Running poorly on a 2080 Super and R7 3700X

[C413B]

Title says it all. Just built a gaming PC with a Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 2080 Super and 16 gigs of RAM and on medium settings the game caps out at around 50 frames in some areas but usually sits around 30-40 (all this on a 1080p monitor). I've fiddled with the settings a bit based on some guides I found but to no avail. When I tried setting everything to be as low as possible and set the resolution to 1024 x 768 it still struggled to reach 60 in some of the benchmarks and capped out at 80.

[DargonBlak]

I run a 1070Ti on a 2k monitor (2560x1440) - on Ultra textures at 58 FPS avg.

When i set for 1080p, i'm over 70FPS avg

Start with GeForce Experience settings - not game default recommended (they are quite bad).

Then adjust "High Impact" items to your taste as listed halfway down this page:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RDR2/comments/dsfy3g/settings_that_do_and_dont_affect_fps_performance/

I adjusted Grass and Shadows below recommended - made a difference of a few FPS.

[Ad Hominem]

I think this about right for your setup. The game looks good but runs like a drunk narcoleptic hippo.

I was getting ~40-50 fps at 1440p on ultra preset with my 1080ti and 3950x. With dips down into the 30s depending on the scene. I still considered that to be playable even if it was below my performance expectations based on every other AAA game I own. I guess it's come combination of optimizations and raw graphical fidelity.

IMO I would just crank up the settings until right on the line of maintaining 30 fps and enjoy the eye candy. In my limited testing, lowering the resolution didn't give a massive uptick in FPS like I would normally expect.

[C413B]

Originally posted by DargonBlak:

I run a 1070Ti on a 2k monitor (2560x1440) - on Ultra textures at 58 FPS.

When i set for 1080p, i'm over 70FPS

Start with GeForce Experience settings - not game default recommended (they are quite bad).

Then adjust "High Impact" items to your taste as listed halfway down this page:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RDR2/comments/dsfy3g/settings_that_do_and_dont_affect_fps_performance/

I tried that, GeForce Experience sets everything for high-ultra and after lowering those intensive settings it still sits at 30-40 fps.

[Erynar]

My monitor is 2560 x 1600, and with my 2080 Super and settings on a combination of high - ultra, I think that I'm typically in the 40s with fps, but it definitely varies. i played with the settings a fair bit though. In general, to get high fps in this game, you have to lower the settings a fair bit (especially at higher resolutions). Either their algorithms are too complex to get the graphics they're generating at a decent framerate and/or the game is just badly optimized. It may be possible to get higher framerates with better settings with something like a 3080, but the game is just too taxing for anything older (and from the reviews that I've seen, I'm not sure that even the 3080 is going to be consistently hitting 60 fps much above 1920 x 1080, though it would certainly do better).

[Hauzer]

You should be able to run fine with mostly Ultra/High and some stuff lowered. Start from these settings:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1930048153

If you aren't getting around 60fps at least you got some other problem, which is what it sounds like. Check your clocks and usage, update drivers/bios, verify game files, run adwcleaner or similar, etc.