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Red Dead Redemption II PC performance thread
- Thread starter GrrImAFridge
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Is the benchmark Saint Denis performance not indicative of in-game Saint Denis performance??
Software development needs a uber patch but def can be fixed broken - or UK government Brexit fiasco WTF do we do now broken?
It sort of is, at the right day of time and weather conditions. But at night, with all lights on, a a bit of fog.... you need to subtract 10-15fps.
Are you using FXAA? Disabling FXAA "fixes" the glitching for me.
No, which is a scumbag move by Rockstar.
There are way, way less NPCs in the benchmark then in the actual city. The benchmark is a kinda controlled siutation, when the real Saint Denis is a pretty dynamic setting.
GTA V launches the launcher as well but has offline mode for PC, does Red Dead not have offline at all on pc?
Okay. Apologies, my post was out of line and childish.
I greatly enjoyed your latest DF, PC focused RDR II video. My performance has greatly improved thanks to your settings.
Was the first place i went to, same performance as the benchmark, walked around the whole town during day and night and the only setting it was giving me problems at night was lighting quality, had to drop it from ultra to high and that was that, locked 60.
Challenge accepted, than I shall avoid entering SD at night when its fog lol
I've always thought this game started off life as a PS360 gen game. Some of the textures and character models really aren't very good at all. The games scale and lighting are it's impressive aspects to me at least visually.
Are there any mods yet to skip looting bodies / the picking items up animations?
Saint denis is really something different. I had three crashes there while i just rode through the city to test performance. Pretty demanding there, esp. with lighting quality to ultra.
Do you guys think game/launcher crashes happen more often with GPU OC or is it just completely random?
Do you guys think game/launcher crashes happen more often with GPU OC or is it just completely random?
Damn y'all. This game is just an absolute trip. I decided to lock at 30 bc I want every last bit of eye candy, and esp in "game" HDR mode, this game has moments of delivering 3D rendered visuals above anything I've ever seen before. It's that somewhat rare combination, similar to naughty dog stuff, of technical and artistic design.
What's on display here is absolutely incredible imho. Also, since the game really isn't an "action" game the sub-60fps isn't bothering me as much as I thought.
What's on display here is absolutely incredible imho. Also, since the game really isn't an "action" game the sub-60fps isn't bothering me as much as I thought.
No change in performance for me. My settings are somewhere in this thread, but I think the key is:
1. Don't have an old i5
2. Reduce a few key settings in that graph of the heaviest hitters (MSAA off, TSAA to medium, water quality low, near volumetrics quality high, and something else)
3. Don't have super high expectations with resolution above 1080p
4. Direct mouse input
Really wish the menus were better suited for mouse and keyboard. Looking at items in the satchel requires you to use the keyboard keys to select an item without using it (using the mouse, it highlights the item with a white box, but doesnt show the description). Also some things in the main menu know they have been selected (white border) but should have a red border which means you can click it.
Kind of used to it with R* games really, just annoying.
Kind of used to it with R* games really, just annoying.
So I decided to just say fuck it and buy it. Guess I lucked out because I haven't had any launch issues, crashes, or major FPS problems since getting it. Playing on all ultra/high settings at 4k with a resolution scale of 0.834 (5/6), which is basically 1800p and it's nearly a locked 60 fps with very rare minor drops to 58 or 59. I'll say one thing it feels a hell of a lot better to play on PC than it did on Console, which was my main problem with it and why I couldn't play more of an 2-3 hours of it. I've actually been really enjoying it so far and the world is beautiful.
Yes it uses Arxan + Rockstar's own custom DRM just like GTA V.
The game worked fine and did not refuse to start for me until I got 11 hours into it. Give it some time :P
I'm not talking about performance but rather stability.
Had more crashes and problems there then any other place and I played the game perfectly fine just before.
Now you're worrying me lol.
Also, why the hell do they give you a desktop shortcut if you can't even use it to launch the game? Seems really stupid and redundant to do.
For it's worth, I found these steps online, and it worked for me (couldn't launch with DX12 previously either):
1. Search "Apps & Features"
2. Click "Optional Features"
3. Click "+ Add a feature"
4. Click "Graphics Tools" > "Install"
5. Relaunch game in DX12
Seems like my system and/or the game was missing some DX12 dependencies (even though my Windows Updates are all installed).
May or may not work in your case, but worth a shot.
Scan Line Sync Guide/Thread, FYI:
Just got to chapter 2 and walked around Valentine a bit. Few drops to high 40's and the rare drop the mid 40's I'm mostly averaging mid 50's with my setting on my 980ti. I could lower some setting but I'm pretty much content with performance as with GSync on as drops aren't really noticeable enough to me. Nvidia sharpening on the Gforce overlay removes the blurring that results from TAA setting the game uses, which honestly was my biggest problem with the PS4 Prop version so I'm pretty happy so far.
