Red Dead Redemption PC | Performance Optimization Guide + Optimized Settings



Red Dead Redemption 1 PC performance. Every Red Dead Redemption PC graphics setting tested + optimized settings for improved performance while retaining the game’s intended visual presentation.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 INTRO
0:21 CPU PERFORMANCE
1:49 MAJOR PERFORMANCE BUG
2:15 SHADOW QUALITY
2:41 SHADOW SOFTNESS
3:25 SHADOW BLEND
3:59 ANISOTROPIC LEVEL
4:20 ANTI-ALIASING / UPSCALING METHOD
5:17 MOTION BLUR
5:44 GEOMETRY LEVEL OF DETAIL
6:16 TERRAIN LEVEL OF DETAIL
6:47 TREE LEVEL OF DETAIL
7:18 TREE DRAW DISTANCE
7:39 GRASS LEVEL OF DETAIL
9:03 OPTIMIZED SETTINGS
9:13 MAX VS OPTIMIZED SETTINGS (GPU PERFORMANCE)
9:49 MAX VS OPTIMIZED SETTINGS (CPU PERFORMANCE)

OPTIMIZED SETTINGS
SHADOW QUALITY: HIGH
SHADOW SOFTNESS: HIGH
SHADOW BLEND: DITHERED
ANISOTROPIC LEVEL: X16
ANTI-ALIASING / UPSCALING METHOD: DLAA OR FSR 3 NATIVE AA (PERSONAL PREFERENCE)
MOTION BLUR: IMPROVED (PERSONAL PREFERENCE)
GEOMETRY LEVEL OF DETAIL: 5/5
TERRAIN LEVEL OF DETAIL: 3/9
TREE LEVEL OF DETAIL: 3/4
TREE DRAW DISTANCE: 2/2
GRASS LEVEL OF DETAIL: 2/5
NOTE: LEVEL OF DETAIL SLIDERS START COUNT FROM 0 AS THE LOWEST OPTION

PC SPECS:
GPU: RTX 3060 12GB
CPU: R5 3600X
RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz
Motherboard: MSI B450-A PRO MAX
OS: Windows 11
MONITOR: MSI G321Q 1440P 170HZ

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27 thoughts on “Red Dead Redemption PC | Performance Optimization Guide + Optimized Settings”

  1. I have Nvidia GTX 1070 and AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
    Do you have any tips to enhance my experience in Assassin's Creed Mirage?
    I am getting a lot of stuttering. Especialy when I rotate my camera.

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  2. Disabling SMT (Hyper-Threading) on Ryzen 3600 increases CPU performance by 25% in this title, most likely any high core cpu will benefit from this setting turned off however this game is never smooth on any pc i have seen if you lock the fps to 60 with RTSS low lag vsync the frametime still has spikes, the 0.1% are pretty bad so stable frametime and pacing is not possible from my experience.

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  3. Y optimize a 15yr old remastered game when it can run on very low end hardware maxed out settings? GTX 1660 can run the game at those setting 1080p and even hit 30fps at 4k. This game needs 0 optimized settings because it already looks likencrap. Just gonna make it look even more crappy. lol.. love the other videos though…

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  4. He's absolutely right. In cities and towns performance drops significantly from 100 fps to 40 fps and often lower than that. And this happens on every hardware. So it's clearly a CPU and Gpu underutilization in those areas and both are barely used around 50%. This is due to D312 depending on higher clock rate than multiple cores so it neither uses CPU cores in those areas nor uses GPU as needed and as a result performance tanks. Its a game code bug. Rockstar and double eleven should acknowledge and fix it

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  5. I still do not understand your gpu limited scenarios. It is obviously CPU limited scenario, even dlss quality and dlaa perform the same but you are saying that it is a GPU limited scenario. Use virtual screen res. test on 4k, you are clearly not GPU bounded here 9:17! And you're doing that for every game, it's dumb man,

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  6. We can still use DLAA. In order to add sharpeness to the game, we can simply use a reshade mod that adds AMD's adaptive sharpeness or even lossless scaling's AMD fsr sharpeness scaler. They both work like a charm, making the image look crisp and clearer. That's what I did.

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  7. I don't know why people are calling this unoptimized, i have friends running this maxed out on their ryzen 2600, 3600 systems with occasional drops to 70-80 from 100 even in city area, i have a ryzen 5700x paired with rtx 3060 & I am playing at 144fps maxed out native 1080p

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  8. With these settings at 4K with no aa or any upscaling on a 5800X3D and a 6950XT fps cap removed.
    At Armadillo station when i stand in the first doorway and look out over the desert i get 265 fps and out the other two doorway towards the town it's 160 fps.

    The massive drops still happen but are less noticeable due to the higher fps.

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  9. For those with a RTX GPU it's way more worth it to just max it all out and install the FSR FG mod by Nukem9 (or use DLSS FG if you're on a 40 series card) to go over the CPU bottleneck. One of Frame Gen main uses is exactly that

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