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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  • @yellowbat79
    @yellowbat79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3137

    this video should be linked when you enter the graphics settings in the game

    • @RockyRacoon5
      @RockyRacoon5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      lmao

    • @Jay.G_
      @Jay.G_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      facts

    • @yellowbat79
      @yellowbat79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @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.

    • @OhShunz
      @OhShunz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yellow bat fantastic comment!

    • @HArryvajonas
      @HArryvajonas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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.

  • @Fleathemighty
    @Fleathemighty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3101

    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

    • @Oryyyt
      @Oryyyt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      tl:dr. been looking for this

    • @Tenma_Gold
      @Tenma_Gold 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Ty so much :)

    • @Stinger2578
      @Stinger2578 4 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      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.

    • @MrZodiac011
      @MrZodiac011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      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

    • @wielkipatronkanaubystrzakt8702
      @wielkipatronkanaubystrzakt8702 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @StubbyPhillips
    @StubbyPhillips 4 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    You had me at: "resolution of rendering for the various cascades used in the frustum aligned volumetric fog grid."

  • @TheReaI0ne
    @TheReaI0ne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    When you spend more time watching videos about graphic settings, than actually playing the game =|

    • @Ariesoetomo
      @Ariesoetomo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

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

    • @hh-zm9gr
      @hh-zm9gr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @ezepoliyu
      @ezepoliyu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @SliceOfLife93
      @SliceOfLife93 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ezepoliyuvanilla is better.

    • @ezepoliyu
      @ezepoliyu 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@SliceOfLife93 I agree

  • @chengong388
    @chengong388 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1163

    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.

    • @tr1llwill
      @tr1llwill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      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".

    • @chengong388
      @chengong388 4 ปีที่แล้ว +108

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

    • @hkoizumi3134
      @hkoizumi3134 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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.

    • @MrMilkyCoco
      @MrMilkyCoco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @kosodrzewina3903
      @kosodrzewina3903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@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.

  • @leonthesleepy
    @leonthesleepy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1011

    LowSpecGamer: "so into the ini files we go"

    • @littlegloom
      @littlegloom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      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

    • @marcogargiulo9717
      @marcogargiulo9717 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @Kamtar34
      @Kamtar34 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      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.

    • @marcogargiulo9717
      @marcogargiulo9717 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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

    • @XBX1MASTER
      @XBX1MASTER 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Marco Gargiulo you're kidding right???

  • @SantiagoSantiago
    @SantiagoSantiago 4 ปีที่แล้ว +534

    This is amazing, thank you so much for taking the time to go through every single setting :)

    • @alessandrolopes5980
      @alessandrolopes5980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @SantiagoSantiago
      @SantiagoSantiago 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @gulagforge1954
      @gulagforge1954 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SantiagoSantiago Like gtx 1050 ti

    • @danielkatanaofficial
      @danielkatanaofficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gulagforge1954 nope

    • @SCORP1ONF1RE
      @SCORP1ONF1RE 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @HazyJ28
    @HazyJ28 4 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    I cannot imagine how painstaking this must have been to put together.

  • @TheOriginalMyth
    @TheOriginalMyth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1955

    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!

    • @lwaves
      @lwaves 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

    • @TheOriginalMyth
      @TheOriginalMyth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      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.

    • @masterk5066
      @masterk5066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@TheOriginalMyth 80 plus 😂🤣

    • @0Wayland
      @0Wayland 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They're very good friends with Nvidia too.

    • @hamndv
      @hamndv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They do cover console games as well

  • @polishKGB
    @polishKGB 4 ปีที่แล้ว +448

    Finally some sense in this wild west of a settings menu

    • @MojoRisingTV
      @MojoRisingTV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @OrkDiktator
    @OrkDiktator 4 ปีที่แล้ว +638

    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

    • @VargVikernes1488
      @VargVikernes1488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Holy trinity of PC benchmarking and optimization analysis.

    • @sauldownbadman876
      @sauldownbadman876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      and then pc plebs wonder why people play consoles

    • @diddykong7354
      @diddykong7354 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No. Just Digital Foundry and Linus Tech Tips.

