Red Dead Redemption 2

Devrij said:
This game makes my 980ti feel its age pretty badly. I'm getting high 30s mid 40s most of the time with the chunkiest settings on medium and everything else on ultra/high. Gsync smooths it out a lot and importantly the frame times are nice and consistent so it's very playable. But god I can't wait to upgrade my gpu.
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which resolution?

I'm at 4k and I've done a mix of medium/low for most settings except textures, grass shadows, fur etc.

This game looks too nice at 4k. so much detail that im kind of stuck having to find a compromise.

i find that maybe using the resolution slider + nvidia sharpen helps a bit.
 
on a 2080 i've optimised my game now to hit around 65fps @4k on the benchmark

minimum 50, average was 62 or 65. quite happy with that. disabled vsync. i dont seem to get any tearing on my TV without it so thats a win.

i basically followed the hardware unboxed video, did vulkan, enabled async compute. obviously i'll probably drop into bad terrirtories FPS wise in some areas.
 
aoaaron said:
which resolution?

I'm at 4k and I've done a mix of medium/low for most settings except textures, grass shadows, fur etc.

This game looks too nice at 4k. so much detail that im kind of stuck having to find a compromise.

i find that maybe using the resolution slider + nvidia sharpen helps a bit.
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I'm at 1440p, and the 980ti is really struggling. It's playable with gsync, and I'm enjoying it with no stutter or slowdowns (so far), but I'd kill for a better gpu. I put it to max quality settings preset then dropped shadows and Ssao, and a couple others I can't remember to medium. AA is off etc. It worked out about 5fps average slower than balanced preset, but looked nicer so I went with it. Once I get to the cities that may change. I'm still up in the snowy mountains

edit: grass has devastated my fps (as low as 27fps in some places), so I've had to tweak a few more settings to get that back into the 40s.
 
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ree said:
all good now for me. i deleted the 5 sga files 3 are for vulkan am guessing the other two are for dx12. hopefully this will sort you out too.
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Dx 12 is stable for me but Vulkan smashes it when it comes to the frame rate and more importantly the minimums.
 
Online has been mostly fun. Enjoying the free open playing with some hunting, moon shining and some missions in between. Only issue I had was once a hacker just waiting at my campsite and blowing up my horse and trying to blow me up. Eventually got me when I left the site. After quitting and rejoining I fortunately had my horse back. More annoyed that there were so many explosions at once it nearly blew my ears out with the headphones on. Another time I had someone just taking pots at me and managed to kill my horse.

It has been more fun when other online players help you out. Like during a mission someone came in randomly and helped me take out a rival moonshine gang. Another time I helped someone who was being chased by wolves. Also another gang tried to ambush another player and I dropped in and laid down some fire on them.
 
aoaaron said:
Dx 12 is stable for me but Vulkan smashes it when it comes to the frame rate and more importantly the minimums.
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Is this right? The reason I have gone with dx12 the whole time is that all the benchmarking articles I read had Vulkan as providing higher average FPS, but lower minimums. I think I'd also read that image quality is slightly worse than in dx12? Has any of that changed over time and patches?

I'm now up to 55-60fps on dx12 at 3440x1440 and reasonably happy with that, but if I could push out 5-10 more frames per second that would be grand.


delta0 said:
Online has been mostly fun. Enjoying the free open playing with some hunting, moon shining and some missions in between. Only issue I had was once a hacker just waiting at my campsite and blowing up my horse and trying to blow me up. Eventually got me when I left the site. After quitting and rejoining I fortunately had my horse back. More annoyed that there were so many explosions at once it nearly blew my ears out with the headphones on. Another time I had someone just taking pots at me and managed to kill my horse.

It has been more fun when other online players help you out. Like during a mission someone came in randomly and helped me take out a rival moonshine gang. Another time I helped someone who was being chased by wolves. Also another gang tried to ambush another player and I dropped in and laid down some fire on them.
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I've been having fun in online too, but I only just realised that because I was going along with missions started by our posse leader as part of a persistent posse I was only getting the payouts for being a helper, and not the full amount. Like I was getting $10-20 per mission, and finding it frustrating to be only just about keeping ahead of the cost of bullets and provisions.

Then I found our leader was getting $150-250 for the same missions, and only on looking into it did I realise I'd not been getting the full rewards. Presumably this is what happens if you get pulled into the mission when your leader starts it rather than starting it yourself? I don't think this happened when we went in as members of a temporary posse, though. It doesn't seem like it should work this way when neither of us have completed the relevant missions at any given point.

No wonder I've never been able to afford to buy anything!

Is anyone aware of a way to do missions together in a persisten posse that will ensure everyone participating gets the full payout?
 
strumpusplunket said:
Is this right? The reason I have gone with dx12 the whole time is that all the benchmarking articles I read had Vulkan as providing higher average FPS, but lower minimums. I think I'd also read that image quality is slightly worse than in dx12? Has any of that changed over time and patches?

I'm now up to 55-60fps on dx12 at 3440x1440 and reasonably happy with that, but if I could push out 5-10 more frames per second that would be grand.





I've been having fun in online too, but I only just realised that because I was going along with missions started by our posse leader as part of a persistent posse I was only getting the payouts for being a helper, and not the full amount. Like I was getting $10-20 per mission, and finding it frustrating to be only just about keeping ahead of the cost of bullets and provisions.

Then I found our leader was getting $150-250 for the same missions, and only on looking into it did I realise I'd not been getting the full rewards. Presumably this is what happens if you get pulled into the mission when your leader starts it rather than starting it yourself? I don't think this happened when we went in as members of a temporary posse, though. It doesn't seem like it should work this way when neither of us have completed the relevant missions at any given point.

No wonder I've never been able to afford to buy anything!

Is anyone aware of a way to do missions together in a persisten posse that will ensure everyone participating gets the full payout?
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Whenever I play persistent posse with my Dad we get around the same rewards? $250 seems a lot. On normal bounty hunts we get about $25 each from what I can remember.

Are you definitely in the posse/getting the cutscenes?
 
Is there anything you can do about hackers? I started getting griefed by one guy and was laughing as my posse mate was flanking him.

Both of us shotgunning to the head and his health stated permanently full.

he then proceed to keep chasing after us.
 
azazl187 said:
Hi All. I need optimum settings at 4k for a 9900k OCed to 5GHz paired with a 1080ti Strix OC. Thanks
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Hi mate. I have a similarish rig 2080/8086k/3200mhz RAM.

TBH 4k is still a stretch. You can get 4k with average FPS 60-65 on the benchmark but in actual gameplay, its not going to be fluid 60 at all. its going to feel like 45-75fps.

If you want silky smooth gameplay, 1440p is probably still best with Nvidia sharpen.

I'm personally using the resolution scaler at 0.8x with the hardware unboxes settings but i've left water at medium. the reason being some of the settings such as water at its lowest actually causes graphical issues.
 
McGraw said:
Whenever I play persistent posse with my Dad we get around the same rewards? $250 seems a lot. On normal bounty hunts we get about $25 each from what I can remember.

Are you definitely in the posse/getting the cutscenes?
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Yeah, I should have been clearer that I was only referring to the main story missions. The bounties seem okay.

I had a check this morning, and noticed that before I rejoined the persisten posse, the map marker was showing up for missions earlier in the story.

I started the one with Horley and noticed it was one I'd not done before. I think I'd skipped a mission by going along with the posse leader, who it now seems was one mission ahead of me (unbeknownst to either of us at the time).

We made a temporary posse and did two missions and I doubled my money!
 
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