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Red Dead Redemption II PC performance thread
- Thread starter GrrImAFridge
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i think the CPU will bottleneck the GPU in red dead redemption
I'm tempted to get this off Green Man Gaming on the Black Friday sale.
I was wondering if the patches so far have done anything for performance/optimisation? If so, to what extent?
Thanks.
I was wondering if the patches so far have done anything for performance/optimisation? If so, to what extent?
Thanks.
Is the day/night cycle and stamina still tied to framerate? I've been so wanting to replay this at high framerates but this issue is really bugging me.
Core drain is fixed. Day/night cycle never was clear wether it was an issue or not, I think? It was always really fast on consoles. I do believe there's a mod to make time progress slower, though.
I still feel dusk and dawn are way too fast, like sometimes they seem to change instantly or last like 30 seconds at best. Don't remember if it was like that on consoles.
Has anyone encountered a bug where no camp activities activate at all? I had it recently where if I go to Pearson to donate animal carcasses and things I fully press the interact button but no menu pops up at all. So I've avoided doing that for a while, but now I'm at a point in the story where everyone is having drinks and it seems like I'm meant to join in to progress, but again, nothing is happening when I press the interact button with anything. There is like a 10 second pause where it seems like the animation is meant to be playing out, but Arthur is just standing there and the prompt re-appears to Take Whiskey for example.
It would really suck if my save is corrupt somehow. Is there a validate files option of RGL?
[edit] Now everything is silent in camp other than the sounds of the campfires, when there is clearly meant to be partying and revelry happening. Its really creepy!
It would really suck if my save is corrupt somehow. Is there a validate files option of RGL?
[edit] Now everything is silent in camp other than the sounds of the campfires, when there is clearly meant to be partying and revelry happening. Its really creepy!
There is a verification for file integrity, try that first.
How beneficial is an SSD for this game? Trying to decide if I should make some room or if an HDD would suffice. I can live with a long initial load but if the game is constantly loading between missions/areas I'd rather have it on my SSD.
There's almost nothing after the initial load, but the initial one can be quite long if not on an SSD.
It's an open world so the game is constantly streaming assets from the drive to memory. It should benefit from being on SSD.
You have a setup that is pretty much identical to mine and you should be getting much better than that.
Easily! Just don't crank everything to max and you'll have no problem getting a locked 60 at that resolution.
I noticed the latest Nvidia drivers lists "enhancing the recently-released NVIDIA Control Panel Sharpening feature with support for OpenGL and Vulkan games." Anyone test that? - Will this make sharpening better in this game? When playing the game with graphics slider all the way maxed I notice some blurryness in distant objects, however turning up resolution scale tanks my performance below 60fps so looking for a different solution.
Got some time to finally tinker with settings yesterday.
Tried with Xbox settings and the optimised settings to get 4K30 and was getting some worse drops than xbox.
Decided to try for 1440p60 with Nvidia sharpening and settled on all high settings with long shadows, ultra textures and 5/5 Geometry. I also have near volumetrics at low and far at medium.
Went to Saint Denise during the day and at night and couldn't maintain the 60 at night so dropped to 1440p50 and it's pretty stable.
Got to have that high lighting setting.
Still get drops around 47-49 in the odd place at night in Saint Denise and had to use Nvidia Inspector to force 50fps as the frampacing is poor with the in game refresh.
Out in the wilds it's pretty solid.
Pretty happy with my settings. Titan Xp, 6700k and 16gb.
The benchmark is definitely not representative of in game performance and it's definitely not one set of settings fit the whole game.
Still really need to try town+night+rain, no doubt that will mean going back to the drawing board with settings.
Anyone have any suggestions for settings I could drop from high with a minimal visual hit, not lighting, that might gain me a little more FPS? I haven't had an opportunity to watch the DF video on settings yet.
Tried with Xbox settings and the optimised settings to get 4K30 and was getting some worse drops than xbox.
Decided to try for 1440p60 with Nvidia sharpening and settled on all high settings with long shadows, ultra textures and 5/5 Geometry. I also have near volumetrics at low and far at medium.
Went to Saint Denise during the day and at night and couldn't maintain the 60 at night so dropped to 1440p50 and it's pretty stable.
Got to have that high lighting setting.
Still get drops around 47-49 in the odd place at night in Saint Denise and had to use Nvidia Inspector to force 50fps as the frampacing is poor with the in game refresh.
Out in the wilds it's pretty solid.
Pretty happy with my settings. Titan Xp, 6700k and 16gb.
The benchmark is definitely not representative of in game performance and it's definitely not one set of settings fit the whole game.
Still really need to try town+night+rain, no doubt that will mean going back to the drawing board with settings.
Anyone have any suggestions for settings I could drop from high with a minimal visual hit, not lighting, that might gain me a little more FPS? I haven't had an opportunity to watch the DF video on settings yet.
