rFactor 2 | What’s rF2 Multiplayer Like These Days?

For the first time in a very long time, it’s a big welcome back to rFactor 2!
A lot of you have been asking why I’ve stopped making rF2 videos. It’s certainly not because I wasn’t enjoying the racing… this has invariably been top class.

It’s the sim’s performance on my PC that’s been the ongoing problem. No matter what I do, I can’t find a way to prevent some pretty major stutters and screen freezes whenever I run rFactor 2.

My friends in the SCB community have been really helpful in offering ideas and suggestions, but nothing seems to work. I’ve lowered graphics settings, I’ve reduced shadows and special effects, I’ve set strict FPS limits, I’ve deleted and reinstalled, I’ve removed overlays… I’ve even tried switching off replay recordings. But STILL it stutters.

I’m going to try and drive through it today, just so I can see what rFactor 2 multiplayer racing is like these days. It’s a 20-minute Radicals race at Manfeild, where I’ll be starting from P8 on a grid of 13. Let’s get on track, and beware of those freezes…

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[SheaRacing]

rFactor 2 worked good for me when I started sim racing in 2017. By 2019 it was undriveable due to stutter and freeze / lags. I quit rF2 for good after a 30+ seconds screen freeze during a league race and this was after, like you, I also tried everything to fix it - for weeks. Nothing but pure frustration. So now i have a couple hundred bucks in DLC just sitting unused because rF2 is a dumpster fire and the devs have abandoned it to work on LMU.

[noobdaddyraces]

Great video as always - thanks Chris. Couple of things: 1) sorry to hear about the stuttering - my only suggestion is to treat it as a form of immersion, i.e. you never know when you are going to have to race with a burst appendix or some other unplanned distraction! 2) I think it's really sad how 'dead' rF2 is these days - I thought it was a great sim, invested lots into it, and now I feel with LMU it has been abandoned... glad you are still extracting (some) fun from it.

[jacooosthuizen]

For most stuttering issues either in windows or in games it comes down to vsync, either turn it off or run it on at the monitors refresh rate or make sure your monitor is not installed a generic PNP monitor and why you dont have an ssd already is mind blowing its so damn fast.

[tobyhill]

I jumped on rf2 for the first time since April and had a great time. I don’t think my pc is particularly high end but I didn’t notice any glaring issues in terms of screen freezes. Lime rock was fine for me but I do have a lot of my settings turned down

[Walt]

Yeah, I see why your not using rf2, those screeen freezes would do it for me too, funny thing is once in a great while I get them running AC! Don't know why, anyway, hope your ssd install cures it for you, thanks for sharing with us!!!

[marcorollo]

Hey chris it use to happen to me when the game was installed in a hdd. I then moved it on a ssd and it solved my problem.

[nocommentaryjustgaming]

This was race with quite some mistakes, and with that nasty crash between other two drivers...ouch! You did what you could, having the constant stutters surely wasn´t helpful and it sure can ruin our race. I also have this game, but it didn´t convinced me much to be honest, on the other hand, LMU which is made by the same guys, surely is an interessant simulator that its getting better by the day. Keep up the good work and see you on your next race mate 👍👍

[TheBanditSlick]

Them: CR7 is the goat.
Us: yeah, Chris Rogers 7 is a well sound lad.

[DariuszGilarski]

I solved this problem halfway. turn off windowed or framed mode and turn off all programs with overlays. RF2 has no stutters only in fullscreen mode (in my case). I started fullscreen and let you know. LMU has the same problem, but in fullscreen it works great.

[buddy]

Exactly why I stopped playing. 4090, 32GB Ram, NVME 2TB, and 13900K. The random stutters makes this game unplayable. Very unfortunate as I purchased content after their update and truly enjoyed the game. I get the stutters in both, single and multiplayer.

[ReverendSimRacing]

Great video again Chris! Is there not a UI mod for rFactor 2? That UI is absolutely hideous! 😂

[ashtonmark]

I wanted to up my RF2 VR performance, similar issues. I did a full minimal reinstall of Windows and gpu driver etc and then Steam and sim games all in a separated SSD. Performance was notably better vs crudded up Windows install

[Marnie_Racing]

Nice Vid Chris! How about you try some oval racing in iracing for a change?

[cZINE]

Could your problem be related to a connectivity issue with the rFactor servers? Maybe packet loss on your home network?

[Heathfloors]

I dont see why anyone would prefer RF2 or ACC or AMS2 in this day and age..

[CaptainCrunch]

Plenty of users run rF2 without and stuttering, lag, or tearing. It’s not the game, it’s your set up. Try setting in the graphics config panel, Mode to borderless, and Sync to software.

[studioguy]

I ended up concentrating on the screen stutters more than the race.

[tougewaffle]

Personally when Im just looking for something different then LFM I use raceroom. It's just RF2 never had anything keeping me coming back personally.

[ericjack]

Well done, Chris. You did well considering the performance issues. I know you like to play a lot of sims, but maybe it's time to retire RF2.

[FuNzZyPT]

I have lots of freezes but Change gpu and RAM and its all good now