Red Dead Redemption 2

TheSwede · 10 Nov 2019 at 08:16

fantasticCG said:
Thank you dude!

Do you think it will matter that I wont be using the latest nvidia game drivers ?

I've had to roll back to 436.48 as the latest ones completely break apex for me

Honestly no clue, using AMD here. But might be others around that can answer that question for you.

breathe3asy · 10 Nov 2019 at 08:38

Devrij said:
What kind of framerate are you getting with everything on low? It sounds like there might finally be a game that I can't get away with playing on high if you need gsync to smooth it out on low!

50-65.
Averaging 60 on the benchmark tool.
I'm not using Res Scaling so its just straight just up 1440p with a few important settings turned on eg. Textures, AA, Draw Distance

TheSwede · 10 Nov 2019 at 09:59

docsonic said:
Vulkan as well with async compute enabled.

This is a good settings guide btw:

https://attackofthefanboy.com/guides/red-dead-redemption-2-pc-performance-guide/

I just tried that guide, a bit to much for my poor Vega 64 though.

But using some information from that link, and the Game Debate's article - Red Dead Redemption 2 Most Important Graphics Options - Every Setting Benchmarked - Which AOTF based his settings on, plus Joker Productions youtube video, I did mange to get the average over 60 fps in benching so will go with that !

McGraw · 10 Nov 2019 at 10:18

Devrij said:
Is anyone playing this at 1440p on a 980ti? How rough is it, and how much did you have to compromise on settings to get a smooth experience?

I’m on 1070 and have abandoned 1440p

Participant said:
Will this run at all on a 4690K with GTX970 and 8GB of RAM? Or can I forget it?

I have a 4K screen but can run other resolutions.

Maybe low at 1080p for 60fps. Set res at 2160p and keep scaling down past 1/2 until you get what you need. From my understanding 4 threads is not enough for stutter free gameplay.

depends on your target FPS.

I have a 4790k at 4.4ghz all cores (rubbish but that’s all I can get), 16gb of 2133 and a 1070.

To get decent visuals 1440p is not possible. I’m at 1080p with mostly medium settings and a few high.

McGraw · 10 Nov 2019 at 10:21

Scania said:
RDR2 ran like bobbins for me initially, I’ve ditched my 4790 for a now overclocked @4,7 4790k , ditched half my RAM (which was 1600, the other 16Gb is 2400) and played about with timings etc and in story mode I’m rocking 4K at a mix of ultra , high and medium (having followed guides) and it looks fantastic and runs beautifully, happy days!

But.....

Online, I’m barely getting 25fps and usually far less, wtf? :/

I’m benching at a rock solid 60fps (only dipping as scenes load in) and online chugs for me too. Not sure of FPS, need to check.

breathe3asy · 10 Nov 2019 at 10:27

TheSwede said:
I just tried that guide, a bit to much for my poor Vega 64 though.

But using some information from that link, and the Game Debate's article - Red Dead Redemption 2 Most Important Graphics Options - Every Setting Benchmarked - Which AOTF based his settings on, plus Joker Productions youtube video, I did mange to get the average over 60 fps in benching so will go with that !

Definitely consider Ultra textures, you are not saving any performance by having them on High and textures are important in this game

Devrij · 10 Nov 2019 at 10:53

ceaton88 said:
50-65.
Averaging 60 on the benchmark tool.
I'm not using Res Scaling so its just straight just up 1440p with a few important settings turned on eg. Textures, AA, Draw Distance

Ah interesting, what AA are you using? Assuming not MSAA? Time to get saving for a new gpu I reckon then

TheSwede · 10 Nov 2019 at 10:53

ceaton88 said:
Definitely consider Ultra textures, you are not saving any performance by having them on High and textures are important in this game

Alright, changed it to ultra, which was the only change I did. And lost 4 fsp's.

Which I can live with I guess !

Bleek · 10 Nov 2019 at 11:04

theone8181 said:
Anyone suffer from a crash when entering valentine? I'm not that far in, but everytime i enter it, i get a crash. Normally it will have autosaved in the town so it just wastes a few mins but its super annoying. Also whats up with load times, even with an nvme drive it takes a while, is it essentially loading the whole map at once?

Yes, on both of my saves - that's why I stopped playing.

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 10 Nov 2019 at 11:45

Anybody know why my grpahics settings keep resetting everytime i reload the game?

Bishie · 10 Nov 2019 at 11:48

This will probably get buried by a bunch of comments about performance, but I call this one: "Wide Blue Yonder"

physichull · 10 Nov 2019 at 12:06

Bishie said:
This will probably get buried by a bunch of comments about performance, but I call this one: "Wide Blue Yonder"

Yeah! Very few comments about how good the actual game is!

I'm hooked on it, its taking me away from PUBG for a bit.

Participant · 10 Nov 2019 at 12:08

This game looks absolutely beautiful on the PC. I'm tempted to finally upgrade for it.

Fire_fly · 10 Nov 2019 at 12:10

Have most of the issues with not being able to play the game been resolved / worked around or should i still give this a pass for a couple of weeks?

Amnesia · 10 Nov 2019 at 12:36

i think generally most have it working now but there are still some bugs in the game.

Dave**** · 10 Nov 2019 at 12:46

Does anyone have any tips for getting rivatuner to work with this? I have seen screenshots of people with it active but I cannot get it to work.

Also the game refuses to load 90% of the time if I have defender active; it tells me I am not logged into the social club and quits out. 10% of the time I forget to disable it and it loads just fine though..

Kelt · 10 Nov 2019 at 12:49

Dave**** said:
Does anyone have any tips for getting rivatuner to work with this? I have seen screenshots of people with it active but I cannot get it to work.

Also the game refuses to load 90% of the time if I have defender active; it tells me I am not logged into the social club and quits out. 10% of the time I forget to disable it and it loads just fine though..

Have you tried changed the "Application detection level"?

Default is low but I have a couple of games that require it set to high, for the stats to display in game.

Nasher · 10 Nov 2019 at 12:50

I found what was causing the weird stutters for me when moving. It was having the mouse in "raw input" mode. Switching to DirectInput it's completely smooth

Also when enabling async you need to make the settings.xml read only or the game keeps disabling it. It adds enough of a performance boost to put some settings up a notch.

breathe3asy · 10 Nov 2019 at 13:01

theone8181 said:
Also whats up with load times, even with an nvme drive it takes a while, is it essentially loading the whole map at once?

If I run the benchmark tool in DX12 the load times are crazy long, using Vulkan its much better, could be related?

Dave**** · 10 Nov 2019 at 13:05

Kelt said:
Have you tried changed the "Application detection level"?

Default is low but I have a couple of games that require it set to high, for the stats to display in game.

I have fiddled with it no end, I feel like its something else I am missing like some windows "feature" that is blocking the process.

Would be nice if I could run the game as admin but that is out of the question also.