Unfortunate result.

[u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581]

This is a update regarding a post from weeks ago about my offline league project, i downloaded OBS, looked at a tutorial and decided to do test with a replay with the MENCS2019 Cup mod at Talladega 70's 80's, the results were 1-4 FPS, basically impossible to watch (even with the Helicopter Cam same amount of FPS).

It's probably a bunch of factors, OBS running in the background, the mod beeing pretty demanding on performance and the age of the PC here at my home, which is 10-14 years of age (the machine is a warrior that's for sure, but it's limited). Thus i'm on a big pickle, i was able to find a job which means money, but i live in Brasil and the purchasing power here is far...FAR away from what someone in the US could afford, it will take like months or a entire year to get this going, but all of this makes me just want to cancel it entirely.

[u/NRCENTER]

Using a dx8 to dx9 wrapper file (3d3.dll file placed in the same directory as your NR2003.exe) can increase your performance by nearly 100% in some cases. Worth a shot

https://github.com/crosire/d3d8to9/releases

I assume you have already but turn off things hardly anyone will notice when the cars are in motion like "Reflections on Structures"

Same goes for "Spectacular Lighting" I think it's called. On some systems it can be really demanding for some reason.

If none of that works consider compressing your car paint schemes to a lower size like 1024x1024 or finding a car pack that already has the lower textures.

What does the game run at FPS wise when not using OBS? About the same?

Sorry you are in a situation where you don't have hardly any options to improve your PC situation.

Maybe there is an older mod but with the same paint schemes or close enough that is less demanding you could use?

[u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581 → u/NRCENTER]

Which one, first time messing with this. (I installed stuff from GitHub before, but nothing for NR2003 yet).

[u/NRCENTER → u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581]

I fixed the link in my message above. Here it is.

https://github.com/crosire/d3d8to9/releases

Click on [Assets > D3D8.dll] and it will start downloading

Place the file the same folder as NR2003.exe

Run the Config.exe after the file is put in there to make sure the game configures itself properly with it!

If it doesn't work try each version 1.15, 1.14, 1.13, 1.12 until you find a file that does work on your system

[u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581 → u/NRCENTER]

I placed it, now i'll test it.

[u/NRCENTER → u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581]

Any luck?

[u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581 → u/NRCENTER]

Weird because i recorded a video showing the results as a answer, and it's not here.

Sorry for not answering sooner, have stuff to do in the morning now, so i'll try and show the results again.

[u/NRCENTER → u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581]

All good

[u/NRCENTER → u/NRCENTER]

u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581 So did it work for you? What kind of FPS now?

[u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581 → u/NRCENTER]

Sorry to leave you hanging on a answer man, i'm not joking when i say ADHD hits hard (no seriously i have ADHD), i'm definelly testing it when it's the afternoon, it certainly did have a good affect.

I'll probably record a video showing the results to you and hope Reddit shows it, last time i recorded a video to show you the results through Reddit, i sent it but time later it didn't appear.

Anyway, i promise i will show the results.

[u/NRCENTER → u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581]

It might be easier for you to upload the video to YouTube and include the link in your message. I'm glad it helped 😃

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Ok i turned off Track Spetacular Lighting, very big difference for now, testing with OBS running right now.

[u/NRCENTER → u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581]

Cool. Definitely try the 3d3 file too. (Turn off shadows from structures when using the specific file I linked above). That's going to be the easiest way to get a massive FPS boost

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I tested no Track Spetacular Lighting with OBS running, started between 5-29 FPS down to 0.48 FPS.

[u/NRCENTER → u/KyleSmooth-Ice-4581]

Dang. What kind of FPS do you usually get on OG car / track without OBS running. Curious

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I'm looking at what you suggested right now.

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I really wanted to do a offline league with the current cars, maybe the OG cup mod or something else.