Red Dead Redemption 2 PC: Every Graphics Setting Tested + Xbox One X Comparison 

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@El diablo da Costa I mean in order to know which setting does what and how much of an effect it has on the visual presentation of the game.

yellow bat fantastic comment!

Well, one way to look at it, most PC games have now created a whole industry of RU-vid channels to test and explain them. Rockstar are supporting our economy.

tl:dr. been looking for this

Ty so much :)

Here are my Settings with a GTX 1080 at 1920x1080 On my last benchmark I had Min FPS 48.5802 Max FPS 145.431 Average FPS 79.3344 (Vsync off for benchmarking) Game Build is 1207.60 Nvidia Driver 441.20 which came out yesterday Texture Quality: Ultra Anisotropic Filtering: 16x Lighting Quality: Medium Global Illumination Quality: Medium Shadow Quality: High Far Shadow Quality: Low SSAO: Medium Reflection Quality: Low Mirror Quality: High Water Quality: Medium Volumetrics Quality: Custom Particle Quality: Medium Tesselation Quality: High TAA: High FXAA: Off MSAA: Off Advanced Settings: Unlocked Graphics API: Vulkan Near Volumetric Resolution: Low Far Volumetric Resolution: Low Volumetric Lighting Quality: High Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: Off Particle Lighting Quality: Medium Soft Shadows: High Grass Shadows: Medium Long Shadows: Off Full Resolution SSAO: On Water Refraction Quality: High Water Reflection Quality: Medium Water Physics Quality: 2/4 Resolution Scale: Off TAA Sharpening: 20/20 Motion Blur: Off Reflection MSAA: Off Geometry Level of Detail: 5/5 Grass Level of Detail: 2/10 Tree Quality: Low Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: High Decal Quality: Ultra Fur Quality: High The main differences being Anisotropic Filtering as it doesn't affect performance, TAA sharpening set highest, Motion Blur off as I tend to always turn it off, Ultra decals as the bullet holes better match the textures, and Fur on High. I get little performance difference with the adjusted settings but I gained a bit over the Geforce Experience 'Optimal' settings.

Xbox One X does not use Ultra textures, console never use Ultra textures, usually the step below Ultra, sometimes lower. You can see comparisons of PC at Ultra vs the consoles and the textures look noticeably better on PC. The consoles just don't have enough Ram

Exactly,now on mine 2080ti all setting maxed and 4k working finally nice,have a god one man:)

if lower, the air becomes more pixelated

very verbose

G force experience literally does this. Pretty sure AMD has something similar as well, RDR even has a preset slider with several options for each setting that says "focus on balance or focus on quality".

@@tr1llwill Too bad Geforce Experience is a piece of shit and prevents some games from saving their settings so I deleted it.

Or learn how the setting affects each other and know your hardware. I never use preset because they never account for resolution especially with ultrawides.

Problem is, the console settings have some customized settings that the pc settings cannot copy.

@@tr1llwill Geforce experience doesn't do it succesfully. Almost every time it gives me really weird results. It sets settings which are not demanding low or the opposite. Sometimes it even lowers the resolution when it's absolutely not necessary.

Agreed but it does leave me with a problem. I now feel like I should go through the video again, bit by bit, remove the Xbox stuff I don't need and note down each setting result so I can tweak my own. Not sure I have the time for that.

I mean hey, I don't know your life, but if you are planning to play a 80 hour game adding 1 hour to mess with the settings seems ok to me.

@@TheOriginalMyth 80 plus 😂🤣

They're very good friends with Nvidia too.

They do cover console games as well

Yea RDR2 Setting is like a mini game than an actual setting

I am sure you would be playing the game for more than 30 hours.

@@hh-zm9gr I've been tweaking and playing with settings for more than 30hrs, and I just installed reshade with the rtgi shader

@@ezepoliyuvanilla is better.

@@SliceOfLife93 I agree

Holy trinity of PC benchmarking and optimization analysis.

and then pc plebs wonder why people play consoles

No. Just Digital Foundry and Linus Tech Tips.

