
With Balanced, the game globally adjusts your settings to best match your PC’s hardware level. These presets are split between seven scales for ‘Favour Performance’ if you want the highest framerate, seven for ‘Balanced’, and a further seven settings dedicated to ‘Favour Quality’ for those after the most attractive outlaw experience. Rather than go for traditional presets, Rockstar opts for a customisable slider which you can drag to hit those 21 quality levels. How we miss the days of high, medium and low.
Rockstar gives you a ludicrous number of options to tweak, with 16 basic visual settings and a frankly nuts 21 separate quality presets. Holy hell does this Red Dead Redemption 2 have all the graphics settings on PC.
Still, we find switching from standard controls to ‘standard FPS’, which switches run from X/A to a click of the left stick, feels more natural.īasic Red Dead Redemption 2 PC settings tips
Give standard FPS controls a shot – This is a subjective switch. Juggle your HUD options – Switch between the normal mini map, expanded viewpoint for extra guidance, stripped down compass view, or ditch the HUD entirely if you want to test your navigational wits for the most immersive experience. The ‘x2’ setting works best, letting you open chests much more quickly. Turn on tap assist – Give your digits a break and cut down on button bashing by enabling ‘tap assist’ from the controls menu. Enable first-person auto-centre – Find and enable this option from camera settings to make it easier to target enemies on horseback while playing in first-person. Trying to manually place shots on horseback is tougher than performing open heart surgery with a spatula. Use lock-on for horse shootouts – Keep the lock-on for mounts/vehicles set to normal. It’ll make you a more accurate gunslinger. Use free-aim for on-foot action – Arthur’s lock-on modes are a bit sticky, so switch to free-aim from the controls menu to give you more agency over where the cowboy’s bullets land. RDR2 boasts some of the most striking use of this contrast-boosting tech you’ll ever find. Enable HDR – If your screen supports it, make sure to enable HDR from display settings. Turn on ‘toggle to run’ – Save yourself the mild hassle of holding down the run button to make your outlaw’s sprints less tedious on your fingers with this time-saver in the controls menu.