How to make iRacing look better

[@stevieb931]

Most underrated iracing youtuber. Love your work sir.

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks a lot mate 👊🏻

[@christophersmith8028]

It’s crazy how now that I’ve played with the settings, the difference from stock game to filter applied is something I don’t think I can ever go back from. Great work, and much appreciation for all the helpful iracing content you put out. Cheers!

[@Enjoying-Life]

Anyone know why when I press alt+f3 I only get sharpening versus 1,2,3?

[@neil-wilson-borowillow4618]

I forgot about this video until it was mentioned on humpday . Unbelievable difference the picture quality has improved massively. Thanks for the information

[@1976Cordoba]

This is great - I've hated the look of iRacing since I started in it in 2019 but I enjoy the racing so I've lived with it. With this I can make it look more true to natural colors - Thanks!

[@jamesmoonie5417]

Nvidia software doesnt recognise iracing as a supported game, anyway to change this?

[@PhilDiasPJD]

Totally changed the way iracing looks. Cool.

[@Sampsoid]

Glad you like and yes I agree 😎

[@PhilDiasPJD]

@@Sampsoid Just tried it on my own computer, Just wow, looks better than ACC now ha ha

[@fyrebyrd80]

I'm trying to use the game filter for iRacing, I've set "connect sockets" to 1. When I try to use the game filter, I get a pop up from nVidia saying "A supported game is required to use this feature." Any clue what may be wrong?

[@vwchris11]

I've seen other videos saying it should be set at 0 for this. Not sure what is right.

[@fyrebyrd80]

@@vwchris11 thanks I'll give it a try

[@Kreel12]

for some reason it wont do it keeps saying it cant find it i added the folder but keeps saying it isnt a supported game

[@AWAY-WE-GO-OZ]

my nvidia doesn't pick up iracing in the game part is there something i need to do to make it show up in games list ?? Cheers

[@1net1me]

Doesn't matter if GE doesn't see game, just setup overlay in GE, run iRacing, get in car then hit alt+f3. First attempt I had to restart game once but now it's fine. Thanks for more useful tips David!

[@simplemarks3420]

LOL, I never searched for this topic and when i search i get like 20 mins old video :) thanks mate :P I remember your car, we raced in the same endurance split Barcelona 12h :) and my friend almost drove into you when you guys ran out of fuel if i remember correctly.

[@Sampsoid]

Hiya, yeh I remember. Fun times 👊🏻

[@richlavigne1505]

Here's something to be aware of... if you keep the "in-game overlay" option ticked it will kill your computer's ability to go into screen saver. Just something to be aware of. I sometimes like to step away from my machine for a little while and let it run a slideshow of images I've shot in game. Searching for this topic, it appears this has been an issue for several years that Nvidia isn't keen on fixing.

[@robertisler8557]

Brilliant! Never thought this few settings can change the picture quality in iRacing that much. Geat job, thank you !

[@petereriksson3084]

Always learning something new watching your videos !! Great video !!

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks and glad to hear!

[@magicgamester]

This is great!!! Im a brand new member of iracing. Lately, when I press alt + f3, i get the error 'please restart your game to use this feature'

[@muratada2801]

hello, I followed the steps you said, everything is up to date, everything is as it should be. but when iracing is on, when I open ctrl+alt+z and press game filter, it doesn't click. what could be the solution

[@AlfiMC]

my core.ini was already set on 1, but nvidia doesnt recognize iRacing and also doesnt show any filters to apply.. any known fix for that?

[@colossalbigfoot256]

Found you from a shout-out from Matt Malone. Glad I found your channel for this video if nothing else.

[@AlexSevillanoLledo]

I try to apply filters and get messages from nvdia saying game is not supported or an error occurred, any clue why ?

[@simracingcockpit]

I didn't know about nvidia experience, in fact I've been avoiding it! Thanks for this 👍

[@gregmitchell2191]

Awesome Dave, thank you! One issue I'm running into is it won't work using the UI, only when I log in through the web site. I get a "A supported game is required to use this feature" error. Any tips or setting suggestions? (I have it pointing to both C:/Program files)

[@jadenmunozz]

Do we have to re apply the filter everytime we load up iracing or will it do that automatically?

[@Sampsoid]

It will remember and keep it applied.

[@gaarax80583]

Have theese filters got drop performance on fps????

