Red Dead Redemption 2 – Original Graphical Settings

Overview

Here I’ll show you all the graphical settings that are equivalent to the consoles with some PC enhacements so you can have the best performance and quality.

Goal

After making a lot of tests between Console settings and Ultra preset, I noticed how little is the difference between them. Because of that I decided to make this guide mixing the console settings and some enhancements that the PC version brings. If you want to save in performance and have a good looking game, this is the best way.

Base Graphical Settings

Texture Quality: Ultra
Anisotropic Filtering: 8X
Lighting Quality: Medium
Global Illumination Quality: Medium
Shadow Quality: High
Far Shadows Quality: Low
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Medium
Reflection Quality: Low
Mirror Quality: High
Water Quality: Custom
Volumetrics Quality: Custom
Particle Quality: Medium
Tesselation Quality: High
TAA: High
FXAA: ON
MSAA: OFF

Advanced Graphical Settings

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: Medium
Grass Shadows: High
Long Shadows: OFF
Full Resolution Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: OFF
Water Refraction Quality: High
Water Reflection Quality: Medium
Water Physics Quality: 2/4
Resolution Scale: Optional
TAA Sharpening: 80/80
Motion Blur: Optional
Reflection MSAA: OFF
Geometry Level of Detail: 5/5
Grass Level of Detail: 2/10
Tree Quality: High
Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: Medium
Decal Quality: Medium
Fur Quality: High
Tree Tesselation: OFF

Screenshots

Sources & Notes

• What does it take to run Red Dead Redemption 2 PC at 60fps?[www.eurogamer.net] – By Digital Foundry
• Red Dead Redemption 2 PC: Every Graphics Setting Tested + Xbox One X Comparison – By Digital Foundry
• Red Dead Redemption 2: PS4/PS4 Pro vs Xbox One/Xbox One X – Every Console Tested! – By Digital Foundry
  Notes

  – Some GPU’s can have a hard time rendering this game, even more those with less Compute Units compare with newer or high-end from the same series. These settings won’t do miracles to limited GPU’s, but will mostly enhance the performance with minimal quality loss. If you are not happy with the performance even with this settings, try to lower your in-game internal resolution using the Resolution Scale option.

  – These settings can be applied in the regular Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Red Dead Online version (performance will be the same).

  – If you still have some free GPU usage to spare, I recommend you to Enhance the following settings:

• Global Illumination Quality from Medium to High;
• Near Volumetric Resolution from Low to High;
• Water Reflection Quality from Medium to High;
• Resolution Scale from OFF to a value equal or higher than 1,250X.
  CHANGE THE SETTINGS WITH YOUR GPU USAGE IN MIND, IF YOU CHANGED THE NEAR VOLUMETRIC RESOLUTION TO HIGH AND YOUR GPU STARTS TO STRUGGLE OR IS ALMOST HITTING 100% USAGE CHANGE IT BACK TO ORIGINAL AND TRY OTHER RECOMMENDATION OR DON’T CHANGE ANY OTHER SETTING AT ALL.

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