Are you using the BES program? I have a 4c4t i5 4670k. And it's helping a lot.
I'll try this when I get home.
Vulcan runs in the low 40s to high 50s but looks awful. Like early 360 games without motion blur. Most likely frame pacing issues.
6600k and 1070 here, Saint Denis looks beautiful and runs fine for me? I do get the occasional hitch there, though.
edit - I'm using Vulkan as well lol
I hope the biggest problems will be solved when the game launches on Steam but I really doubt it. I've 3 weeks off in December and actually wanted to fully dive into RDR2... but not in the catastrophic state the game still seems to be.
I guess I play The Outer Worlds, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and other games from my pile instead. It doesn't feel right supporting Rockstar for this mess.
I guess I play The Outer Worlds, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and other games from my pile instead. It doesn't feel right supporting Rockstar for this mess.
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I have found a spot I can get the game to crash every single time.
this issue is weird I can reproduce it but requires a very specific world environment in St Denis but only at night and foggy.
Certain areas in the city will crash my game and throw a "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." in the event log.
There are certain areas that this will happen.
When it happens it the screen may fill up with black polygons with crazy geometry then crash, or it will just freeze. I captured a video of the crash coming out the hotel:
and here is the one at the saloon that is repeatable. if I turn down settings this doesn't happen.
this happens 100% of time with these settings (see below)
My GPU is overclocked and watercooled. If I remove the overclock and go to complete stock settings the crash will still happen.
I captured a crash here with GPU View:
running with these settings:
3840 x 2160, 60hz, Windowed: No, Vsync: Yes, Triple: On
Textures: Ultra
Anisotropic: 16x
Lighting: Ultra
Global Illumination: Ultra
Shadows: High
Far Shadows: Ultra
SSAO: High
Reflection: High
Mirror: Ultra
Water: Custom
Volumetrics: Custom
Particles: Ultra
Tessellation: Ultra
FXAA: Off, TAA: Medium, MSAA: 0
Near Volumetrics Quality: Ultra
Far Volumetric Quality: Ultra
Volumetric Lighting Quality: Ultra
Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: Off
Particle Lighting Quality: High
Soft Shadows: High
Grass Shadows: Medium
Long Shadows: On
Full resolution SSAO: Off
Water Refraction Quality: Medium
Water Reflection Quality: Medium
Water Physics Quality: 50%
Resolution scale: Mode4o5 80%
TAA Sharpen Intensity: 100%
Motion Blur: On
Reflection MSAA: Off
Geometry Level of Detail: 100%
Grass Level of Detail: 83%
Tree Quality: High
Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: High
Decal Quality: High
Fur Quality: High
HDR on but happens with HDR off as show in my videos.
happens both with Vulkan and DX12
In St Denis at night go to the ST Denis Saloon and spin camera around. Always happens here.
Happens elsewhere in ST Denis, but ONLY in St Denis at night.
It is one of the settings if I turn them down the issue doesn't happen. in the 30 hours I have played this crash only happens in St Denis at night.
Happens with RTSS completely disabled as well as enabled.
I have no other crashes in any other games
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Submitted this to both Nvidia and Rockstar fwiw
this issue is weird I can reproduce it but requires a very specific world environment in St Denis but only at night and foggy.
Certain areas in the city will crash my game and throw a "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." in the event log.
There are certain areas that this will happen.
When it happens it the screen may fill up with black polygons with crazy geometry then crash, or it will just freeze. I captured a video of the crash coming out the hotel:
and here is the one at the saloon that is repeatable. if I turn down settings this doesn't happen.
this happens 100% of time with these settings (see below)
My GPU is overclocked and watercooled. If I remove the overclock and go to complete stock settings the crash will still happen.
I captured a crash here with GPU View:
running with these settings:
3840 x 2160, 60hz, Windowed: No, Vsync: Yes, Triple: On
Textures: Ultra
Anisotropic: 16x
Lighting: Ultra
Global Illumination: Ultra
Shadows: High
Far Shadows: Ultra
SSAO: High
Reflection: High
Mirror: Ultra
Water: Custom
Volumetrics: Custom
Particles: Ultra
Tessellation: Ultra
FXAA: Off, TAA: Medium, MSAA: 0
Near Volumetrics Quality: Ultra
Far Volumetric Quality: Ultra
Volumetric Lighting Quality: Ultra
Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: Off
Particle Lighting Quality: High
Soft Shadows: High
Grass Shadows: Medium
Long Shadows: On
Full resolution SSAO: Off
Water Refraction Quality: Medium
Water Reflection Quality: Medium
Water Physics Quality: 50%
Resolution scale: Mode4o5 80%
TAA Sharpen Intensity: 100%
Motion Blur: On
Reflection MSAA: Off
Geometry Level of Detail: 100%
Grass Level of Detail: 83%
Tree Quality: High
Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: High
Decal Quality: High
Fur Quality: High
HDR on but happens with HDR off as show in my videos.
happens both with Vulkan and DX12
In St Denis at night go to the ST Denis Saloon and spin camera around. Always happens here.
