Your GPU should be able to safely sustain 100% GPU usage for a very, very long time. If it's overheating because of that, that's a problem with cooling.
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Red Dead Redemption II PC performance thread
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Your GPU should be able to safely sustain 100% GPU usage for a very, very long time. If it's overheating because of that, that's a problem with cooling.
Thanks for this tip, now it seems to run as smooth as with DX12, but hopefully without less crashes to desktop.
Edit: It absolutely runs perfect now. Even this weird microstutter and framerate drop sometimes @ DX12 are gone.
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oh right now i have 2080ti and its always at 60c. But i was still carefull about gpu usage for whatever reason., lol
My GPU is 37 idle and ~90 under load. Have never had any problem.
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Just had a new launcher update. Hopefully this one actually fixes something for the people unable to launch.
Do you mean if you have a capped framerate?
Headroom is good to have for those computationally intensive moments.
If your GPU is at 95% and above and your frame rate is higher than your frame rate target, such as a target of 60 fps with the game running at 70 fps then I don't think there is much reason to be worried, unless your GPU is overheating.
Performance hit between high and ultra Parallax Occlusion Mapping is around 12%. Ultra setting adds visibly more details and geometry on ground textures like additional grass and small shadows and little stones. Performance between low, medium and high is neglectable (1%) but visual quality increases a bit. I recommend "high" instead of "ultra" if you struggling reaching your target fps.
Ultra:
High:
Also Geometry Level of Detail is broken. Highest setting actually removes objects from distance (maybe for accuracy?). Looks worse while performance worse.
Highest setting:
lowest setting:
Second lowest setting:
The higher the setting the more detail is lost in the distance. Look at the grass and bushes in the far, on the left, next to the rail tracks.
Would you mind taking some more screenshots and showing this in another area? Mine doesn't seem to be doing what yours is, I am losing detail when lowering the setting.
yeah i cap my fps to 60 with RTSS and vsync, because i have 60hz tv
Watched the pcgameshardware video.
They are only able to run the game on two of their systems. They've found a repeatable way to crash the game in one of the cities (approach a certain post on a horse), besides other crashes and also found vulkan to not be smooth. They are recommending dx12 for both AMD and Nvidia. If possible...
But a rx 570 is able to achieve ~50 FPS on a mix of high and medium settings at 1080p
They are only able to run the game on two of their systems. They've found a repeatable way to crash the game in one of the cities (approach a certain post on a horse), besides other crashes and also found vulkan to not be smooth. They are recommending dx12 for both AMD and Nvidia. If possible...
But a rx 570 is able to achieve ~50 FPS on a mix of high and medium settings at 1080p
Yes and it's the same as the PC version. Weirdly desaturated compared to the SDR mode even though after patch it does manage to actually make some use out of HDR.
Shout out to this man, because these settings got me to 98fps average at 1440p and it still looks amazing.
(9700k/2080 TI, but he also tested it with a 8700k and 1080 TI, so it's not just for one set-up.)
I've been pretty vocal and annoying about my i5 3570k/1070/8gb RAM combo. The game is running fine with a mix of settings, most medium to high, at a consistent framerate besides the i5 stuttering that I fixed with Project Lasso. Mind you, I'm using Gsync at 1440p.
Just got to Valentine and run anywhere from 45-70fps at 1440p. Rockstar fucked older CPUs without using limiters though.
Cool. I'm going to try this with my 2080 and see what I get at 4k (0.8 resolution scale). My current settings give me 60fps in the field, but about 45-50 in camp/towns. I wonder what the game will look like with these settings.
Damn man, this game is in a rough state. I haven't seen a AAA PC launch with so many issues in a long time!
I've tested the game's benchmark with an i7-2600K at 3.2-3.5GHz and an RX 570 and GTX 1080 Ti.
I want to test the performance in game with this configuration as I've heard that there can be performance differences between the benchmark and gameplay.
The i7 2600K isn't performing the best it can as I'm using a H61 motherboard with a max CPU multiplier of 38 (3800MHz) and an Intel stock cooler, there are some points in the video where it reached 90 Celsius so I underclocked it to 3.2GHz. It could probably do with some thermal paste and ideally a new CPU cooler but it seems to be holding up pretty well for an 8+ year old CPU.
