Looks way worse than GTA IV on PC.

[diesoon]

And I don't blame the port or the game. Just looks way more primitive, kinda like a cross between PS2 and PS3 level of graphics. While GTA IV looks like something between PS3 and PS4.

[MechaDeka]

No, RDR does not look like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PS2 game you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ zoomer.

[Liyran]

Originally posted by diesoon:

GTA IV looks like something between PS3 and PS4.

PS4? You okay bro?

[V I D A L]

You're making no sense at all.

[mouse]

did you know if you go into video settings you can turn up the graphic quality? just thought you should know that little industry secret

[NED STARK]

OP is correct, the PC version of GTA IV was a big step up from the console version.

[heppuplays]

Originally posted by NED STARK:

OP is correct, the PC version of GTA IV was a big step up from the console version.

This is a joke right? with so many broken lighting effects and the removal of an entire Radio stations worth of music.
the original PC port of GTA 4 was absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Still to this day buying the 360 version on a Series X/S is the best way to play that game.(unless you plan on modding on pc.)

[Punished Jeremy]

What?

[Cryiox]

GTA IV got significantly more enhancements on PC vs X360/PS3. Textures first of all are higher rez on PC, not to mention the complete overhaul of shadows.

RDR1 has FSR3/DLSS, so there are no jaggies, but the other improvements are more subtle. Higher LODs? Nice but subtle. High rez shadows? Nice but subtle. Contact hardening shadows? Another nice but overall not transformative look.

Higher rez textures, alongside ambient occlusion, are the things missing from RDR1 the most.

GTA IV had more stuff. And give RDR1 is only "2 years" newer tham GTA IV ... yeah, I agree, GTA IV overall looks more impressive.

2 years after RDR1, Rockstar launched Max Payne 3 and that's a tremendous visual jump vs RDR1 or GTA IV.

[El-Neko]

Originally posted by heppuplays:

Originally posted by NED STARK:

OP is correct, the PC version of GTA IV was a big step up from the console version.

This is a joke right? with so many broken lighting effects and the removal of an entire Radio stations worth of music.
the original PC port of GTA 4 was absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Still to this day buying the 360 version on a Series X/S is the best way to play that game.(unless you plan on modding on pc.)

FusionFix and Radio Restore all you need for PC... Well maybe DXVK too but yeah. Those two or 3 to pretty much make IV work amazing and look amazing.

[diesoon]

GTA 4 has complex GEOMETRY everywhere, it's a city. This game has a terrain, and that's it. GTA 4 looks so much more advanced than this.

[Laser]

Originally posted by diesoon:

And I don't blame the port or the game. Just looks way more primitive, kinda like a cross between PS2 and PS3 level of graphics. While GTA IV looks like something between PS3 and PS4.

You have to go into settings and turn each element to ultra. that stops it looking like a console game. It looks great on my 32:9 and that's not with a top of the range GPU.

[Iggy Wolf]

Honestly, who cares?! I've never known anyone who ever loved this game to complain about the graphics or care about that. This ISN'T Unreal Engine 5 game 3000 with 9000 raytracing effects and Uber resolution HD textures, and thank God for that! We've had enough ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ports with crappy optimization because people cared more about graphics than gameplay.

[Martin]

You are right. I swear to God people are blind. I played GTA IV for the first time in 2013 with a GTX 760 and it looked great minus faces.
Yeah it was CPU bound but you could easily max it out at 4k 30 with the card.

RDR on PC even when maxed looks like an early 7th generation game with no PC version in mind.

Even outside rockstar, compare with another 7th generation big open world game like sleeping dogs, the original version from like 2012. It destroys this version of RDR.

To me this goes to show that rockstar never planned to release this game on PC. Otherwise they would have had much higher quality assets at their disposal.

[Cliffs]

Some modder is going to set us up with a texture mod.

[WeirdScienceX]

Originally posted by Cliffs:

Some modder is going to set us up with a texture mod.

https://gtaforums.com/topic/989469-rel-wip-rdr-reality-redemption-overhaul-project