Graphics optimization question

[Marc Collins]

I am generally pleased with the graphics in ACC. I have a high-end system and can use EPIC across the board. One aspect that still bothers me (although better than in earlier releases) is the pop-in effect so close to the driver. Trees and foliage snap into proper detail, shadows appear on the road or shadows fill-in properly on/under buildings very close to the driver's view. It kind of kills the immersion to see tree branches as overblown blobs that suddenly appear as fully fleshed-out branches and leaves. Same with shadows suddenly appearing.

Are there LOD or draw distance settings I am unaware of, or has Kunos just used very conservative settings (even on EPIC) to cut down on the whinging about poor frame rates when you crank up the graphics?

 

[Kweel]

Never see that and i have an old system (i5 3570 @4.2 1060 6gb 16ddr3)
Try with default settings (delete menusettings in documents/config) and see if that happend again

 

[hgaouar]

I see exactly what you mean, for example in hungaroring, after turn 4 you can clearly sea tree shadows appearing. And on the straight line before there is a LOD tree clipping. In the end i prefer to play on Shadow and LOD tree (advanced option) at the lowest possible, so there is no clipping because the game isn't loading anything.

 

[Kweel]

nice solution
shadow low= shadow off

 

[hgaouar]

nice solution
shadow low= shadow off

You still have car shadows, for me it's enough until there is a better solution

 

[Kweel]

have you try to raise view distance?

 

[Ben Lee]

Have you tried going into Graphics options > advanced? There is an option in there for foilage LODs I think...?

 

[Marc Collins]

have you try to raise view distance?

How do you do this? And it isn't necessary for most items...only foliage and shadows and a few other small things. Major objects in the distance are fine.

 

[Marc Collins]

Have you tried going into Graphics options > advanced? There is an option in there for foilage LODs I think...?

I will look and report back! Did not see it while tooling around.

Hmmmm, very confusing. I already had Foliage on EPIC in the main settings, but then you are correct, there is a Foliage LOD setting in Advanced. It was set to Medium. Will test and edit this with results a bit later.

EDIT: problem solved Foliage LOD is set to EPIC. Anything below EPIC and the foliage detail pops in very visibly. Cost: major frame rate hit.

Shadows--even when set to EPIC are late to appear and still disturb the foliage. Before, the foliage detail and the shadow effect popped-in late. Now, the detail is always there, but the late shadow appearance (in the trees, for example), is very distracting (for me, at least).

I guess I am not particularly impressed that competitive and sim-useful frame rates require such big compromises on visual quality. I thought UE4 was better than that.

 

[Kweel]

UE4 is awesome with a war machine and at high resolution

 

[Marc Collins]

UE4 is awesome with a war machine and at high resolution

I will never know because unlike FPS games, to get lag-free frame rates in a racing sim requires more computing HP than is available with all settings at EPIC at even modest resolution.

 

[dumdidum]

I have the same Problem with the shadows appearing or chaning very close to the car, didn't find a solution yet. I think everybody that hasn't got this problem is just not as sensitive for things like that.

 

[gamma123152]

I bump up this 4 year old thread (time flies! damn). Is there a fix issue for this nowadays?

 

[pakhooooo]

I bump up this 4 year old thread (time flies! damn). Is there a fix issue for this nowadays?

I bump up this 4 year old thread (time flies! damn). Is there a fix issue for this nowadays?

Here you go Sir.

For the shadow, do this and set in game "shadow" and "shadow distance" to epic.

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For the tree, set "foliage LOD to epic", and "foliage" to low

 

[eXoro]

I bump up this 4 year old thread (time flies! damn). Is there a fix issue for this nowadays?

No fix

 

[Deleted member 197115]

I just use everything on Epic with Shadow Quality High as they are many folds more taxing on Epic, contact shadows on and LOD disabled. Can't tell I can see this issue, may be very little on the first lap but after that all solid.
Oh, and I use DLAA, best thing ever for ACC.
This is on monitor, btw, VR can be completely different ballgame.