Red Dead Redemption 2

mrk said:
Finally caved and got this. £35 plus 2.2% cashback.

Hopefully it lasts me long enough until Cyberpunk 2077 as recently finished Metro Exodus so need another solid single player campaign to eat away some time!
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If you have time to kill then playing the online mode with your own character and building up your camp and business is great fun.

Some people here don't like it but I sunk about 150-200 hours into the online. Just waiting for the new online content to drop next week, they are adding gold panning and property ownership I think.
 
mrk said:
Finally caved and got this. £35 plus 2.2% cashback.

Hopefully it lasts me long enough until Cyberpunk 2077 as recently finished Metro Exodus so need another solid single player campaign to eat away some time!
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My only advice is stick around Chapter 2 & 3 and do all the open world activities (hunting, exploration etc). After that the story really picks up and you will want to see it through, though personally I also felt the overall writing & design got very weak with each successive chapter. But maybe that's just me. Either way, unless you want to play it only for the story I'd say stick to Chs 2 & 3 for a long time.
 
Cheers for the mission tips!

I don't think I will spend much time in the online parts but it might be something I just take a look at really as main interest is just the campaign. I have spent some time going over the settings mentioned in this thread above and found that where I was playing at 2560x1080 before with almost everything on Ultra and shadows/water reflections etc max, I toned some of those down that visually don't appear to make a huge difference and now able to maintain 60fps comfortably at 3440x1440 with the following:

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Not sure why the 30fps is min there asduring the bench it was never below 50fps so can only assume when the first frame loads of a bench it starts at 30 then goes to its stable rate. All in all, the game itself looks/runs really nice. Much better than I was expecting. Just getting used to the controls and mechanics as they are different to what I#m used to in FPS games.

My spec for anyone looking for performance ideas on similar settings:

i7 6700K 4.4GHz
16GB DDR3 3000MHz
2070 Super Gaming OC
3440x1440 60Hz
 
mrk said:
Cheers for the mission tips!

I don't think I will spend much time in the online parts but it might be something I just take a look at really as main interest is just the campaign. I have spent some time going over the settings mentioned in this thread above and found that where I was playing at 2560x1080 before with almost everything on Ultra and shadows/water reflections etc max, I toned some of those down that visually don't appear to make a huge difference and now able to maintain 60fps comfortably at 3440x1440 with the following:

RDR2_Settings_Bench.jpg


Not sure why the 30fps is min there asduring the bench it was never below 50fps so can only assume when the first frame loads of a bench it starts at 30 then goes to its stable rate. All in all, the game itself looks/runs really nice. Much better than I was expecting. Just getting used to the controls and mechanics as they are different to what I#m used to in FPS games.

My spec for anyone looking for performance ideas on similar settings:

i7 6700K 4.4GHz
16GB DDR3 3000MHz
2070 Super Gaming OC
3440x1440 60Hz
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You should also check out dx12, there is a couple of parts of the map that run better on vulken like the swamps but overall dx12 was around 5fps faster for me. Also dx12 definitely crashes less often.

If you do run into any random crashes it's most likely the game and not you. They have patched a lot of them but the game still has these.

Just an fyi about the online you can play it alone and it has it's own story line with individual story missions and cut scenes.
 
Oh didn't know that about online thanks! If I get done with the campaign story then I'll check out the online story after :cool:

Just reran the bench with DX12 with the same settings as above and got:

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So whilst the max fps has improved over 10fps, the average is pretty much the same for me. I did notice that in DX12 there is visible screen tearing whereas with Vulkan I cannot see any tearing at all which was quite surprising. I will play a bit with DX12 and see what's what.
 
Bored with online now, it was ok at first, but now I have done all the main activities, the little side missions are repetitive and boring, its a shame they don't regularly give new main missions
 
phil-k said:
Bored with online now, it was ok at first, but now I have done all the main activities, the little side missions are repetitive and boring, its a shame they don't regularly give new main missions
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I think the next big online update is meant to me in a few days.
 
