Optimization

[Heroxoot]

After messing around, I have all normal settings on ultra/high, with the exception MSAA and FXAA are off. I'm sitting on 50fps in most cases, 40-50 in areas of effects. What settings get the best visuals but also performance? I realize the default is a mix of the two but uh, is there anything to raise that doesn't hinder frame rate?

I'm using a 1080ti+i7 6800k, playing on 1440p.

[pariah87]

4 hours ago, Flightwhite24 said:

Running i7-8700K

RTX 2080 and the game on HDR for me looks washed out and dark.  Being new to the gaming scene I don’t want to mess with too much as I don’t want to make things worse.  Things pop once I turn HDR off.  My monitor is a LG 27GL850 so if anyone has any advice/tips please send them my way.  Thanks

Being new to the gaming scene that's exactly what you NEED to do lol mess away, just revert to default if you think its irreversible (it isnt)

[Archangel630]

Is anyone seeing the trees 'hitching' every 6 seconds when watching a cutscene in the beginning?  I haven't played past the first mission, but watching those horses in the snow, I kept noticing the trees twitch for a second over and over.  Horizontally, not up and down.  If it has to do with refresh rate, wouldn't everything be doing that?

 

[LiQuiDm3tH]

13 hours ago, MrPhillips said:

You know you can get banned for this? Engaging in ridiculous console PC wars is bannable.

Trolling with ridiculous information such as this statement would probably be more of a reason for a ban than , people debating PC vs consoles lol

[ballstorture]

I have a 2700+gtx 1080,plays on 1440p.I choose to turn off the advanced settings like gta v,making the basic stuffs keep on ultra except taa to medium and no msaa,capping it at 30fps,turns out very fine by me.(Just like playing on consoles again.)But hey,I do think I don't need try hard for 60+fps in a horse riding game,it doesn't have any high speed vehicles and many fast-paced actions,so it's kinda like....acceptable? by my standard.And the game itself still looks very very mind-blowing in this settings imo(Although the opening colter chapter's insane gi and other effects making it often drop below 30)

(ps:it can eat 6200-7100+mb vram in the opening colter chapter missions,very very demanding.When a complex open world game like this can eat up to this size of vram,I don't expect how well it can performed in current hardwares)

Edited November 6, 2019 by Abel Tesfaye

[Mored]

Graphics Settings (GTX 1060 6GB, i5 8600k, 16GB RAM). Had some weird stuttering during the benchmark when Arthur is robbing the store, stopped after a minute or two though, haven't run into stuttering in game yet, only this benchmark.

[Jimbatron]

8 hours ago, ryan_J said:

I'm running an RTX 2070 (non-super) and a I7 9700k with most settings on high and the textures preset on ultra with maybe a couple of medium settings thrown in. At 4K with HDR I'm getting a stable (so far) 30fps. I suspect that the equivalent to XBOX One X would be very similar with a few of the high settings changed down to medium and the texture setting down from ultra to high or medium. 

This definitely feels like GTA IV again. It was 2010 before I could upgrade and get it looking properly good - but it did look amazing then.

 

Its a bit ridiculous now though when you could blow over a grand on a RTX 2080 Ti and still not max it out.

[Vipertechs]

3 hours ago, Archangel630 said:

Is anyone seeing the trees 'hitching' every 6 seconds when watching a cutscene in the beginning?  I haven't played past the first mission, but watching those horses in the snow, I kept noticing the trees twitch for a second over and over.  Horizontally, not up and down.  If it has to do with refresh rate, wouldn't everything be doing that?

 

Yes I am!

[Tha-Jamz]

16 hours ago, sambowambo74 said:

Xbox one x runs at like 18fps in saint denis and barely at 30 in dense forests, the hell you talking about.

yeah it does now because they broke the SP game with all the updates for RDO.

[RogueMango]

5 hours ago, Archangel630 said:

Is anyone seeing the trees 'hitching' every 6 seconds when watching a cutscene in the beginning?  I haven't played past the first mission, but watching those horses in the snow, I kept noticing the trees twitch for a second over and over.  Horizontally, not up and down.  If it has to do with refresh rate, wouldn't everything be doing that?

 

Yes! I’ve seen the seizure trees often - you have any luck?

3 hours ago, Mored said:

Graphics Settings (GTX 1060 6GB, i5 8600k, 16GB RAM). Had some weird stuttering during the benchmark when Arthur is robbing the store, stopped after a minute or two though, haven't run into stuttering in game yet, only this benchmark.

What’s your frame rate like in game? Benchmark wasn’t a good benchmark in the end..

