Red Dead Redemption 2 Optimized Settings

Optimizing your settings

Salutations Non Epic Game supporters! The game runs very well and visuals aren't comprimised much if you set your graphic options to Xbox One X settings. In my experience they nearly doubled my performance from 40fps to 70fps on a i7 8700k 16GB RAM GTX 1070 at 1440p. Please note anything marked 'Preference' is up to you, these settings have no perfermance impact. The optimized settings are as follows:

Recommended video settings:
Screen Type: Windowed Borderless
Vsync: Off
Triple Buffering: Off

PC graphics settings equivalent to Xbox One X:
Texture Quality: Ultra
Anisotropic Filtering: 8x
Lighting Quality: Medium
Global Illumination Quality: Medium
Shadow Quality: High
Far Shadow Quality: Low (XB1X is Lower than Low)
SSAO: Medium
Reflection Quality: Low (XB1X is Lower than Low)
Mirror Quality: High
Water Quality: Custom (Adjusted Below)
Volumetrics Quality: Custom (Adjusted Below)
Particle Quality: Medium
Tesselation Quality: High
TAA: High (Preference)
FXAA: Off (Preference)
MSAA: Off
Advanced Settings: Unlocked
Graphics API: Vulkan
Near Volumetric Resolution: Low (XB1X is Lower than Low)
Far Volumetric Resolution: Low (XB1X is Lower than Low)
Volumetric Lighting Quality: High
Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: Off
Particle Lighting Quality: Medium
Soft Shadows: High
Grass Shadows: Medium
Long Shadows: Off
Full Resolution SSAO: Off
Water Refraction Quality: High
Water Reflection Quality: Medium
Water Physics Quality: 1/4
Resolution Scale: Off (Should be left off but having it under 1x will definitely improve frame rate if necessary)
TAA Sharpening: Max (Preference)
Motion Blur: Off (Preference)
Reflection MSAA: Off
Geometry Level of Detail: 5/5
Grass Level of Detail: 2/10
Tree Quality: Low (XB1X is Lower than Low)
Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: High
Decal Quality: Medium
Fur Quality: Medium
Tree Tesselation: Off

Taken from this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1iNSyvIPaY

Very Educational video if you have the spare time to watch it. Special thanks to Digital Foundry, Alex Battaglia, and flea for the comment

[inSSIDer]

This settings work like a charm ( 60FPS) on my old i5-7600K, 16GB and GTX1070. Thank you very much.

[焦糖摩卡]

R星一直进不去，闪退，刚买就整这样，游戏都进不去，客服请联系我

[IndustiraPirata]

Why my play button becomes the purchase button? I cant start the game now.i`ve been playing for hundreds of hours.

[tofu_gamer]

Why my play button becomes the purchase button? I cant start the game now.i`ve been playing for hundreds of hours.

[Mandarina]

hello how is it going I need to know why the game does not start I give it to play and it pretends to start but really does not work it does not show me the game

[NeonSKennedy]

Go under Support and select Red Dead Redemption 2 and you can request a refund from there

[ℍ𝔸𝕃𝔽 𝕃𝕀𝔽𝔼]

my rdr 2 is not playable at my rigs. how can I get a refund at my bank account?

[BlacKy #SlavaIsraelini]

My results using these settings:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2146074610
CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X
GPU: AMD RX 5700XT
Resolution: 1440P

[Wilihey]

ye this helped a bit it still runs like shit tho

[andyboo2]

I am in the exact same boat. I installed it May 18 and it keeps adding time to my gameplay even though it has not once launched. 38 hours. Seriously? Failed to initialize graphics device. Please reboot or reinstall latest drivers. Windows 10, 64-bit, AMD Radeon HD 6570. Steam refuses to refund