Xbox 360 graphics settings

[pauldiazberrio]

For anyone who wants to experience the original version of Red Dead Redemption, or something as close to it as possible, I would sugges you apply the following settings.

Resolution: 1280x720
Quality preset level: Normal
Antialiasing / Upscaling method: Off
HDR: Off
Shadow Softness: Off
Super Resolution: Off
Shadow Quality: low
Anisotropic filtering: x4
Triple Buffering: Off

I hope these settings are the equivilant of what they would have been on the Xbox 360.

[space]

but why

[💚SuperMax💚]

Anisotropic filtering is quite big for Xbox 360, I still play RDR1 on Xbox 360 from time to time and it almost feels like it's either x2 or straight up Off.

[pauldiazberrio]

Originally posted by space:

but why

Nostalgic reasons. What is man without his history? The Xb 360 was one of the forerunners of the gaming consoles. It might not have offered as much exclusive content as PS, but it paved the way for the Xbox One and X series, which offer the highest quality graphics of any modern gaming console for many games.

Originally posted by 💚SuperMax💚:

Anisotropic filtering is quite big for Xbox 360, I still play RDR1 on Xbox 360 from time to time and it almost feels like it's either x2 or straight up Off.

I played it on PS3 and there was no filtering. Looking back, I wish I had bought the XBOX, but I fell in love with the exclusive titles of the PS and it stole my heart. I did get a gaming rig later, though, so I made up for lost time.

[WeirdScienceX]

Personally this seems a bit pointless. Most people played 360 on CRT displays.

These settings on a modern display just look terrible, especially the large displays which are common today.

[pauldiazberrio]

Originally posted by WeirdScienceX:

Personally this seems a bit pointless. Most people played 360 on CRT displays.

These settings on a modern display just look terrible, especially the large displays which are common today.

Oh, CRT TV was still around at this time? Have the years gone by so fast?

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by pauldiazberrio:

Originally posted by WeirdScienceX:

Personally this seems a bit pointless. Most people played 360 on CRT displays.

These settings on a modern display just look terrible, especially the large displays which are common today.

Oh, CRT TV was still around at this time? Have the years gone by so fast?

No, I have genuinely never seen a 360 hooked up to an old CRT TV.
The 360 came out for Christmas 2005, the same year plasma TV overtook CRT on total sales. LCD came in two years later and dethroned plasma.

And we're not even talking about RDR yet. It came out in 2010, by that time CRT was landfill scrap.

The statement that "most" people played the 360 on a CRT might have been true right at launch when the RROD series was out, but by 2010 certainly not anymore.

[Luna ~]

Originally posted by WeirdScienceX:

Personally this seems a bit pointless. Most people played 360 on CRT displays.

These settings on a modern display just look terrible, especially the large displays which are common today.

most people ditched CRT tvs with the 360 as MOST games had Completely unreadable text, I remember getting a HD TV like 2 months after my 360 for that reason

[WeirdScienceX]

A large percentage of gamers weren't adults, hence why a lot still used CRT's even when other technologies became available.

Even if you played on a different display technology, they weren't anywhere as good as a modern display.

I tested this with an Xbox 360 Elite I still have, on an older 1080p display it looked better than my 4K MSI 144 Monitor.