I had hella technical issues with this game.

  • Don’t use external framerate limiters. YMMV. EDIT: I turned my RTSS FPS limiter back on to 60FPS and now it works perfectly…I don’t understand anything anymore.
  • Disable VSync and make sure it’s not forced from your GPU’s control panel
  • You can’t fix the stutters in the city. At least not as far as I can tell.
  • VRR / Freesync / GSync may give you issues as well, if your PC can handle the game you can probably just turn them off for this game only.
  • Don’t switch to DX12 using the advanced graphics settings. It makes things WORSE. Use Vulkan.
  • Generally don’t touch those advanced settings. Idk why they’re even there if they break the game so much.
  • Make sure Windows didn’t install a GPU driver that doesn’t even exist yet via Device Manager. Fuck Windows btw.
  • You can’t play the game without internet if you get it…officially. FYI. Do with this as you will.

I hope I saved you some headache. It took me getting all the way to 40% completion to figure out all this.

Game’s awesome but the technical BS kinda ruins it.

EDIT: Also why the hell is every cougar that spawns a 1 star? Every time I find one, I scope it, and I see 1/3, god damn, I’ve found like 7 by now and ALL have been 1 star. It’s getting to the point I’m not even bothering to kill them. I just want a nice outfit damnit.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    14 hours ago

    I plan on finally playing the game soon. Right now I’m busy with Final Fantasy Remakes. After that there are a few other games waiting in the pipeline. To be honest, I somehow think RDR2 looks boring, and I’m sorry if anyone likes the game and is reading this. It just doesn’t appeal to me from what I have seen. However… this is a landmark game and that alone is a reason to play it, so I know if its good or bad and why that is. Also, who knows, maybe I was wrong. Lot of your suggestions does not apply to my system probably, because I’m on Linux.

    Make sure Windows didn’t install a GPU driver that doesn’t even exist yet via Device Manager. Fuck Windows btw.

    I will make sure this won’t happen, by not installing Windows. I use Arch* btw.

    *Arch=EndeavourOS

    • MouldyCat@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      a landmark game and that alone is a reason to play it

      It’s a really pretty game that gives you a small taste of what it must’ve been like to be a roaming varmint in the early days of the US.

      The missions feel very much on rails IMO. Several have just felt to me like a shooting gallery at a funfair.

      I admittedly haven’t got very far - maybe 25% - and what put me off a bit was how the game handles a bounty on your head. Bounty hunters seem to spawn randomly near you, and have supernatural abilities to home in on you. I tried sneaking up on them to pick them off one by one, but that just triggers more and more to spawn in. It really seemed like the GTA “Wanted” mechanic with increasing stars, and it kinda killed the immersion for me.