HU seemed to start from Ultra and going back from there for the options that either give the greatest performance boost or have least visual impact.
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Red Dead Redemption II PC performance thread
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HU seemed to start from Ultra and going back from there for the options that either give the greatest performance boost or have least visual impact.
I've not seen that behaviour before. I am of the opinion that the game is more stable with potentially a better frame rate for some but there's been an increase in glitchy-ness and Vulkan seems the worst, for me anyway.
I'm seeing odd glitches on the ground, post patch, when riding a horse. Black geometric shapes. And the only way I can get decent frame pacing is turning off vsync. Which means occasional tearing. That's fine, but pre patch I had either a beautifully freesynced 50-60fps or a locked maxed out 30fps (image quality was incredible) with perfect frame pacing using the half vsync option.
This game is just something else.
I actually feel like the fast day/night cycle (and weather) may well suffer from the same issue. They feel much faster than they did on console.
Is HDR still completely broken on PC? It looks washed out / brighter than SDR and no amount of fiddling with settings helps.
its new since this patch, noticed it right away and really bugged me out
Make sure you're using the Game mode and not the Cinematic mode, but yes, HDR is still not perfect and I wouldn't expect it to be entirely fixed, on PC or otherwise.
Thanks. This is unbelievable. It looks pretty bad even in game mode. Oh well.
made a thread about the reddit stamina issue, seemed like it was gonna need to be highlighed to people
That's really odd, because it looks quite nice to most people, myself included. The problem with the updated HDR is that the darkest and brightest points are slightly compressed (possibly to give it that "filmic" look), but that can be resolved with some tweaking. It is slightly more washed out than SDR, but nothing as significant as what you're reporting I'd say.
Here's EvilBoris' video about the updated HDR in case you want to compare:
Now I can tell people I want to play at 1440p30 because that's the way "it's meant to be played." It has nothing to with the fact that my poor 1070 can't do better.
As for HDR, I don't have the game yet on PC but I've had several games on PC where HDR was just completely broken (incredibly washed out&bright) and I ended up turning it off because I couldn't be bothered to t roubleshoot. I think there's definitely some win10 or nvidia bug related to hdr that can occur. RDR 2's hdr isn't amazing but in game mode it looks pretty good on the X.
HDR only displays properly for me on my Samsung nu8000 on DX12 full screen mode. Using game mode for me 1400/150 looks great.
But in Vulkan or dx12 borderless it is broken and super washed out
I did not play on console, but it does feel very fast for me. It would be reasonable if these are related.
HDR is completely broken for a lot of people.
When I enable it, everything is incredible dark and the colour saturation is completely broken.
So it looks like the patch has really improved things for me.
i5 6600k
Strix GTX 1060 6gb
I was having pretty good performance but Id get frequent unpredictable freezes making the game unplayable for more than a few minutes at a time.
This patch has markedly improved performance and got rid of all the CPU spikes and crashes. Last night I played for a solid 3 hours including some multi player too.
Really pleased. While this should have been fixed before release I'm pleasantly surprised with this turnaround.
i5 6600k
Strix GTX 1060 6gb
I was having pretty good performance but Id get frequent unpredictable freezes making the game unplayable for more than a few minutes at a time.
This patch has markedly improved performance and got rid of all the CPU spikes and crashes. Last night I played for a solid 3 hours including some multi player too.
Really pleased. While this should have been fixed before release I'm pleasantly surprised with this turnaround.
Not sure but I bet it wasn't like that before, it was instantly jarring when I was riding slowly into Valentine post patch.
They probably thought the game is so well optimized that everyone will run the game at above 60 fps lmao or with fps cap
yeah, this isn't normal, never seen anything like that on PS4 Pro back then.
As funny it is, I didn't bothered about the weight even on console, you just need to eat too much and regularly for... what? Lose a tiny bit of less health? Not worth your time, move on and never eat, you'll be totally fine.
It's not just the weight that's affected by this.
The Dead Eye Drain metre too and much more.
Ah ok, so less horse health too at that point?