@@sauldownbadman876 I have an XBox One X and a capable PC for gaming. I love both for what they are, the console for its convinience and simplicity and the PC for its universality and freedoms, modding and tinkering... yes, tinkering is part of the full PC experience. It's very satisfying when a PC you built yourself boots up properly for the first time. Every console gamer should watch PC tech videos. Due to the fact the architecture is very similiar since PS4/XBO launch and the evolutionary, modular and open nature of the platform you can see the future of your prefered console ecosystem next gen. If you want bitching around and start platform wars, I'm definitely the wrong person for. I'm in gaming for more than 30 years now and played on many platforms of a large variety of manufacturers that existed during that period.

Also, Gamer's Nexus for their Senior AMD analyst.

He already made a post about this, and he's not gonna make a video about it as the ini files are different this time around

@@littlegloom Luckily when some mods will come out, Alex (LowSpecGamer) will do a video! So, wait and hope

yeah.. that thing where it won't allow you to use settings because you don't have enough VRAM is funny as hell. It's because of "to keep game stable"... lol, so I need to shutdown game everytime, edit config file and then run it again because higher settings actually runs better for me.

@@Kamtar34 Luckily I didn't buy the game yet because I have a shitty PC. I thought that I'll buy it on Stadia, for avoiding all problems

Marco Gargiulo you're kidding right???

The civilized land is destroying us, we are far east from the land we know, far from big open country.

You gonna aply these settings on your future tests bro? Love your channel and your work!

@@alessandrolopes5980 We will see ;) Some cards can't get to these

@@SantiagoSantiago Like gtx 1050 ti

@@gulagforge1954 nope

its his job. he gets paid money to play around with video games. lol

me too

That's why he does this full time for the channel and gets paid for it. Dude really is great.

I'd say Hardware Unboxed is pretty up there. But yeah, Alex is probably the best one.

@@Sackboy612 Indeed, I watch quite a bit of game technology based videos on youtube because it really interests me. Alex is a step above the rest in my opinion, it helps that you can hear how happy it makes him talking about it too. Also he always does great visual examples which alot of channels f*ck up in my opinion

All of digital foundry are brilliant

@@Hard2hit94 I agree, love this channel.

Rockstar Launcher recently got a patch where finally I can play with the latest bios. I had to use an older version the whole time to make it work. Not anymore.

@@MorriganJade lol tf boycott rockstar launcher

particle quality to high , problem solved

@@reapthewhirlwind6915 If you buy Red Dead Redemption 2 on any other platform, you're going to use Rockstar's launcher anyway. So why bother getting it somewhere else if I still need it?

@@MorriganJade GTA V for example: Steam still says i don't have it, I can mark it as "not interested, but that's a lie (And i want Steam to know i'm into these sort of games), I Can't easily compare my Rockstar Achievements with my Steam friends, unless i add every one of them in the Rockstar launcher and compare there. And lastly, Steam has superior control over uninstalling/redownloading games. And keeping a list of all your stuff. I Can add it as a non steam game, But that won't give me easy access to the community hubs, the store page, achievements etc. Steam just offers a lot more around the game, tied to the games and player profiles. I don't mind installing launchers though. But when i bought the 7-disc GTAV for PC, i was a bit disappointed that it didn't check the game off of my Steam wishlist. They could have easily done that but chose not to and that's just a shame :( Not the end of the world by a long shot though :)

ikr.

yeah, I would start increasing the settings from that option, to be sure it looks better than on console with my gtx 1060.

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Why even play on PC at that point? 30fps with dips into the 20s is unacceptable. I don't know anyone who games on PC that would want to play at anything less than 60fps. 30 just looks so awful.

@@agusr32 and you increase these setting with native 4k on yours gtx 1060 ? and you get better graphic than xbox one x on native 4k ? or you have little better graphic setting on, but in 1080p ?? that's is not better than xbox one x. when one x have a additional mode to drop the resolution on 1080p im sure that all graphic setting will be set to high and ultra.

Yep. Rockstar might think they're being clever or cool or whatever, but they seem to forget that people already have notions of what these settings are supposed to be. Instead of redefining low, medium, and high, Rockstar would have been much better served just creating even higher options. And also by not screwing everyone over with a broken launcher.

Aye, seems the safest way to do it

gears 5 is easily maxed out atleast at 1440p so....?

I strongly disagree. Sticking to the usual "low" to "ultra" labels makes more sense than doing Crysis 2 style options that start at "High". The options are labeled relative to each other, not relative to what you'd find in other games.

LOW looks insanely bad in RDR 2 . Medium on the other hand looks very good and saves a lot of performance

why?

feenomhoosh I don’t get it

@@qwertz7430 Many things in life will go right over your head, just accept it and move on...

