Re my insanity inducing frame rate problems.
I can’t believe this worked.
I went through a 15 minute tutorial, edited ini files etc, which took about 30 minutes to get it all done and came away with maybe a ten percent gain.
Out of desperation I followed that short video, ended an iracing service in task manager, fired up the sim and went from 40 fps ( both bars in the red) with everything off or low to between 90 and 120+ fps with both bars grey except for the very start where they dip to yellow and high 70s, with most things on at medium or high, including the frame sucking grandstands.
That video is over a year old as well. Seems like something that really should be addressed.