Red Dead Redemption 2 Optimization [Part 1] Let's Greatly Improve PC Performance!

[@Hardwareunboxed]

Part 2 will be coming later this week (if all goes to plan) covering the advanced settings. It takes a ton of work just to comprehensively cover and analyse the basic settings in games like this so we appreciate all the support!

[@CoCo.-_-]

YEY thanks Tim love these vids, they are so useful and interesting

[@Whitestar127]

IMO you produce the best performance optimization guides out there. Great job!

[@MarceloTezza]

Hey mate take a look at the async compute on the config files, it makes AMD and turing frametimes, under Vulkan API, much better! Sapphire tech made a video about it on it's youtube channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIaziZ-alN2fetU

[@jakeberry2172]

Brilliant video just one thing You state to use the sharpening Nvidia or AMD overlay to counter the blurriness of TAA on high but The nvida overlay isn’t supported in RDR2 when I tried it.

[@Maraxos98]

Thanks Tim for doing this guide its really helpfull (when I get game, when it comes to steam)

[@username65585]

18:50 for optimized settings

[@steverl22]

The hero we needed....👌

[@Saigonas]

Thanks

[@lildink9529]

This video does not need to be 22 minutes long Jesus Christ

[@tankoklai5903]

i search for comments only for this!! Thanks!

[@Advicesquad]

@@lildink9529 kinda does

[@klvngtz]

(For anybody who doesnt want to watch the entire video) (Recommended settings for performance/resolution balance) Texture Quality: Ultra Isotrophic Filtering: 16x Lighting Quality: Medium Global Illumination: High Shadow Quality: High Far Shadow Quality: High SSAO: Ultra Reflection Quality: Medium Mirror Quality: Ultra Water Quality: Medium Volumetrics: Medium Particle Quality: Ultra Tesselation: Ultra TAA: Medium FXAA: OFF MSAA: OFF

[@Plumtree1187]

lmaoo thanks i wasnt aboutta sit through all of that

[@StaffRecordPlayer]

Thanks dude!

[@louis4295]

You sir are a gentlemen and a scholar!

[@brandonphilander661]

Hats off to you.

[@GB3770]

cheers - this guy is really stringing it out

[@MaxAltair]

4:38 Initial Test Settings 5:05 Texture Quality 6:00 Anisotropic Filter 6:48 Lighting Quality 8:50 Global Illumination 9:12 Shadow Quality 10:08 Far Shadow Quality 10:34 Screen Ambient Oclussion (SSAO) 11:25 Reflection Quality 12:33 Mirror Quality 12:51 Water Quality 13:53 Volumetrics Quality 15:10 Particle Quality 15:17 Tesselation 15:55 Temporal AntiAliasing (TAA) 16:48 FXAA 17:05 MSAA

[@mathias4514]

Thanks g

[@HumanBeingWithFeelings]

THANK YOU!

[@BjoernOBrien]

Legend

[@realburgers9132]

Wubby7 true hero

[@Hero-hy6jx]

Legend

[@Chirrup...]

Texture Quality: Ultra Isotropic Filtering: 16x Lighting Quality: Medium Global Illumination: High Shadow Quality: High Far Shadow Quality: High SSAO: Ultra Reflection Quality: Medium Mirror Quality: Ultra Water Quality: Medium Volumetrics: Medium Particle Quality: Ultra Tesselation: Ultra TAA: Medium FXAA: OFF MSAA: OFF Near Volumetric Quality: Low Far Volumetric Quality: Medium Volumetric Lighting Quality: High Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: On Particle Lighting Quality: Medium Soft Shadows: High Grass Shadows: Medium Long Shadows: On Full Resolution SSAO: Off Water Refraction Quality: Medium Water Reflection Quality: High Water Physics Quality: High TAA Sharpening: Any Motion Blur: Off Reflection MSAA: X2 Geometry Level of Detail: 3 of 5 Grass Level Detail: 4 of 10 Tree Quality: High Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: Ultra Decal Quality: Ultra Fur Quality: High Tree Tessellation) to OFF

[@singingcat02]

Thank you !!!

[@seuratguy]

Thank you! This is a great video but I don't see where he simply summarizes his suggested settings. Yours bumped my FPS from 64 to 75.

[@sreenaths6829]

​@@seuratguyAround the 19 minute mark.

[@seuratguy]

@@sreenaths6829 Thanks. I looked at beginning, end and in the video description but didn't sit through the details.

[@TheUniformGreen]

bless you

[@dennisn.4438]

I love how rockstar has a secret mini-game in rdr2, the pc settings.

[@shahbaz6741]

I just downloaded the game and I've spent about 6 hours tryna get a 60fps

[@relawc8736]

@@shahbaz6741 lmao

[@relawc8736]

i cant run it on 1050ti so i mean....

[@relawc8736]

@@shahbaz6741 resolution scale helps alot

[@shahbaz6741]

@@relawc8736 nah I literally turned down both grass geometry level of detail and I got a solid 70fps: gtx10603gb i3-7700k

[@penumbrum3135]

**Sees my GTX 1060 running at max fan speed** Me: "You're alright boah."

[@sabita3055]

Yo boah got Lumbago .

[@JouKou]

You need to have...FAITH!!

[@ZephCloud]

got mine just few months before 1660s release..wasn't looking at gpu launch dates back then..haha...

[@bpcgos]

It still awesome GPU

[@theo6491]

@@bpcgos how is playing this game at barely 30fps at 1080 awesome ?

[@MafiaboysWorld]

Tim goes on holiday...RDR2 is broken. Tim comes back...RDR2 gets 40% boost. 👍

[@fszszp2102]

Tim goes on holiday...RDR2 is broken. Tim comes back...RDR2 gets 40% boost. 👍 And my gtx 1060 still cant run this game. 😡

[@MirelRC]

@@fszszp2102 when have bought your 1060?

[@DrMacintosh]

twitch.tv/drdisrespectlive Isn’t the 1060 6GB on the recommended list? Even the RX 480 4GB is recommended. Don’t tell me you got a 1060 3GB?

[@atsu8921]

@@DrMacintosh the gtx 1060 6gb is on the list but barely can run the game even with 30 fps. time to upgrade i guess

[@DrMacintosh]

István Kiss Try turning your settings down?

[@pixel_vengeur391]

I went from 10 to 14 FPS, thank you! Jokes aside, all those optimisation guides are Heaven sent, thank you so much for them.

[@hiiamragu6238]

14😮

[@solarstrike33]

Don't forget the other Steve's and DF's guides.

[@racingginger3147]

While we are joking, i actually played borderlands 2 at about 9-14 fps stable back in the day. I was poor and didnt have a decent pc so i didnt wanna buy the game. I pirated it and played a slideshow the entire first playthrough. Fast forward 6 or so years and ive purchased the game on 3 different platforms to play with different friends, and bought borderlands 3 on my gaming PC, despite the epic games controversay. I think i made up for my theft 😂

[@Gazza642]

Lol just stick to your xbox if your getting 10fps

[@696Hellx]

LOL

[@allisknu11]

I'll never have to second guess any of my settings on RDR2 ever again. This to me is far more valuable than just taking someone's word on recommended settings. Understanding each setting and its impact gives me a peace of mind.

[@MrManninj691]

Omg this

[@frederikgjernrosenberg868]

Omg this

[@wozzyy2096]

Omg this

[@bob40179]

Omg this

[@deviserdude3409]

Omg this

[@unclecalifornia2576]

Thanks!

[@xBazilio]

It amazes me how diligently Tim does his work! With all that comparison shots and charts the information is invaluable. Thank you, Tim, for your hard work.

[@gwynbleidd5036]

17:19 MSAA x8 is the best choice. You can clearly see that it's the only setting that has a train.

[@6pluscloud]

wow you're so right, I turned it on and trains just popped up when I was riding in the heartlands plains

[@CarlzoneN]

There's trains in this game? :O

[@Ooostun]

CarlZoneN yeah you can hijack em too, I usually let the driver live so he can stop at each town and kill everyone each stop

[@ultrawideheadgaming7978]

Thomas the train shouting like a dragon came into my game for some reason... Weird.

[@arvidbahrke9408]

No every setting has a train. Its just that everything is not recorded at the same time.

[@Marcy2200]

RDR2 Overall Recommended Graphical Settings: Texture: Ultra; No significant gain Anisotropic Filter: Ultra; No significant gain Lighting Quality: Medium; 40% FPS increase!! Global Illumination: Ultra; No significant FPS gain Shadow Quality: High; 5% FPS increase, negligible visual difference Far Shadow Quality: High; 0,5% FPS increase, negligible visual difference SSAO: Ultra | Off; 6% FPS increase, Not recommended, very noticeable visual difference Reflection Quality: High; 16% FPS increase | Medium; 20% FPS increase, slight noticeable visual difference Mirror Quality: Ultra Water Quality: Medium; 15% FPS increase, slight noticeable visual difference Volumetrics Quality: High; 5% FPS increase | Medium; 7% FPS increase, slight noticeable visual difference Particle Quality: Ultra; No significant FPS gain Tesselation: Ultra; No significant FPS gain TAA: High | Medium; 1,8% FPS increase FXAA: Off; noticeable visual difference MSAA: X2 = -16,5% FPS | X4 = -31% FPS | X8 = -50% FPS | Use this if you have FPS to spare Advanced Settings: Near Volumetric Resolution: Medium; 6,5% FPS increase Far Volumetric Resolution: Ultra | Medium; 1% FPS increase Volumetric Lighting: High; 3% FPS increase Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: On; No significant gain Particle Lighting Quality: Ultra; No significant gain Soft Shadows: High; 1,5% FPS increase Grass shadows: Medium; 1,5% FPS increase Long Shadows: On; No significant gain Full Resolution Ambient Oclussion: Off; 3,7% FPS increase, negligible visual difference Water Refraction Quality: Medium; 7% FPS increase | Low, 8% FPS increase, negligible visual difference Water Reflection Quality: High; 1,5 FPS decrease, noticeable visual difference Water physics: Half; 31% FPS increase compaired to Full, 3,5% FPS increase compaired to 3/4 TAA Sharpening: Full; No gain Motion blur: No significant difference. Use what you prefer. Reflection MSAA: Medium with X4 Geometry Level of detail: 3 is recommended Grass level of detail: 4 or 10. 4 = +1% FPS increase, negligible visual difference Tree Quality: Ultra; No significant gain Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: Ultra; No significant gain Decal Quality: Ultra; No significant gain Fur Quality: Ultra; No significant gain

[@Jinwuuuxdd]

Thank you so much for this!

[@HIT...]

What a legend

[@thejanrodrigo]

This video is now getting recommended to ppl as rdr2 has finally been cracked.

[@hjm1313]

yes

[@BmanGames024]

yes

[@royalpein8434]

ahoy fellow pirate!

[@pedro-tl9jr]

ahahhahahaha

[@ojasthengadi9681]

Another evidence how Google tracks every fcking thing

[@sniper2606]

Oddly enough this really did improve FPS to the 80s and yet somehow it even looks better too....fucking genius man

[@roshanpaul1184]

It *feels* better at a higher performance, and so it looks better too.

[@romanon5]

for half of the settings I couldn't tell which is low and which is ultra haha

[@nidhipgupta4462]

You know why you feel like that? It makes shadows in daytime a bit purple in some areas giving the game a dreamy vibe which is actually more accurate

[@mihailcirlig8187]

@mo no dlss on rdr2 is utter trash, really negligible fps gain and it will fairly worse. I really don't like this implementation, better to actually lower some settings instead of using dlss to gain a mere 5-7 fps. I have a 3070 laptop so I don't even need it at 1080p ahah

[@mihailcirlig8187]

@mo no lol what does a PC has to do with dlss implementation? Rdr2 is broken on PC, you HAVE to use TAA otherwise the graphics just break and you don't have right reflections and transparency. Dlss is just useless in this title, the most disappointing implementation I've seen. Even in Cyberpunk it is amazing, better than native resolution. Are you just defending your little game? For me it is a garbage PC port of a great game, playable but a rushed port

[@gsydaz]

Taken an screenshot of the optimised settings slide @ timestamp 19:07. Cheers Tim, looking forward to part 2.

[@mcnasty0322]

Imagine having a 2080ti and having to turn settings to medium

[@slvgdvg]

Imagine not understanding the future of gaming.

[@totallynottrademarked5279]

@@slvgdvg Imagine not understanding companies not optimizing games to leverage the current hardware effectively. Instead, using it as a buffer to do less work. As told to me by my friend working at Bethesda.

[@FreeRangeLemon]

Imagine not overclocking your 2080ti... I have one and have every setting on ultra or high and get 60-70fps. About 65% of setting on high, 35% on ultra.

[@AtheismF7W]

@@FreeRangeLemon haha, why would you need to OC that thing? You spent good some on the fastest GPU and you still need to OC it to get results? Imagine that.

[@FreeRangeLemon]

AtheismF7W yeah it’s crazy. Modern graphics cards are always the bottleneck of the system. I am running about 99% constantly in games while my cpu is running like 7 percent. By overclocking it I gained about 45%. Went from 30 FPS in another extremely intensive game to about 45-50, so turning it down to realistic settings meant I gained about 60 FPS in that particular game.

[@HeraldLifeDota]

The performance was bad on my RTX 2080 SUPER when I set everything on Ultra. This video helped me a LOT. Thank you!

[@IronMan-jj2fd]

I can help u even more just set reflections & shadows to medium! And now u can set rest everything to ULTRA!

[@oFFlineRXD]

Don''t even have RDR2 but still watched the whole video. The ammount of effort and detail you guys put in every video is amazing. Also it was very interesting to see how different settings impact game performance.

