Ultimate iRacing Graphics and FPS Boost Guide! - 2024 Edition

This video covers 2 very important parts for optimizing your iRacing graphics settings. The first being the GPU Control Panel followed by your iRacing in-sim settings. If you enjoyed the video make sure to leave a comment letting me know!.
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00:00 - Intro
00:01 - Why is this important?
02:40 - Graphics Control Panel Adjustments
07:40 - iRacing Graphics Settings Adjustments
My Gear
Simagic Alpha Mini Wheel Base
Simagic FX Carbon Fibre Steering Wheel
VNM Pedals (Large/200kg)
Obbuto Simrig with triple monitor stand
3 x 27inch MSI FHD 1ms 144hz Gaming Monitors
FIA Bucket Seat by QSP Racewear
PC Specs (for those interested)
NVIDIA RTX 4070
AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3d
32gb DDR5 Corsair Vengence Ram 6400mhz
2tb Samsung EVO SSD
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[@JACKZERYT]

Feel free to leave a like and comment in you found this helpful! 💙

[@louiienation8497]

I went from 80-90fps at Fuji in the rain to 130-135fps in the rain !! Thank you my dude!

[@Andre_Nedra]

Many thanks for the video, mate. I love heathaze and distortion as they make picture really immersive. Just subscribed for your channel 🙂

[@JACKZERYT]

Thanks Andre!!! Much appreciated

[@davidmhulme]

you just got me +30fps and the track detail is way better than before (especially the groove/tire wear you talked about). tysm!

[@JACKZERYT]

💙

[@TBolt1]

Thank you. As I thought, your video helped me consider some tweaks that I hadn’t thought of. My settings now are not exactly like yours, but my frame rates are even better now in dry & wet conditions. 👍 It’s hard to make a video like this because everyone’s PCs are so different from yours. The video helped, though.

[@mikes3152]

Thanks so much for this video! It is my "go to" when I screw things up!

[@JACKZERYT]

Glad you found it useful buddy!

[@r3vlimit3r]

JACKZER or Jack of All Trades very helpful video man jam packed with tons of info.

[@JACKZERYT]

Thanks brother

[@marijn17s]

The part about racelabs is wrong! You need the one on the left to be set to 63. This will only affect your network so make sure your network can handle it. The one on the right is only for the rendering, and racelabs does *not* require you to have that turned to the max. It can be set to anything you like

[@JACKZERYT]

Now that's what I call gold info!!!! Amazing thanks alot!

[@cbremer83]

I get better performance with FPS capped. I have a 4080 with a 5800x3D and run everything on max settings with FPS locked to 118 fps. Screen does 120fps with Gsync. Depending on what is track I am on and the type of event, GPU sits at 60-80 load most of the time. And when it needs the extra grunt, the headroom is there. FPS will stay rock solid with no stutters or anything. If nothing else it should be tested on every rig to see what works best.

[@Raccoon_76]

This is a great guide, my iracing looked like crap until I followed this guide. For reference I have an AMD 5600X, 32GB with an RTX 3070 with triple 32" 1440p and I'm getting smooth 60-70 fps with decent looking graphics. Thank you!

[@JACKZERYT]

YoooOO!!Ooo!O Im so glad it helped! Like made my day glad!, Any questions at all buddy in the future, find me on my discord or my instagram!

[@rarewhiteape]

I’d like to offer a suggestion for rain reflections. For me I run it turned off and it gives me almost double the frame rate as I would having it set to low or high. But people seem to think you can’t see any water reflections on the track of you use the static cube maps instead of screen space reflections, but this is incorrect. You actually CAN see reflections, they just look different. Give it a try and see what you think, but I say this is the biggest area where people are losing frame rate in wet weather conditions.

[@JACKZERYT]

Will do, thanks man!!!

[@pmattarazzo]

Not sure if it helps or not with fps but even if you have Resizable BAR (ReBar) enabled in you bios you still have to enable it in nvidia profile inspector app.

[@alexandrecoelho73]

Nice video, really useful ^^ How does the Nvidia Control Panel works ? Does it apply settings before the game settings ? After ? At the same time ?

[@JACKZERYT]

Ye share I'd also a setting to have it just like this for the application iRacing so it doesn't effect your other games.