[@littlemuffin943]

all i get is sharpening and its grayed out

[@Yannick-TV]

THE LEGEND AT IT AGAIN

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks mate 👊

[@guert2000]

Nvidia game filter always bring a packet lost issue when online racing. Have you found a way to fix that issue?

[@caicoschlieper]

I had tried this months ago, and when i applied this filter iracing dropped my fps, the same happened to you?

[@nightfire20]

Thank you for making this video. I understand it is 3 years old and lately, people have been greeted with a non-compatibility error. Maybe you could look into this and update us? Thanks in advance

[@luke50191]

You sir are a genius, this made iracing look like a 2010 game instead of a 2000 game haha its still not quite there but definitely an improvement!

[@floppa933]

This looks as good if not better than ACC how does it look like a 2010 game?????

[@rpcorp]

Thank you! Incredibly helpful!!

[@dakndonk]

Great feature , works a gem although changing the visual settings takes a hit on fps, I go from 125fps to about 82 after layers are applied

[@squatcitygaming1726]

When I select the colour option, the contrast dramatically drops. Then adding more contrast doesn't improve it. Any advice?

[@andrewmorris21]

Ever since i have done this in the video iracing keeps sticking atfter it loads up and doesn’t show a picture . And I keep getting a counter in the top left of my screen??

[@TonyKiv]

Do you still use this filter in iRAcing? I see it was put out 2 years ago. Thanks for all of the great info.

[@robertospilerekestering7145]

No way to do my geforce recognise Iracing. Have you got any suggestion? I've tried everything I found on the forums, nothing worked so far.

[@petereriksson3084]

It wont work with the UI, try starting the sim from the website.

[@rpierrelouis86]

This looks epic!! Nice one Dave...will deffo be giving this a go.

[@lieslikelove]

This only works me for in practice sessions. Can't get it to work a race

[@jakedennis8346]

Do you have to open up the filter software each time you load iracing or once the filter is made it then stays?

[@Sampsoid]

Hi Jake, it will apply your settings next time you fire up iRacing

[@scottmagee3113]

I always get a message saying a"A supported game is required to use this feature when I use ALT Z. I have edited and saved the core.ini file in iracing. What am I doing wrong? I have just reinstalled geforce experience. Great video by the way, very helpful.

[@swedlee]

David I have the same monitor as you but I can’t stream or make my videos without having the super distortion from the ultra wide monitor? How do you fix this? Obs?

[@stevetaylor1085]

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing this!!

[@Sampsoid]

Glad you like it 👍🏻

[@StickA-yd4fp]

How does monitor settings affect this? Should those be changed as well?

[@tonypbeck]

Hi Dave, I’ve configured the overlay, but it won’t launch the first time I ask after opening iRacing, it comes up with an error that a suitable game isn’t running, so I have to close iRacing and open iRacing again and then the overlay will launch, any ideas why it is doing this?

[@petereriksson3084]

I had the same problem. But if you start the game from the website and not the UI it works, atleast for me.

[@julieredmon1521]

Awesome. Glad you shared that. I'll be doing that on my system.

[@Deltavorce]

Does this only affect what you see? Trying to see if this would affect photos taken in sim.

[@dannyvincent3365]

Was totally unaware of this feature. Thanks a lot for making this video 👍🏼

[@ivohage]

What does the connect_sockets do? It's just a server thing right? Nothing to do with how the game runs?

[@turn7racing]

Great video again. I had been playing around with this a while back. But the vibrance I had never touched so yea it helped me out a bit. Cheers

[@Sampsoid]

More than welcome

[@turn7racing]

One thing u noticed tho is that you use DOF (Depth of feild) this is greyed out on my replay settings I have no idea why! Is there something I need to activate to get that on?

[@scottharra5193]

Great video David. I am guessing it will work the same with VR as it does on screen, correct?

[@silvestre007]

Hi David, great video. I have learnt a lot from your videos and are always much of help. With this one I have an issue that is when I press alt+F3 after iRacing it's running I get an error from the Nvidia software saying "An error occurred. Please restart your game to use this feature". I did it many times but always the same error. Did you ever heard about this issue? Thanks again for all your videos 😉

[@gwiezdnymacior336]

I have the same problem

[@prodryn4811]

Great !!!THX!!!Now my HDR look great!

