Disable Replay Recording

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Blaise

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Is there a way to disable replay recording? Seems like on these long races that I run that the replay saving is starting to lag me out a little. Dropping FPS after about hour and half of racing. I have 1tb NVME with 600gb free so that shouldn't be it. I am running triple monitor 4k so maybe that is too much? I see a replay setting in core.ini. Has anyone ever messed with this?

replayMemoryOverride=0 ; Kbytes of replay memory to use
 

Rufio2031

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This is more of a thinking out loud post. No real solution for you in here.

Someone recently posted a similar situation where they started dropping frames after an extended period of play. I also suggested replay as a possibility.
Though, from my experience, once I got to that point where my session was so long I noticed that it would cut the beginning off. This seems like the game is trying to manage memory by removing the old replay data from memory. While that may be the case, that's also not to say it was done correctly and there may still be a memory leak somewhere. Or perhaps the function to swap out the old replay data with the newest replay data simply may not be efficient enough.

Keep in mind that the replay data is stored in memory. It's only saved onto disk once you actually save the replay. This means the 600gb you have free doesn't matter much in this case. It's the RAM you need to be concerned with, and with most modern mods, tracks, and cars, we're all pushing the limits of that already. I also don't think running at 4k matters for replay size. It will store game state data, not the actual image that was rendered.

This makes me wonder though, I wonder if the game allocates (reserves) replay memory space during track load. If you increase replay memory, maybe that leaves less for the textures and what-not, causing more trips to the disk to load those textures, causing less FPS.
 

Rufio2031

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Found this in the player.ini.
clear_replay_each_session=0 // Change to 1 to erase session replay after session completion.
 

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