these are the settings I got that worked for me.
STEP 1 Go to settings/ game play/ and scroll down till you see “drivatar liveries” TURN THOSE OFF. I am not sure what is wrong with them, but it’s like they’re not unloading after races and causing a huge performance hit.
I have Vsync turned on in the NVIDIA control panel and frame rate set to 60fps.
Here is how I have everything else set:
This benchmark was done after three races (two freeplay, one career).
I hope this helps. Let me know how it works out for you.