[@kptv75]

Thank you very much for this lesson!

[@fernandoforte9819]

When i turn on the NVidia filter, the game crash :( i can not use,

[@Oranskyyy]

what does connect sockets option actually do?

[@t.sewell1513]

It keeps telling me an error occurred or a supported game required. I’ve tried reinstalling the driver…a previous driver version…GeForce experimental tab. Nothing works. Any other ideas?

[@petereriksson3084]

Try to start the sim from the website instead of the UI.

[@t.sewell1513]

@@petereriksson3084 I will try that. Thank you.

[@JunoBeach1944]

Impressive as always. Thanks-a-ton ! Except for some reason iRacing freezes when I click Alt F3 to engage the filter... sigh :(

[@dcolligan68]

great video... easy to follow major improvement to my display... thanks for sharing!!!

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks Doug, glad to hear that

[@codiejohnson4752]

Now what does the socket change do?

[@vividpsychosis8222]

Can you do an update with reshade as nvidia experience no longer supports iracing for the reshade

[@manuelpolanco4432]

Iracing doesn´t appear in my list as a compatible games, why?

[@Sampsoid]

Hi Manual, where are referring to?

[@anthonyp4474]

Great Video! Thanks for the time mate!

[@Colin_Barnes]

Nice! I'll give that a go soon. Does doing this have a negative effect on performance?

[@Sampsoid]

Very slight if any. It is handled through Nvidia and the core.ini fully supported.

[@Colin_Barnes]

@@Sampsoid I tried it. It looks way better... But the game stutters a lot unfortunately. I have the fps locked at 83 and it never goes below 83, but the game looks pretty choppy while using the filter. I have a 1080-TI, i5-7600K running triple 1440, most settings on low and both gpu and cpu are running at around 60%. Without the filter it runs really smooth, then as soon as I add the filter it runs choppy :( I reinstalled Nvidia experience twice and turned the filter on and off multiple times to make sure it was not a one time thing. So I can't really use it. Sad because it looks way better indeed. Maybe when I upgrade somewhere in the future i'll try again.

[@dirtyjerz32]

Good video. Tried doing this tonight and I kept getting a pop up from Nvidia saying the game wasn’t supposed.

[@CMRHiFi]

perfect tips & tricks video as always and it looks way better and that's what iracing needs! Just one thing, why is your mic/voice so distorted and not enjoyable crisp clear? think it's too loud, noticed this on your race videos too! btw Daytona was a great race too, cheers!

[@Racer-X-090]

Reshade stopped working so I was going to try this. It tells me iRacing is not a supported game? 🤷‍♂Unrelated but Race labs just recently stopped working too It tanks my framerate. like from around 100 fps to around 10...Guess I'm back to iRacing vanilla again. Something about the latest build of iRacing or just really unlucky.

[@ScaleCarsMotorsport]

That's great but I'm not able to use this option. Wondering is it me or because I do use a triple screen...

[@ferdyvanverseveld591]

For me its only work in a replay🤔

[@marklay8879]

What a difference!! HUGE!!!! Thanks.

[@kitmilo]

Hi, every time I press alt F3 I get an error message and please restart the game

[@petereriksson3084]

Try using the website to start the sim, I cant get it to work with the UI.

[@flymoferrariracing8332]

Hi Dave, Brilliant video as always, I will be trying this tomorrow, Thanks for all the great informative videos on your channel they are always straight forward and easy to understand, You should have a million subs, Have a great weekend and happy racing 🏎️🏎️🏁

[@Sampsoid]

Hi, thanks and glad you enjoy my content. All the best 👍🏻

[@Kazzor7492]

Well, thanks for the video and I also tried that out but I have to tell you for someone playing on a 4K HDR television set RGB gamut to “full” iRacing looks absolutely gorgeous on stock settings 👍

[@lsemaldokhar4154]

I have AMD. Is there an equivalent way for me to do this?

[@ChrisMcGuire0]

when i use nvidia filters it gives me error codes in sim and i cant race. but i can use these filters for replays just fine *edit didnt realize how crucial the core.ini part was. that solved the error code i was getting

[@neil-wilson-borowillow4618]

Great video David I will try this next time I boot up my pc. Very informative brilliant video . Keep em coming 👍

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks Neil, hope you enjoy

[@martinhurst7372]

Does this have any impact on VR?