    • @OrkDiktator
      @OrkDiktator 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@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.

    • @mooferoo
      @mooferoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @nicolascattelan
    @nicolascattelan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    I don't even own the game on any platform, but i watched the whole video

  • @MrBurtbackerack
    @MrBurtbackerack 4 ปีที่แล้ว +492

    Noone does these indepth analysis videos like Alex does, dude is amazing.

    • @Sackboy612
      @Sackboy612 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @Shieftain
      @Shieftain 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @MrBurtbackerack
      @MrBurtbackerack 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@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

    • @Hard2hit94
      @Hard2hit94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      All of digital foundry are brilliant

    • @MrBurtbackerack
      @MrBurtbackerack 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Hard2hit94 I agree, love this channel.

  • @mjc0961
    @mjc0961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    "Rockstar Launcher has exited" is my favorite game of 2019.

    • @MorriganJade
      @MorriganJade 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

    • @reapthewhirlwind6915
      @reapthewhirlwind6915 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MorriganJade lol tf boycott rockstar launcher

    • @ThermaL-ty7bw
      @ThermaL-ty7bw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      particle quality to high , problem solved

    • @MorriganJade
      @MorriganJade 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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?

    • @lolindirlink
      @lolindirlink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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 :)

  • @TheEnhas
    @TheEnhas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    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

    • @acurisur
      @acurisur ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

  • @hyypersonic
    @hyypersonic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    9:17 That deer is me trying to make my way through life.

    • @vai_-cn9br
      @vai_-cn9br 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @eanoriega
      @eanoriega 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LMFAO!!!!

  • @nesnioreh
    @nesnioreh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +447

    They should just put a "match xbox one x" setting in the game

    • @dexthegamer3234
      @dexthegamer3234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ikr.

    • @agusr32
      @agusr32 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

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

    • @chrischupp9760
      @chrischupp9760 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😁

    • @TooBokoo
      @TooBokoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      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.

    • @ttwinsturbo
      @ttwinsturbo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@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.

  • @TilSkywalker
    @TilSkywalker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +269

    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.

    • @mjc0961
      @mjc0961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      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.

    • @daweitao2668
      @daweitao2668 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aye, seems the safest way to do it

    • @Th3Fly1ngCow
      @Th3Fly1ngCow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @SteelSkin667
      @SteelSkin667 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      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.

    • @GamerInVoid
      @GamerInVoid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @wojstube9359
    @wojstube9359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great job Alex! I admire your patience and devotion to the topic!!!

  • @edhenshuusha4666
    @edhenshuusha4666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Man, this is perfect. I can only imagine how much work has been put into this video. Thanks for this.

  • @MINUANOGAMING
    @MINUANOGAMING 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you for the in-deph analysis! Your PC videos never disappoint.
    Definitely the best addition to the team.

  • @tortoisegamer5804
    @tortoisegamer5804 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Appreciate this attention to detail and the effort it must have taken. Thanks for sharing.

  • @WickedRibbon
    @WickedRibbon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Incredible video. This going to help so many people.

  • @MinosDaedalus
    @MinosDaedalus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    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.

  • @dshadow01
    @dshadow01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    "DDDR4" always gives me a chuckle :)

    • @Pumpenmann
      @Pumpenmann 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      why?

    • @qwertz7430
      @qwertz7430 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      feenomhoosh I don’t get it

    • @2psah2
      @2psah2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @BioAssassin135
      @BioAssassin135 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @jakeberry2172
    @jakeberry2172 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Incredible work Alex, thank you.

  • @alexjay8257
    @alexjay8257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

    • @SliceOfLife93
      @SliceOfLife93 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Just play native 4K with 100-150 FPS.

  • @vidgmr86
    @vidgmr86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So much work went into this video, simply amazing. Thank you so much! Among my favourite channels :)

  • @LH-to8bi
    @LH-to8bi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You guys put so much work into this, so grateful

  • @kernspalt-kartoffel
    @kernspalt-kartoffel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was another incredibly well made video, the amount of effort you put into your videos really pays off !