[@JACKZERYT]

"Destop" 😂🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Let me know if you have any other tips regarding FPS or how to make iRacing look better!!! It's like looking after a Bonsai tree, it never ends 😂, Thanks for watching!

[@lukavujeva6584]

Ended up watching this since I have a strange issue. I’m not sure if anyone else experienced something like this. With very powerful PC and RTX4080, my iRacing started behaving very strange since April this year. Randomly I have kind a FPS issues, but not in the presented rate, but just randomly the background lags as I’m turning the car. Car itself has top performance in gems of the FPS and graphics, but track and background is making issues. It’s very random from session to session, I have low ping, super fast internet, all connected via LAN, all drivers up to date. Basically I use this PC only for iRacing.

[@kbsmithgaming9560]

My Game looks like Nintendo Can't wait to try these settings

[@whitedragonracing]

One thing you missed when it came to the Nvidia control panel was to set those settings in program settings, not global. Lots of people will be confused to the performance and look of other games now. For older cards like mine Nvidia control panel settings make a big difference, some of us wont pay the silly prices Nvidia charge and still run all games with a beast of a card called a 1080ti. 😋 I am yet to try the rest of the settings in iracing, shall see how it works, as it is okay taking these settings, but i have an old card.

[@maxlewin7807]

My gtx1080tiftw3 is still going strong! Badass card.

[@Qyxz85]

The only option I see related to iracing under pgroams is iracingui.exe. Will this apply to iracing, or just the UI?

[@ryandavid8910]

Nice, gained 10fps and made the game look nicer overall 😎

[@TrillianXIII]

Maximum performance mode can be turned on, it helps the gpu perform at it's maximum clock speed, atleast on the 30 series cards, the clock speeds can fluctuate or not go above idle speeds which will impact performance, it can make the fan curve wonky too. Also make these changes to the program individually and not globally.

[@Markknightexeter]

Wow, I don't realise they've taken that long to implement rain!

[@drorzy_0485]

nice vid. Would be helpful to update it with the new Nvidia App though as that has taken over from the Nvidia control Panel

[@JC0894]

Nice tips. How are the VNM pedals? got some on the way

[@JACKZERYT]

They're excellent, I should probably cover a review on them soon, won't be doing crazy cinematic stuff but maybe a little review after a few mo ths of use... If you need a hand setting them up or with software or hardware... don't hesitate to ask. Hopefully I see you around more 🫡

[@JC0894]

@@JACKZERYT So I followed your settings and even though I had most of them already set correctly, the game now looks so much better. I guess its the control panel stuff and heat haze/distortion ticked. Much more immersive, big thanks 😀 Glad you like them. I've been waiting a long time for them to arrive so itching to try them out & i've got the shifter already so I think I have a grip on the software. Can I ask what elastomer/spring stack youre running?

[@JACKZERYT]

That's amazing man 🎉🎉 I use, Bluespring wound very tightly so there's only 2cm of travel, then a Yellow and red elastomer... I did many tests and this is the hardest I can do while still being fast, fun and not going to tear my achillies heel 😂

[@badBekanzar]

and the new tracks? i have issues with nrew tracks like misano, algarve..

[@ddsracingfl]

Oh great finally, found video with same card 4070

[@JACKZERYT]

Yooooo we're gang gang 🤜🤛

[@timtamtung]

Same same 4070 gang

[@JACKZERYT]

@@timtamtung gang gang gang!

[@timtamtung]

Helped alot. My fps quite consistently at 90 fps with some good fidelity visually. I'm pretty happy with 90s . What cpu are you guys on? I'm 7800x3d

[@JACKZERYT]

@@timtamtung me too!!

[@Xolayer]

I use a configuration similar to this (shader medium detail) and it works quite well in fps, the problem is that the weekend I ran a race with the gt3 in bathurst that was raining during the whole session and during the race I had four crashes something that had never happened to me before, does this configuration have something to do? has it happened to anyone else to have so many crashes in races with rain?

[@meawayfromhome]

No I believe it’s not just you? I also had a crash to desktop in rain at Bathurst also. And I have been reading a lot of other people in rain races have experienced the same.

