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Red Dead Redemption II PC performance thread
- Thread starter GrrImAFridge
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I almost had a mental breakdown during the snowstorm mission (with custom settings i was ranging from 18fps to as high as 38) which is abominable, reminded me when I tried playing Cryostasis on my ancient 9600GT, turbulent time
But to get back to the subject, it all cleared up now, once I reached chapter 2, im now in 45-50fps and the game does not hiccup at all, which i love. Runs well id say, but they need to do something about the performance to be honest.
But to get back to the subject, it all cleared up now, once I reached chapter 2, im now in 45-50fps and the game does not hiccup at all, which i love. Runs well id say, but they need to do something about the performance to be honest.
For those who want to use Steam overlay, add RGL as a non-steam game, exit RGL completely and launch RGL through Steam to get the overlay, screenshots etc working. Running on max except water reflections msaa and msaa at 0 at 1080p pretty much 60fps average with some dibs on 2080FE i7 8700k and from an ssd on vulkan. Only bug I really have is that main menu graphically glitches all the time.
Alas, I am running an x470 MSI board with the latest bios available to me.
I guess I wanted to get in on this crap-fest so I bought it, lol. It was $11-12 cheaper to get it via launcher (3rd party authorized site + tax free) versus Steam for me and I don't have to wait an extra month + Steam requires the Rockstar Launcher to run anyway. But I'm not really sure how to drastically alter performance, with a 3700x and 1080 Ti I was getting like 45-55 fps at 3440x1440p using High + ultra textures but at least G-sync saves it. Will sometimes go over 60 fps too but it generally stays under that using DX12.
But I have no idea about Vulkan - I can't get it to work at all. It always crashes when trying to play the game using the Vulkan API when either starting the single player campaign or when trying to benchmark. I'm not sure if it is my CPU/memory, GPU, or 3rd party software. I tried putting my system on all auto, running my GPU at base speeds, and shutting down everything possible and Vulkan still crashed on me after getting a little bit further in (intro started to play). It's difficult to pinpoint as I updated to a beta bios on my motherboard and I'm overclocking my memory, so I'm not 100% certain they are stable (although they are stable when running stress testing software).
But I have no idea about Vulkan - I can't get it to work at all. It always crashes when trying to play the game using the Vulkan API when either starting the single player campaign or when trying to benchmark. I'm not sure if it is my CPU/memory, GPU, or 3rd party software. I tried putting my system on all auto, running my GPU at base speeds, and shutting down everything possible and Vulkan still crashed on me after getting a little bit further in (intro started to play). It's difficult to pinpoint as I updated to a beta bios on my motherboard and I'm overclocking my memory, so I'm not 100% certain they are stable (although they are stable when running stress testing software).
Launcher crashing on startup, updated BIOS, updating drivers now.
B450 Tomahawk
Ryzen 3600
RX 580
EDIT: Updated Drivers too, still crashing.
B450 Tomahawk
Ryzen 3600
RX 580
EDIT: Updated Drivers too, still crashing.
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Morning folks. Worked until midnight last night so I'm hitting this up for the first time having read all the horror stories while decrypting. Hit play for the first time and after the gunshot, I just get a black screen. No crash. I read that it may be HDR related but as I'm not crashing, I'm not getting the option for safe mode on restart. Can I force it with the launch argument? Is there any other work around? Cheers.
I had the same problem, and closing the game from the task launcher gave me the option to run it in Safe Mode. I had to disable HDR from the display settings to get the game to display correctly.
Haha, I've underclocked the CPU down to 3.2GHz from 3.5GHz because it was toasty. This machine is using an Intel stock cooler.
Maybe it could do with some thermal paste, another cooler would be ideal though.
I can't wait to play the game on my Ryzen 5 3600 system!
Could you already mention some more performance killer settings besides water physics pls?
The first chapter during the snowstorm yes, once you get in the open and theres no snow in sight, it all clears up thank god
Vulkan is up to 10% faster for me
[Ultra settings, 1440p, converted into bad jpegs to save bandwidth)
Often enough it is also pretty similar
But then there is this stuff, and this stuff is unacceptable. How can you ship the game and make Vulkan the preset, standard API? I don't get it.
Most people won't even check it out and complain about stutters and bad performance. Rightfully so!
And than some will switch to DX12 and always think: Maybe I wouldn't drop below 60 here with Vulkan, but it stutters.
I don't know. Going to work now. Maybe there will be a patch in a couple of days.
[Ultra settings, 1440p, converted into bad jpegs to save bandwidth)
Often enough it is also pretty similar
But then there is this stuff, and this stuff is unacceptable. How can you ship the game and make Vulkan the preset, standard API? I don't get it.
Most people won't even check it out and complain about stutters and bad performance. Rightfully so!
And than some will switch to DX12 and always think: Maybe I wouldn't drop below 60 here with Vulkan, but it stutters.
I don't know. Going to work now. Maybe there will be a patch in a couple of days.
Is everyone playing on "Ultra"? "High" seems to be the better option performance-wise. Hopefully they'll fix the performance issues til December when the game releases on Steam...
Yeah, even the part ik saint denis it's clearly obvious in the shootout that the streets are completely empty at one point. Bit of a weird decision to do so.
It was absolutely neccessary so they can have a space to put their extensive library of 8 games.