You're welcome!
Hehe!
These were some of the best performing settings I found for my GTX 1080 Ti for 1440p 60 fps, I ran Lighting on Medium though.
There could be headroom for higher settings such as raising Tree Quality to High, Volumetric Lighting to Ultra, Far Shadow to High, and Particle Quality to Medium, High or Ultra. You have to restart the game if you change Particle Quality though, so I would recommend changing that last.
If you want more performance around water, try reducing water physics to 1/6.
These are the latest settings that I'm using, they're a bit more demanding but hold 60 fps pretty well for me.
Lighting on High is incredibly demanding, I haven't really tried to optimise around it for 60 fps yet, but I've observed performance hits of around 20% with it on High, this can lead to frame rate drops below 60 fps on my system.
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4 days for the Steam release! Can't wait to join you guys
But honestly I'll barely play it until my new laptop arrives on the 10th or so. Wanna wait to enjoy it with the RTX2070 and i7 9750H :)
this game can use 12 threads right?
But honestly I'll barely play it until my new laptop arrives on the 10th or so. Wanna wait to enjoy it with the RTX2070 and i7 9750H :)
this game can use 12 threads right?
Check your motherboard compatibility. I see Xeon 1270v3 for $85 available. It's a Haswell i7 without iGPU that fits same socket. Most Z97 boards run them perfectly. 4C/8T and 2MB more cache. Lot of titles these days simply tank at 4 threads. You can probably get most of the $ back selling the 4670. Devil's Canyon 4790k would be the best, but $$$. At that point, it starts looking smarter to do a platform replacement to a B450/Ryzen 3600 build lol.
Works fine otherwise but the letter AND pillarboxing of cutscenes is absolutely ridiculous. There is a mod that removes them but it's not perfect.
I have a 2080 Ti and a Samsung CRG9 running at 5120x1440. That's still 1M pixels less than 4K 16:9 btw. Runs about 50-60 fps with the settings I have settled on.
Ah nice. I'm a little jealous. I'll be shooting for 3440x1440 with a 1080 Ti. New monitor has G Sync which I'm new to, so I'm curious how it will all work out. Never had ultrawide or G Sync before.
You should be fine with that. Both ultrawide and G-Sync are great.
Yeah so I hear! I'm psyched. Any issues driving multiple monitors where only one has G Sync though? I've heard that can cause issues.
I have a similar setup except I have an AMD 3600 with a 2080ti on 1440p and I'm getting the same frame rate you are getting. Let me know if you solve it!
I'm holding out for the 10700K. If i've waited this long for RDR2 i guess i can wait two more months. 🙂
anyone having some kind of weird flashing every once in a while? screen flash, it looks like the game ALT-TAB briefly
running in full screen
running in full screen
Thanks for posting!
Now, let's see...
Crash, crash crash crash... Crash...
Wow, what happened? This is one of the roughest AAA PC launches I've seen in quite some time.
I guess Rockstar wasn't kidding when they said the first Red Dead was built on duct tape, blood and tears
I'd hate to see what would've happened if they ported that one
So thanks to RDR2 I'm getting a RX 5700XT and a Ryzen 7 2700X next week.
My current system runs the game well, but I want the graphics to melt my Eyeballs.
Can I expect a solid 60 on 1080p with Ultra Settings?
My current system runs the game well, but I want the graphics to melt my Eyeballs.
Can I expect a solid 60 on 1080p with Ultra Settings?
It happens to me, and for a few minutes after that the games stutters a lot!
Wait what? A 2070 is not even capable of 60 frame rock solid at 1080p?? Or is it only a question of weak cpu?
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No, it hammers CPUs, you mightn't get a locked 60 in towns, just expect dips in towns compared to the rest of the map.
Ok so i'm gonna wait another 10 patches or more to get my hands on it, thanks.
And people consider this thing a good port?
I have a 5700XT/2600X combo. 60fps ultra will probably be a no go. I run the hardware unboxed recommended settings for 50-60fps at 3440 x 1440. It still looks substantially better than console.
Aye okay. Probably not the best port to expect solid performance anyway. I'm playing mostly on medium 1080 atm and it already looks better than the console versions. I'm going to try my luck with the RPS optimized settings
Hmm, I'm now getting more crashes than ever before.
Whatever it is, it's causing the display driver to stop responding and the game to crash.
This same driver/install worked fine before the latest patch.
Also pretty sure my "Eat 4 kinds of berries" challenge thing is bugged as it's stuck at one and I've eaten 3 of the 4.
Whatever it is, it's causing the display driver to stop responding and the game to crash.
This same driver/install worked fine before the latest patch.
Also pretty sure my "Eat 4 kinds of berries" challenge thing is bugged as it's stuck at one and I've eaten 3 of the 4.