Rockstar Games’ open world action adventure game, Red Dead Redemption, is now available on PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for Red Dead Redemption on PC, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Red Dead Redemption Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
GRAPHICS
- Screen Type: Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Refresh Rate: as per the max refresh rate of your display
- Framerate Cap: as per the max refresh rate of your display or preference
- V-Sync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
- Triple Buffering: Off
- Shadow Quality: High
- Shadow Softness: CHSS
- Shadow Blend: Smooth
- Anisotropic Level: x16
- Anti-Aliasing/Upscaling Method: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else Intel XeSS, else AMD FSR3
- Super Resolution: Quality
- Motion Blur: Improved
- Motion Blur Strength: Slider max
- Geometry Level of Detail: Slider max
- Terrain Level of Detail: Slider max
- Tree Level of Detail: Slider max
- Tree Draw Distance: Slider max
- Grass Level of Detail: Slider max
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
GRAPHICS
- Screen Type: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
- Framerate Cap: 60 fps
- V-Sync: Off
- Triple Buffering: On
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Shadow Softness: CHSS
- Shadow Blend: Smooth
- Anisotropic Level: x4
- Anti-Aliasing/Upscaling Method: AMD FSR3
- Super Resolution: Quality
- Motion Blur: Disabled
- Geometry Level of Detail: Slider min
- Terrain Level of Detail: Slider mid point
- Tree Level of Detail: Slider mid point
- Tree Draw Distance: Slider mid point
- Grass Level of Detail: Slider mid point
As seen in the video, the settings mentioned above allow Red Dead Redemption to generally run above 60 fps during gameplay.
