Anyone know why my FPS is low but my VRAM isn't maxed out?

[BonesawMcGraw]

Just upgraded my PC and have 8GB of VRAM and my settings only use 5GB but FPS is sitting around 40-45.

[Wolfsun]

GPU?
CPU?
System RAM?

Here's how I setup a new game.

1. In game options go to graphics and if there are presets select medium or what ever you think is close to medium - usually normal.
2. Run game and note FPS under various conditions. If the game has a benchmark feature and if IIRC RDR2 does run that and note the average FPS.
3. If you're getting the FPS you want then set your preset to high and rinse and repeat 2.
4. do this until your FPS drops to what you consider an unacceptable rate
5. At this point start with your settings at where you lost FPS start turning off grahics settings that eat up GPU cycles and/or CPU cycles running the benchmark to see the impact.

The rest should be obvious. Turn things off until you get to where you want to be.

[BonesawMcGraw]

Originally posted by Wolfsun:

GPU?
CPU?
System RAM?

Here's how I setup a new game.

1. In game options go to graphics and if there are presets select medium or what ever you think is close to medium - usually normal.
2. Run game and note FPS under various conditions. If the game has a benchmark feature and if IIRC RDR2 does run that and note the average FPS.
3. If you're getting the FPS you want then set your preset to high and rinse and repeat 2.
4. do this until your FPS drops to what you consider an unacceptable rate
5. At this point start with your settings at where you lost FPS start turning off grahics settings that eat up GPU cycles and/or CPU cycles running the benchmark to see the impact.

The rest should be obvious. Turn things off until you get to where you want to be.

I was using the auto settings, and in any case i should be able to run the game fine.
Specs are:
Ryzen 5 5600
Radeon RX 6600 8GB
16GB DDR 4 RAM
Samsung EVO SSD

[Spawndex]

https://www.game-debate.com/news/27927/red-dead-redemption-2-most-important-graphics-options-every-setting-benchmarked

this article was pretty useful
tl;dr of it is turn down :
reflection quality
water quality
volumetrics quality
but the big one is MSAA which ears up resources
that should get your frame rate back up, i moved it all down from ultra to high and my fps went up but the visual quality didnt really change in any noticeable way

but even then it runs a bit meh sometimes, even with beast rigs and you might have stuttering and such which is annoying, I had to go into task manager and into the details tab when RD2 was running and then I tweaked the affinity for it to use fewer cores, i'd look it up before doing it though if that sounds scary. I did that and the in-game stuttering stopped and now it runs smoothly. Rockstar just aren't very good at optimising things for PC and the games probably eating your cpu more than gpu

[Acheron]

As Spawndex says above, turn reflections, water detail and near volumetrics down to high/medium depending on your GPU. Also use DLSS or FSR 2.0 as they look fine and perform much better that MSAA.

[Wolfsun]

Originally posted by Bonesaw McGraw:

Originally posted by Wolfsun:

GPU?
CPU?
System RAM?

Here's how I setup a new game.

1. In game options go to graphics and if there are presets select medium or what ever you think is close to medium - usually normal.
2. Run game and note FPS under various conditions. If the game has a benchmark feature and if IIRC RDR2 does run that and note the average FPS.
3. If you're getting the FPS you want then set your preset to high and rinse and repeat 2.
4. do this until your FPS drops to what you consider an unacceptable rate
5. At this point start with your settings at where you lost FPS start turning off grahics settings that eat up GPU cycles and/or CPU cycles running the benchmark to see the impact.

The rest should be obvious. Turn things off until you get to where you want to be.

I was using the auto settings, and in any case i should be able to run the game fine.
Specs are:
Ryzen 5 5600
Radeon RX 6600 8GB
16GB DDR 4 RAM
Samsung EVO SSD

With the exception that I have an RX 6800XT our systems are identical.

I turn on vsync as 60 FPS is plenty good.

Turn off the things that Spawdex and Acheron recommend. Check FPS and then one at a time turn stuff back on until FPS drops again. (water detail is the biggy for me).

[Cryiox]

Don't use MSAA and turn down Water Physics.

[Dont Be Like That]

Originally posted by BonesawMcGraw:

Just upgraded my PC and have 8GB of VRAM and my settings only use 5GB but FPS is sitting around 40-45.

Hey hope you figured it out if not I had major problems too, after trying everything I thought I could try, I read online about deleting system.xml something like that and bang I was 3 FPS now I’m just over 30 FPS. So putting all the launcher codes in did nothing and changing settings in the Nvidia control panel did nothing however even tho I have all the settings enabled that I read online I still think deleting system.xml is what did whatever was happening, struggled finding a solution for over 6 months but I’m back baby(for now)