MrSmitty556
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Alright, thanks for the information!

shafat
if you get rid of tree tessellation, you ll get a significant fps boost

I tried that, I don't really see any difference in performance.

BaDBoY_uK
Wow. The Social Club app updated and now my game crashes the Launcher and wont load at all. Fine yesterday. Broken today. Awesome.
Did a full reinstall and nothing works

That's just one of many reasons I would never even think about paying anywhere near full price for a game without a demo these days--or a SP game with online DRM. It's not just me that suffers if I do that--it's the quality of video games in general.
 
Whatever treatment people support with their money is what they get more of. Since I don't gamble and I don't pirate, if a game has no demo I just wait until it's in the bargain bin.

Hi Cowboys,
 
Dunno what happen but my game run very correctly with "almost" perfect cards scaling with pair of GTX 1080 ti’s and i see a real difference ingame.
Its maybe the best result till the beginning of the game with multi gpu and i was able to push a bit further my graphicals settings with gain power.
 
I will try to give some leads...its not definitive solution its just leads because i read some have problems with crashing and so on (so maybe it could help)
and i didn't get any problems last days.
 
Windows 10 – 64 pro 1909 version 10.0.18363
NV drivers 445.87 using Direct Driver Uninstall
No added argument in R* launcher
i vsync the game at my max framerate 60fps on a 2160p monitor.
have a bit OC to both cards to push a bit to 2012 to 2025 Mhz & VRAM +400 Mhz.
 
Every time and after all update, i try to check the game library with embedded tools in rockstar game launcher.
Then i delete « pipe » files into C:\Users\ « PCname »\Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings
You will find 6 files starting by « sga » (4 for Vulkan API and 2 for Win32) delete all those 6 files.
 
Then launch the game and first go in parameters (first) and select DX12 API, then go in story mode (wait a bit) (check if there is some crash or strange behaviour) then close the game.
 
Start the game again and go in parameters (first) and select Vulkan API and launch story mode
 
(this is just to reconstruct deleted sga files bellow) and start to apply graphicals settings to your taste.
 
Restart system entirely

(i look for constant solid 60 fps with far possible settings) what is see is that the cards are in green area around 85% usage with max clock but upper like more than 91% usage it start to downclock and in some areas its possible to get a fps drops and i don't want that. so keep it under 91% loading usage at max of the case.
 
Share my graphicals settings if its help (can't push much than this without fps drop)  

Resolution: 3840x2160
Fullscreen
Vsync: On
Triple Buffering:  Off
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Texture quality: Ultra
AF: 16x
Lighting: High
Global illumination: High
Shadows: High
Far shadows: High
AO : High
Reflection: High
Mirror: High
Water: Custom
Volumetrics: Custom
Particle: High
Tessellation: High
TAA: Off
FXAA: On
MSAA: Off
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API: Vulkan
Near volumetric: Low
Far volumetric: Medium
Volumetric lighting: High
Unlocked VRR: No
Particle lighting: High
Soft shadows: High
Grass shadows: High
Long shadows: Yes
Full res SSAO: Off
Water refraction: High
Water reflection: High
Water physics: [2/4]
Resolution scale: Off
TAA Sharpening: [0%]
Motion blur: Off
Reflection MSAA: Off
Geometry LOD: [3/5]
Grass LOD: [6/10] or [5/10]
Tree quality: High
Parallax occlusion mapping: High
Decal: high
Fur: High
Trees Tesslation : Off
 
Adding a bit adaptative sharpen on top of that by nvidia 3D settings parameters into drivers.
 
Multi gpu scale very well to 75% in empty area between Valentine & Emerald Ranch and up to 97 to 98% in hard area like cripps camp by night or under prohibited bar with musicians 😉  
Fps is very stable to 60 fps in 98% of the case and 58 fps drops sometimes (due to loading i don't have it instal on my SSD) but in a second return stabilize to 60 fps.
 
i test to try to enable Async mode under user.cfg settings but it crash my game twice so i went back on that point.

Tested over 40 hours online playin you will experience small clipping over volumetric fog and some textures like the « blood over the Rhodes butcher apron ». Very strange i test a lot but was unable to avoid it
But if you find a way i'll take it ;)
 
For me its definitively the best result i ever got with multi gpu on RDR2.
This morning i get a « gfx error » on start, i reboot pc and all ok by now.

Hopes its help.
Cheers

superfufuzeHi Cowboys,

Thanks for posting your results. One thing, though: You list your utilization, but I didn't see the actual difference in framerates between single card and SLI.
 
Since there can be significant differences between utilization and actual output, can you list the actual framerate improvements that you experienced?

Hi all, this seems to be one of the more active online discussions around still getting the game to work properly with multiple GPUs lol. With the latest patch, I thought I could finally enjoy a high framerate experience with my 2 980Tis in the Vulkan API, as my main issue before the April patch was the cutscene flickering and the horrendous water artifacts. 
 
However, it turns out that my joy was shortlived, as running Vulkan with multiple GPU and TAA results in flickering but only in towns, particularly when I'm near buildings and architecture. Oddly enough this happens in daytime, as I tested it out during night and I didn't notice any flickering. I know TAA gets a lot of flak for blurring the textures but I think the AA is pretty efficient. But even when I then tried FXAA and disabling TAA, I realised that the fog and particle effects just became very pixelated, and comical to the point where the effects are basically just huge moving cubes.
 