  • @vesselinkrastev
    @vesselinkrastev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @weses2
    @weses2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you for making this! I wondered why even the default settings were so demanding

  • @uhPrize
    @uhPrize 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    The amount of work put into this video is staggering. Great work as always.

  • @AlawamiAZ
    @AlawamiAZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This is the quality content I subscribed for

  • @Davitron_87
    @Davitron_87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Seriously amazing work Alex. I always look forward to these in depth analysis videos.

  • @rocketman4315
    @rocketman4315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "Yup, we're going through every single setting here"
    Alex, you're the MVP! 🙏🏼

  • @yutwob
    @yutwob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Yes! The anticipation was killing me!

  • @BitByteTechs
    @BitByteTechs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    DF: *zooms in on blurry shot* See how that blurry shot is less blurry?
    Me:

    • @trentf4891
      @trentf4891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @MrHendrikje
      @MrHendrikje 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

    • @MKMadness
      @MKMadness 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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.

    • @SeiyaDLuffy
      @SeiyaDLuffy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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

    • @niks660097
      @niks660097 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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...

  • @kosodrzewina3903
    @kosodrzewina3903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    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.

  • @davidhallberg
    @davidhallberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @greje656
    @greje656 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Colossal efforts went into this video. Well done!

  • @skorpioflo
    @skorpioflo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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 ;)

  • @Fleathemighty
    @Fleathemighty 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @ItzAllMine360
    @ItzAllMine360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent vid man. That's was just the perfect level of granularity, love the detail you go into.

  • @RyuHazuki82
    @RyuHazuki82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you Alex, amazing work and i dont even wanna know how many hours you put in to this.

  • @ferranadzarahernandez5427
    @ferranadzarahernandez5427 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic work Alex!! Thank you very much for your wisdom! Gonna check this out right away in my PC! ;)

  • @abhikamthe
    @abhikamthe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    was waiting for this video..THANKYOU

  • @maporc999
    @maporc999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing work, Alex. Thank you so much!

  • @maldosogamer
    @maldosogamer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I was waiting for this video
    Are you guys gonna make an optimization guide for mid-range PCs?

  • @Sonyboj
    @Sonyboj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    For reflections, I acutally like the soft lower quality look.

  • @disabledcable685
    @disabledcable685 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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...

  • @AkRazor
    @AkRazor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a good video! Congrats for all the detailed explication

  • @mtrader82
    @mtrader82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Can't thank you enough Alex!
    Can't wait to get the game later in the month and use your settings!

  • @brypleb5792
    @brypleb5792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    25:37 Xbox One X Console Equivalent Settings

  • @UserMum7512
    @UserMum7512 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was a fantastic clarification and explanation, thank you!

  • @lynnlynn1689
    @lynnlynn1689 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    holy cow dude! you are a detail jedi.. thanks for all the work.. every bit of work you did was hugely appreciated!

  • @EchoDissolve
    @EchoDissolve 4 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    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.

    • @Kaiser0929
      @Kaiser0929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hear, hear!

    • @SCORP1ONF1RE
      @SCORP1ONF1RE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @LukeSparrow221
      @LukeSparrow221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @DJBV
    @DJBV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Alex you outdone yourself, you and John are the A team!

  • @nubiusmaximus
    @nubiusmaximus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another great testing, i have been waiting since release of the game for this!
    Cheers Alex , well done!
    Weltklasse!

  • @corgistaniel1150
    @corgistaniel1150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Incredible video, Alex. You make it so Digital Foundry is now my #1 go to for PC performance analysis :)

  • @MarceloTezza
    @MarceloTezza 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    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.

    • @paul1979uk2000
      @paul1979uk2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @MarceloTezza
      @MarceloTezza 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @corgistaniel1150
      @corgistaniel1150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Ryusennin
      @Ryusennin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @haukikannel
      @haukikannel 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @hkoizumi3134
    @hkoizumi3134 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    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.

    • @somnia3423
      @somnia3423 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Galva Tron where do they overhyping it?

