WRC

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What is WRC FIA World Rally Championship 5-10 & Generations?

These are the official WRC games that spanned 2015-2022 before EA acquired the WRC license. They were developed by KT Racing (formerly Kylotonn), now owned by Nacon (formerly Bigben Interactive).

The WRC Generations launch trailer will give you some idea of what all the games are like:

WRC 5-10 launch trailers:

Quality of WRC on PC

  • Quality seems to peak with WRC 10
  • While 10 and Generations may be technically better games, they appear to have been released on PC in subpar states and didn't reach the same level of optimizaton
  • WRC 5 is a very acceptable racing experience but graphically and handling-wise you can tell it's a 1.0
  • WRC 6 was the blue print for the series. It improved upon and fixed everything in WRC 5 and really starts to look like what WRC would become under Nacon.
  • WRC 7 started the new generation and improved graphics and perfected gameplay
    • Between 7 and 8 is when they released V-Rally 4 in partnership with Sony and what Sony was able to get out of them is really impressive and shows in the improvements to WRC 8 and 9
  • WRC 8-9-10 seem to be where they really hit their stride and continued to improve
    • But note WRC 10 requires DirectX 11 not 12 on PC to perform smoothly
  • WRC Generations provides the annual update but doesn't really expand or improve on the game's core positives and, regrettably, introduces some poor optimization that really harms the experience

Performance

Framerate and Frametime Problems

  • Use RivaTuner Statistics Server (RTSS) to limit the framerate of Nacon WRC 5-10-Generations for smoother FPS and frametimes
    • Known Issue: WRC 5 doesn't like RTSS and won't get past a blank white screen. Use NVIDIA Control Panel to limit framerate, instead.
  • This resulted in dramatically improved frametimes for me when limiting to 60 even though I could push 165+ fps when not limited
  • The WRC games seem to have a problem managing their own FPS resulting in unsteady framerates and unsteady frametimes causing stuttering
  • These problems occur even when hard-limited by Vsync, and presumably VRR, Gsync/FreeSync, Adaptive Sync, etc. RTSS or NVIDIA Control Panel limiting fixes this.
  • It seems this problem is common to the KT Engine games which the WRC, V-Rally 4, and Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown games use

Known Issues

WRC 5 Incompatible With RivaTuner Statistics Server

  • tl;dr Add WRC 5 profile to RTSS and set Detection Level to None
  • WRC 5 will launch and freeze on a blank white screen if RTSS is running
  • Related to multiplayer/esport anticheat software(?)
  • To limit framerate, use NVIDIA Control Panel

Troubleshooting

WRC 10 Washed-out, Over-saturated, or Mis-colored Graphics

  • Try changing to DirectX 11 from 12, or vice versa, using the in-game video options (you will have to restart the game after changing it)
  • Hard to explain, but the graphics look washed out in some scenarios. Oddly, WRC 8 had this issue while WRC 9 did not. I got used to WRC 8 and completed a season, so it's not that bad, but to see it again in WRC 10 is frustrating.

WRC Generations Performance on PC

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