I mean, you have so many tonic and s**t that you end never use (since you just need to eat a thing between hours) that maybe this bug actually make this feature more interesting XD
But yeah, they need to fix it for sure, it's incredible how many developers understimate those changes tied on framerate on PC ports, especially japanese developers.
Ya honestly the cores thing does not bother me at all. I actually use the shit I pick up now.
Not well. I think it's just capturing in desktop mode, which has lower performance.
I regret buying this even though I got it cheaper with VPN.
This port is a mess.
You know what would be funny? All performance issues and bugs getting "fixed" once the game is cracked.
Still having the cut GPU usage issue in Vulkan after the latest patch. It doesn't happen in DX12 but the game crashes a ton for me in DX12 unfortunately. I will have to keep alt tabbing until there is hopefully a fix.
It's the opposite. The rates are designed for lower framerate AKA for consoles.
I'm sure it's been brought up but anyone else running internal resolution above 100%, I'm at 150%, notice that lighting effects on character don't cover the whole screen?
The 2/3 of the screen gets proper lighting, but then a slice on the bottom and the right 1/3 of the screen doesn't, so like beards and stuff are noticeable dark. Even Hosea's hair basically turns black.
I've only seen something like this when attempting to increase a games FOV through cheat engine or .ini edits.
The 2/3 of the screen gets proper lighting, but then a slice on the bottom and the right 1/3 of the screen doesn't, so like beards and stuff are noticeable dark. Even Hosea's hair basically turns black.
I've only seen something like this when attempting to increase a games FOV through cheat engine or .ini edits.
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Anyone else having issues with 5.1 in this game? The dialogue is often muffled and the positional audio tends to reverse every few minutes.
I actually thought the 5.1 was super well done I have not experienced these issues at all. I did turn up the dialog mix slider a few notches as I always prefer louder dialog volume
I've finished the game before Rockstar managed to fix it.
AMA.
On a more serious note, I haven't had any major problems since the last patch stability wise. Let's just hope that they keep patching it.
AMA.
On a more serious note, I haven't had any major problems since the last patch stability wise. Let's just hope that they keep patching it.
So after the patch yesterday I loaded up the game and it took forever. I got impatient and clicked on the screen and it timed out and I had to close it lol. Then I booted it again and just walked away. It eventually loaded in, all my settings went to low but my resolution was fine, so not exactly safe mode. I did all my settings again and loaded into online and it ran like a dream, just perfect and had a very long online play session with a buddy. Neither of our games crashed and we had no problems at all.
The thing is after the patch I did have those initial hiccups. I am concerned that a future updated to fix shit will break my game. The thing that keeps me going though is that it is just such a beautiful game like even after playing online so much I am still constantly blown away by the graphics.
I play on 1440p so I don't have opportunity to see the hdr problems people are having but I do know that even on my ps4 pro hdr sucked. I switched back to Vulkan too. For me the game runs better on that since the Nvidia patch. I also did try out the geforce experience recommended optimization and it was terrible. I followed a video online that was posted here for the best settings.
The thing is after the patch I did have those initial hiccups. I am concerned that a future updated to fix shit will break my game. The thing that keeps me going though is that it is just such a beautiful game like even after playing online so much I am still constantly blown away by the graphics.
I play on 1440p so I don't have opportunity to see the hdr problems people are having but I do know that even on my ps4 pro hdr sucked. I switched back to Vulkan too. For me the game runs better on that since the Nvidia patch. I also did try out the geforce experience recommended optimization and it was terrible. I followed a video online that was posted here for the best settings.
Might be a driver issue, then. I'm running with a Sound Blaster Audigy FX.
That could be, I am using the hdmi audio on 2080ti to my AVR
The game never does fullscreen for me. Always reverts back to borderless window.
Any useful launch parameters? (apart from fullscreen)
Any useful launch parameters? (apart from fullscreen)
The -fullscreen launch parameter didn't work, it would say full screen in settings but was still borderless.
I am just in the habit of hitting ALT+ENTER after launching to get it in fullscreen each time. extremely frustrating