I still can't even get in the game. It started the first time okay, and I restarted it and ever since then nothing. The new patch did nothing, still get the RDR2 exited unexpectedly error. Tried deleting the documents folder, reinstalling the game, rolling back drivers, changing resolutions, restarting my PC, verified the files, downloaded the patch. Pfff
I saw a new bios dropped for the MSI B450 Mortar. AGESA 1.0.0.4.B
I'm gonna start my PC back up and try it.
I'm gonna start my PC back up and try it.
And I don't know why, but I feel like there's a problem with my textures as well. Arthur's clothing looks way less detailed than they should....
That's what I kept telling people, the game didn't look impressive even in the 4K screens released by Nvidia or Rockstar. RDR2 looked great when it came out on consoles a year ago, now on pc it doesn't have the same effect, I feel the visual jump is even less bigger than GTA V ps4 to pc.
They can future proof all they want with ultra settings, it won't radically change the overall package, 5 years down the line and revisiting this with a better rig you'll appreciate the performance boost but you're kidding yourself if you think the game won't feel dated by then.
*Not counting mods.
I agree.
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DirectX 12 mode randomly crashes for me but Vulkan is stable.
Edit: Hmm, anyone else found that G-sync has just stopped working with Vulkan? It was working fine all day but now after I've been switching between DX12 and Vulkan it only seems to work with DX12. It works fine in other games.
Edit: Hmm, anyone else found that G-sync has just stopped working with Vulkan? It was working fine all day but now after I've been switching between DX12 and Vulkan it only seems to work with DX12. It works fine in other games.
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Vulkan is up to 10% faster for me
[Ultra settings, 1440p, converted into bad jpegs to save bandwidth)
Often enough it is also pretty similar
But then there is this stuff, and this stuff is unacceptable. How can you ship the game and make Vulkan the preset, standard API? I don't get it.
Most people won't even check it out and complain about stutters and bad performance. Rightfully so!
And than some will switch to DX12 and always think: Maybe I wouldn't drop below 60 here with Vulkan, but it stutters.
I don't know. Going to work now. Maybe there will be a patch in a couple of days.
Huh how do you get the gauge-meter in Afterburner's OSD?
Wow... Saint Denis in the benchmark is basically ghost town... this is some insidious bull**it on R* end for pushing for better results on benchmark sites...
So you guys playing this with gamepad or mouse/keyboard? I initially felt the m/kb was good due to the mouse look on horse but swapping weapons with the mouse wheel is annoying as it still brings up the radial wheel. I tried different settings for running on foot and horse but overall the controls feel bizarre and I feel this game UI and controls are definitely a better fit for a gamepad.
Seems like msi is rolling out beta bios updates for B450 motherbords , I'm also using the b450 tomahawk and I hope to see an update today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MSI_Gaming/comments/dsdf1i/red_dead_redemption_2_launcher_crash_fixed_with/
So judging from these results it does seem that you can hit 4k 30 fps with a 580 if you choose a mix of medium and low settings.
Yes, same with holding alt, just seems to be the camera movement getting choppy rather than the game. Very strange.
Yeah it wasn't frame related, which was why it was weird. This was in fullscreen, didn't try borderless.
Turning off full resolution ssao and unlocked volumetric resolution got me a 7-8 fps bump. No obvious visual difference. With more additonal tesring the n3ar and far volumetric resolution settings from ultra to high nets another 5 fps or so. 10+ fps bump so quite good !
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Its funny how most benchmark sites have been using DX12 as the prefered rendering engine whereas Rockstar opted for defaulting to Vulkan. As a GTX 10xx owner I'd rather use the Vulkan renderer as DX12 is underperforming (as shown by the current crop of benchmarks) but the amount of bugs make it not a feasible choice.
- Holding shift or alt down whilst moving the mouse will result in stutter (workaround: use a gamepad)
- Bad frame pacing (workaround: frame cap with RTSS to a value which never exceeds 95% GPU usage)
- Crash to Desktop
- Holding shift or alt down whilst moving the mouse will result in stutter (workaround: use a gamepad)
- Bad frame pacing (workaround: frame cap with RTSS to a value which never exceeds 95% GPU usage)
- Crash to Desktop
And I don't know why, but I feel like there's a problem with my textures as well. Arthur's clothing looks way less detailed than they should....
Looks fine to me.
The graphs?
Afterburner has many customization features. Every single setting can be displayed as text, graph or text+graph. You can also set it to display barcharts or normal graphs
MSI Afterburner Properties/Monitoring
The rest is just organizing and naming things.
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After how incredibly good the ports of Max Payne 3 and GTA V were, I'm kinda floored that RDR2 is such a colossal mess. Not only is the game an unoptimized technical nightmare, but it defaults to a graphics API that doesn't work properly, and opens through a launcher that barely holds it together.
I'm just so, so disappointed. I was really looking forward to this.
I'm just so, so disappointed. I was really looking forward to this.
According to people who have no idea about what they are talking about.
Hey Alex, since you're at it, any tips about the main settings we should avoid or lower that most impact performance?
Yep, both the jacket and some of the plans look bad, it seems that the game has not loaded the good version of the textures.And I don't know why, but I feel like there's a problem with my textures as well. Arthur's clothing looks way less detailed than they should....
The game is not unoptimised.
but there are lots of technical problems. Most of my friends can't even get the game to launch.
but there are lots of technical problems. Most of my friends can't even get the game to launch.