I would like to test it again with the optimised settings I have found.
I7-2600K 3.5GHz + RX 570
i7-2600K 3.2GHz + GTX 1080 Ti
That sounds like a cooling issue. My 1080 Ti got pretty hot for the longest time until I cracked it open to repaste the die. Now my temps stay under 60C as long as I keep fan speed and temps at a 1:1 ratio (which I usually don't, since fans at 50-60% are pretty loud).
If this affects the game as well, that should resolve the biggest problem I've experienced. Oddly, I've never had the launcher crash on my 3700X, only the game itself.
Cool now when are you gonna stop the crashing with dx12.
Shit is getting real annoying >:( Im gonna go play Death Stranding instead.
Yeah there is no logic why it has problems on some ryzen 3000 CPUs and not on others. Sometimes upgrading to a newer AGESA helps, sometimes downgrading, sometimes it's the Sound Driver, sometimes it's the anti virus software, sometimes it's because the moon shadow doesn't align correctly with the old oak on the hill.
I hope people are finally able to play it now.
Well, I'll be damned, turning off the GeForce Experience in-game overlay fixes the issue with the Windows Mouse Cursor staying on the screen for those having this annoying problem. This works perfectly as you can still use the in-game cursor where you need to (settings, map, etc).
Edit: Unless it is some kind of placebo effect I swear my game looks much sharper without the overlay as well.
On another note, performance has remained great with mostly high settings and a few ultra and mediums mixed in...even left the water physics at their default state. Getting 60-80 FPS at a native 3440x1440 on a 2080, i7-6700, 32 GB RAM with the game installed on a SSD (no stuttering of any kind to speak of). DX12 doesn't work at all (well, I haven't tried it in a few days but I'm done with tinkering at this point, just want to play).
Edit: Unless it is some kind of placebo effect I swear my game looks much sharper without the overlay as well.
On another note, performance has remained great with mostly high settings and a few ultra and mediums mixed in...even left the water physics at their default state. Getting 60-80 FPS at a native 3440x1440 on a 2080, i7-6700, 32 GB RAM with the game installed on a SSD (no stuttering of any kind to speak of). DX12 doesn't work at all (well, I haven't tried it in a few days but I'm done with tinkering at this point, just want to play).
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Some folks are playing on brand new X570 or B450 motherboards. Some are playing on X470 or B350 boards. Could be tied to that, though I don't believe I've ever played a PC port where that was a major factor in performance or stability.
Gamernexus had two x570 boards not working and one working if I'm not mistaken. All three were from Gigabyte.
There really is no logic here. I mean there certainly is, but without deeper insider like levels of knowledge into BIOS and Microcode it's probably futile to try to see any.
I'd like to think there's a pattern, but even if we could identify a trend, correlation doesn't equal causation.
Those settings seem pretty solid, I'll try them out however I do see that he lost dynamic lighting from the moon in the benchmark part of the town, I really don't want to lose that, anyone know which setting controls that?
some of the settings pages don't require you to "apply changes" or "save." It just saves automatically. Not sure about keyboard mapping though.
Tried that too but it should not be necessary anymore. I don't know what it was but I got the game running. It did crash right after the opening as I was riding out. Second try with DX12 it seemed to work fine and runs decently in 5120x1440 at least for this initial bit. The cutscenes boxing in on ultrawide is super stupid.
Next thing I will try is to get this working with Steam Controller so I can get some proper control. This games has a shitload of button bindings.
EDIT: Got it working by adding Rockstar Launcher to Steam via GloSC. Just adding it directly would crash the game for some reason.
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I've been experimenting with the settings in this game and have reduced the settings that I have found to be the most computationally expensive on my PC, I use them to run the game at 1440p with a 60 fps target.
Since uploading this, I have made improvements to the settings shown in this video and I am currently rendering a new 30-minute video where I explore different areas in the game.
I'm also working on a 60 fps performance guide!