    • @user-qp8nx6iv6m
      @user-qp8nx6iv6m 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Iaint paying shit for 2080ti to not play on ultra

    • @cristiansotelo514
      @cristiansotelo514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @jeremyh8446
      @jeremyh8446 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @brownchair2698
      @brownchair2698 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @manuelxz
    @manuelxz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @adrianburzynski6076
    @adrianburzynski6076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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 :)

  • @razx2009
    @razx2009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    9:17 that deer is doing the treadmill.

  • @AaronHerbst
    @AaronHerbst 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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.

  • @baristhealienated
    @baristhealienated 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @Winnetou64
    @Winnetou64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video! Thank you, Alex!

  • @lazylamont92
    @lazylamont92 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember comparing graphics between Sega Genesis and SNES which was simple.
    Now we are at this level of comparison and I love it.

  • @gwynbleidd5036
    @gwynbleidd5036 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Respect for your effort.

  • @TigerSHe
    @TigerSHe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i've been waiting for this video since game launch! alex always got the best best graphical analysis

  • @daexter8971
    @daexter8971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Superb video. Thanks for the hard work!

  • @lookn2find
    @lookn2find 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That is an amazing test. I would love to see more tests like this, especially when the new consoles are released.

  • @duskairable
    @duskairable 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

  • @amans2001
    @amans2001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very in-depth, excellent work. Appreciate it.

  • @kevinmlfc
    @kevinmlfc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a channel this is. Great work again alex!

  • @solidfiregaming
    @solidfiregaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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...."!!!

  • @deloford
    @deloford 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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!

  • @BroodierEagle
    @BroodierEagle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the video that I was waiting for... Thanks

  • @Vanessarbp
    @Vanessarbp 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice job! i want more videos like this! and in the end indicating the best quality to play overall on PC ;D

  • @ManuVyas-social
    @ManuVyas-social 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    appreciate your effort. thanks for the vid!

  • @jimphaldiahanwashcanzarqui1039
    @jimphaldiahanwashcanzarqui1039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    25:49 for the settings

  • @Pendragon1989
    @Pendragon1989 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Appreciate your hard work and time that went into this video, man!

  • @lukario223
    @lukario223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dude, big effort, respect
    Great Video !

  • @awesome9174
    @awesome9174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

    • @awesome9174
      @awesome9174 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @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!

  • @TheCrain
    @TheCrain 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Thank you. I'm a new to pc gaming and this helped a lot.

    • @dogsbark5750
      @dogsbark5750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

    • @Zer01neBDTDev
      @Zer01neBDTDev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @AJ-xv7oh
      @AJ-xv7oh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Poor guy. You've been ripped off.

    • @dogsbark5750
      @dogsbark5750 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

    • @Abhinav-tk1bt
      @Abhinav-tk1bt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @lehelzelenka207
    @lehelzelenka207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So much effort put into this video!

  • @smegmaz9388
    @smegmaz9388 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great work man

  • @gmanuk1986
    @gmanuk1986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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

  • @madscientist.n13
    @madscientist.n13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It took me five hours to optimise the graphics. This video is a godsend.

  • @myst6394
    @myst6394 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this video, I bet this helped out a lot of people optimize this games settings like me. A true lifesaver

  • @zaq_d
    @zaq_d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another great video! Thanks Alex!

  • @lucwijngaard8413
    @lucwijngaard8413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    This game is so beautiful

    • @bingobongo1615
      @bingobongo1615 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Luc Wijngaard Best looking game at the moment

    • @divyanshjaiswal6285
      @divyanshjaiswal6285 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bingobongo1615 metro Exodus

    • @Spartan_83
      @Spartan_83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @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.

  • @Mixing_It_Up
    @Mixing_It_Up 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Low texture settings around the campfire reminds me of how RD2 would look on Switch

  • @micsway
    @micsway 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    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!

  • @sawatari
    @sawatari 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    amazing work alex !

  • @eSKAone-
    @eSKAone- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Good detective work Turok!😉

  • @kardoso75
    @kardoso75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

  • @TheNamesJER
    @TheNamesJER 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was incredibly insightful and helpful and so for that, I thank you!

  • @ezraken9618
    @ezraken9618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    From now on this is my go to channel