Also crashes for me that way.
(without RGL already open)
I really think, if RDR2 doesn't detect the RGL as the _root_ parent of its process, it craps itself.
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Red Dead Redemption II PC performance thread
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(without RGL already open)
I really think, if RDR2 doesn't detect the RGL as the _root_ parent of its process, it craps itself.
Am I the only one who's game was fine before the update yesterday and now it won't launch?
Does anyone have any suggestions to remedy this? I tried the hot fix driver with no luck and even completely loaded the game.
I launch the game in the Rockstar launcher and it crashes the launcher
Does anyone have any suggestions to remedy this? I tried the hot fix driver with no luck and even completely loaded the game.
I launch the game in the Rockstar launcher and it crashes the launcher
Lmao, just in time for December too.Well this is a very festive bug.
His hair just gradually turned white as I was trying on clothes and immediately fixed itself once I left the menu.
Weird, it works for me. Steam launches R* launcher then I just launch rdr2 from there
New patch, huge new issue: my settings reset every single time I start the game.
Marking the system.xml as "read only" doesn't do anything. The same goes for deleting it and letting the game create a new one, then making changes/substituting it for a backup.
In its current state, the game is unplayable. I'm not manually editing 40 individual settings every time I want to play. From what I can tell, the settings are reverted during the shotgun intro video, before the Rockstar logo shows up. The game starts normally, and when G-Sync engages (identifiable by the "Instant Game Response" pop-up notification on my LG C9), the resolution is immediately dialed down to 720p, from 4K. Going into the settings menu, everything else is back to their default values.
Anyone else experiencing this? I also updated to the latest Nvidia hotfix driver (441.34). All other settings remain the same as before.
Marking the system.xml as "read only" doesn't do anything. The same goes for deleting it and letting the game create a new one, then making changes/substituting it for a backup.
In its current state, the game is unplayable. I'm not manually editing 40 individual settings every time I want to play. From what I can tell, the settings are reverted during the shotgun intro video, before the Rockstar logo shows up. The game starts normally, and when G-Sync engages (identifiable by the "Instant Game Response" pop-up notification on my LG C9), the resolution is immediately dialed down to 720p, from 4K. Going into the settings menu, everything else is back to their default values.
Anyone else experiencing this? I also updated to the latest Nvidia hotfix driver (441.34). All other settings remain the same as before.
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(Xpost with the other thread)
Days are stupid short in this game. If you are like me and really want to savour those beautiful and moody moments at night, dusk, sunrise, etc etc without them flying by breaking the immersion, install this mod and make the time go as slow as you want:
No changes to the weather timings in this, it's tied to something else and I'm still on the lookout for a mod for that.
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I'm playing at 3X slower speed, went for a slow walk around Rhodes in the in-game morning to appreciate the atmosphere and all the little details around town. The weather was nice and the town was bathed in beautiful warm lightning, the game is an explorable living painting if you slow down and appreciate it. After some lenghty exploring I checked the time and it was later in that same morning, which felt right, satisfying and immersive for what I was doing and the visual mood had only slightly changed, instead of it being 11pm in the night already.
Days are stupid short in this game. If you are like me and really want to savour those beautiful and moody moments at night, dusk, sunrise, etc etc without them flying by breaking the immersion, install this mod and make the time go as slow as you want:
No changes to the weather timings in this, it's tied to something else and I'm still on the lookout for a mod for that.
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I'm playing at 3X slower speed, went for a slow walk around Rhodes in the in-game morning to appreciate the atmosphere and all the little details around town. The weather was nice and the town was bathed in beautiful warm lightning, the game is an explorable living painting if you slow down and appreciate it. After some lenghty exploring I checked the time and it was later in that same morning, which felt right, satisfying and immersive for what I was doing and the visual mood had only slightly changed, instead of it being 11pm in the night already.
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Weird. And you're sure the launcher is not already running? Adding the launcher executable to Steam and launching from there results in a crash ("exited unexpectedly") for me.
Edit: Excuse my language, fellow cowboys, but what the bleeping f*ck.
I had to unplug my controller for this very specific use case to work.
So if you're trying to launch the Rockstar Game Launcher from Steam, in order to launch RDR2 from there - unplug your controller. You can replug it after the game has launched.
Edit2: And now I come to think of it, this is probably the reason while it crashes when trying to stream over Steam Link too. Because Steam Link attaches a virtual controller. Holy macaroni this game is a complicated shitshow.
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Nice! What about NPC behavior and schedule? Does it work properly?