[@FelippeSenne]

Does it work with a VR headset on?

[@Sampsoid]

I'm afraid not, I'll post for sure if I find a way.

[@FelippeSenne]

@@Sampsoid thanks, man. It would be great to give Quest 2 some extra sharpness.

[@andymcgovern3754]

I was hoping it would work so quest 2 can get sharper, deeper blacks. Hope there's a way to get it to transfer over

[@andywright2606]

Excellent video mate. I was totally unaware you could do this within NVIDIA so thanks heaps. Cheers Andy 🏎🏁👍

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks a lot and you are more than welcome.

[@Patrik.Pereira]

any reason why it always says an error occured please restart your game to use this feature?

[@Sampsoid]

Make sure Nvidia drivers are up to date, make sure when you changed core.ini iRacing was closed.

[@RED84Cf]

iRacing not supported in mine?

[@andrewmorris21]

Another awesome video thank you

[@jai_lawrence7925]

when i go into iracing and press alt f3 it says 'open a supported game to use this feature', any suggestions, good vid though

[@Sampsoid]

Hi Jai, make sure Nvidia is up to date and that you have changed the connect_sockets to a 1 in the core.ini with iRacing closed.

[@jai_lawrence7925]

@@Sampsoid im not to sure about the nvidia part, might not even work because i didnt have geforce experience installed before and im running on a laptop

[@robelliot3511]

I was stuck as well...but then I realized that I just can't open racing...you need to enter a session and get in your car. You need the Sim screen. Maybe that will help you.

[@nathannessmith5998]

I’m having a similar issue. I have a 3090 and for some reason it doesn’t allow the alt F3 menu in game. Claims an error has occurred and claims I need a restart to allow that feature. After multiple attempts still nothing. Just for reference all the instructions from David’s video were followed.

[@rontgenpetersen1896]

@@nathannessmith5998 same issue here. I guess iracing did something to prevent us from using it? Very strange

[@nostromo2902]

You should have looked into the DETAIL filter! There is some magic going on to make "clean" and sterile looking games like iracing a lot more punchy!

[@Sampsoid]

I will take a look for sure

[@kurtlinton5907]

Does it work in VR?

[@Sampsoid]

Unfortunately not, however the yellow color temperature issues isn't there in VR for some reason. If I find a way I'll post about it.

[@twobrokenlegs13]

Any VR updates?

[@lawrenceiracing6027]

Thanks champ this makes a huge difference 👍

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks, glad you liked it

[@chadlanc]

I wish it worked for me but just turning the filter on before changing anything it destroys the image, anyone else had a problem like that?

[@SimGamerNerd]

This is impressive. Thank you. Hopefully this works in VR too

[@SimGamerNerd]

Reporting back after trying this. Blown away!!!!!

[@seanbritt5364]

@SimGamerNerd how did you make it work?

[@Crackberry95]

Great video!

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks mate, look forward to racing you again 💯🏁

[@tonyhobbsuk]

Great video but it should be noted that using an Nvidia game filter will tax your GPU. My GTX 1060 6Gb produces approx 20% less FPS running an overlay in iRacing.

[@jpacaud86]

Thank you ! :D

[@tokkelcs]

it is a bummer that it not work in VR .. gonna use this in replay's ..

[@NochEinKamel]

Does it work in window mode for nvidia?

[@Sampsoid]

Yes indeed as I run in windowed mode

[@MarcERNOULT]

Great ! Thanks a lot !

[@ianjackson4011]

Noice! Thx David.

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks Ian 👍🏻

[@mrlang7818]

No core.ini in my iracing folder 🥺

[@Wizzler2112]

Mine eyes have seen the glory!

[@GunfightersINC]

Just wished it worked for VR.

[@Scooter21784]

For everyone saying that it is not supported, I had to go into my Graphics options in game and switch it to full screen and then get out of iRacing and go back in. I dont know if it needs to stay in full screen to work after that. Let me know what you find!

[@alextrem9336]

Fonctionne avec la VR Windows Mixed Realyti , Thanks 🤙

[@perry0691]

das this cost anny fps?

[@tonyhobbsuk]

Yes. For me approx 20% using my GTX 1060 6Gb in iRacing.

[@0heck]

Really sucks these filters don't work in VR.