so is sli running reliably in RDR2 or should I skip on buying the game? I'm running two gtx 980 ti's w/ i7-7700k, 16gb ram.

BaDBoY_uK
Fifth day of no crashes. Hours of play. Currently online also and been on for 4+ hours. Seems my method is working y'all
 
- New Nvidia driver ()
- BAT file that auto deletes the SGA files (I dont think is needed)
- Arguments in Launcher (-ignorepipelinecache -cpuLoadRebalancing -processPriorityClass HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS)
- NVInspector - only things changed are 
GPUs to use on SLI rendering mode = TWO
NV predefined number of GPUS to use on SLI - both set to FOUR
Nothing else changed
- Launcher and game ADMIN mode
- Stock clocks on 2 x 2080Tis
- Tessellation set to LOW
- TAA set to MEDIUM (otherwise looks crap)

So, I've been able to play on the latest non-beta Nvidia drivers too with zero crashing, not having to delete SGA files with a +140/+1000 overclock on my cards, until I turn on HDR. As SOON as I try playing in HDR on SLI, the ERR_GFX_STATE errors begin flying at my face. Are you able to play with HDR?
Also, setting any GPU SLI rendering mode settings in the profile inspector won't do anything as I'm pret.... fairly certain the game uses Vulkan mGPU
 
I'm using 2x Titan RTXs; no admin mode, every setting including tess cranked to ultra, TAA also on medium

olrdtg
So, I've been able to play on the latest non-beta Nvidia drivers too with zero crashing, not having to delete SGA files with a +140/+1000 overclock on my cards, until I turn on HDR. As SOON as I try playing in HDR on SLI, the ERR_GFX_STATE errors begin flying at my face. Are you able to play with HDR?
Also, setting any GPU SLI rendering mode settings in the profile inspector won't do anything as I'm pret.... fairly certain the game uses Vulkan mGPU
I'm using 2x Titan RTXs; no admin mode, every setting including tess cranked to ultra, TAA also on medium

 
Fair. I was scared to change things in case I messed it up again. Once I locked this in I was like "DONT TOUCH IT" lol. Just giving advice
 
Question: what frametime are you getting cracking it to ULTRA?

what I really concern about is the flashing/fickering of fog-scene/cutscene and flame-time issues,why U guys always worried about the ERR-ERROR which most of the sli players never meet?  All of my fellows who is sli users including myself never count those ERR problems under the 441.66 Nv‘s driver...So did the beta-driver with the vulkcan improvement solve the problem yet？

Another annoying bug with SLI happens in puddles of water and in shallow waters in general.

It seems like the water foam is glitchy. Have you noticed?

From my experience, people with 1080ti or 1080ti SLIshould just use dx12 mode. Its  gives the best performance with excellent frametime and no flickering. Vulkan with SLI is just too unstable and the fps just doesnt feel smooth. in DX12 mode, i was able to achieve ~60 fps with mostly ultra settings and a few settings in high. Even though only one of my gpus are being use, instead of both in vulkan, the game is actually playable and i m enjoying it a lot more. Gsync in dx12 works flawless so fps drops t0 50s or even 40s arent noticeable in dx 12. But vulkan seems laggy and I cant get Gsync to work in vulkan. Hope this helps.

BaDBoY_uK
^^But DX12 doesn't use SLI. Vulkan works perfectly now with 441.71 NV drivers and you set an FPS cap to get better frametimes

actually it's not perfect cause the flashing and flickering issues of cutscene/fog-scene is still there...441.71~~~

Decide to quit the game and let them fix this S****
Try my best to do everything possible to tweak it to save the situation but i definitively can't support "dancing trees" on DX12 working with one card @40-45fps
and vulkan mgpu doesn't give me satisfaction the way it work.
I will give a try in few months or more if R* decide to face the "multi gpu" situation and offer consistant solutions. They decide to implement game under
DX12 and Vulkan API that is nice idea but for the moment the only game who do it correctly is SOTTR and DIVISION 2 (monocard) who give performance boost DX12 that is very rare to be underlined
and ofc Strange brigade mgpu.
R* have the size and budget to make things correctly after GTA 5 HUGE world success. now let's see if they have the motivation to push walls for pc community.
My gaming time is precious as your and there is tons of games out actually to play with.
RDR2 was one of my biggest deceptive launch of the year
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dantrigger

hoopdom7
so is sli running reliably in RDR2 or should I skip on buying the game? I'm running two gtx 980 ti's w/ i7-7700k, 16gb ram.

It seems to work more consistently for people with RTX cards, I have 2x1080Tis and the game won't even launch if I have SLI enabled in the control panel. I have raised 2 tickets and all I've been told is that other users have reported the issue and they are looking into it but no time window for a fix.

I honestly believe it would be a gamble right now if you buy it, maybe you get lucky and it works.