Has anyone found noticeable differences (in visuals or performance) between the two particle quality settings?
I wonder if performance is improving, or I'm just experiencing placebo. In towns and camp, my FPS hovers around 60-70FPS, but in the wild I'm getting around 75-85 on average. Cutscenes often bump up to 90-100FPS, and I've no idea how. Overall very pleased with how the game performs now while using the "optimized settings" that keep getting tossed around here. Playing at a native 1440p.
GTX 1080 Ti, Ryzen 3700X, 16GB RAM @ 3200MHz. Given how rough performance was on Pascal around launch, this is certainly a nice bump up in performance, and more in-line with what I expected when I first started playing. Even better, I'm not crashing out of the blue anymore!
GTX 1080 Ti, Ryzen 3700X, 16GB RAM @ 3200MHz. Given how rough performance was on Pascal around launch, this is certainly a nice bump up in performance, and more in-line with what I expected when I first started playing. Even better, I'm not crashing out of the blue anymore!
Well, I've just had to re-apply all my graphics settings again. Joy.
Also I've just had a bug where I wen't to the butcher guy at the camp, but no menu popped up at all, just me staring into his hairy face. No key worked at all, nothing on the controller or keyboard. I alt-tabbed and used the RGL 'exit game' button.
Also I've just had a bug where I wen't to the butcher guy at the camp, but no menu popped up at all, just me staring into his hairy face. No key worked at all, nothing on the controller or keyboard. I alt-tabbed and used the RGL 'exit game' button.
I was wandering about this too after last updates. Yes, there was graphics settings reset but as i was pretty much doing that "optimized settings" i manage to redo my setup exactly the same and then did the benchmarking and it gave me about 5-7 more fps. Also in game i manage to get 90% of the time 60+ fps now with my system.
Yeah! Or at least I didn't notice anything wrong in that regard. Their routines seem to be tied to the clock so they go about their day as they should no matter what speed you're playing at.
I was hoping to see more mods by now but I guess I was being unrealistic about the speed of development.
Don't worry we will eventually get the GTA V map on RDR2 lol
Brother I am just here for the shoulder mounted gatling gun mod.
What are the "optimized settings" if you don't mind sharing? My graphics settings got reset and I don't remember what they were.
What are the "optimized settings" if you don't mind sharing? My graphics settings got reset and I don't remember what they were.
Guys, I am with some resolution scale dilemma and I want some help.
I use an 49" TV as monitor at 90cm in front of me. Right now I use 2560x1440 native resolution (no scale) so its basically an 32" 1440p monitor. But my TV have some flicker (KS8000) and I bought a small PC table so I can sit a little far away from the TV now (1,5 - 2,0m) and play at fullscreen.
So, what resolution scale should I use? There are 3 options:
1. Use native 4k resolution and then use the ingame resolution scale to 1440p.
2. Use 1440p resolution, let the GPU scale it to 4k.
3. Use 1080p resolution, use the ingame resolution scale to 1440p, let the display (TV) scale to fullscreen (4k).
I use an 49" TV as monitor at 90cm in front of me. Right now I use 2560x1440 native resolution (no scale) so its basically an 32" 1440p monitor. But my TV have some flicker (KS8000) and I bought a small PC table so I can sit a little far away from the TV now (1,5 - 2,0m) and play at fullscreen.
So, what resolution scale should I use? There are 3 options:
1. Use native 4k resolution and then use the ingame resolution scale to 1440p.
2. Use 1440p resolution, let the GPU scale it to 4k.
3. Use 1080p resolution, use the ingame resolution scale to 1440p, let the display (TV) scale to fullscreen (4k).
It's been less than a month, and for at least a week of that we had the game either not launching, or crashing or running like shit. They've done great for how long it's been out.
I recommend 4K and then use the resolution scale to 1440p, this way you'll have a 4K UI. I think you set the resolution scale to 0.67 in the game which should be roughly 1440p if my understanding of the option is correct. 3840 x 0.667 = 2561
64 or even 100+ player servers, oh man!
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yes, I just tested it. 4k with 0.667 scale is much better than all of the other options.
Great tip especially with a vrr monitor that is pal speeds of fps.
This worked for me to get rid of the pop ins:
PedLodBias
VehicleLodBias
LodScale
all set to 1.000000
LodScale was already set to 1 in my file.
But it looks like I am getting a few more frame drops with this enabled, especially in Valentine or when arriving at the camp.
PedLodBias
VehicleLodBias
LodScale
all set to 1.000000
LodScale was already set to 1 in my file.