Just wondering if anyone has encountered the same issues with the latest patch? I wonder how long we have to wait until we can get it to run perfectly...

@Eclipscion it's never going to be perfect. I had the same issues as you before (cutscenes and water) which are now fixed. I still get the odd bit of flickering in towns and buildings but its vastly improved. Too bad the tradeoff for me is that the game now crashes every time I pause. Can be worked around but still very annoying.
 
As for scaling, I'm at about 45fps average with one card, 60fps with two (3440x1440, HUB settings)

@goovich, same problem I have been experiencing and noted here a few days ago. I managed to fix the map crashing by switching to Fullscreen from Windowed Borderless, but the game still crashes when I pause (either via ESC or options button on DS4 controller).

Is the Nvidia sharpening no longer possible in this game?

Is there a patch notes?

goovich

uggis007
Is there a patch notes?

Yeah, here:

Spoiler

RockStar
[May 4, 2020] – General / Miscellaneous (PC)
Improvements and Bug Fixes – (PC)

• Improved texture rendering at the Medium and High quality settings, so the game will now show a higher level of texture detail without impacting framerate or requiring more system resources
• Increased the maximum range of the TAA Sharpening graphics setting, allowing players to make the game appear less blurry and match the quality available with external driver solutions
• Fixed an issue that caused some system configurations to misreport the amount of free video memory available for the game to use
• Fixed caching issues that caused graphical issues and missing UI that occurred after upgrading a system’s graphics card
• Fixed a rendering issue with shimmering/flickering textures near campfires when Parallax Occlusion Mapping was set to Ultra quality
• Fixed a lighting issue that caused blocky shadow textures around the player that could occur on some systems while Parallax Occlusion Mapping was set to Ultra quality
• Fixed an issue that prevented cloud transition screens from displaying on death/respawn when the system is low on video memory
• Fixed an issue with occlusion checks that could occur when running with DirectX 12, which prevented progress on some Story Mode missions
• Fixed a lighting issue that caused graphical artifacts to appear around distant trees on some system configurations while MSAA was active
• Fixed a lighting issue that caused flickering snow particle effects on some system configurations with multiple graphics cards
• Fixed a water rendering issue that caused flickering when running with DirectX 12 and having the Water Reflection / Refraction Quality levels set to Low
• Fixed a water rendering issue that caused incorrect wave simulation on some system configurations using multiple graphics cards
• Fixed an issue with hardware auto-detection that caused some system configurations to incorrectly default to low quality graphical settings on first boot
• Fixed an issue that caused an incorrect "Minimum Hardware Requirements not met" error on launch with some older system configurations that did meet the required specification
• Fixed several crashes that may have occurred when launching the game on certain hardware configurations
• Fixed a crash that occurred during gameplay when running out of system memory, resulting in a ERR_GFX_STATE error
• Fixed several crashes that could occur when switching between graphics APIs and display modes on some system configurations
• Fixed a crash that could occur when significantly increasing graphics settings, causing the system to run out of video memory
• Fixed several crashes and performance issues when using Intel NUC systems or when using integrated graphics hardware
• Fixed several random crashes that occurred during gameplay in Story Mode and Red Dead Online

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Thanks!

just got my first ERR_GFX_STATE error message in a long time.. did the update before I started my game this evening..
What was the fix again for this super annoying message again? Anyone else get the error message after the update? 
I run the game with SLI on the vulkan api..

uggis007
just got my first ERR_GFX_STATE error message in a long time.. did the update before I started my game this evening..
What was the fix again for this super annoying message again? Anyone else get the error message after the update? 
I run the game with SLI on the vulkan api..

Try these steps:
1) Delete vulkan cache files
2) Login in to RD Online
3) Then switch to Story mode by loading any manual save
 
I had same GFX error message right after update and did all of the steps above. Can't be sure what exactly did the trick but it helped. Try all of the at at once.
 

How is the state of g-sync support when running SLI now?

I remembered it was not good at launch. Has it gotten better?

Here are my results with the latest patch (2080 NVLink, 3900X, 32GB RAM, trying to play at 4k 60fps with VSync):
 
Flickering of sky, snow, grass, is gone. However, I cannot get this game to be smooth, regardless of the settings. For me, the game is only smooth when I have a large GPU headroom. If my fps without VSync is too close to 60, I will get stutters when enabling VSync. I even tried running at half sync, which my system is more than capable of doing, and the game still stutters some times. If I try to run at normal balanced settings, that means the game will feel like 20fps even though the frame counter says 60, because of very inconsistent frame times. In fact, the game feels smoother (or at least more consistent) when using only one GPU, in DX12. This defeats the entire purpose of multi-gpu... I don't want higher numbers, I want smooth gameplay!
 
Also, the game crashes almost every time I change one of the following settings: Resolution, VSync, triple buffering, TAA, TAA Sharpening, Resolution scale. But only when using Vulkan. I spent like 4 hours yesterday tweaking the settings, mostly because of that...