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Digital Foundry - Red Dead Redemption II PC: Every Setting Explained (Dictator's Magnum Opus)
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I'm at work but will do summary when I can or if someone makes one, I'll add it to OP
The little time it worked for me was absolutely stunning. I'll revisit when I have a hexacore ryzen/intel in the future. It was too much fun for me to just run around in the snow and watch it crumble. Absolute achievement in technology.
Guess I'm going to have to bump lighting to from High to Ultra. It being the only setting that adds global light outdoors is a big deal for me.
Because of a few (all be it some of them rather major) bugs that will likely be ironed out in a week or two?
Performance wise it seems like about what your expect. Many of the ultra settings going way beyond what he XBOX one X was doing.
Tehnical problems aren't bugs.
I'm not even gonna bother to list what's wrong with the game since everyone can know where to look.
It's absoltuley disgusts me that people actually have to defend this in some way.
And boom!, armageddon.
The title of the thread is spot on, this is Magnum Opus.
Performance-wise, yes. They should have communicated what each setting does better though.
Also, there are bugs (like the game not even launching for some people) that need to be fixed.
If they add more explanations to the settings menu and fix the bugs, this will be a "good port." Nothing a couple of patches can't address. Basically, wait for the Steam version.
Stuff like this should be provided by developers and be in game by default under it's own preset( drop the console names to not offend MS and Sony or whatever )Really useful to have a chart like this.
This is pretty much what hundreds of artists and graphics guys though would be the best compromise between their team overall vision and hardware requirements. No reason not to have this as a baseline in PC ports of multiplatform games.
Nice work, Dictator!
The major problems that RDR 2 has like crashing, stuttering, lock ups aren't bugs.
Waking up to your map being half undiscovered despite you pretty much playing for 20 hours is a bug.
The game does actually have quite some bugs from last year that didn't even bother to fix but they have nothing to do with the real tehnical problems that the game suffers from.
Great video. The half hour flew by in an instance.
Some of those options really improve the look a lot. More than the usual increase in effect resolution or whatever variables could be tweaked. Like the lighting setting adding moonlight or the additional light bounces and the water physics. I think Rockstar made sure to reimplement some stuff that they had to cut for performance reasons on console. Makes me want to wait for GPUs that can handle it all at 4k 60.
Some of those options really improve the look a lot. More than the usual increase in effect resolution or whatever variables could be tweaked. Like the lighting setting adding moonlight or the additional light bounces and the water physics. I think Rockstar made sure to reimplement some stuff that they had to cut for performance reasons on console. Makes me want to wait for GPUs that can handle it all at 4k 60.
Would be interesting to have a follow up video explaining what gpu/cpu combo you would need to replicate xbox 1 settings and performance. The price to performance ratio would be interesting to see.
Im going to try out the 1x settings to see what i get in 4k with a 2080. its not the ti version, so i wonder if i will get 60fps.
Im going to try out the 1x settings to see what i get in 4k with a 2080. its not the ti version, so i wonder if i will get 60fps.
My feel is the opposite, most settings do surprisingly little to improve the graphics over consoles plus the texture quality setting seems just broken. I'm not buying the "upgraded for PC" spiel considering how broken the game is in general with crashes, mission bugs, bad keyboard controls and menus. At this point I'm going to leave the game for a while and play Death Stranding and when I'm done RDR2 will hopefully be fixed.
Nice! So as already expected, lots of flexibility and scalability in the PC version, and if you absolutely need to match console experience, it's definitely not in the all ultra / high settings- an assumption that shouldn't be made in the first place, when these terms have no fixed definition and vary per game wildly
Disappointing that textures are not as scalable, but all the enhanced IQ possibilities are excellent and make a very clear difference
So far a number of issues from launch are cleared up, so I'm expecting to dive in at Steam release without issues.
Disappointing that textures are not as scalable, but all the enhanced IQ possibilities are excellent and make a very clear difference
So far a number of issues from launch are cleared up, so I'm expecting to dive in at Steam release without issues.
I even made a thread about it!
And got shit ton of dumb unnecessary resistance to it.
Anyway, Xbone X has 6TFLOPS and runs 30fps with drops. 2080Ti has 13TFLOPS and runs 60fps with reserve for extra settings at the same detail. Therefore the PC version is optimized perfectly fine - pretty much identically as Xbone X version. This game will scale far into the future.
And that's even before modders add their own crazy stuff. This could be the new Skyrim if proper modding tools are provided by R*.
I'll try this out then increase certain settings to get the best possible quality at 1080p@60fps on a GTX980ti.
My current settings have a locked 60fps in the wild but every time I ride into any civilized area the frames just tank and slowly recover over a few seconds (to 30fps roughly).
My current settings have a locked 60fps in the wild but every time I ride into any civilized area the frames just tank and slowly recover over a few seconds (to 30fps roughly).
Unfortunately that will never happen. Rockstar is not Bethesda or Warhorse.
Wait, Dictator video?
I really loved the video though! Between this and the Star Citizen video, Alex is bringing some amazing quality to an already amazing channel.
I finished the game on PS4Pro last year, but watching this makes me wanna give it another go...
I really loved the video though! Between this and the Star Citizen video, Alex is bringing some amazing quality to an already amazing channel.
I finished the game on PS4Pro last year, but watching this makes me wanna give it another go...
Those are absolutely bugs. They're the very definition of software bugs.
I'm not sure where this arbitrary line has come from as to what is and isn't a bug.. it's quite confusing.
Lol 30minutes PC performance video. Will watch later today it tomorrow.
Wont buy the game until I build my new PC (prob 2020/2021) to play this in 4k/60.
Still rocking a GTX970. Played the game on the Pro and am kinda missing it (sold it already).
Wont buy the game until I build my new PC (prob 2020/2021) to play this in 4k/60.
Still rocking a GTX970. Played the game on the Pro and am kinda missing it (sold it already).
This sort of detail should be included within the games options imo.
Dictator absolutley fantastic work and I really appreciate the time and effort that went into this, I know for an absolute fact you must have been pulling your hair out.
I have a locked 60fps on my 1080ti thanks to you at just below native 4k with no noticeable image quality loss, so thank you.
Dictator absolutley fantastic work and I really appreciate the time and effort that went into this, I know for an absolute fact you must have been pulling your hair out.
I have a locked 60fps on my 1080ti thanks to you at just below native 4k with no noticeable image quality loss, so thank you.
I wouldn't call rare dips below 30 fps a definition of a game at 30 fps with drops. It drops very occasionally and it's one of the most 'locked' 30 fps experience I played on the X. But surely lighting is very low buffer compared to the pc setting if we want to point out to one of the worst aspect of the graphic setting.
do you have a single threaded cpu? cause this game does not like single threads