RDR2 Killed My Video Card

[Erynar]

LOL. Folks have been talking about RDR2 taking video cards to their knees, but it took mine to its grave. :)

While I was playing RDR2 earlier today, my video card died (a GeForce GTX 1070). It probably was just wearing out, and the extra stress from running RDR2 finished it off, but either way, it died. Fortunately, I was able to pick up a new video card today without having to order online and wait for it to arrive, and now I have a GeForce RTX 2080 Super. So, in theory, the game should run better than it did before, but as frustrating as it is to have my video card suddenly die, I do find it pretty funny that it died while playing a game that folks have been saying destroys video cards, because it's optimized so badly.

[Grubbs008]

It is un-optimized, my pre-set default in the game set almost everything to Ultra, and Very High. And the game runs at 35-45 fps lol. The game is just a mess. Unless you got an i9 9900k, and a 2080 TI with 32 gb's of RAM, you're going to have a bad time.

[fux]

nice blog

[Iago Garaitz]

Game isn't unoptimized, you are just running the game at higher settings than your GPU can handle. My Vega 56 can easily handle 60fps High/Ultra settings with heavy peformace settings like Water Physics and Volumetrics on medium/low.

[BearPajamaGod!]

Originally posted by American Patriot:

Game isn't unoptimized, you are just running the game at higher settings than your GPU can handle.

No the game is horribly unoptimized.

[Boxer]

Originally posted by BearPajamaGod:

Originally posted by American Patriot:

Game isn't unoptimized, you are just running the game at higher settings than your GPU can handle.

No the game is horribly unoptimized.

"Im trying to run the game on ultra with current hardware and it doesn't go past 60FPS but let's ignore the fact that those settings are meant for future hardware and add a lot of new and heavy graphic effects, the game must be unoptimized as hell"

[fux]

Originally posted by Boxer:

Originally posted by BearPajamaGod:

No the game is horribly unoptimized.

"Im trying to run the game on ultra with current hardware and it doesn't go past 60FPS but let's ignore the fact that those settings are meant for future hardware and add a lot of new and heavy graphic effects, the game must be unoptimized as hell"

ah yeah just say it's futureproof and all problems are solved. that is a dumb marketing excuse and nothing more. gta 4 was also ''futureproof''...

[Boxer]

Originally posted by f.u.x:

Originally posted by Boxer:

"Im trying to run the game on ultra with current hardware and it doesn't go past 60FPS but let's ignore the fact that those settings are meant for future hardware and add a lot of new and heavy graphic effects, the game must be unoptimized as hell"

ah yeah just say it's futureproof and all problems are solved. that is a dumb marketing excuse and nothing more. gta 4 was also ''futureproof''...

GTA IV was actually badly optimized because it didn't bring anything new to the table and it was just horrid, and that's why it is considered the worst optimized game ever made on PC.
RDR2 is completely different and looks way more stunning than any other videogame except maybe star citizen because it pumps up all the effects to 11.

[Kamamura]

What usually kills components is poor cooling.

[Ad Hominem]

Originally posted by Delete Your Life:

You do not NEED 60 FPS to play this game - not in all areas. I receive around 50 FPS on average and that works just fine with no issues.

No that's terrible. Some of us buy nice hardware because we have to have good gameplay experience. I know my rig isn't top of the line anymore but it still is top of the consumer line 1 generation ago and I get around 100 fps in all the latest AAA titles set to ultra at 1440p.

If RDR2 AUTO DETECTS that settings should be on ultra, but the game is running at 30-50 fps then something is wrong with the game.

[ExpatSooner]

Originally posted by Grubbs008:

It is un-optimized, my pre-set default in the game set almost everything to Ultra, and Very High. And the game runs at 35-45 fps lol. The game is just a mess. Unless you got an i9 9900k, and a 2080 TI with 32 gb's of RAM, you're going to have a bad time.

You just described my system except 64GB of RAM with the i9 9700 so I'm not having any trouble at all.

[Professor Goat]

Originally posted by Grubbs008:

It is un-optimized, my pre-set default in the game set almost everything to Ultra, and Very High. And the game runs at 35-45 fps lol. The game is just a mess. Unless you got an i9 9900k, and a 2080 TI with 32 gb's of RAM, you're going to have a bad time.

smdh an i5 and a 1080. youre getting solid fps for how graphically demanding this game is. your build isnt high end.

[D`Sparil]

Originally posted by Ad Hominem:

Originally posted by Delete Your Life:

You do not NEED 60 FPS to play this game - not in all areas. I receive around 50 FPS on average and that works just fine with no issues.

No that's terrible. Some of us buy nice hardware because we have to have good gameplay experience. I know my rig isn't top of the line anymore but it still is top of the consumer line 1 generation ago and I get around 100 fps in all the latest AAA titles set to ultra at 1440p.

If RDR2 AUTO DETECTS that settings should be on ultra, but the game is running at 30-50 fps then something is wrong with the game.

It doesn't auto detect settings though, the settings it starts at is whatever the last dev had it on when they patched the game, us who played the game for the last month have noticed this. Everytime they released a optimization patch, our graphic settings were changed for us automatically, sometimes they were set to real low, sometimes real high, like ridiculously high. The last update had them set super high.

The game was designed with the future in mind, the hardware doesn't exist to run this game at max setting at 4k 60fps yet.

[Ad Hominem]

Originally posted by D`Sparil:

The game was designed with the future in mind, the hardware doesn't exist to run this game at max setting at 4k 60fps yet.

Where does it say that in game or in the menus?

[D`Sparil]

Originally posted by Ad Hominem:

Originally posted by D`Sparil:

The game was designed with the future in mind, the hardware doesn't exist to run this game at max setting at 4k 60fps yet.

Where does it say that in game or in the menus?

Why would any game say "hey, soo, these settings can't be ran yet for good quality, the hardware doesn't exist" that's just the way it is.

Someone else posted a good article that was made by people who thoroughly tested every single setting and have came to the conclusion that the game is so advanced graphically that it can't be ran with everything maxed out yet with current hardware and that it was designed for the future in mind. but i doubt you will read it and even if you do, you will still deny the fact the game is indeed optimized well, but in case you do decide to actually read it, here's the link again.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-what-does-it-take-to-run-red-dead-redemption-2-at-60fps

I'm sure you have tested the game as much as these guys have and are just an expert on optimization.

Seriously though, you guys who bought 1080s and 2080s that are mad you can't just ram ultra on this game like you do every other game are just morons, actually look at the graphics and stop and think what it takes to make a game look this crazy and then think about what it takes to make it look this crazy and still run good.

Don't want to read? heres a video by the same people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUrbciPfX6k

[Ad Hominem]

Originally posted by Spawk:

Originally posted by Ad Hominem:

Where does it say that in game or in the menus?

Where does it state the contrary in any other game?

The assumption is that any game is designed to work with current generation of hardware. So if a game breaks that convention, there should be some kind of notification saying *hey, some of these settings are experimental and are not designed for current gen hardware*.

I know I've seen it in at least a couple games, but Kingdom Come Deliverance comes to mind.