Hi all,
I've had the game about a week and just got to chapter 2.
I've started to get crashing issues where the game will crash to desktop /RS launcher saying 'unexpected something, run game in safe mode?'

I've run in safe mode with low graphics and I still get the same issue.. I was just running on recomended /stock graphics before (playing at 1080 resolution pc spec in sig.)

I've read about running the game in admin or switching between dx12 and vulcan, any ideas?

I noted one of my CPU cores hits 90deg c and wondered if that may have caused the game to crash.

I could potentially lower my overclock to run a lower vcore and subsequently lower the CPU temp, but I'm not sure running at 90c would affect it, I thought hardware throttling only happened as you get closer to 100c.

Any ideas appreciated.
 
mattyfez said:
Hi all,
I've had the game about a week and just got to chapter 2.
I've started to get crashing issues where the game will crash to desktop /RS launcher saying 'unexpected something, run game in safe mode?'

I've run in safe mode with low graphics and I still get the same issue.. I was just running on recomended /stock graphics before (playing at 1080 resolution pc spec in sig.)

I've read about running the game in admin or switching between dx12 and vulcan, any ideas?

I noted one of my CPU cores hits 90deg c and wondered if that may have caused the game to crash.

I could potentially lower my overclock to run a lower vcore and subsequently lower the CPU temp, but I'm not sure running at 90c would affect it, I thought hardware throttling only happened as you get closer to 100c.

Any ideas appreciated.
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90c is far too hot whilst gaming even for 1 core. Under 100% loaded stress bench you would possibly be into shutdown, at least after a period of hours on a warm day. Upgrade the cooler or lower the volts and/or clock.
 
Drollic said:
90c is far too hot whilst gaming even for 1 core. Under 100% loaded stress bench you would possibly be into shutdown, at least after a period of hours on a warm day. Upgrade the cooler or lower the volts and/or clock.
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Thanks I was thinking that but I don't get this issue in any other games
 
What’s going on with this joke of a game online in the last few weeks?

I have a regular posse member

Missions don’t start
Activation errors
Wildlife missing
Missions aren’t available
White screens at load up
Games hangs whilst loading online

once anything goes wrong only a reboot of the pcs really sorts anything...but then leads to activation errors and authentication issues again.

Tried broadband and 4g mobile at 3 locations, verified files.

every other game we own is fine. TeamViewer works perfectly
 
McGraw said:
What’s going on with this joke of a game online in the last few weeks?

I have a regular posse member

Missions don’t start
Activation errors
Wildlife missing
Missions aren’t available
White screens at load up
Games hangs whilst loading online

once anything goes wrong only a reboot of the pcs really sorts anything...but then leads to activation errors and authentication issues again.

Tried broadband and 4g mobile at 3 locations, verified files.

every other game we own is fine. TeamViewer works perfectly
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Yeah the online game has issues, each time they fix something they break more stuff. I haven't played the last couple of weeks but I was on everyday for a month before that. Things had started getting pretty bad in camp with most times camp not even being there and trader missions were badly broken either not starting or crashing when you finish. Glad I left trader role until last.

Agreed, it's always best to reboot after a crash if not it will soon fail next time.

People were saying he big update is out on the 7th april, I just hope it's still coming and it brings some fixes along with it.
 
imginy said:
Yeah the online game has issues, each time they fix something they break more stuff. I haven't played the last couple of weeks but I was on everyday for a month before that. Things had started getting pretty bad in camp with most times camp not even being there and trader missions were badly broken either not starting or crashing when you finish. Glad I left trader role until last.

Agreed, it's always best to reboot after a crash if not it will soon fail next time.

People were saying he big update is out on the 7th april, I just hope it's still coming and it brings some fixes along with it.
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cheers for your reply.

Starting to understand why people hate rockstar
 
mattyfez said:
Interesting, did you lower the vcore, or just lower the cpu speed?

Im running at 1.375v .. could maybe lower it to 1.35v
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Definitely dial back the OC and test just to ensure stability, then you can always start OCing back up. Had similar issues in a very few games (not enough voltage) but wouldn't know it because 99% of the time it was fine in most games.
 
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