[@utubby3730]

I dont have it yet and honestly when I do I want to run it pretty much maxed out in 4K with decent frame rate. So in otherwords on hardware that doesnt exist yet. A 2020 flagship GPU might do the trick, so I might as well hang back til then. Seems like they have some fixing to do in the meantime anyway...

[@nightraven8420]

Just getting the game to open will be all the performance I need

[@pinkin8012]

People still have problems getting the game to run? This is horrible. Thought this was fixed with first few patches. I would be really pissed if I'd pay full 60$ and can't event play the game :/

[@pofkenzo_music]

i'm considering buying it. Is it really not fixed yet?

[@DizzyKrissi]

@@pofkenzo_music : the patch last friday did it for me.

[@pofkenzo_music]

@@DizzyKrissi ok, that soothes me. Did any other bugs, crashes appeared during the gameplay?

[@codblackops1887]

Povilas Bu it’s been great for me people are dumb just get it

[@minecraftmike5193]

This video should be sponsored by Rockstar. Absolutely amazing, thank you so much.

[@fattud615]

Simp

[@roshan9684]

@@fattud615 what

[@mattia1803]

TEXTURE 5:45 ANISOTROPIC F 6:29 LIGHT 6:49 & 7:57 GLOBAL LIGHT 9:08 SHADOW 9:56 FAR SHADOW 10:28 SSAO 11:11 REFLECTION 12:06 WATER 13:32 VOLUMETRIC 14:56 PARTICLE 15:11 TESSELLATION 15:46 TAA & FXAA 16:29 & 17:00

[@Haaskis]

Well done! From game breaking stuttering horror to smooth steady +60fps in every scenery/weather with great visuals. Definitely recommend testing these settings . Using 1080ti and i7-7700k.

[@Tw1stTech]

Part 2 „rather sooner than later“ please 💪🏻💪🏻

[@LiLBitsDK]

yes please!

[@Drothen-]

hey there big boy

[@Sako0944]

agreed lol

[@rage8010]

Yes...

[@whitepaws60]

Water physics is a big one. If your doing max on that just turn it down one one notch

[@eldarmusayev7653]

Definitely want to see the advanced settings. Y'all are my number one trusted source on this sort of info. edit: also, for TAA blurriness, I ended up turning some settings down and setting resolution scaling to 1.25 to greatly improve the smudginess

[@raresmacovei8382]

Max out TAA sharpness in-game and use RIS for AMD or the sharpness slider in driver for Nvidia. No need to downsample necessarily.

[@JonnyD3ath]

As said, in-game there is a 'TAA Sharpening' setting in the advanced options, sorted👍🏻

[@eldarmusayev7653]

@@raresmacovei8382 I tried it and wasn't satisfied with how it looked as a result. I found 1.25 scaling to be an improvement so I'm sticking with that

[@eldarmusayev7653]

@@JonnyD3ath The TAA sharpening hardly does anything. Nvidia or AMD sharpening is a significant step up from it and it has been my experience that 1.25 scaling looks better than both of those

[@theo6491]

@@raresmacovei8382 why would you use two sharpening settings at once? Just use ris or nvidia. The in game sharpening costs way more performance

[@Blaqknessify]

Honestly.... by far my favourite tech youtuber hand's f**king down. Keep doing you boys!

[@Gottaculat]

I think it's important to point out shadow quality below medium disables certain assets from self shadowing or even casting shadows when near dynamic lights. This is best illustrated by holding a lantern on horseback at night in 3rd person. Low shadows will cause the lantern to illuminate the ground that should have shadows as the horse is between the lantern and ground. Bump it up to medium, and now the horse will cast a shadow with the lantern out.

[@my_other_account6008]

Turned MSAA from x8 to off and got a 50% performance boost. Put nearly everything on ultra and went from 50fps to 90fps. Best performance increase guide I've ever used. Can't thank you enough. Oh and my CPU and GPU loads are more ballanced now and don't go above 80% usage plus my system runs much cooler and is not trying to ignite itself. THANK YOU! 4790k i7 RTX 2070z 16gb RAM

[@OnyxBoom]

Before: 38 - 45 fps Now: 55-70fps Just Copy&Pasted your recommendation System: I5 4670K (OC 4,3GHz) GTX 1070 (OC Core 2,3GHz, Mem 2,2GHz) 12 GB RAM RDR2 on SSD SATA Thank You!

[@apostolos8734]

Can you tell your fps in saint denis, cause mine drops to the forties as soon as I even look in the direction of that city.

[@EclipseStardust]

Before: 60 to 70 FPS Now:70 to 85 fps at 1440p Ryzen 7 1700 @3.2 GHz 16 GBs DDR4 @2667 MHz XFX Radeon VII Overall I'd say this optimization guide works pretty well

[@OnyxBoom]

@@apostolos8734 to load the objects you need some CPU Power. Check your CPU loading. Or its just the bad game performance xD

[@GrrumpyPants]

@@OnyxBoom honestly surprised your cpu is handling over 60fps, this game isnt kind to cpus with 4 or less threads.

[@OnyxBoom]

@@GrrumpyPants me too xD its overclocked from 3,2GHz to stable 4,29GHz with good cooling. And only with this config :( i guess the next R* game will get new CPU xD every 30-40 min i get the game stutter for 2-3 seconds. The cpu loading pulls up to 100% and Jumps Down to 50-60% again.

[@wow123446]

This is a fantastic overview of the settings and how it affects visual quality and performance. The ultra vs HUB optimized section is great. Please try and do that in your future videos too. Yours and Digital Foundry's video on the game optimization guide are the best ones out there. Great work Tim! Can't wait for part 2.

[@DeanCalaway]

Love these, substantial frame gains with minimal quality loss, you guys are the best.

[@inflatable2]

I see some comments here complaining about the length of the video.. Come on people, it's a guide, you watch it to educate yourself so you learn what every setting does and how it affects performance.. Might come in handy if you play a game where you cannot find a guide for and you need to figure it out yourself to get better performance if you need it.. But some people lack the patience and/or are simply not interested in educating themselves, they can fast forward to 18:53 to find all the settings in a overview.. I really do not see the problem at all, just be very grateful sources like Hardware Unboxed that do these guides (that take a long time to make) still exist.. Thank you!

[@DalesFresh]

This video maybe a little old but it got me from 40-50 fps to fucking 89 fps… let’s fucking goooo!

[@n4me1e55-W]

This is by far the best optimization guide on youtube. EVER.... waiting for the second part.

[@NastyDog78]

YES IT IZZZZZZZZZZZ

[@banban5568]

Digital foundry just challenged this

[@MarceloTezza]

I want to see part 2 soon! Thank you, quite a hardwork for this game.

[@koalitaDormilona]

"We still recommend watching this video at KZbin's maximum 4K quality setting" _cries on my still ADSL connection just a few km from Sydney CBD_

[@setha65]

Pussy

[@Ausblack]

Still on ADSL? Living my best life with 100mb NBN

[@Biel.Azevedu]

the best graphics video I've ever seen on all of KZbin.

[@Moehasn02]

game looks even better to me also wit better performance sumone give dis man a award, gota i5 6700k n 1080ti went from avg 50 to 80fps

[@TechnoFreak-IN]

cant wait for part 2 , then i'll optimize my game settings, you are doing really hard work ! MUCH LOVE

[@Peppy34420]

Here It is! Everyone has been waiting! :) great stuff!

[@eisenrotz]

I really need this detailed optimization for Cyberpunk 2077.

[@hbk12fan]

Digital Foundry has a video on exactly that.

[@eisenrotz]

@@hbk12fan This ^

[@acco5038]

I want to like that game but there’s a reason I’m watching a rdr2 graphics vid in 2020

[@Weebwhacker]

@@acco5038 my 3070 is running at max utilization if everything is ultra in this for 1080p and soo im watching this vid for that purpose

[@acco5038]

@@Weebwhacker i aint talking about settings. game looks great its just shit compared to rdr2 and I had never played it

[@lotus1219]

my crappy rx 470 can finally run 60fps. probably my optimized setting for the card and still look beautiful

[@Spoggi99YT]

Shadow Quality on Ultra does actually have a pretty noticeable effect in indoor night scenes. Screen Space Shadows cast from more than one light source at a time, if you set Shadow Quality on Ultra. During the train heist this is very noticeable inside the wagon, if you take a look at the back door screws.

[@kimberly_lippington]

hey, thanks man..

[@ivofixzone6410]

Thanks a lot - we appreciate your hard work on optimization guides.

[@datboydnk]

The most recent patch (2.91GB) on Rockstar launcher has greatly improved my performance. I get almost 60+ constantly in the wilderness and when in the small towns and Saint Denis I get 50 avg. I have textures on ultra, rest of the settings at high and volumetric on low. The game looks amazing still. Anyone who haven't bought the game yet, I'd say that you guys wait till the steam version comes out as I feel like that would be a much polished version with the patches included. Here's my spec: Ryzen 5 2600X Gtx 1060 6GB Corsair vengeance 8gb ddr4 Res 1080p P.S the stutters are almost gone on dx12. In vulkan I get them occasionally, but they are not as frequent as they were before.

