rFactor night-time freezing

Gabor Edelmayer · Apr 30, 2016

Dear all,
I have been using rFactor for a long time but I have never experienced this issue. When I am driving (offline) at night, the screen freezes and my inputs don't function but there is noise in the background. After a few seconds (5 to 10) the screen un-freezes and my inputs work. When I checked the ingame replay, the car stood frozen and then teleported randomly. This issue occurred to me with the GTPC mod and the HistorX mod. I also tried to race at night with the WSC70 mod and it worked fine!!!

Can someone please help with this issue??

My system specs are:
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit
Motherboard: ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980ti (drivers up to date)
CPU: Intel i7 6700k @ 4.00Ghz
RAM: 32GB (2x16)

Erwin Greven · May 1, 2016

Does this happen when the lighting on the track switches on?

Maybe the switch of how the game has to handle shadows on cars takes too much memory.

Gabor Edelmayer · May 2, 2016

Generally the freezes happen after the lights have turned on.
The GTP and HistorX mods have great looking, high quality textures and models and that may be linked to the high memory usage.
Is there anyway to lower the memory usage or to allow the game to have more usable memory?

Gabor Edelmayer · May 3, 2016

**UPDATE**

I tinkered around with the rFactor config file and the ingame setting and was able to partially solve the issue. I ran two 50ish minute sessions and each session only had one small (1 or 2 sec) freeze. The changes I made are: