Red Dead Redemption 2 PC: Every Graphics Setting Tested + Xbox One X Comparison
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- Rockstar hands over the new and enhanced RAGE engine to the PC userbase with its new port of Red Dead Redemption 2. But where do you start to tweak a game with this level of settings tweaking options? Alex delivers a detailed breakdown of EVERY setting in the game, along with the settings equivalent used in the Xbox One X version of the game.
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this video should be linked when you enter the graphics settings in the game
lmao
facts
@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 TH-cam channels to test and explain them. Rockstar are supporting our economy.
PC settings equivalent to Xbox One X: (Thanks Mr Alex Battaglia for the effort you put into tuning and testing the settings until they were as similar as possible)
Texture Quality: Ultra
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Lighting Quality: Medium
Global Illumination Quality: Medium/Low
Shadow Quality: High
Far Shadow Quality: Low/Lower Than Low
SSAO: Medium
Reflection Quality: Low/Lower Than Low
Mirror Quality: High
Water Quality: Custom
Volumetrics Quality: Custom
Particle Quality: Medium
Tesselation Quality: High/Medium
TAA: High/Medium
FXAA: Off
MSAA: Off
Advanced Settings: Unlocked
Graphics API: Vulkan
Near Volumetric Resolution: Low/Lower Than Low
Far Volumetric Resolution: Low/Lower Than Low
Volumetric Lighting Quality: High/Medium
Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: Off
Particle Lighting Quality: Medium
Soft Shadows: High
Grass Shadows: Medium/Low
Long Shadows: Off
Full Resolution SSAO: Off
Water Refraction Quality: High
Water Reflection Quality: Medium
Water Physics Quality: 1/6
Resolution Scale: Off
TAA Sharpening: Off
Motion Blur: On
Reflection MSAA: Off
Geometry Level of Detail: 5/5
Grass Level of Detail: 2/10
Tree Quality: Low/Lower Than Low
Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: High/Medium
Decal Quality: Medium
Fur Quality: Medium
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:)
You had me at: "resolution of rendering for the various cascades used in the frustum aligned volumetric fog grid."
if lower, the air becomes more pixelated
very verbose
When you spend more time watching videos about graphic settings, than actually playing the game =|
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
PC ports should just all have an "elite console" preset that puts everything on console settings. Since this is often a very good starting point to adjust your settings.
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.
LowSpecGamer: "so into the ini files we go"
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???
This is amazing, thank you so much for taking the time to go through every single setting :)
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
I cannot imagine how painstaking this must have been to put together.
Digital Foundry is an absolute godsend in the PC gaming community. So much detail giving to what each setting changes and the performance impact of it. Thank you for putting in so much work!
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
Finally some sense in this wild west of a settings menu
The civilized land is destroying us, we are far east from the land we know, far from big open country.
For PC gaming you need 3 channels:
Digital Foundry for the settings and the tech in the games, Hardware Unboxed for the GPUs that should run the games and Gamer's Nexus for Hair Physics... no, not in the games, in their videos
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.
I don't even own the game on any platform, but i watched the whole video
me too
Noone does these indepth analysis videos like Alex does, dude is amazing.
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 has exited" is my favorite game of 2019.
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 :)
Lighting Quality above Medium also increases CPU usage by a fair amount, it's very noticeable on quad cores even with HT/SMT and will likely drop your FPS well below 60 in some places. It was that one setting that I found to be the biggest culprit for CPU usage and big frame drops even with DLSS on
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.
9:17 That deer is me trying to make my way through life.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LMFAO!!!!
They should just put a "match xbox one x" setting in the game
ikr.
yeah, I would start increasing the settings from that option, to be sure it looks better than on console with my gtx 1060.
😁
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.
I guess if R* renamed the settings differently (low = high, ..., high = insane (marked in a at red) and made it more clear in the settingsmenu that some of those settings arent meant to be pushed to the limit with todays hardware (like Gears 5 did with some of its settings, like the Screenspace Reflections ones), the outcry wouldn't be there... Low and medium in RDR2 do not look like what we normally get from "low" and "medium" in other games. The naming makes it sound way worse than the good visual quality of those settings.
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
Great job Alex! I admire your patience and devotion to the topic!!!
Man, this is perfect. I can only imagine how much work has been put into this video. Thanks for this.
Thank you for the in-deph analysis! Your PC videos never disappoint.
Definitely the best addition to the team.
Appreciate this attention to detail and the effort it must have taken. Thanks for sharing.
Incredible video. This going to help so many people.
Had a different experience with Parallax Occlusion Mapping. Going from High to Ultra adds significantly more details to the ground in some scene, like additional pieces of grass and stones but cost around 5% performance in those instances. People struggling with reaching their target FPS should experiment with that setting.
"DDDR4" always gives me a chuckle :)
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...”
Incredible work Alex, thank you.
I just gave this a re-watch. I've been experimenting over the last few months with just going for 120-ish or locked 60 fpswith higher settings with 1440p instead of 4k. I'm really happy there's a video/channel such as this for me to refer to when I'm stumped on quality settings and gpu expense : performance. I love this channel so damn much! All of the presenters that work on this channel and the people who do the backend stuff are all amazing. You guys all bring something awesome to the table and I'm never disappointed it's one presenter vs another. Stay awesome Digital Foundry.
Just play native 4K with 100-150 FPS.
So much work went into this video, simply amazing. Thank you so much! Among my favourite channels :)
You guys put so much work into this, so grateful
That was another incredibly well made video, the amount of effort you put into your videos really pays off !
I just wanted to say thank you for the effort as always! This video helped me a lot with optimizing the game for myself. I'd also like to recommend Hardware Unboxed's guide in addition to this to people trying to figure out the individual settings and their performance cost.
Thank you for making this! I wondered why even the default settings were so demanding
The amount of work put into this video is staggering. Great work as always.
This is the quality content I subscribed for
Seriously amazing work Alex. I always look forward to these in depth analysis videos.
"Yup, we're going through every single setting here"
Alex, you're the MVP! 🙏🏼
Yes! The anticipation was killing me!
DF: *zooms in on blurry shot* See how that blurry shot is less blurry?
Me:
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...
I'm really impressed how good this video is. Going through all of the settings had to consume so much time. Digital foundry is amazing in case of content's quality.
Nice work Alex, you must have watched through so much footage! But now we have something to use as a blueprint for the settings in RDR2, thank you.
Colossal efforts went into this video. Well done!
I really LOVE this kind of analysis, they're truly enjoyable to watch. Terrific work taking all these comparison captures, it must have been really arduous to assemble all of that. Congratulations to the team ;)
brilliant video. Literally all other comparisons of PC vs console are random low/medium/high presets vs console. This was the first time I'd found someone to compare them this way. Legitimately impressed with your insight and dedication
Excellent vid man. That's was just the perfect level of granularity, love the detail you go into.
Thank you Alex, amazing work and i dont even wanna know how many hours you put in to this.
Fantastic work Alex!! Thank you very much for your wisdom! Gonna check this out right away in my PC! ;)
was waiting for this video..THANKYOU
Amazing work, Alex. Thank you so much!
I was waiting for this video
Are you guys gonna make an optimization guide for mid-range PCs?
For reflections, I acutally like the soft lower quality look.
The video we all have been waiting on...great job as always Alex! Been playing in 3440x1440 at 5/6 res with few things on ultra and everything else high, few dips into low 50s but mostly 60 fps,man I'm glad I splurged for gsync monitor! Not bad for 3700x/rtx 2080 combo,also playing it off standard HDD and have had almost 0 issues in our little group of friends/family...disabling cloud saves seems to be key for the launcher woes somehow? Noticed the exact same crash in GTA5 two weeks ago whenever auto/manual save would occur...
What a good video! Congrats for all the detailed explication
Can't thank you enough Alex!
Can't wait to get the game later in the month and use your settings!
25:37 Xbox One X Console Equivalent Settings
This was a fantastic clarification and explanation, thank you!
holy cow dude! you are a detail jedi.. thanks for all the work.. every bit of work you did was hugely appreciated!
Alex, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos. I know it must take a long time to do all these small tests. This video puts performance of this game into context and really helps us set expectations properly based on our rigs.
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!
Alex you outdone yourself, you and John are the A team!
Another great testing, i have been waiting since release of the game for this!
Cheers Alex , well done!
Weltklasse!
Incredible video, Alex. You make it so Digital Foundry is now my #1 go to for PC performance analysis :)
Excellent video Alex, congrats.
I would uggest you to look at config files, async compute is disabled by default and can only be enable via config file, it makes vulkan performance much more fluid on AMD cards and turing.
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.
Modern PC gamers forgotten what "Ultra" means in the setting. They quick to judge by saying "unoptimised" after overestimating their rig. There was a reason why the announcer in unreal tournament yells "Holy shit" when you set the option to ultra back in the day.
@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.
Thanks for the insanely in depth video Alex, now i can set my settings correctly and wait for a patch that fixes the crashing issues.
What a amazing work you do Digital Foundry, cheers for that time you spend making this video. Now i playing at ultra with low water only :)
9:17 that deer is doing the treadmill.
this makes me incredibly curious about a stadia settings comparison, because in the very least, water physics on stadia is higher than "low" as with xbox one x.
This the most useful video I have ever watched lately. Seriously I calibrated the graphics settings based on the recommendations here and it works like magic. I wish this video was there when I began playing.
Awesome video! Thank you, Alex!
I remember comparing graphics between Sega Genesis and SNES which was simple.
Now we are at this level of comparison and I love it.
Respect for your effort.
i've been waiting for this video since game launch! alex always got the best best graphical analysis
Superb video. Thanks for the hard work!
That is an amazing test. I would love to see more tests like this, especially when the new consoles are released.
The In game half vsync has frame pacing issue only with vulkan api but not dx12.
And if you enable ½ refresh rate vsync via nvidia profile inspector in rdr2 profile, you can eleminate the frame pacing issue with vulkan api while using the in game half vsync.
Very in-depth, excellent work. Appreciate it.
What a channel this is. Great work again alex!
Love it! Love it! Love it! Absolutely GODsWork. Such detail work on explaining each and every settings on this enigma of a game. I'm blessed to have Digital Foundry to save the PC community from dooming. I always watch PC tests for every game on DF & was eagerly waiting for this. We want more of this content in the future too. "Furious on a PC game, DIGITAL FOUNDRY to the RESCUE...."!!!
Brilliant video.. Ive it on XB1X and PC 2080TI. Despite XB1X being amazing I cannot express how much better it looks on the PC.
It's simply breathtaking, the lighting especially. I run it on nearly ultra everything and its staggeringly beautiful.
I often end up just looking and playing with the world and not doing the missions!
This is the video that I was waiting for... Thanks
Nice job! i want more videos like this! and in the end indicating the best quality to play overall on PC ;D
appreciate your effort. thanks for the vid!
25:49 for the settings
Appreciate your hard work and time that went into this video, man!
Dude, big effort, respect
Great Video !
For anyone new to PC gaming and struggling to run a certain game, make sure you always put the overall graphics settings to minimum. You can slowly start to turn up settings as you want them, while maintaining control of what's affecting your performance. Work your way up.
@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!
Thank you. I'm a new to pc gaming and this helped a lot.
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
So much effort put into this video!
Great work man
I have been hyped as hell for this video. RDR2 on PC is one of if not the best looking games ever made. I'm 20 hours in and still on chapter 2 and I am still speechless at how good it looks
It took me five hours to optimise the graphics. This video is a godsend.
Thank you for this video, I bet this helped out a lot of people optimize this games settings like me. A true lifesaver
Another great video! Thanks Alex!
This game is so beautiful
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.
Low texture settings around the campfire reminds me of how RD2 would look on Switch
very useful, was running geforce optimised defaults with turns most settings to low or off, switched to these ones for minimal performance impact yet what appears to be a very nice boost in graphical fidelity. thanks!
amazing work alex !
Good detective work Turok!😉
Thank you guys for the work, it was an excellent review. i'm really grateful, now i can enjoy RDR2 at it's best on my PC.
This was incredibly insightful and helpful and so for that, I thank you!
From now on this is my go to channel