I bought the game not knowing anything of the SLI issues, and now extremely dissapointed.  I'm in the same boat I have two GTX 980 ti's and the game will launch with SLI enabled in the control panel, however soon as I click story
mode, the game hangs.  The game will run for a while if I disable SLI, but then randomly crashes with no error (similar to Jedi Fallen order) I was told the reason the game randomly crashes in Fallen order is due to unstable OC,
however neither of my cards are OC'd, and the fact its happening in this game as well tells me its not related to that.

Dantrigger

boofulkaka187
I bought the game not knowing anything of the SLI issues, and now extremely dissapointed.  I'm in the same boat I have two GTX 980 ti's and the game will launch with SLI enabled in the control panel, however soon as I click story
mode, the game hangs.  The game will run for a while if I disable SLI, but then randomly crashes with no error (similar to Jedi Fallen order) I was told the reason the game randomly crashes in Fallen order is due to unstable OC,
however neither of my cards are OC'd, and the fact its happening in this game as well tells me its not related to that.

Yeah, It sucks cause with 2 cards I believe 4K would be achievable for 1080 Ti with digital foundry's "console" settings. Right now I have settled for 1080p with hardware unboxed recommended settings, DX12 and enabled asynch compute. Been running at steady 60 fps but 1080p does no justice to this game 4k is a must or at least 1440p.

Hopefully the new year will bring good news and fixes to all the issues that currently plague the game.

Yeah I hear ya, my monitor will only do 1440p @ 60, and thats all I wanted to run at max or close to max as possible.  Could you tell me what page of the thread digital foundrys settings are on, or would you happen to have a link
to them, I'd like to give them a try.
 
Thanks
 

boofulkaka187
Yeah I hear ya, my monitor will only do 1440p @ 60, and thats all I wanted to run at max or close to max as possible.  Could you tell me what page of the thread digital foundrys settings are on, or would you happen to have a link
to them, I'd like to give them a try.
 
Thanks
 

I don't believe they are posted but here you go.

Texture quality: ultra
AF: 4x
Lighting: medium
Global illumination: medium
Shadows: high
Far shadows: low
SSAO: medium
Reflection: low
Mirror: high
Water: custom
Volumetrics: custom
Particle: medium
Tessellation: high
TAA: high
FXAA: off
MSAA: off
========================
API: Vulkan
Near volumetric: low
Far volumetric: low
Volumetric lighting: medium
Unlocked VRR: off
Particle lighting: medium
Soft shadows: high
Grass shadows: low
Long shadows: off
Full res SSAO: off
Water refraction: high
Water reflection: medium
Water physics: [1]
Resolution scale: off
TAA Sharpening: [0]
Motion blur: on
Reflection MSAA: off
Geometry LOD: [5]
Grass LOD: [2]
Tree quality: low
Parallax occlusion mapping: medium
Decal: medium
Fur: medium

Dantrigger

boofulkaka187
Yeah I hear ya, my monitor will only do 1440p @ 60, and thats all I wanted to run at max or close to max as possible.  Could you tell me what page of the thread digital foundrys settings are on, or would you happen to have a link
to them, I'd like to give them a try.
 
Thanks
 

I don't believe they are posted but here you go.

Texture quality: ultra
AF: 4x
Lighting: medium
Global illumination: medium
Shadows: high
Far shadows: low
SSAO: medium
Reflection: low
Mirror: high
Water: custom
Volumetrics: custom
Particle: medium
Tessellation: high
TAA: high
FXAA: off
MSAA: off
========================
API: Vulkan
Near volumetric: low
Far volumetric: low
Volumetric lighting: medium
Unlocked VRR: off
Particle lighting: medium
Soft shadows: high
Grass shadows: low
Long shadows: off
Full res SSAO: off
Water refraction: high
Water reflection: medium
Water physics: [1]
Resolution scale: off
TAA Sharpening: [0]
Motion blur: on
Reflection MSAA: off
Geometry LOD: [5]
Grass LOD: [2]
Tree quality: low
Parallax occlusion mapping: medium
Decal: medium
Fur: medium

Thanks, seems to be working better for me with the single card, managed to play over an hour and it didn't crash.  Lets hope they fix SLI support so GTX cards can run this.

BaDBoY_uK
Glad it helped pal. I agree TAA makes it blurry but you can use either the NVIDIA sharpen tool or use ReShade with something like Adaptive Sharpen
 
https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/4
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4920/~/how-to-enable-image-sharpening-in-the-nvidia-control-panel

Quick question, what does exactly the ignore film grain slider does? I'm not sure I understand how it works. 0 is off and 1 is apply Max or is the opposite?

Thanks.

 
24 pages in 7 weeks is pretty good for such a minor problem. LOL!

jgoucher12
Can anyone assist?
As of now I uninstalled RD2, DDU driver for nvidia, Reloaded RD2 fresh, Reinstalled latest Nvidia Driver.. And now it loads STORY mode for instance and when loading is done, I hear sound, but get no screen. Just blank black screen and then it says "red dead has stopped working" Prior to this ,it would start, then be 15fps max and be useless..

You'll have to disable SLI in the Nvidia control panel or use DX12 as the graphics API. It's an error that was introduced with the moonshiners update. No solution has been found so far.