Yeah I've got basically the same setup (2070 Super) and basically same results. Even overclocked to 4.4ghz doesn't do much.
That said I've been having a decent time capping to 30fps and cranking almost everything to max at 4K.
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Red Dead Redemption II PC performance thread
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Yeah I've got basically the same setup (2070 Super) and basically same results. Even overclocked to 4.4ghz doesn't do much.
That said I've been having a decent time capping to 30fps and cranking almost everything to max at 4K.
Yeah, 4.4 here too
On the online I've been getting over 60 fps tbf, but I've been in the desert so far
Constant crashes though
Shadows on Ultra seems like a necessity. Otherwise, you're left with some really low resolution shadows in cutscenes. I noticed some interior shadows also don't draw on High. Interiors have a lot more depth with Ultra shadows.
Setting lighting quality to medium seems to compensate for most of the performance difference, and I don't really notice the visual difference in lighting between Medium-Ultra.
Setting lighting quality to medium seems to compensate for most of the performance difference, and I don't really notice the visual difference in lighting between Medium-Ultra.
Here's the other thing about safe mode as well, it renders graphics at a lower fidelity (from what I have seen) and once you engage it, it remains in safe mode on every subsequent launch (if going by the system.cfg file that is.)
I thought my game was running ok but was getting pop ups and low textures all over the place, so I removed the system config file as it was showing that it's in safe mode, then once I tried booting the game again, crash on logo screen, refused to go past it, once I put the sys file back it's working again but in safe mode, very strange, am redownloading it now, have removed everything, including the launcher for a clean install, not holding my breath that it will get past the launch screen though because I think it may have been running in safe mode this entire time.
You're putting all focus on the visuals. The drops to mid 20's in that video are the bigger issue, paired with the other issues (especially with i5's and the multi-second freezes and stuttering), it doesn't sound like a pleasant experience to play. Granted we don't know what each and every setting is in that video.
at 1080p, paired with a i7 2600k, my friend is getting around 40-45 fps with mostly medium settings. I reckon with further tweaking 50-55 could be possible, but i dont see stable 60 unless you reduce the rendering res from 1080p to 900p. Targeting locked 30 fps is pretty easy though with higher settings.
Happens to me too, but I saw a benchmark run from someone else with slower hardware in youtube and his run speed was normal throughout. Maybe it's a timing issue where faster hardware forces Arthur to run slower to compensate? Lol, no idea.
oh that's not to bad. might wait a bit and see if some of the patches clear things up a bit more.
i have a Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.00 GHz. I'm guessing that's a bit faster than your friends cpu? (i read up on this stuff when i was building a few years ago but haven't retained any of it).
thank you!
yeah, the 6700k is faster, so you'd have a little extra performance for sure.
You drew an egregious visual comparison with the PS4 version. Own up to that.
Performance concerns are real but then the video is showing the game running on a laptop. Rockstar has not listed any laptop specs in the official requirements. All parameters are less than ideal for judging PC performance.
Popping back with some performance impressions.
i7 9700K @ 5GHz
16GB
2080Ti
Game is at 3440 x 1440 with settings on High pretty much across the board with ultra textures and lowered that water slider to 50%. FPS seems to be between 60 and 75 FPS depending on area and weather, but mostly around 60 FPS. In few spots seen short dips into high 50s. No stutter or freezes. Had that weird crashing around stables before, but fast ran through that part and it was fine.
i7 9700K @ 5GHz
16GB
2080Ti
Game is at 3440 x 1440 with settings on High pretty much across the board with ultra textures and lowered that water slider to 50%. FPS seems to be between 60 and 75 FPS depending on area and weather, but mostly around 60 FPS. In few spots seen short dips into high 50s. No stutter or freezes. Had that weird crashing around stables before, but fast ran through that part and it was fine.
By any chance are you using the pillar box removal mod? I'm only a couple hours into the game but the pillar/letter boxing is really obnoxious and I'm seriously considering giving it a shot.Popping back with some performance impressions.
i7 9700K @ 5GHz
16GB
2080Ti
Game is at 3440 x 1440 with settings on High pretty much across the board with ultra textures and lowered that water slider to 50%. FPS seems to be between 60 and 75 FPS depending on area and weather, but mostly around 60 FPS. In few spots seen short dips into high 50s. No stutter or freezes. Had that weird crashing around stables before, but fast ran through that part and it was fine.
