[Top 5] Red Dead Redemption 2 Best Graphics Settings

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28 Jul 2021

Top 5 Red Dead Redemption 2 Best Graphics Settings

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a Visually impressive game; it looks incredible. Because of this, players might experience lag, stutter, and fps drops, or maybe not share any of those, but it is missing on making it look even better.

This guide is designed to help you get the best of your Red Dead Redemption experience.

We will be Going from low to high in terms of visuals, so whatever your setup is composed of, you'll find the settings that best match it.

1- Maximum FPS

Some players like maximum fps for online modes or have a screen with a refresh rate of 144Hz but can't match that in fps.

The solution is lowering Many of the settings that Tax the GPU AND CPU there for gaining the player more FPS. This is the best configuration for that goal.

Resolution 1920×1080. (You can lower it for High Frames and compromise on visuals).
Refresh Rate – 144 (Highest Available).
VSync – Off.
Triple Buffering – Off.
Pause Game on Focus Loss – Off.
Constrain Mouse Pointer – Off.
Quality Preset Level – Custom
Texture Quality – Low
Anisotropic Filtering – Off
Lighting Quality – Low
Global Illumination Quality – Low
Shadow Quality – Low
Far Shadow Quality – Low
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion – Off
Reflection Quality – Low
Mirror Quality – Low
Water Quality – Low
Volumetrics Quality – Low
Particle Quality – Low
Tessellation Quality – Low
TAA – Off
FXAA – Off
MSAA – Off

Having the Vsync Off, the player can easily get past the 60FPS barrier that it mostly has players under for Technical reasons that I don't want to bore you with.

Combining that with the low textures, lighting, and presets quality, the GPU and CPU find themselves able to process way more, thus giving you much higher frame rates.

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2- Xbox One X Console Equivalent Settings.

Players who have a Pc that's not weaker than a console, nor do they have one that is stronger than a console.

The List of settings for the people who saw how it looks on their friend’s console and wanted to get that look on their PC.

Resolution 1920×1080.
Refresh Rate:60.
VSync – Off.
Quality Preset Level – Custom
Texture Quality – Ultra
Anisotropic Filtering – x8
Lighting Quality – Medium
Global Illumination Quality – low
Shadow Quality – High
Far Shadow Quality – low
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion – High
Reflection Quality – Medium/ high
Mirror Quality – High
Water Quality – High
Volumetrics Quality – High
Particle quality – medium
Tessellation Quality: Medium
TAA – Medium
FXAA – Off
MSAA – Off

3- Visually optimized

This one is for the people who have a decent PC and want to get the best of both worlds, a great visual experience match with FPS ranging between 50 to 70.

Resolution 1920×1080.
Refresh Rate: 65.
VSync – Off.
Quality Preset Level – Custom
Texture Quality – Ultra
Anisotropic Filtering – x16
Lighting Quality – Medium
Global Illumination Quality – High
Shadow Quality – High
Far Shadow Quality – High
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion – Ultra
Reflection Quality – Medium
Mirror Quality – Ultra
Water Quality – Medium
Volumetrics Quality – Medium
Particle Quality – Ultra
Tessellation Quality – Ultra
TAA – Medium
FXAA – Off
MSAA – Off

A mixture of settings from medium to ultra depending on which one looks good and which taxes the GPU and CPU with not much to show is what the solution is for an optimized visual experience.

4-Best visuals

If you have a beastly pc and you want to push it to its max, these are the settings for you.

Resolution 1920×1080.
Refresh Rate: 120
VSync – Off.
Quality Preset Level – Custom
Texture Quality – Ultra
Anisotropic Filtering – x16
Lighting Quality – Ultra
Global Illumination Quality – Ultra
Shadow Quality – Ultra
Far Shadow Quality – Ultra
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion – Ultra
Reflection Quality – Medium
Mirror Quality – Ultra
Water Quality – Ultra
Volumetrics Quality – Ultra
Particle Quality – Ultra
Tessellation Quality – Ultra
TAA – High
FXAA – High
MSAA – High

Keeping that Vsync off will help out the fps getting to 120, where you'll enjoy a high refresh rate mixed with the best visuals you can get.

5- Realism Reshade

RDR 2 already looks pretty real on its max settings, but if the player wants to throw a fresh coat of paint on it, maybe replying with a different visual style, you can try realism Reshade.

Here’s what it looks like.