GrampsIsGaming Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 Looking for some advice. I have a Gigabyte Radeon RX590 in an Asus H81M-E motherboard with an i5 CPU, 12GB ram (unfortunately I cannot get a new motherboard for about 6 months) in it. Motherboard can accept an i7 that is no longer commonly available and its not worth buying when getting a new board in 6 months. When I play Red Dead 2 the CPU is at 97% and the GPU is at around 80%. I have the RD2 in game settings set to low pretty much for every setting. The game now almost looks like Elon's new truck. Trying Vulkan or Direct X in RD2 game settings does not seem to change much, nor the load balancing line in the Rockstargame launcher settings. Am I doomed expecting this boomer i5 with this decent video card in it to play RD2 at anything other than at the low settings I have it at now to keep system from turning into a crispy fry? I have tried a bunch of different in game settings. Might there be some magical settings in the Rd2 game itself, launcher argument or video card tweak software that may help? I assume a higher wattage power supply will not help matters either? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Config Info: Radeon Software Version - 19.9.2 Radeon Software Edition - Adrenalin 2019 Graphics Chipset - Radeon RX 590 Series Memory Size - 8192 MB Memory Type - GDDR5 Core Clock - 1545 MHz Windows Version - Windows 10 (64 bit) System Memory - 12 GB CPU Type - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz Radeon Settings Version - 2019.0910.1749.32088 View Release Notes - https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-19-9-2 Driver Packaging Version - 19.30.03.01-190910a-346940C-RadeonSoftwareAdrenalin2019 Provider - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 2D Driver Version - 8.1.1.1634 Direct3D® Version - 9.14.10.01410 OpenGL® Version - 26.20.11000.13571 AMD Audio Driver Version - 10.0.1.12 Vulkan™ Driver Version - 2.0.106 Vulkan™ API Version - 1.1.119
shiverz Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 Your CPU is below the recommended i7-4770k so that's probably why you are having trouble. The Reddit discussion below has a guide to limit CPU usage of the game, users have reported this works. You can download the mentioned software here: http://mion.faireal.net/BES/ I'd also try overclocking the GPU a little as well, maybe 10-20% to offset the CPU limitation. You could also try Process Lasso and restrict the game to 2 or 3 cores: https://bitsum.com/ - or if the option is available to you.. Open up Task Manager with RDR2.exe running, go to the Details tab, right-click on it, and select 'Set Affinity'. Lower the cores used.
GrampsIsGaming Posted November 25, 2019 Author Posted November 25, 2019 Thanks for the info, will give them a try.
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