Graphics settings for RTX2070 Super 8GB?

[Rick]

Now before you start ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and moaning about this port is crap: I've completed my first playthrough without any issue's and decent graphics settings. Been playing since release (so before any patches came out).

I now want to start my second playthrough, and I just can't get the game to run right. I'm on the same graphics settings I had on my first playthrough and the performance is just not there. Sometimes fps is good and playable, and in another scene the fps drops, it becomes unplayable and I have to get back to lower graphics settings. Also still getting the hair texture glitch, but it seems random, if I close and restart the game they're fine again.

Does anyone have a similar spec pc as me and can share their graphics settings? Have not yet tried the V1.0.3 and latest driver yet, will try that today.

This is my specs
i7 9700K, no overclock
32GB DDR4
RTX2070 Super 8GB
NVME M2 SSD
Samsung UR550 28" 4K monitor (no desire to play the game on 4K though)

[manmikey]

I have a lesser specification than you and have had decent enough performance (i5 6400, GTX1070 16Gb) on medium settings before the 1.3.0 patch was giving me 30-50 FPS, but since that last patch I'm now at 25 -35fps and my CPU is maxing out most of the while at 100% and GPU at 40-60%, have you turned the performance metrics on to see if your CPU is maxed out now too?
I don't know of a solution but it may be an explanation for wahts going on.

[episoder]

Originally posted by manmikey:

I have a lesser specification than you and have had decent enough performance (i5 6400, GTX1070 16Gb) on medium settings before the 1.3.0 patch was giving me 30-50 FPS, but since that last patch I'm now at 25 -35fps and my CPU is maxing out most of the while at 100% and GPU at 40-60%, have you turned the performance metrics on to see if your CPU is maxed out now too?
I don't know of a solution but it may be an explanation for wahts going on.

that's unfortunate, really. you cpu is indeed at the limit tho. you "only" have 4 cores. if you got higher fps in the previous version you should maybe roll it back and stick to this version aka disable auto updates in steam to keep it at this version. or you wait for another update that maybe fixes it. i'm not sure where this will be going on your end.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1888930/discussions/0/6980058383086067644/

is a thread that shows you howto roll back.

[{uZa}Renegade]

Using a Dell S2417DG 2560X1440 @165 Hz
CPU: Intel Core i7-9700KF
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070S (Super)
SSD: Corsair Force NVMe PCIe M.2 960GB
RAM: Team Group Inc. TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x16GB
MBD: Asus ROG STRIX Z390-F GAMING

Very similar spec to you. No OC here either
I left the settings as the game set it up on installation. Turned film grain off and never had a problem FPS looks like 60 to 80 I don't watch it really as the game runs fine. On my 2nd run through.
I had one error after loading patch and had to verify files but that's been it.
I found the audio very low, though I am very deaf anyway. So I set the sound to narrow and that gave quite an audio boost.

[Rick]

Renegade, on my first playthrough I left the settings default aswell, but the textures looked like ass so I played around with some texture settings finding a good balance between looks while still getting smooth gameplay. Worked like a charm, but no longer. It looks and performes pretty good walking around with Tess, but when I encountered some of Robert's men at the start of the game performance just completely caked untill I turned settings to low

[kgkong]

Originally posted by Rick:

Renegade, on my first playthrough I left the settings default aswell, but the textures looked like ass so I played around with some texture settings finding a good balance between looks while still getting smooth gameplay. Worked like a charm, but no longer. It looks and performes pretty good walking around with Tess, but when I encountered some of Robert's men at the start of the game performance just completely caked untill I turned settings to low

Turn down draw distance and animation quality. It sounds like all the extra CPU heavy processing needed to handle the AI and NPC animations is taxing your system. Turning down too many graphic side settings will only add to the workload of the CPU (lower graphic settings means more frames, more frames means CPU has to spend more time preparing frames for GPU to render). Instead just try and give your CPU a little more headroom for when there are more NPCs and game calculations.

[Dad0ne]

I would assume 1080p high with maybe some more vram demanding settings to medium. Luckily the menu is actually well done for this game (imo the best thing of this port from a technical standpoint) and it actually tells you what each settings affects and to what degree. The only thing im sure is that you cannot do 1440p or (it should be obvious) 4k due to vram limitation unless you play at low or something but then again, why.

[lupeandy7]

Your graphics card far exceeds the power of a PS5, I understand that the PS5 in fidelity mode runs the game at 30 fps at 4k, try putting the game in 2k with graphics on high profile, activate dlss in quality mode, I honestly think it looks much better than the native mode, since in the native mode the antialiasing temporal blur is more noticeable. Also raise the anisitropic filter to x16, there will be a huge improvement in textures at mid range and there is almost zero difference in performance to change the anisitropic from x4 to x16. Do not forget to activate "Dynamic Screen Space Shadows", apart put the option "Ambient Occlusion Denoise Quality" in High, and also in the "Display" options lower the following options to value 0; "Camera Shake, Chromatic Aberration Intensity, Film Grain Intensity" I swear I think it looks much better with options like this. In the Nvidia panel, activate ultra low latency in its ultra mode, this option greatly reduces your input lag in the event that you are using 100% of your GPU, if you are not using 100% of the GPU, better disable that option because in that case your input lag increases. Don't worry if you exceed 8 GB of vram, in that case, you will start using little ram apart from your system, which will only rarely generate micro lags. If you decide to try this configuration, tell me how it goes n_n