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!
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: th-cam.com/video/2UPXld_xlDs/w-d-xo.html
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.
(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
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
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
@@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.
@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
@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
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 :/
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.
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.
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...
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
@@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
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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!
@@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 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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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!
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!
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 ✌🏻
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.
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!
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
@@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.
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.
i knew youd be back to the usual time slot.... i love it.
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Thank you for going through the trouble of doing this! I'll test today and see how it impacts my performance.
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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.
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.
Thanks for putting all this work in. I've been waiting for this. I just set everything to high instead of Ultra and gtting pretty solid 60fps at 4K, but these videos are great. There are a few settings I now know I can drop to medium with no visual loss and bump others up to ultra with no performance loss. Thank you.
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
First time seeing a video from this channel, happened to find it on recommendations. This is very, very good, well explained, demonstrated, meaning even someone without any tech-savyy will be able to understand and fine-tune their configuration down to the smallest detail so they can enjoy the best out of their system. Congratulations on this video, I know the amount of details and things to show in the different settings must have been a pain. I will keep an eye on this channel and hope to see more like it.
To be honest. I LOVE the crazy Graphix games. Just like back in the days with Crysis 1 and Farcry 1. having such a high quality we cant even run on top PC give users a few things they never get with 1 u can play it a few years later on modern better performance card which didnt exist before. for a 2nd run on the game with max quality (did that with many games in the past) 2 it pushes the companies like Nvidia and AMD to up there game to keep up with games instead of the attitude of "we dont need better cards our card can max everything u want to run" which have been the recent attitude in the past few years. or at least feel that way. at least from nvidia.
PC gamers: Consoles hold PC game quality back. Also PC gamers: My vidya game wont run faster than 50 fps on crazy high graphics settings = unoptimised POS. Whatever a developer does pc gamers are never happy. I swear most gamers spend more time complaining on reddit than actually playing games.
@@menofmayhemmm crazy high settings let us choose to do either. If they left ultra at a point where most people could get 60fps it would leave a lot of enthusiasts with high end gear wanting more.
I have RTX 3060 and i really appreciate what You have done here. RDR2 is a graphics beast and this video helped me a lot with finding the sweet quality / performance spot!!!
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
@@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.
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.
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
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.
Thank you so much for Part 1 and Part 2! Increased my performance on a RTX 3080 w/ Ryzen 5 5600X from ~55-70 fps at 1440p no resolution scaling, to around ~75-90 fps at 1440p with 5/4 1,250x scaling (almost a must-have for crisp image)
Not really, like 15% with DLSS Quality. Its not that great, and it comes with some artefacts and other shit with moving picture. And every hair or fur looks terrible. But yea i have RTX 2080 so can't complain, since this is enough for good settings DLSS OFF.
![Red Dead Redemption 2 Optimization [Part 2] Advanced Settings Tested for Even More Gains](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/C3xQ33Cq4CE/mqdefault.jpg)
![Red Dead Redemption 2 Optimization [Part 2] Advanced Settings Tested for Even More Gains](/img/tr.png)
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!
YEY thanks Tim love these vids, they are so useful and interesting
IMO you produce the best performance optimization guides out there. Great job!
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: th-cam.com/video/2UPXld_xlDs/w-d-xo.html
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.
Thanks Tim for doing this guide its really helpfull (when I get game, when it comes to steam)
(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
lmaoo thanks i wasnt aboutta sit through all of that
Thanks dude!
You sir are a gentlemen and a scholar!
Hats off to you.
cheers - this guy is really stringing it out
18:50 for optimized settings
The hero we needed....👌
Thanks
This video does not need to be 22 minutes long Jesus Christ
i search for comments only for this!! Thanks!
@@lildink9529 kinda does
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
Thanks g
THANK YOU!
Legend
Wubby7 true hero
Legend
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
Thank you !!!
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.
@@seuratguyAround the 19 minute mark.
@@sreenaths6829 Thanks. I looked at beginning, end and in the video description but didn't sit through the details.
bless you
I love how rockstar has a secret mini-game in rdr2, the pc settings.
I just downloaded the game and I've spent about 6 hours tryna get a 60fps
@@shahbaz6741 lmao
i cant run it on 1050ti so i mean....
@@shahbaz6741 resolution scale helps alot
@@relawc8736 nah I literally turned down both grass geometry level of detail and I got a solid 70fps: gtx10603gb i3-7700k
**Sees my GTX 1060 running at max fan speed**
Me: "You're alright boah."
Yo boah got Lumbago .
You need to have...FAITH!!
got mine just few months before 1660s release..wasn't looking at gpu launch dates back then..haha...
It still awesome GPU
@@bpcgos how is playing this game at barely 30fps at 1080 awesome ?
I went from 10 to 14 FPS, thank you!
Jokes aside, all those optimisation guides are Heaven sent, thank you so much for them.
14😮
Don't forget the other Steve's and DF's guides.
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 😂
Lol just stick to your xbox if your getting 10fps
LOL
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.
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.
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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.
Tim goes on holiday...RDR2 is broken.
Tim comes back...RDR2 gets 40% boost. 👍
Tim goes on holiday...RDR2 is broken.
Tim comes back...RDR2 gets 40% boost. 👍
And my gtx 1060 still cant run this game. 😡
@@fszszp2102 when have bought your 1060?
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?
@@DrMacintosh the gtx 1060 6gb is on the list but barely can run the game even with 30 fps. time to upgrade i guess
István Kiss Try turning your settings down?
Part 2 „rather sooner than later“ please 💪🏻💪🏻
yes please!
hey there big boy
agreed lol
Yes...
Water physics is a big one. If your doing max on that just turn it down one one notch
The performance was bad on my RTX 2080 SUPER when I set everything on Ultra. This video helped me a LOT. Thank you!
I can help u even more just set reflections & shadows to medium!
And now u can set rest everything to ULTRA!
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
Thank you so much for this!
What a legend
This video should be sponsored by Rockstar. Absolutely amazing, thank you so much.
Simp
@@fattud615 what
17:19 MSAA x8 is the best choice.
You can clearly see that it's the only setting that has a train.
wow you're so right, I turned it on and trains just popped up when I was riding in the heartlands plains
There's trains in this game? :O
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
Thomas the train shouting like a dragon came into my game for some reason... Weird.
No every setting has a train. Its just that everything is not recorded at the same time.
Taken an screenshot of the optimised settings slide @ timestamp 19:07.
Cheers Tim, looking forward to part 2.
This video is now getting recommended to ppl as rdr2 has finally been cracked.
yes
yes
ahoy fellow pirate!
ahahhahahaha
Another evidence how Google tracks every fcking thing
Imagine having a 2080ti and having to turn settings to medium
Imagine not understanding the future of gaming.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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.
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
@@apostolos8734 to load the objects you need some CPU Power. Check your CPU loading. Or its just the bad game performance xD
@@OnyxBoom honestly surprised your cpu is handling over 60fps, this game isnt kind to cpus with 4 or less threads.
@@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.
Oddly enough this really did improve FPS to the 80s and yet somehow it even looks better too....fucking genius man
It *feels* better at a higher performance, and so it looks better too.
for half of the settings I couldn't tell which is low and which is ultra haha
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
@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
@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
Just getting the game to open will be all the performance I need
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 :/
i'm considering buying it. Is it really not fixed yet?
@@pofkenzo_music : the patch last friday did it for me.
@@DizzyKrissi ok, that soothes me. Did any other bugs, crashes appeared during the gameplay?
Povilas Bu it’s been great for me people are dumb just get it
my crappy rx 470 can finally run 60fps. probably my optimized setting for the card and still look beautiful
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.
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.
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...
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
Max out TAA sharpness in-game and use RIS for AMD or the sharpness slider in driver for Nvidia. No need to downsample necessarily.
As said, in-game there is a 'TAA Sharpening' setting in the advanced options, sorted👍🏻
@@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
@@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
@@raresmacovei8382 why would you use two sharpening settings at once? Just use ris or nvidia. The in game sharpening costs way more performance
I really need this detailed optimization for Cyberpunk 2077.
Digital Foundry has a video on exactly that.
@@hbk12fan This ^
I want to like that game but there’s a reason I’m watching a rdr2 graphics vid in 2020
@@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
@@Weebwhacker i aint talking about settings. game looks great its just shit compared to rdr2 and I had never played it
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
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.
This is by far the best optimization guide on youtube. EVER.... waiting for the second part.
YES IT IZZZZZZZZZZZ
Digital foundry just challenged this
Honestly.... by far my favourite tech youtuber hand's f**king down. Keep doing you boys!
I’m having a stunning experience with an amazing visual quality with my 1060 6gb thanks to this tutorial
is this game fixed ?
i have i5 6500 and gtx 970 is that enough ?
and how 's performance in cities ?
@@GaamingNSuch 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
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
I've used your guide on AC Odyssey I guess I'll be using it again 😀
odyssey i literally turned my sky to low and went from 40 fps to 65 lol
How do I play GTA 3 on rtx 2080 ti? Medium settings
@@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.
I want to see part 2 soon! Thank you, quite a hardwork for this game.
cant wait for part 2 , then i'll optimize my game settings, you are doing really hard work ! MUCH LOVE
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.
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
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!
@@deathrager2404 That's what we're _trying_ to do, these tweak guides are supposed to be tie-overs until that happens.
@@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.
@Death Rager your conduct is disgraceful, you're now shadow banned.
@@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.
@@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.
Love these, substantial frame gains with minimal quality loss, you guys are the best.
Here It is! Everyone has been waiting! :) great stuff!
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
the best graphics video I've ever seen on all of TH-cam.
ok this deserves a sub finally someone who goes into detail with every setting and shows the difference
Thanks a lot - we appreciate your hard work on optimization guides.
You have really surpassed digital foundry with your methodology .... I cant describe how good the content is ...
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
hey, thanks man..
Lighting quality seems to be the game changer. It looks SO much better visually on ultra imo.
Set global illumination to ultra won't take ur fps away!
Yeah, they recommend medium but the lack of dynamic lighting is not worth it if you can afford, keep it on high or ultra.
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.
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!
"We still recommend watching this video at TH-cam's maximum 4K quality setting"
_cries on my still ADSL connection just a few km from Sydney CBD_
Pussy
Still on ADSL? Living my best life with 100mb NBN
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.
I felt like i was in school again writing down the settings and the estimated performance hits. Nice work.
I was just wondering how gaming had evolved!
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.
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
Sorry about your friend Timmy. i watched a lot of his reviews. Thanks for putting this video togther
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!
8:42 "If you're struggling with performance at night which I think most people will be ........................"
Its 00:44 hahah
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!
damn I miss these optimisation videos, how to get easy frames with almost no visual downgrades, hopefully they will return with these guides.
Finally waited so long for this Video
so long :D literally maximum 6 days is not long by any means ^^
@@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
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 ✌🏻
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.
16 GB ram would help the stuttering.
Full settings plz
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!
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
@@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.
@@OutlawedPoet thank you brother 👍
@@yasingunen6150 no problem 👍
bro. i straight up wish this series of detailed spec gets continued as long as gaming exists. pls never, ever stop
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.
This is great. Had to go through all my settings again after today's update
This is basically crisis, with a touch of crash to desktop
Haha, good one
lol gud one
Crysis crashes even on my modern hardware
i knew youd be back to the usual time slot.... i love it.
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.
It's 2022 and I still come back to this video and its second part when I reinstall RDR2. You did a great job!
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.
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.
This needs revisiting after the dx12 Nvidia update! Performance has greatly increased
So much hard work for creating this video...a big thumbs up
Thanks for putting all this work in. I've been waiting for this. I just set everything to high instead of Ultra and gtting pretty solid 60fps at 4K, but these videos are great. There are a few settings I now know I can drop to medium with no visual loss and bump others up to ultra with no performance loss. Thank you.
What cpu/gpu are you running?
gameradio i7700k/2080ti
This video maybe a little old but it got me from 40-50 fps to fucking 89 fps… let’s fucking goooo!
this is the 3rd time i had to come back to this because rockstar kept resetting my damn settings
Don't restart your game automatically, restart your game manually.
This is the best PC gaming/hardware channel I've ever seen on TH-cam, and I've been here for 12 years now.
The channel was found in 2015.Dumbass
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
Amazing and very thorough, will try it tonight on my 1070ti !!
Also: 20:30 MASSIVE fps boost! Darn St-Denis
First time seeing a video from this channel, happened to find it on recommendations. This is very, very good, well explained, demonstrated, meaning even someone without any tech-savyy will be able to understand and fine-tune their configuration down to the smallest detail so they can enjoy the best out of their system.
Congratulations on this video, I know the amount of details and things to show in the different settings must have been a pain. I will keep an eye on this channel and hope to see more like it.
To be honest. I LOVE the crazy Graphix games. Just like back in the days with Crysis 1 and Farcry 1. having such a high quality we cant even run on top PC give users a few things they never get with
1 u can play it a few years later on modern better performance card which didnt exist before. for a 2nd run on the game with max quality (did that with many games in the past)
2 it pushes the companies like Nvidia and AMD to up there game to keep up with games instead of the attitude of "we dont need better cards our card can max everything u want to run" which have been the recent attitude in the past few years. or at least feel that way. at least from nvidia.
PC gamers: Consoles hold PC game quality back.
Also PC gamers: My vidya game wont run faster than 50 fps on crazy high graphics settings = unoptimised POS.
Whatever a developer does pc gamers are never happy. I swear most gamers spend more time complaining on reddit than actually playing games.
I would rather have stable fps with good graphic than spending 1000$ for a fucking gpu every 2 years to play it thanks
@@menofmayhemmm as far as I know GPUs haven't cost over 1000, unless you got a Titan, until recently
@@menofmayhemmm crazy high settings let us choose to do either. If they left ultra at a point where most people could get 60fps it would leave a lot of enthusiasts with high end gear wanting more.
@@JesusMeza3 have you even heard about rtx 2080 ti?
I have RTX 3060 and i really appreciate what You have done here. RDR2 is a graphics beast and this video helped me a lot with finding the sweet quality / performance spot!!!
Superbly extensive guide. Watching this right before making my gaming PC build with Ryzen 5 and RX 570.
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
Having a rtx, it's much better to use DLDSR 2160p + DLSS on quality as antialiasing method. Much crispier image and little performance impact.
MSAA x4 means MSAA Reflexion? because i turn on DLSS on Quality
At least the game will still look amazing in 5 years when we can afford the ultra quality options.
pfft I already have 2080ti and game still runs like shit haha
@@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.
@@Quzga - It runs great on my Titan RTX
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.
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
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.
Thank you so much for Part 1 and Part 2!
Increased my performance on a RTX 3080 w/ Ryzen 5 5600X from ~55-70 fps at 1440p no resolution scaling, to around ~75-90 fps at 1440p with 5/4 1,250x scaling (almost a must-have for crisp image)
Anybody wants to play some Red Dead Redemption 2 with a guy that has no friends for this game?
Amazing video bro, just what I was looking for. Do me a favour though: make one for EVERY GAME RELEASED FROM HERE ON! Ty.
YES, THANK YOU !
On the 3070 and my game looks beautiful man , god bless you
Absolutely spot on, was on about 40fps trying to max it out hahaha. I’m on steady 80-100fps now so buzzing. Cheers for your work
And...when combined with DLSS...
FPS: "YEE HAWWW!!!"
Not really, like 15% with DLSS Quality. Its not that great, and it comes with some artefacts and other shit with moving picture. And every hair or fur looks terrible. But yea i have RTX 2080 so can't complain, since this is enough for good settings DLSS OFF.
DLSS looks terrible for me. all ultra with v sync is good to me. probably just me but this game is a lot better with lower fps
God bless you! Enough said.