Released DX11 and VR Open Beta, Is Here!

Got the same problem as by many other people reported before: performance if very low and even setting the graphics lower has allmost no impact. So good decision to make it an open beta. I experienced stuff like that with other games so no biggy for me if the DX9 version is still usable.

Could play with allmost all settings on high and 20 AI DW12 at NOLA at steady 60 FPS before and now I am alone on track and down to 30 FPS. PP makes a 10 FPS difference, but not really that much that I would call it a big difference as the game is running right now in DX11, so basicly terrible. Got to test the DX9 version and other content tomorrow to see how it is running in comparison. The visual improvements are noticable though, especialy the reflections and shadows. Now the performance needs to be fixed.

Sys specs: Win 7 64bit, AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2 GHZ, 4GB DDR 1333, Geforce GTX 770

 

us2000/Silverstone
posteffects: ultra -> extreme lights reflection
posteffects: none ->everything normal
fences flashing like hell. Cars are beautiful and track surface
triple screen working, triple screen tool working but seems smaller
around 60 to 70 fps alone
48 on start
20~30 using quick replay (almost unwatchable - i dont know if this is a word)

 

Thank you for this!
How do you know which are DX9?

 

Various problems here. Like many others, getting only 20fps with DX11 when was getting 110fps+ on DX9. Also AMD hardware. Reports video mem as -1048 in the launcher, and also reports the wrong Windows version (I'm on 10, not 8).

Further, it has removed and not re-downloaded many pieces of content, such as Indianapolis. I see in the Workshop several pieces with a May 1st date but none of those downloaded. However, I don't see some items such as NOLA and GT500 in there, but they did download.

Finally, opting into the beta causes a redownload of all 3Gb of data associated with it each time you enable it. Yes, its one click, but really?

A lot of work to be done to get this usable. Hope you can do some proper testing before the next attempt because this was pretty shoddy.

 

No noticeable FPS hit in cockpit camera, but lot of stuttering in outside cameras.

i7-4790 + 980 GTX

Image looks better, but I'm reverting to DX9 until the DX11 technology gets more mature.

BTW F12 informs me Screenshot was taken but I could'n find them in proper folder, maybe a bug.

Edit> Reviewing my post: Post Process was none. In Ultra, the FPS hit is 120 > 80, very significant in inside cameras. External cameras very laggy, bad to watch the race action.

 

Any plugins that display information on the screen need to either be removed or disabled. ie Trackmap

 

AMD users seem to be suffering the most. (and those that didn't follow the install instructions!) I know for my card, dx11 was a weakpoint. So this may not be a rf2 issue, but how AMD's cards handle dx11.

 

Thanks for all your hard work on this, Studio 397. Can honestly say, no problems so far.

 

thanks very nice for a first beta DX11 really good job Studio397 it's good way!!

 

Same here, in fact i noticed that in the video config window, show mi RX480 as a 1024mb ram when is a 8gb video card.
I did a rollback and in the old video settings windows shows 4096mb , still no 8gb but is playable.

Now i download the latest driver and again download the DX11 to test.

Lated i will coment my experience.

 

It's interesting to post your hardware to guide people. @jayarrbee36 would you confirm your replay external cameras are smooth as they were in DX9? Just out of curiosity, maybe I might keep DX-11 if it's something miss-configured.
In time, I'm using Nvidia and the Video info is also showing -1024 Mb, but I think it has no impact on the game performance.

 

I also have an AMD graphich card , Unfortunately, it does not work for me
But not problem, because I'm use again to use the previous version
I hope that there will be some update for AMD as well

 

i was using the urd jt5 mod, from URD. Changed car and now it works with every combo.
thank you !

 

First thing I've noticed is that there are now 5 levels of AA where there used to be only 4 levels. Marking level 4, as I had run in my benchmark testing before the update, AA is better than the previous level 4 and fps took a hit. Therefore I suspect we need an explanation about how the new AA levels correspond to the old AA levels before making a further judgement on fps performance.

 

Stutters sound like video memory issues for me. In the old days when my 5970 only had 2GB, it ran smooth (at a certain fps) until it ran out of VRAM and had to swap in and out textures from the HDD, causing hitches and stutter. Considering rf2 thinks you only have 1 gb, it would be a good guess to say that the game is swapping in and out textures to keep usage below 1gb. It might be a card identification issue

 

I was using the urd jt5 mod, from URD. Changed car and now it works, in 32 bit mode only, with every combo.
thank you !

 

I havent been able to test yet, but those complaining about lower FPS did you check video setting that Hz was set properly? I saw only one person saying the Hz had gone down to 24Hz after installation locking FPS in VSYNC to very low FPS.

BTW: Does CrewChief plugin work with DX11 update?

 

Yes

 

That info display likely has some legacy code in it because it hasn't read right for me for a long time. My 8 GB card shows as -81 MB, 16 GB RAM is shown as 15 GB, OS says Windows 8 when I'm running Win 10.

FWIW, for those unable to resolve crashing or poor performance on triples, maybe try dialing back the post processing and AA. For me with 5760x1200 resolution and an 8 GB video card I was seeing nearly 6 GB in use with AA one step down from max and post effects on Ultra.

 

rFactor 2 is reading my Video card memory incorrectly.
rFactor2 Video Setup DX11 v2.2.0.0
Reads that my Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 - only has 1024MB of ram, it is a 4GB video card not 1GB

And the in game Video RES Menu reads my Video Card as

NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970 -88 MB.

Though I have 32GB of system ram installed, it also reads that I have 31GB of ram installed, hope this gets fixed, because this misleading system readout was also in rFactor 2 before it switched to steam.