But it looks like I am getting a few more frame drops with this enabled, especially in Valentine or when arriving at the camp.
The recent 3GB update noted "fixed reverting settings after game update".
But after the update my settings were all reverted.
But after the update my settings were all reverted.
I've given the RDR2 settings parser a new place: https://rdr2.forceflow.be/
- It now also successfully parses older versions of the XML
- It optionally lists some settings that are not in the menu, but are useful and in the XML (Currently: async compute, snowglints, deep surface quality - any more suggestions?)
It works fine for me even if RGL isn't running in the background.
Try logging out of RGL and back in. I heard it works.
Odd. Now getting hitches in DX12 after latest patch. None before patch. i5 [email protected] but like I said no issues pre-patch only on Vulkan.
See my more recent post for the revelation - it was the combo of Steam + having a controller plugged in (really) that made it crash.
Tonight I took 170 screenshots comparing all the settings and I don't think I want to see any of these options ever again. I don't think I've ever spent this much time in a goddamn settings menu before this.
The only standout bug I noticed when comparing settings was with Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality. When you turn that to Ultra it can cause this black haze to appear on the ground as you move forward. Knocking it down to High fixes this.
For anyone who's interested, here's my specs, settings, and comparison screenshots of the game's default settings on my machine, the highest settings (without MSAA), and then my personal settings:
The only standout bug I noticed when comparing settings was with Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality. When you turn that to Ultra it can cause this black haze to appear on the ground as you move forward. Knocking it down to High fixes this.
For anyone who's interested, here's my specs, settings, and comparison screenshots of the game's default settings on my machine, the highest settings (without MSAA), and then my personal settings:
R7-3700X
GTX 1080
16GB DDR4 3200Mhz
3440x1440 120Hz G-sync monitor
Texture Quality: Ultra
Anisotropic Filtering: 8x
Lighting Quality: High
Global Illumination Quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Far Shadow Quality: High
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Ultra
Reflection Quality: Medium
Mirror Quality: Ultra
Water Quality: Custom
Volumetrics Quality: Medium
Particle Quality: Medium
Tessellation Quality: High
TAA: Medium, FXAA: Off, MSAA: 0
Near Volumetric Resolution: Medium
Far Volumetric Resolution: Medium
Volumetric Lighting Quality: Medium
Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: Off
Particle Lighting Quality: Medium
Soft Shadows: High
Grass Shadows: Medium
Long Shadows: On
Full Resolution Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Off
Water Refraction Quality: Medium
Water Reflection Quality: Medium
Water Physics Quality: 50%
Resolution scale: 100%
TAA Sharpening: 300%
Motion Blur: On
Reflection MSAA: Off
Geometry Level of Detail: 100%
Grass Level of Detail: 20%
Tree Quality: High
Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: High
Decal Quality: High
Fur Quality: High
Tree Tessellation: Off
Async Compute: Off
Snow Glints: On
Deepsurface Quality: High
Default settings
Highest settings (without MSAA)
My settings
GTX 1080
16GB DDR4 3200Mhz
3440x1440 120Hz G-sync monitor
Texture Quality: Ultra
Anisotropic Filtering: 8x
Lighting Quality: High
Global Illumination Quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Far Shadow Quality: High
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Ultra
Reflection Quality: Medium
Mirror Quality: Ultra
Water Quality: Custom
Volumetrics Quality: Medium
Particle Quality: Medium
Tessellation Quality: High
TAA: Medium, FXAA: Off, MSAA: 0
Near Volumetric Resolution: Medium
Far Volumetric Resolution: Medium
Volumetric Lighting Quality: Medium
Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: Off
Particle Lighting Quality: Medium
Soft Shadows: High
Grass Shadows: Medium
Long Shadows: On
Full Resolution Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Off
Water Refraction Quality: Medium
Water Reflection Quality: Medium
Water Physics Quality: 50%
Resolution scale: 100%
TAA Sharpening: 300%
Motion Blur: On
Reflection MSAA: Off
Geometry Level of Detail: 100%
Grass Level of Detail: 20%
Tree Quality: High
Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: High
Decal Quality: High
Fur Quality: High
Tree Tessellation: Off
Async Compute: Off
Snow Glints: On
Deepsurface Quality: High
Default settings
Highest settings (without MSAA)
My settings
I have my DS4 plugged in all the time and it doesn't crash.
Tried it with both my wired and unwired Xbox / Xbox 360 controllers, and the game crashes when I launch it through steam with the controllers attached.
(I found this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RDR2/comments/dshisz/steam_overlay/f6zyie2/)