Happens elsewhere in ST Denis, but ONLY in St Denis at night.
It is one of the settings if I turn them down the issue doesn't happen. in the 30 hours I have played this crash only happens in St Denis at night.
Happens with RTSS completely disabled as well as enabled.
I have no other crashes in any other games
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Submitted this to both Nvidia and Rockstar fwiw
That's crazy if true, because I was hitting 42+ fps during the benchmark horseback scene, with worse case scenarios dropping down to 32 using close to xbox one x settings and a 1080 Ti + 3700x @ 4k.
Currently using 3440x1440 @ .8 res with a mix of high and ultra seems to work well at the moment.
Need some help, just got a new laptop but it's the first time in well over a decade that I've had a PC suitable for playing modern games on and I'm out of my depth with all these options - bought RDR2 and ran the benchmark, it defaulted to 720p and held a reasonable framerate but looked pretty ugly, so I messed with some settings and then the benchmark refused to run. Restored settings to default and, again, the benchmark refused to run.
So, with these specs should I be able to play the game in anything approaching console quality, or should I just give up now and request a refund?
. Intel Core i7-9750h
. Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060
. 16gb RAM
Wasn't expecting amazing quality or anything, but the only other game I've tried is Outer Worlds and that runs fine when mostly ramped up to Ultra.
So, with these specs should I be able to play the game in anything approaching console quality, or should I just give up now and request a refund?
. Intel Core i7-9750h
. Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060
. 16gb RAM
Wasn't expecting amazing quality or anything, but the only other game I've tried is Outer Worlds and that runs fine when mostly ramped up to Ultra.
You should easily be able to play at console quality, yeah.
The game is broken tbh
I was testing the settings and found something interesting. Reflection setting isn't only for the resolution of reflections on windows and stuff like I thought.
You can clearly see the difference in quality on the wooden surface of the wagon. There's also a blue light bounce/reflection on the ceiling of the barn which is more prominent on ultra settings. Global illumination is the same(High) for both screenshots.
ULTRA reflection quality:
LOW reflection quality:
Dictator thoughts?
You can clearly see the difference in quality on the wooden surface of the wagon. There's also a blue light bounce/reflection on the ceiling of the barn which is more prominent on ultra settings. Global illumination is the same(High) for both screenshots.
ULTRA reflection quality:
LOW reflection quality:
Dictator thoughts?
Download this http://mion.faireal.net/BES/.
Run it, then run the game, then switch back to it, find RDR2.exe and limit it with -1 or -2.
Also in the OP, yo :P
Try this. Nothing else has worked for me.I cant believe it..been fighting to even launch the game. Reinstalled. disabled antivirus, deleted settings folder. It's just upsetting "wasting" time on my day off troubleshooting this
Well just hit my first crash. Was going along well so far in the beginning, but as I was going to Valentine with Uncle for first time/first Uncle missionit Crashed. Happened while I was entering Valentine on the wagon. DX12 everything maxed at 4k.
Will try again tonight to see if keeps crashing.
Will try again tonight to see if keeps crashing.
Yes, keep it at 0. Like I said it's not perfect. One other thing you can try is using this with Fast Sync. Other than that, I have no idea, other than half rate refresh in the CP, but of course that can add considerable lag. Do you find this messes up your loading times with this on as well?
Or you know, people who have the myriad of PC configurations that can produce massive stuttering depending upon the API.
Yeah I made this point earlier as well. I don't get the 'future proofing' argument, in 5 years this game is going to look dated - having the ability to run it with slightly more volumetric light bleed and more water ripples will not change that.
Thank you but the audio setting didn't work for me.
Can someone upload their settings.xml file so I can try to drop it in my documents folder. Any setting will do
Now my game stutters a lot, and the mouse pointer is back, but I can play it without it crashing. Besides the DX12 api just not working, ot seems like all my issues are inconsistent. I hope they have a patch coming out soon.
Well, damn.
Looks like ass with the default settings, but even upping to 1080p makes the game feel like it's running in slow-motion. Guess I'll get a refund and pick it up again if they ever fix this shit.