I have used it, seems to work fine for cutscenes. Photomode stays fucked.
I really really doubt they could've just missed the game pausing for seconds during QA.
I'm at 123mins on EGS if it ain't addressed by Saturday I'm requesting a refund. Not touching till then.
I'm at 123mins on EGS if it ain't addressed by Saturday I'm requesting a refund. Not touching till then.
Fine by me! Though I think it got updated in the last day to fix photo mode.
New BIOS update seems to have fixed the launcher crash for me, now I can't launch because of a lack of privelages. Turned off antivirus, set it to run as admin, nothing yet.
Did you checkmark the things under compatibility on the exe before? Think I read that some people had to revert those.
Oh hell ye, I was on v1.1 of the tool and didn't check today if there was new version.
Finally can use photomode properly :b
All these launcher issues are crazy. I hope we don't get into a world where every damn publisher wants their own launcher in PC. That actually might push me back towards console gaming. Or at least get them working and set up alright like Uplay.
Thanks. I grabbed the 5.93 beta bios for my x370 taichi board and will update it if there isn't a regular bios out by steam release. My copy of assassin's Creed Odyssey has been crashing at startup since the latest update as well and I wonder if it is related to the same thing as rdr2.
Thanks. I grabbed the 5.93 beta bios for my x370 taichi board and will update it if there isn't a regular bios out by steam release. My copy of assassin's Creed Odyssey has been crashing at startup since the latest update as well and I wonder if it is related to the same thing as rdr2.
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I ticked run as admin and disable fullscreen optimizations, nothing changed.
The 'egregious' comparison was made secondary in my post where I acknowledged medium textures in the first sentence. Other things like foliage, filtering etc are separate from base texture resolution however.
And as a gaming laptop owner, I would hope more developers are friendlier to them too.
Uhhh so I didn't know this was possible but it seems like the Xbox app takes up a nontrivial amount of GPU usage? I had the app open and booted up RDR only to find that I was getting 45 FPS and hitting 99% GPU usage in Valentine when I would normally get a rock solid 60 fps and about 80% GPU usage. For a minute I thought there must have been an update to RDR itself that ruined performance, but even just ALT-tabbing out and closing the Xbox app fixed it
Yeah the horse textures are real bad even at ultra (don't remember them being on console) as are a lot of distant textures and miscellaneous objects. It's weird
Anyone else seeing rectangular shadows on face closeups in cutscenes? It's really annoying. I have shadows on ultra. No idea what the cause is.
Yep saw it on Arthur in the first cutscene with Mary.
Quite a few random flashing textures too that I never noticed on the X.
Only dinked around ingame with MP, but I noticed a square around the reticule
Quad-core i5 users should not use Vulkan. You'll get long pauses, massive stutters constantly with this. Switch to DX12 - it significantly improves frametime perf, and causes zero stutters under CPU limited scenarios.
Thanks, running the launcher as admin didn't cross my mind, loaded up fine. Will be able to see how it runs after work.
Glad you could resolve it and sorry for not responding originally, for some reason the forum didn't alert me of your quote until hours later.
I've been using DX12, the stutters are nothing like they were on Vulkan obv but they're still there. Happens every 30-40 minutes or so, sometimes more frequently.
Overall my performance is good, the stutters are the only problem I have now.
All I can think of is that there needs to be a patch for this.
Yes, I agree textures should be better on ultra. I can't wait till we can mod textures since I don't trust Rockstar to release a texture pack.
We know at least what's PS4's settings are:
Yep. Video below.
Cool np! I haven't been able to play until today so I've been hawking the reddit megathreads haha
LMAO my favorite part of the benchmark! We need a mod to do this on command! This should be the stealth animation.
I have an i5-8400 that is 6c6t. When I first tried the game, on release day, I did get a 5 to 10 second freeze when I would enter valentine for the first time during a play session. I was seeing 100% cpu utlisation during those 5 to 10 seconds. After that first freeze, it wouldn't freeze or stutter again unless I quite the game and tried to go back to town.
When I switched from vulkan to dx12, that freeze stopped happening. Just a data point of 1.
thank you, currently at work but ill take a look at the video when i get home. in the meantime can you gimme a quick summary? is 1080p/60 fps possible? im guessing at low?