[@Killer14254CA]

16 GB ram would help the stuttering.

[@FoxTvMta]

Full settings plz

[@loneeagle689]

bro. i straight up wish this series of detailed spec gets continued as long as gaming exists. pls never, ever stop

[@rajjgaming5919]

On the 3070 and my game looks beautiful man , god bless you

[@felipeazcoaga91]

you forgot about some things, ultra/high lighting quality enables long moon shadows, the difference IS BIG in wide areas. Also, if you put shadow quality at max it will enable screen space shadows for every polygon affected by a source of light, thats make a BIG visual difference, more noticeable inside buildings.

[@kardoso75]

I would like to point out that i have experienced ghosting in my game, due to the TAA set to medium, so for those who are having this problem, i would recommend set TAA to high, it worked out for me I hope it works also for you!

[@AbhinavRaman21]

First Digital Foundry and now this! I don't even have a pc capable enough to play the game and I don't even plan to buy the game but still I've watched both the videos completely. That's how good these channels are!

[@solarstrike33]

@@deathrager2404 That's what we're _trying_ to do, these tweak guides are supposed to be tie-overs until that happens.

[@solarstrike33]

@@deathrager2404 Okay, there we go. Why didn't you say that earlier? But yeah, I agree with the fact that these videos shouldn't have been a thing had the game gone better with the launch.

[@Hardwareunboxed]

@Death Rager your conduct is disgraceful, you're now shadow banned.

[@solarstrike33]

@@Hardwareunboxed Thanks. I did agree with some of his points but wonder how he had the audacity to talk _down_ to you guys, one of the most respected men in the industry; Gamers Nexus, and Digital Foundry; among other small-scale channels that bank on such tweaks existing like RandomGamingInHD and _especially_ LowSpecGamer.

[@Hardwareunboxed]

@@solarstrike33 We weren't too concerned with how he was talking to us. But telling viewers to end their lives and other disgraceful comments, that was enough for the ban. We don't tolerate trash comments like that.

[@francijose1]

I went from 48 FPS to 61 FPS on a 1070 at 1440p. It looks just as great (and in some places even better!) then it did before. Excellent guide - one of the best I've ever seen. Thanks for the time and effort.

[@gin0v4]

this is with no doubt the best camera and videoquality i have ever seen on youtube (watching in 4k 60fps). i mean the first 40 seconds where you are just talking. looks better than all the ltt or mkbhd videos. your hair, the colors, the sharpness - i am just blown away on how it looks :D i originally came here because i cannot play the game with 40+ fps on my 2090ti + 9900k o_0

[@abrarrafat1471]

You have really surpassed digital foundry with your methodology .... I cant describe how good the content is ...

[@jovanniorcullo1686]

I've used your guide on AC Odyssey I guess I'll be using it again 😀

[@bravozero6]

odyssey i literally turned my sky to low and went from 40 fps to 65 lol

[@phoenixzappa7366]

How do I play GTA 3 on rtx 2080 ti? Medium settings

[@jovanniorcullo1686]

@@bravozero6 really helpful when it comes to graphical settings. I'm gonna get RDR2 on Steam this December hopefully most of the bugs specially the launcher ones are fixed then.

[@sadmannaqueeb7450]

8:42 "If you're struggling with performance at night which I think most people will be ........................"

[@MomEnts987]

Its 00:44 hahah

[@carador9286]

It's 2022 and I still come back to this video and its second part when I reinstall RDR2. You did a great job!

[@thecommentator6694]

I purchased the game last night after watching reviews (based on the console version) that said it's a great game. I was quite disappointed to see how poorly optimised it was though - so far I've spent more time tweaking settings than actually playing the game. At least we have such a great video here helping us all out, incredible work, thanks!

[@Memesis]

ok this deserves a sub finally someone who goes into detail with every setting and shows the difference

[@AlwaysRetr0]

Lighting quality seems to be the game changer. It looks SO much better visually on ultra imo.

[@IronMan-jj2fd]

Set global illumination to ultra won't take ur fps away!

[@DragonOfTheMortalKombat]

Yeah, they recommend medium but the lack of dynamic lighting is not worth it if you can afford, keep it on high or ultra.

[@Waouben]

This is basically crisis, with a touch of crash to desktop

[@RG-os4xx]

Haha, good one

[@sapgaming1318]

lol gud one

[@WalrusWinking]

Crysis crashes even on my modern hardware

[@STDealer]

I have a Ryzen 7 2700 w/ a RX 580 4GB Vram and 16GB DDR4 w/ 2400mhz so your guide helped me find an absolute perfect balance. I can't thank you enough and have purchased from your merch store as you have literally quadrupled the quality of my game with pretty much no loss in quality

[@reddeadjournals1385]

The problem with the Night Lighting quality: Go to Valentine at Night. Stand Across the street from bar and look at shadows on the ground from the parked wagon. On anything other than ULTRA, the shadows are messed up.

