This guide shows the optimum or best in-game graphics settings for the Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) PC. This involves a sweet spot of FPS and the Smoothness of the game.
In this guide, we will show a few suggestive settings to make it visually soothing as well as run it at a decent FPS. Before proceeding with the settings, make sure you meet the minimum system requirements for the game.
Red Dead Redemption 2 PC (RDR 2) Best in-game Graphics Settings
Quality Preset Level: Custom
Texture Quality: High
Anisotropic Filtering: X8
Lighting Quality: Medium
Global Illumination Quality: Medium
Shadow Quality: Low
Far Shadow Quality: Low
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Medium
Reflection Quality: High
Mirror Quality: Medium
Water Quality: High
Volumetrics Quality: High
Particle Quality: High
Tessellation Quality: Low
TAA: Medium
FXAA: Off
MSAA: Off
Advanced Settings: Unlocked
Graphics API: Vulkan
Near Volumetric Resolution: Medium
Far Volumetric Resolution: Medium
Volumetric Lighting Quality: Medium
Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: Off
Particle Lighting Quality: Medium
Soft Shadows: High
Grass Shadows: Medium
Long Shadows: On
Full Resolution Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Off
Water Refraction Quality: Medium
Physics Quality: 50%
Resolution Scale: Off
TAA Sharpening: 100%
Reflection MSAA: Off
Geometry Level of Detail: 100%
Grass Level of Detail: 100%
Tree Quality: Medium
Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: Medium
Decal Quality: High
Fur Quality: Medium
Resolution: Native
Refresh Rate: Default
Screen type: Fullscreen
Vsync: Off
Triple Buffer: Off
Pause the game on focus loss: Off
Constrain Mouse Pointer: Off
SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS USED TO TEST
CPU: I3 9100
RAM: 16GB DDR4
GPU: GTX 1050ti OC 4GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB (7200)
PSU: 600W
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR RDR 2 (PC)
Make sure you meet the minimum system requirements for the game, as given below:
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: Windows 7 SP1
Processor (CPU): Intel Core i5-2500K / AMD FX-6300
RAM: 8 GB System Memory
GPU RAM: 2048 MB
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280
Storage: 150 GB
DirectX: DirectX 11
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor (CPU): Intel Core i7-4770K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
RAM: 3072 MB
GPU Memory: 4 GB Video Memory
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB
Storage: 150 GB
DirectX: DirectX 12
That should be it. These are the best/optimum setting we could find to run the game smoothly and at a decent FPS as well. If you facing performance issues, crashes, lags, or low FPS with RDR2 PC, check out our RDR2 PC performance guide here.
Thanks for reading!
Last Updated on October 25, 2022
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Thank you all. I tried also other setting but this suits best for me. And finally this game doesn’t look sh*t anymore ;-):
PC:
i5-8400
48GB DDR4 Ram
GeForce GTX 1050Ti.
We are glad it helped you out! ?
-Red dead redemtion 2
-8gb ram
-Gtx 1050ti
-I5 650
Hi! Can those also apply for a normal gtx 1050 with 4gb?
Yes you can. If you face any minor drops, turn down the texture by one level. But we do not think you will need to do that.
Shadow quality looks too bad on low setting. I think you can get almost the same performance by turn down reflection to low and near volumetric to low l. Then turn up shadow quality to high. Grass LOD makes massive performance hit on 10 bars. 4 bars looks the same as 10 bars. But grass shadows will disappear in very very far distance.
Thank you for your input, Amin. We will keep it, incase other readers want to check out your suggestion.
i have an i3 8100 1050 ti and i have textures on ultra and it runs 30-40 fps, high for lighting and rest on medium, the textures on high look wayyy worse.
Yes. The balance between the correct settings frame rates is important. Sometimes high settings can cause bad graphics issues. Generally it has to do with the film grain, shadows and/or Anti-Aliasing.
My notebook setting
I5 8300H
16gb ram
256 ssd
4gb gtx 1050
My game blink black points on face and hands …
The issue can be with the low graphics settings. Try medium settings for a change