[@DougRiceNewYorkBroker]

Great video but you need to qualify these as 1080P only settings, running 4090 / 1490K and it halved my frame rate, looks awesome but a huge downgrade... a few fixes by tweaking works but a small warning wouldn't hurt

[@JACKZERYT]

Good point, I'll figure something out for that, good spot!

[@buddy5088]

I get a 5-10 fps boost with SPS off. I see a lot of people claiming the opposite. I have a 13900K, 4090, 32GB Ram. Do you get the same results?

[@JACKZERYT]

You seem to have a beefier setup than me, and to be honest I'm fine for FPS, to the point where I don't *really* have to turn anything down.

[@iRacinVR]

​@@JACKZERYT Turning SPS OFF actually IMPROVES visual quality, so it's a WIN-WIN if it also boosts your frame rate. By the way, this setting is for Virtual Reality, and I'm also getting better frame rates with it disabled.

[@RCSPARTAN77]

Nice vid but the biggest "heavy hitter" by far is SSR. Even on low always will use extra 20-30% GPU. Much more than the heavy hitters you waffle on about.

[@Chris_2709]

For me the Nvidia Settings are the same. But what makes a big different, is to set „Reflex“ to enabled and „MSAA Samples“ to 4x. That was a performance boost for me!

[@peppetheking7]

Where is Reflex?

[@Chris_2709]

@@peppetheking7 iracing -> graphics -> top middle/right side

[@peppetheking7]

​@Chris_2709 thank you very much

[@peppetheking7]

​@Chris_2709 also my resolution is different. It also hive the ghz on the side of the resolution. What I should use?

[@johndog2010]

ive watched a video that really helped and he said the opposite to almost everything

[@JACKZERYT]

Well if he's telling you to put on cubemaps, dynamic obj. Foilage and the rest, I hope you've a nasa space station pc lol

[@johndog2010]

Not at all. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that your advice is wrong. It's just different to what I watched recently. Yes i did like and subscribe and I usually don't. I'm just a guy with a pc that's not quite up to the task of my 49inch ultrawide. I only do iracing and it's a constant problem. I'd dearly love the opportunity to talk to someone who knows such as yourself

[@JACKZERYT]

@johndog2010 if you dm me a screen shot of your settings on instagram/my discord (link on my channel) I'll take a look and see if there's any gains to make. I will say if you have a PC thst struggles, do close browsers, any apps you don't need don't have open, if you use an overlay use iOverlay (It's free and doesn't use much performance)... But send me a screen shot and I'll see if there's any changes you can make. (Upload on imgur or just drag and drop in my discord)

[@johndog2010]

@JACKZERYT thank you do much sir. I'll do that shortly

[@johndog2010]

@@JACKZERYT i sent you an email

[@bumbarossdundahae6312]

Im not sure maybe the game favours amd i play on a 6700xt and 5800x games set to highest settings and i always stay around 130 to 140 fps

[@billwiley7216]

How many monitors, what size and what resolution?

[@bumbarossdundahae6312]

@@billwiley7216 3 monitors 2 are 1080p and the main one is 2560x1400

[@billwiley7216]

@@bumbarossdundahae6312 Thats the reason you are getting high frame rates is the low resolution 1080p monitors. Takes a lot less GPU power to run 1080p than it does 4k monitors or even 3 1440p!

[@blade7551]

I never knew 16x did that

[@JACKZERYT]

I know, some huge difference it makes being able to see that lovely dynamic track the iRacing deva worked so hard on 💪💪💪

[@ewenblack4174]

My fps boost… a 4090!

[@jamespiga3984]

Well this just destroyed my fps 😂😂 Jesus

[@JACKZERYT]

What did you have trouble with?, did you turn off all of the heavy usage things I outlined? And restarted your iRacing? This guide is to help you understand what switches to turn off. But if it's too complicated, you can always just turn everything to low. Might be the safest bet for ya, then in time try to turn on the things thst make the sim look better, but aren't as taxing on performance. Maybe then check back on this vid, and you may understand more. If you have any questions fire away, I'm here to help :)

[@mattyhopps8577]

I’ve dropped about 50 frames doing this haha wtf

[@user-sm7be3jt1i]

the worst graphic configuration I have tried to date

[@JACKZERYT]

Sorry about that Victor, I've told you about what all the high usage items are.