[@nichohells]

I’m having a stunning experience with an amazing visual quality with my 1060 6gb thanks to this tutorial

[@MuhammadBayoumii]

is this game fixed ? i have i5 6500 and gtx 970 is that enough ? and how 's performance in cities ?

[@ardasevmis7583]

@@MuhammadBayoumii Turn off anti alliasing and make reflections low and you should be fine. Don't expect 60 fps though, you will prob get around 30

[@Yautja24]

everything max'd out i got 27-35 FPS on a GTX1080ti With adv'd settings still max'd and your recommended main specs i am at 57-72 FPS. This is perfect.

[@gaurd3]

I felt like i was in school again writing down the settings and the estimated performance hits. Nice work.

[@IronMan-jj2fd]

I was just wondering how gaming had evolved!

[@alansilva4211]

damn I miss these optimisation videos, how to get easy frames with almost no visual downgrades, hopefully they will return with these guides.

[@rakesh1519]

So much hard work for creating this video...a big thumbs up

[@TheRealMarvinLee]

This is the best Graphics settings video for red dead that i have seen. Thank you for all the work you did. This was a huge help. I know this probably took a while to do this research so thanks man. We appreciate it.

[@nichol071]

this is the 3rd time i had to come back to this because rockstar kept resetting my damn settings

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

Don't restart your game automatically, restart your game manually.

[@birdsoup777]

Sorry about your friend Timmy. i watched a lot of his reviews. Thanks for putting this video togther

[@samarsingh1341]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, from 65-70 fps in normal area and 45-55 in busy area after your settings fps cranked up to 85-105 in normal area to 65-70 in busy areas. waiting for the part 2.

[@CleggorZ]

This needs revisiting after the dx12 Nvidia update! Performance has greatly increased

[@avishekgarai96]

I was really waiting for this video and looks like it paid off! I was basically targeting 30+ FPS and got more than that. As for water quality lowering the water physics to two notches and setting refraction and reflection to high I feel is the best way to go as physics has the maximum performance impact. A small tip for the Part 2 optimisation guide I guess :)

[@RighteousBruce]

i knew youd be back to the usual time slot.... i love it.

[@Sunlight91]

At least the game will still look amazing in 5 years when we can afford the ultra quality options.

[@Quzga]

pfft I already have 2080ti and game still runs like shit haha

[@javiersparrow5162]

@@Quzga giving how amd cards are running better this game nvidia better improve their fucking game or i will have to change to red team in the next upgrade.

[@calidude1114]

@@Quzga - It runs great on my Titan RTX

[@theobserver4214]

DANK Only reason GPUs got so overpriced is thanks to the fucking jobless bitcoin miner scuffle of 2015-2017. It should get better, and now that AMD is finally shaping up to beat NVIDIA, we should be able to afford RTX 2070 Super (yes, 2070s, a 1080p gamer does not need RTX 2080Ti Supers) in 1-2 years.

[@DanielS-zq2rr]

This is the best PC gaming/hardware channel I've ever seen on KZbin, and I've been here for 12 years now.

[@elpolodiablo5486]

The channel was found in 2015.Dumbass

[@mikejones-nd6ni]

I have a rx 6800 & 3700x and was getting super low settings with everything on Ultra I know people with 3080 that we're having the same problem. it's almost like the game is not meant to be played with everything on Ultra. So these videos Still help a lot of people I'm sure. Just as they did for me

[@hannesedvardsson2957]

I bought RedDead two days ago and on all settings at low my game was on 40 fps at best. How it lookt better, and I am well above 60 fps in the benchmark. Thank u Harbor Boxed, thank u!

[@yasingunen6150]

hello I've been watching you from turkey 1050 ti 8300h i5 4 GB to 16 GB of ram with which you have no knowledge of my computer settings? I didn't understand the video because I don't know English for red dead redemption 2

[@OutlawedPoet]

@@yasingunen6150 I have 1050 3GB and i5 9300h with 8GB of ram and personally with a lower resolution scale, sharpening filter, and TAA at medium these settings are perfect.

[@yasingunen6150]

@@OutlawedPoet thank you brother 👍

[@OutlawedPoet]

@@yasingunen6150 no problem 👍

[@slickone1692]

Thank you for making this and the part 2 video, great stuff. Getting stable 50-60 fps with these exact settings on the Aorus rx580 and r5 2600x on 1080p.