[Mored]

42 minutes ago, RogueMango said:

Yes! I’ve seen the seizure trees often - you have any luck?

What’s your frame rate like in game? Benchmark wasn’t a good benchmark in the end..

Feels like 40-60. Haven't really checked properly.

[pariah87]

My standard PS4 seems to run this game better than my i7-6700 + 1080GTX

[Koltos]

2 hours ago, pariah87 said:

My standard PS4 seems to run this game better than my i7-6700 + 1080GTX

Yeah. But game looks more interesting with enchanments on PC.

 

The most interesting reflections on puddles and water.

[McGuinness45]

2 hours ago, pariah87 said:

My standard PS4 seems to run this game better than my i7-6700 + 1080GTX

I don't see how. PS4 is 30fps max with dips into the 20s on what would be considered low / medium PC settings. My i7 4790k + EVGA 1080SC is getting a solid 60fps on ultra / high settings.

[JMachadex]

Game runs not bad at my pc, but also runs really not smooth..im having FPS drops..

 

RX 5700 XT 8GB + i7 - 9700K + 24GB DDR4 +SSD 1TB

[fis212]

I have a rtx 2060 and I5 8500. I was hoping on playing this game at 1440p at high settings. Saw a youtube video with same card but lesser GPU  where the guy got 30 - 40 fps. Is this the best I can expect? Or will there be an optimization update from either Rockstar or Nvidia at some point? If so then I rather wait te play it

[MarshallRawR]

Rockstar Games is currently blaming outdated drivers. I hope you all installed the latest Game Ready drivers for AMD and NVIDIA that just got released.

[Blendi-]

4 minutes ago, MarshallRawR said:

Rockstar Games is currently blaming outdated drivers. I hope you all installed the latest Game Ready drivers for AMD and NVIDIA that just got released.

Rockstar Games are actually retarded didnt they learn from GTA IV already? I'm sure 99 percent here have the new drivers installed

Edited November 6, 2019 by Blendi-

[LiQuiDm3tH]

1 minute ago, MarshallRawR said:

Rockstar Games is currently blaming outdated drivers. I hope you all installed the latest Game Ready drivers for AMD and NVIDIA that just got released.

I hope u didn't fall for that bullsh*t excuse that was meant to brush off the true nature of the problem with hopes that by the time people realized that drivers were not the issue the boys working on the issue would of rolled out a patch and the driver excuse would of been the perfect diversion. Well we know that the video drivers didn't cause the launcher crash just the game crash , but most of us havnt gotten the game to boot to even worry about needing video drivers . 

[Hertigo]

Man wtf is this. I can't even run the game on high settings at all. Rockstar just wanted money again and brought out a sh*tty port to PC. And they keep saying to update to the latest driver well how about you fixing fix the game bunch of cunts

[LiQuiDm3tH]

3 minutes ago, Hertigo said:

Man wtf is this. I can't even run the game on high settings at all. Rockstar just wanted money again and brought out a sh*tty port to PC. And they keep saying to update to the latest driver well how about you fixing fix the game bunch of cunts

Well atleast u can start the game , I haven't even seen the damn menu screen yet let alone be able to tell you about any setting internal to the games settings menu...

Edited November 6, 2019 by LiQuiDm3tH

[Hertigo]

2 minutes ago, LiQuiDm3tH said:

Well atleast u can start the game , I haven't even seen the damn menu screen yet let alone be able to tell you about any setting internal to the games settings menu...

They still didn't fix the launcher error? LMAO they had 1 YEAR like cmon

[happygrowls]

RX 480 4GB
I7 3770k 
16GB 

SSD

Running on mixed Med-High, ultra textures, getting 40-60fps avg.

[SweetFlexZ]

21 hours ago, Koltos said:

Enjoy

 

RTX 2080 SUPER - 9700K - 32GB DDR4 not even stable 60fps on 1080p LOL!

 

Yep, one thing is to say that the game is meant to run better on the future, but if a 2080 Ti can't run the game at 1080P!!!!!!!!!!! Something is wrong here 

[LiQuiDm3tH]

1 minute ago, Hertigo said:

They still didn't fix the launcher error? LMAO they had 1 YEAR like cmon

No alot of us havnt even gotten into the game yet but , I started a thread with pre launcher logs and they all crash at same spot and most all have identical closing codes so man that got to be an indication for them to fix the problem

[Archangel630]

5 hours ago, RogueMango said:

Yes! I’ve seen the seizure trees often - you have any luck?

What’s your frame rate like in game? Benchmark wasn’t a good benchmark in the end..

