Miro]

Anyway, since I am using open xr , perfomance is really better. If you want some help to try it, let me know.

 

[Sergio Mendez]

Same here. 4090 and 12900k and having issues to keep it on 80 hz. Looks like track lightning was hitting us hard

 

[Mark Fuller]

Anyway, since I am using open xr , perfomance is really better. If you want some help to try it, let me know.

OK, thanks. Might try that.

 

[Sergio Mendez]

My issue was mainly cpu usage btw. By night. It was super high. Happened in the practice server by night too. But no issues in any other combo so far either.

 

[Jose Alvarez]

Something similar happened to me during my last stint. I had shuttering problems throughout the last part of the race. Like you, I didn't change any of the graphic settings either.

 

[Mark Fuller]

Same here. 4090 and 12900k and having issues to keep it on 80 hz. Looks like track lightning was hitting us hard

I was fortunate to race during daylight, so didn't experience that side of things. I don't know if rF2 keeps some sort of cache when you leave that affects things if returning to the same race. Perhaps a reboot would help.

 

[Enric Miro]

Have you changed the number of headlights in player.json?

 

[Mark Fuller]

Have you changed the number of headlights in player.json?

Not between stints and I raced in daylight on both occasions.

 

[Enric Miro]

your computer must have been doing something during that second stint. It have no sense with same conditions.

 

[Nic da Silva]

I don't run VR myself however I have raced with teammates who have used it. DDF Racer did multiple stints in VR without issue at P1 Gaming's Le Man event last year. He restarted RF2, VR headset and PC before very stint. Would highly recommend doing this instead of leaving the PC on for 12 hours in between stints as Computers can do some weird things in the background. @Mark Fuller

 

[Mark Fuller]

I don't run VR myself however I have raced with teammates who have used it. DDF Racer did multiple stints in VR without issue at P1 Gaming's Le Man event last year. He restarted RF2, VR headset and PC before very stint. Would highly recommend doing this instead of leaving the PC on for 12 hours in between stints as Computers can do some weird things in the background. @Mark Fuller

Yes, I did wonder if rebooting everything would have been best. Will try that next time.

 

[Sergio Mendez]

Yes Mark. Something similar happened to me but with other game (American truck simulator) and restarting the pc everything was working ok. Now I try to restart the pc before every stint (didn’t do it this time to not stop a streaming but I was lucky enough).

 

[James Andrew]

We have always had a strict policy of doing a full reboot after finishing a stint and disconnecting. Sleep, Hibernate, or even leaving the machine running just seem like you're begging for problems.