Assetto Corsa, Content Manager & Sol mod
Feb 7, 2020 8:49:01 GMT
Post by trickydee on Feb 7, 2020 8:49:01 GMT
I've posted this on the SJ Discord site, but thought I'd share here for anyone that isn't on there.
Had a play around with the settings in AC and content manager last night, thought I'd share. Bare in mind i'm on VR, but a lot of this will still hold true for flat screens.
First thing I found, is that with Sol and the new shader patch, you really do need to be running post Processing of some description. For VR there is a Sol_VR PP filter, this gives the least hit to frame rates, but still causes 20-30% drop. But the difference it makes is quite significant. Dash lighting glows, cars spit fire and brake lighting is significantly improved. The new Sol sky boxes and weather effects are all improved. after a lot of testing, I've changed my opinion from not using PP in VR as frame rate was king, to you've got to use some sort of PP, the benefits now outway the disadvantages.
Now to get some of that frame rate back.
Turn the Antialiasing down to x2, this will have a significant effect to the frame rate. Quality will drop, but we'll look at getting that back in a bit.
Next, turn shadow resolution down, this also has quite a large effect on the frame rate, and can be turned down in steps with very little noticeable loss of quality. keep knocking it down a step then run benchmark, when you hit a point where you don't like loss of shadow quality, go back up one step.
Now to get some of that quality back. Turn up the super sampling in SteamVR. This will give back some of the AA that you removed earlier. IMO the AA you get from SS gives more benefits for less of a hit than what you get with the ingame AA settings. I'm running SS at 220% and this gives me 70-90 FPS in the benchmark depending what is going on, and even on a dark track with headlights, I'm getting 60-70 which is quite playable in a racing sim.
Next, less a quality thing and more a preference thing. I had switched off the seasonal adjustments. Well, i have put them back on. Don't know if I had a bug, or if it was because I had PP turned off, but when I first tried I didn't like them, colours were a bit weird. But tried again last night and they look awesome. Driving around Spa, in Feb with snow on the ground and trees, looked fantastic.
There are shit loads of other setting in game to play with. Most of the Shader patch settings seem to have very little effect on frame rate, grass etc. seems to effect it very little. Keep the high quality mirrors on, again not a massive hit, but the quality difference is quite large. Not played with reflections yet, but will try. bound to be other things in there to tweak, but this stuff should be a fairly good start. Would like to get my SS up towards 250% as that seems to be the sweet spot for my headset, but looking pretty good at 220%.
Just as an addendum, I am coming round to the opinion that AC with CM, Shader Patch and Sol. AC could very easily render ACC very nearly obsolete. And all while running at frame rates in VR that ACC can only dream of. Room for both, but my go to is now even more AC. Spa in the snow with mist.........fuck yeah!!!!!!........
Had a play around with the settings in AC and content manager last night, thought I'd share. Bare in mind i'm on VR, but a lot of this will still hold true for flat screens.
First thing I found, is that with Sol and the new shader patch, you really do need to be running post Processing of some description. For VR there is a Sol_VR PP filter, this gives the least hit to frame rates, but still causes 20-30% drop. But the difference it makes is quite significant. Dash lighting glows, cars spit fire and brake lighting is significantly improved. The new Sol sky boxes and weather effects are all improved. after a lot of testing, I've changed my opinion from not using PP in VR as frame rate was king, to you've got to use some sort of PP, the benefits now outway the disadvantages.
Now to get some of that frame rate back.
Turn the Antialiasing down to x2, this will have a significant effect to the frame rate. Quality will drop, but we'll look at getting that back in a bit.
Next, turn shadow resolution down, this also has quite a large effect on the frame rate, and can be turned down in steps with very little noticeable loss of quality. keep knocking it down a step then run benchmark, when you hit a point where you don't like loss of shadow quality, go back up one step.
Now to get some of that quality back. Turn up the super sampling in SteamVR. This will give back some of the AA that you removed earlier. IMO the AA you get from SS gives more benefits for less of a hit than what you get with the ingame AA settings. I'm running SS at 220% and this gives me 70-90 FPS in the benchmark depending what is going on, and even on a dark track with headlights, I'm getting 60-70 which is quite playable in a racing sim.
Next, less a quality thing and more a preference thing. I had switched off the seasonal adjustments. Well, i have put them back on. Don't know if I had a bug, or if it was because I had PP turned off, but when I first tried I didn't like them, colours were a bit weird. But tried again last night and they look awesome. Driving around Spa, in Feb with snow on the ground and trees, looked fantastic.
There are shit loads of other setting in game to play with. Most of the Shader patch settings seem to have very little effect on frame rate, grass etc. seems to effect it very little. Keep the high quality mirrors on, again not a massive hit, but the quality difference is quite large. Not played with reflections yet, but will try. bound to be other things in there to tweak, but this stuff should be a fairly good start. Would like to get my SS up towards 250% as that seems to be the sweet spot for my headset, but looking pretty good at 220%.
Just as an addendum, I am coming round to the opinion that AC with CM, Shader Patch and Sol. AC could very easily render ACC very nearly obsolete. And all while running at frame rates in VR that ACC can only dream of. Room for both, but my go to is now even more AC. Spa in the snow with mist.........fuck yeah!!!!!!........
