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Red Dead Redemption II PC performance thread
- Thread starter GrrImAFridge
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WHAT?! Can you DM me screenshots of your settings or something? I have the exact same setup as you and I'm barely hitting 60fps with dropping things like shadow and water quality.
I have:
1440p/144hz
2080TI
9900k
16GB Ram
joining team no-launch right here. Launcher exits unexpectedly error, no difference from before.
That's what I'm thinking as well, but it doesn't make any sense to have forgotten something like that in there and at the same time have like 3 different mouse input settings and a mouse acceleration slider. This problem shouldn't exist.
I wonder who did the port. GTA4 on PC had horrible deadzone issue where you had to move the mouse quite a bit for the reticle to move. Max Payne 3 and GTAV didn't have this issue and now RDR2 it has come back. Someone on reddit suggest changing it to direct input instead of raw, but like you my game crashes when I exit the control menu. Going to try it again when I get home and see how that works.
Yeah I'll check in a few minutes. This was my initial benchmark result after first launching the game, just for reference:
I counted the pixels, using 0.75 in-game scaling on 1440p. It outputs almost perfectly 1920x1080. Definitely not on one axis only.
In addition what exodus said, there's one major advantage of in-game scalers over using simply a different than your native resolution: UI elements render at your native resolution and are crisp as they can be wheras everything else is rendered at higher or lower resolution. You don't have to use custom resolutions or Nvidia's DSR (when downsampling), the latter can be blurry due to Nvidia's downscale method.
Do we have any solid PC/console comparisons yet? Namely PC on the highest settings (like draw distance), and the best console build (Xbox One X, I think?)?
Got to wait for DF for that probably. Draw distance looks near infinite to me on Ultra though and volumetric lighting on high/ultra is no longer grainy as fuck as it did on console.
Sadly assets and textures didn't seem to get much improvement, if any at all.
Just downloaded an almost 3 GB patch for the game. Only thing I've seen that it may address is the issues where having certain anti-virus programs installed can mess with the game or whatever it was
That seems like a pretty big patch just for that one issue...any other info on if the patch involved anything else?
That seems like a pretty big patch just for that one issue...any other info on if the patch involved anything else?
Re: water settings.
I recommend:
Refraction - medium
Reflections - medium
Physics - 1/4
At low settings, refraction is an issue and looks poor. At medium, it looks good. Above that is seriously diminishing returns. Even the reflections look just fine at medium. Bringing the water settings up to High yields a 10% performance loss and not that much of an increase in visual fidelity.
Physics at 1/2 are a bit weird. They're over exaggerated. At 1/2, whenever you enter a body of water, you'll see a big massive ripple that looks weird. At 1/4, it's far less pronounced and looks fine. At 0, there's no reaction. Anywhere above 1/2 incurs significant performance loss. Avoid at all costs.
I recommend:
Refraction - medium
Reflections - medium
Physics - 1/4
At low settings, refraction is an issue and looks poor. At medium, it looks good. Above that is seriously diminishing returns. Even the reflections look just fine at medium. Bringing the water settings up to High yields a 10% performance loss and not that much of an increase in visual fidelity.
Physics at 1/2 are a bit weird. They're over exaggerated. At 1/2, whenever you enter a body of water, you'll see a big massive ripple that looks weird. At 1/4, it's far less pronounced and looks fine. At 0, there's no reaction. Anywhere above 1/2 incurs significant performance loss. Avoid at all costs.
That happens sometimes after you change a lot of settings. It'll either resolve itself over time or resolve itself once you restart the game.
What are the hardware configurations for you four? OS and drivers, too. There might be a pattern here. Heck, your motherboard and BIOS might even be the culprit.
I'm not saying this information can fix your problems. Correlation doesn't equal causation, after all. But figuring out if there is a pattern could be beneficial to some degree.
