While I expected to go into my time with Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC not being able to reach the lofty goals of hitting its 4K benchmarks, I at least was hoping to see a notable upgrade on PC from when I first played through the game on a base PS4 over a year ago. Though my now three-year-old PC is far from most high-end rigs nowadays, I was at least within reach of the recommended specs for the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2, with the CPU being my only main drawback for the experience. “On the visual front, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a stunning display on PC, though it might come at the cost of some compromises on the technical end.”įor context, my PC is more on the mid-level of most gaming rigs: I am running a Core i5-6600K, 3.5 GHz quad-core CPU, a GeForce GTX 1070 GPU, and 16GB of RAM. Specifically, the most prevalent issues reported by players have been stuttering and freezing, an issue that I myself happened to run into quite frequently during my first few times playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC.
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Notably, since its launch the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 has been mired with a range of performance issues that Rockstar attributed to “specific combinations” of Nvidia hardware, be it CPU, GPU, or the drivers that you are using. Let’s get those compromises out of the way first. On the visual front, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a stunning display on PC, though it might come at the cost of some compromises on the technical end. It’s been a long time coming for the PC release of Red Dead Redemption 2, especially for those that may have held out on the console versions in fall 2018, and Rockstar’s Western epic certainly delivers the bells and whistles that would be hoped for from such a highly-anticipated PC release. I’ve been playing the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 over the course of the past several weeks since it released initially on the Rockstar Launcher (followed by its later debut on other PC storefronts like Epic Games Store and Steam). That was of course coming from my first time around with the game on PS4, and the PC version of the game only enhances that further, and highlights Red Dead Redemption 2 as arguably Rockstar’s technical powerhouse, with some caveats. Given Red Dead Redemption 2’s deliberate and methodical pacing, I was looking forward to the experience of revisiting the game without racing against a deadline like when I first played it, especially given how much detail and smaller moments that RDR2 packs into its epic experience.ĭespite coming back to the game after this extended period, even over a year later I’m still of the opinion that Red Dead Redemption 2 deserves a lot of credit for giving us such a fully-realized and detailed world to explore. In the time since it first released, Rockstar’s ode to the West seemed to draw as many criticisms as it did admiration, perhaps due to the game’s overwhelming ambitions in light of its massive, almost unwieldy scale. Coming over a year after I first saddled up to play Red Dead Redemption 2, it’s fitting to come back to the game with a second wind and the chance to really take the game in.