I honestly just wanted to get a feel for how many others could see it and better determine if it is hardware or software related.  My opinion is that since everything else is working fine, it's gotta be bad programming during those in-game cutscenes.

[RogueMango]

12 minutes ago, Archangel630 said:

I honestly just wanted to get a feel for how many others could see it and better determine if it is hardware or software related.  My opinion is that since everything else is working fine, it's gotta be bad programming during those in-game cutscenes.

Oh it happens in and out of cutscenes I’ve found!

[lndex]

15 minutes ago, Archangel630 said:

I honestly just wanted to get a feel for how many others could see it and better determine if it is hardware or software related.  My opinion is that since everything else is working fine, it's gotta be bad programming during those in-game cutscenes.

Glad this has cropped up, thought I was the only one.

[Erazor]

Mine is working really well with my new rig I got a few months ago. Updated to the latest NVIDIA drivers. I have the NVIDIA widget running that gives constant fps in the top right screen. I have played the first couple of chapters and the frame rate goes from

144 to 60. My settings are 2560 x 1080 on a 35 inch Acer screen with all maxed out. I have twin 2080's fitted but have 3 screens so only one 2080 powering the big screen, I could run it in SLI to see what difference that makes.

 

Processor is I9 9900 with 64m of Ram.

 

Even with this rig the software still has glitches, can't restart a new game (greyed out) Weird colour banding when you press the Esc key and sometimes that will crash the game. Has to software poor programming causing all these issues..

 

Forgot to mention I am running Kaspersky and did not do any exceptions to it.

Edited November 6, 2019 by Erazor
Added Kaspersky

[^Tears^]

21 hours ago, ^Tears^ said:

Are you guys by chance using the new video drivers for your respective cards?  I know AMD just released a new driver yesterday.  I haven't had a chance yet to try the game (still at work) so I can't really give feedback yet.  I suspect that I'll see issues though.  I plan to run at 1080p

 

Ryzen R5 1400 @ 3.6ghz

MSI RX580 4gb 

16 GB Corsair 3000mhz RAM

Game is currently installed on HDD until I can free up space (or get a new) on my SSD.

Just a follow up....I logged on last night and did a few benchmarks.

 

I left the graphics setting to default, which for me was mostly Ultra and High (THAT surprised me).  I play at 1080p on a 27" monitor and have a 2nd 21.5" monitor setup as well.  I did do all the tests below with my graphics card overclocked to 1400mhz / 2250mhz (max mem speed), however when I did 3 test runs with it set at default settings (1366/1750) I only saw a 3fps average difference.  My CPU was never taxed too hard, highest was a peak of 80% on 1 core while averaging 30-70% across the board (4 core / 8 threads).  You'll see one of my test runs had a massive spike of RAM usage up to 11.6gb.  I'm going to chalk that up to something started running in the back ground because it was the only run that was that high.  The rest were consistently between 7 and 9 GB.

 

After testing everything I started playing the game and never had 1 stutter or any freezes.  My Kapersky was always running.  As was Discord and many other applications.  I basically treated it as if it was business as usual so that I could get an honest starting point for what I should expect.

 

So what does it all mean?  I think it's clear that the game is more optimized towards AMD cards in it's current state.  I'm using a 4GB RX580 and getting similar numbers to what I saw people reporting for their 1070's, 2070's, 1080's, 2080's.  The CPU load is clearly not that demanding as my budget Ryzen gen 1 can handle it with ease.  You really want to have 16GB of RAM for this game.

 

Old AMD Driver (last one before the new one)

Vulkan

min fps 34.8606

max fps 80.9389

ave fps 54.2728

system maxed out at 8424MB RAM usage

 

Old AMD Driver (last one before the new one)

DX12

min fps 21.3469

max fps 85.8826

ave fps 40.7391

system maxed out at 11604MB RAM usage

***I probably should have run this test again since that RAM usage clearly impacted my ave FPS.  I think it's safe to say that this run was an anomoly***

 

New AMD Driver for RDR2

Vulkan

min fps 38.1746

max fps 81.483

ave fps 60.858

system maxed out at 7340MB RAM usage

 

New AMD Driver for RDR2

DX12

min fps 33.3481

max fps 83.0689

ave fps 61.8275

system maxed out at 8150MB RAM usage

56 minutes ago, happygrowls said:

RX 480 4GB
I7 3770k 
16GB 

SSD

Running on mixed Med-High, ultra textures, getting 40-60fps avg.

Yeah I really think this is all going to come down to the game being optimized for AMD at the moment.  Look at all the complaints.  Everyone is an Nvidia card.  I'm not a fanboy, just making an observation.

Edited November 6, 2019 by ^Tears^
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