[@sorimi1612]

Finally waited so long for this Video

[@Tw1stTech]

so long :D literally maximum 6 days is not long by any means ^^

[@sorimi1612]

@@Tw1stTech objectively its not long at all, but if u check for this video like 2-3 times everyday it feels like a decade :D

[@Tw1stTech]

Kyrie I know what you mean, I was waiting for it too but your comment sounded somewhat like a little kid that never can’t wait longer than 5 minutes for sth. No offense included ✌🏻

[@ELReptile]

This is the best rd2 pc graphic settings video for sure

[@13tonka13]

If anyone is suffering from blurry textures with these settings, caused by TAA. Turn on image sharpening tool in the nivida controll pannel, set it to 0.75. Its makes the game look 10000x better night and day. With little to no performance cost.

[@zacredacted2137]

I can’t even imagine how much work it takes for you to put this together. You are too kind to offer this content for free.

[@BluRibbonReviews]

This is great. Had to go through all my settings again after today's update

[@avatarmanz]

His recommendations are as follows: Textures - Ultra Anisotropic Filtering - X16 Lighting - Medium Global Illumination - High Shadows - High Far Shadows - High SSAO - High Reflections - Medium Mirrors - Ultra Water - Ultra Volumetrics - Medium Particles - Ultra Tessellation - Ultra TAA - High FXAA - Off MSAA - Off

[@jackmills7758]

this still holds up to this day! at native 4k using HU's optimized settings i got up to 100fps+! however im still going to keep the settings on max and resolution scale it to 1.5x because i dont think 60+fps on rdr2 story mode is needed, 30fps and a bit more looks good. i wouldn't bother tweaking the settings for red dead online because the player to player interactions are really glitchy and wonky that it gets bullshotty most of the time regardless of smooth frame rates, don't help everyone is hacking and abusing deadeye.

Thank you for going through the trouble of doing this! I'll test today and see how it impacts my performance.

To update, now I am getting a steady 65 frames, going up to 85 during gameplay, and 115 in cinematics. I was getting from 45-60 FPS before making the changes suggested in your two videos. I'm running it on GTX 1080, i7 7700k, with 32GB RAM.

[@josu91ita]

18:55 for optimezed settings

[@dellegar6685]

My Video Memory Shows RDR2:2059MB and Other Apps:1669MB But i don’t have any other Apps Open that could use this much memory how can I fix this?

[@baddog9188]

Amazing video, thank you so much, can't wait for part two. Request: benchmark of Pascal vs Vega vs Navi vs Turing using your optimised settings profile, we've seen some strange (and wildly different) numbers from various tech outlets, I would love to see your and Steve's take on it.

[@PerKolind]

Ryzen 3600 2070 Super 1440p resolution Changed Lighting quality to ultra and global illumination to ultra. Rest is the same as in the video. Getting around 80-90 fps! Looks awesome

[@thefunkybassist9916]

Superbly extensive guide. Watching this right before making my gaming PC build with Ryzen 5 and RX 570.

[@swordssolitude3861]

For those with newer RTX cards (3070 over here) it appears you can afford to copy his settings AND use MSAA X4 to see fps around 70 (in Valentine). Great combination of settings and powerful, clear Anti-Aliasing... hopefully this balance of graphical fidelity and performance lasts through other parts of the game

[@danielgonzalez2582]

Having a rtx, it's much better to use DLDSR 2160p + DLSS on quality as antialiasing method. Much crispier image and little performance impact.

[@AlexGusnawan]

MSAA x4 means MSAA Reflexion? because i turn on DLSS on Quality

[@sivaprasanna_sethuraman]

Wow. The amount of effort you guys have put is incredible. Best part is presenting the results in a better way for people to understand. Thank you for your hard work, Tim & guys. I'm subscribing.

[@kampen9868]

Anybody wants to play some Red Dead Redemption 2 with a guy that has no friends for this game?

[@thouzerbenevolent9556]

Bro this setting is far better than the Xbox One X settings, as an owner of Rx 580 with i5 9400F, i can run the game at 50-55 Fps using these settings and the game just looks amazing, thank you once again

[@bbb462cid]

Following this guide I turned my graphics settings from the default ones the program chose, to the ones suggested here. In almost every case it was turning settings up. The game looks better and I have 10-15 fps higher than I did before. Heading to part 2 now....Nice job.

[@morningreis5018]

"It's not a Fallout 76 situation where the game both runs, and looks like crap" Goddamn.

[@Saynt614]

With these optimized settings at 1080p I get about 80 fps on average and I've never seen it dip below 60. Solid.

[@djschweiger]

what gpu are you running?

[@Saynt614]

@@djschweiger Vega 64 with an i7 4790k

[@jettangeles2707]

Damn bro. I get that much with 3440x1440 with these settings.