4/26/2021 0 Comments Red Dead Redemption 2 Pc Reviews
Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Review Controls Once I took the time to tune RDR2 to my hardware, the game was wonderful.Its the same great game we gave a perfect score when it released on consoles last year, and time has done nothing to sour the amazing journey Rockstar created.In fact, if you can throw the extra power at it, RDR2 looks and plays better than ever on PC.
Unfortunately for many fans, the RDR2 PC port had a rocky launch. Many players complained of issues with the Rockstar Games Launcher, while others had technical issues that prevented them from enjoying the game. ![]() Oddly, I only had one minor issue during my entire time reviewing the game. Since I already wrote an extensive review on Red Dead Redemption 2 when it launched last year, I will focus on the technical aspects of the PC port here. ![]() Review PC Specs CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming ATX Motherboard RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo Series DDR4 3600MHz GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3090 Gaming OC Install Drive: Sabrent 1TB Rocket PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Review Graphics and Framerate The biggest addition that RDR2 on PC brings is a massive array of graphical options and improvements. Console versions of the game were capped at 30 FPS, and increased framerate is the most obvious advantage the PC version holds. While the game was beautiful on console, the higher framerate does a lot for playability. On my review PC I held a relatively stable 4K 60 FPS on an LG B8 OLED TV with almost everything except the shadows and water reflections maxed out. I saw some dips in areas like the swamps of Lemoyne where there a ton of trees and water being rendered simultaneously and in Saint Denis where theres a lot of NPCS on-screen simultaneously. However, I was impressed by how well the game performed given that even the RTX 2080 Ti has some issues pushing 4K60 FPS consistently in many titles. One of the biggest issues I believe people will have with RDR2 on PC, is that the settings harken back to the olden days of PC. Many ports give you a couple of handfuls of graphics options, most of which change little, and thats it. RDR2 on the other hand, gives you around 50 different graphics settings you can tweak. This means if you want to get the best performancequality ratio for your PC specs, you must spend the first hour after youve installed the game messing with the graphics options. Unfortunately, besides a running total of how much VRAM the current settings use, theres not a lot of info to help you tune the game. It would be nice to get some tool tips to help figure out which settings have the most impact on performance. This is especially confusing when it comes to the choice of graphics APIs. RDR2 can use either DirectX 12 or Vulkan, and neither is the obvious choice. Some users report Vulkan giving them higher framerates, while DirectX 12 was the API that worked best for me. I feel like players who arent used to such fine tuning may discount RDR2 as being poorly optimized for PC. Instead, the issue is theres little direction on which settings are most intensive, so people are likely concentrating on VRAM or textures, when really the issue theyre probably having is shadow draw distance or water reflections.
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