Vignetting, chromatic aberration, lens flare, and camera blur are among the worst post-process effects used regularly in video games. All they do is obscure good artwork. The only time I've found chromatic aberration to be even remotely justifiable is when it's used to simulate looking into an actual camera, like in Resident Evil 7 or Outlast.
Mobo b450 (bios 1.0.0.3 abba), with Sep 27 AMD chipset drivers (latest)
CPU 3700x
Video is 2070S
Win 10 Home
I just want to say thank you to everyone on here who are helping to figure out what the settings do (and don't do). It's been a huge help.
After I started the game yesterday I pretty much regretted my purchase and felt like an idiot for buying the game but after a day to kind of cool off and see what people are saying to help I think I'm alright with it. I still wish it would have launched in a bit better shape but fingers crossed they get good patches out quickly to address stuff.
After I started the game yesterday I pretty much regretted my purchase and felt like an idiot for buying the game but after a day to kind of cool off and see what people are saying to help I think I'm alright with it. I still wish it would have launched in a bit better shape but fingers crossed they get good patches out quickly to address stuff.
Upgrade or downgrade that BIOS. Downgrading worked for me with B350.
Been following this thread here and there since it went up but haven't noticed anyone talking about the odd "stripping" effect FXAA has on vegetation and distant trees. Anyone know why this is?
I've resorted to using TAA on medium as high seems to be extremely blurry in motion. I've heard some users mention using geforce freestyle(?) to add some sharpening to the image - how does this differ from reshade solutions? I have geforce experience downloaded but I cannot get the geforce freestyle menu to open up in game, instead I get a message telling me to restart the game (to no difference).
I'm running the game on a 2080TI and 9700K at a resolution of 3440x1440. Performance wise it hovers around 55-60 with everything at ultra par water physics being one notch down. I haven't noticed any difference between DX12 and Vulcan, either.
I've resorted to using TAA on medium as high seems to be extremely blurry in motion. I've heard some users mention using geforce freestyle(?) to add some sharpening to the image - how does this differ from reshade solutions? I have geforce experience downloaded but I cannot get the geforce freestyle menu to open up in game, instead I get a message telling me to restart the game (to no difference).
I'm running the game on a 2080TI and 9700K at a resolution of 3440x1440. Performance wise it hovers around 55-60 with everything at ultra par water physics being one notch down. I haven't noticed any difference between DX12 and Vulcan, either.
My take after last night. Rdr2 is highly unoptimized on PC at launch especially for Nvidia cards due to improper driver support. AMD cards that my 1080ti usually smokes were beating it by 20%. I am shocked cause of how well Max Payne and GTA V were optimized on pc.
My hope is as drivers and patches are released things will get better.
Worst part is the benchmark Rockstar asked all sites to use to talk about performance prelaunch is actually less demanding than the actual game.
Specs:
Intel 8700k
Nvidia GTX 1080ti
16gb ram
Win 10
GSync running at 1080p
Variable settings that don't seem to help if turned down
My hope is as drivers and patches are released things will get better.
Worst part is the benchmark Rockstar asked all sites to use to talk about performance prelaunch is actually less demanding than the actual game.
Specs:
Intel 8700k
Nvidia GTX 1080ti
16gb ram
Win 10
GSync running at 1080p
Variable settings that don't seem to help if turned down
Close to, but I think you'll need to drop some settings to high.
Drop some of the water settings, they seem to help a lot. Also, resolution scale helps too.
I might try these settings out (nice screenshots by the way), but I am curious at leaving Particle Quality at Medium? Another source I saw suggested that it had virtually no impact on performance, so don't worry about cranking it up (don't know how reputable they are though); have you noticed it impacting performance on your rig?
Has anyone done any comparisons (pics or videos) between the PC version maxed out and the Xbox One X version?
New patch did nothing for me, game is still runs okay for a bit and then turns into a stuttering mess. If I pause for 15-20 seconds, then it's fine again for a couple of minutes, then starts stuttering again.