2psah2 that’s a mindset the government would want you to believe. “don’t understand it?... don’t question it...”

Be thankful for TAA, the alternative is extreme jaggies or msaa which would make the 2080 ti a 1080p card.

@@trentf4891 Yes, Let I be thank for that which makes my eyes strain and my head ache with its blurry nature to remove some jaggies. This game is clearly not meant to be played without TAA, whit TAA clearly not being maeant to be used at 1080P at normal monitor viewing distance. TAA on 1080P Also introduces some odd ghosting effects which is more prominent in the fog. Nah, TAA in this game is broken. Yet, not using it results in Trees shimmer and flicker while Hair and Fur have the same issues, I nfact, Fur seems to be completely broken without TAA. But I'd rather have jaggies and shimmer than having vaseline smeared over my screen. Given how TAA works, It undoubtedly looks better at higher resolutions, but at 1080P and lower ist absolute garbage. If there is one game that should use DLSS its RDR2.

@@MrHendrikje Did you get it fixed, setting TAA with a 1080P monitor makes the game blurry, using Nvidia's filter to sharpen it makes it look better but still would prefer a in game fix.

@@MrHendrikje TAA only produces ghosting on Unreal Engine 4, the rest of the engines works fine with TAA, and also the image quality is improved over FXAA, is not like MSAA but is not necesarely blurrier like FXAA, just a little bit, and the image quality and framerate is a lot better

@@trentf4891 i hope TAA dies, its killing of the details artists painstakingly puts in environments, look at games like forza horizon 4 they use MSAA not TAA, and it looks so crisp...

Just play native 4K with 100-150 FPS.

Increase the resolution, you're more GPU bound than CPU bound at higher resolutions. I play at 4k so lighting quality for me is GPU bound.

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LMFAO!!!!

@Galva Tron where do they overhyping it?

Iaint paying shit for 2080ti to not play on ultra

@@user-qp8nx6iv6m just buy an 3080 for less price lol

Lol I loved hearing that “holy shit”. My epeen would grow 😆

My 2070 super can run at 4k maxed just fine.

Hear, hear!

its his job. he gets paid money to play around with video games. lol

Love your profile picture, see you have good music taste too!

Luc Wijngaard Best looking game at the moment

@@bingobongo1615 metro Exodus

@Simulation World 2020 I have a 1080ti and play rd2 mostly on the one X and it's very hard for me to tell a difference.

Strange it's not in the graphics menu, anyway, any ideas of how much better it performs overall with it on?

@@paul1979uk2000/videos Yes, under vulkan it performs much better take a look at sapphire tech youtube channel, it almost flats the frametime line.

Oh dang, thanks for the tip! I'll def turn this on when I get the game

Thanks for the tip, Marcelo. I learnt a lot more in Sapphire's video than on DF -- as a matter of fact, I had already explored all the options by myself, and yes it takes a few hours of experimentation.

Most likely because Nvidia gpu users would call fault if that option does not turn on... you don`5 like to piss of Nvidia owners... ;) Happy owner of 1070 and Yes I know... I don`t have real async... most people don`t know.

Are you using an nvidia card? If so stick with Vulkan ingame and press alt+z in game to get game filters on instead of using any reshade with dx12. You can further utilize sharpening on top of in game and basic tone features like gamma and color ect with no loss of performance unlike reshade at this point. Its a good tool to know about in general.

@@dogsbark5750 alt+z if you use GeForce Experience that Tank your framerate

Poor guy. You've been ripped off.

@@Zer01neBDTDev try reshade with dx12. You loose 10% in random areas with nothing turned on. With Gefore I ran the same bench and got the same results within a margin of it off. Personally I dont use it in titles that dx11 and stick to reshade since it has way more options, but for some reason dx12 and reshade are screwed up in this game.

@@AJ-xv7oh haha gave me a good chuckle. This gen of consoles was so miserable. Next gen looks somewhat promising though

@Galva Tron I also played the game when it first came out and I regret it dearly. The 30 fps experience combined the the poor controller input and latency made it feel like a slog to finish. I didn't have too much fun with it. Playing the game at native 4k 40-60fps with gsync and mouse and keyboard feels like warm butter, while also having an extra crisp image quality. Well worth the wait!