Hmmmm. Gotta play around with TAA a bit. At Medium with a 1.5 resolution scale, I don't notice any significant decrease in quality over high. Nets maybe 3-4% more performance.
I'm probably done for the night, but as for now, I think I've settled on a decent set of settings for an RTX 2070 Super on a 1080p monitor (or 1440p if you ignore resolution scale).
Use Vulkan and set mouse to DirectInput.
Set everything to high. Textures to ultra. Water reflections and refraction to Medium. TAA to Medium. FXAA on. Resolution scale 1.5. Water physics to 1/4. 99% of the time above 60fps so far. Can drop to ~58-59fps in the camp. Game is 100% smooth.
Only times I get any frametime variance is when my 6700K spikes to max, which is fairly infrequent so far.
I might try 1.25x resolution scale with NVidia sharpening tomorrow. That would ensure 70-80fps+.
I'm probably done for the night, but as for now, I think I've settled on a decent set of settings for an RTX 2070 Super on a 1080p monitor (or 1440p if you ignore resolution scale).
Use Vulkan and set mouse to DirectInput.
Set everything to high. Textures to ultra. Water reflections and refraction to Medium. TAA to Medium. FXAA on. Resolution scale 1.5. Water physics to 1/4. 99% of the time above 60fps so far. Can drop to ~58-59fps in the camp. Game is 100% smooth.
Only times I get any frametime variance is when my 6700K spikes to max, which is fairly infrequent so far.
I might try 1.25x resolution scale with NVidia sharpening tomorrow. That would ensure 70-80fps+.
Cool - thanks for the heads up, trying it now, will report back. Downgrade is my only option.
around a day for me too, no response to the ticket.
Alright, successfully launched the game...finally. I followed all the steps and recommendations and the final thing that worked was to delete the settings folder.
As someone with a very similar build who is also very sensitive to frametime variance, I owe you one, man. Thanks! Will probably just use your settings verbatim.
If anyone with an RTX 2070 is interested, this is my graphics config. For now, in a single game session since chapter 1 until Uncle mission in Valentine (chapter 2), the game worked at 60 FPS with only a couple of slowdowns to 55-57. If someone thinks I can improve it by lowering or setting something higher, let me know please.
(I haven't switched to Vulkan because I've heard that Turing cards gain better performance with DX12 than Vulkan in this game).
(I haven't switched to Vulkan because I've heard that Turing cards gain better performance with DX12 than Vulkan in this game).
Ok so for me, it is definitely the DX API setting that is preventing the game from loading. I deleted the settings folder and it loads the graphics defaults and the game starts up. I can reproduce the crash every time with only changing the API From Vulcan to DX. I think they fucked something up in their DX12 implementation that is affecting some system configurations.
EDIT just to note what I running:
EDIT just to note what I running:
Fully up to date Windows 10 64bit
Latest Nvidia drivers
Lastest game/launcher patch
8700K
2080ti
I noticed Global illumination and Lighting takes a bigger performance hit than previously expected/measured. It doesn't seem to change much perfomance-wise in outdoor scenes, but I found an indoor scene where going from both ultra to medium didn't change almost nothing visually but gave an almost 13% performance boost! You might want to check that feature and see for yourself.
Lighting and Global Illumination on medium:
Both settings on ultra:
Surprisingly, medium settings look bit better to me due to a bit higher contrast.
Lighting and Global Illumination on medium:
Both settings on ultra:
Surprisingly, medium settings look bit better to me due to a bit higher contrast.
They will look almost identical with a few extras for PC.. but the 60 fps is the main difference and it's a game changer
That's a bummer. Did you reset to default settings before updating?
Yep, I had to lower it in the beggining of the game during the snow storm part because it couldn't reach 60 FPS. I have it now at High, and looking that it barely has any aesthetic difference, I might lower it to Medium.
What settings folder?
Been losing my mind trying to boot up the game. The launch has been a fucking mess! Was super pump to continue playing earlier this morning too.