Red Dead Redemption 2 FIXED on Steam Deck! | Deck Dive
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- Hi everyone!
Today, we're going over Red Dead 2 with a fine toothed comb to find every bit of performance we can get. By the end, you'll be an expert in Red Dead Performance and have better performance on the deck overall!
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00:00 - Introduction
00:31 - News! Get ya news here!
01:53 - Trust Issues
02:51 - Benchmark Methodology
03:25 - Defining the Default Presets
03:54 - Baseline
05:09 - VRAM Expansion
07:03 - VRAM Bug Explanation
08:09 - Swap Fix
08:55 - Swap & VRAM Fixes
09:07 - Swap + Happiness = Swappiness
10:55 - Installing Swap Script 3.0
12:09 - Running Swap Resizer 3.0
13:48 - Swappiness Fix Results
14:43 - XML Settings Tweaks
15:07 - XML Settings Results
15:20 - Red Herring
15:45 - Back to XML Settings Results
16:18 - GPU Pinning Results
16:42 - GameMode Tweaks Intro
17:19 - GameMode Tweaks Resutls
17:32 - FSR Testing Intro
17:56 - FSR Results
19:04 - Other Things I Tested
20:23 - My Presets - Intro
20:38 - My Presets - Battery Saver
21:29 - My Presets - Fast/Smooth
22:13 - My Presets - Recommended
23:43 - My Presets - Prettiest
25:13 - Conclusion
26:00 - Plz Interact with the Channel
26:22 - Super Shout-Outs
26:43 - Patreon Shout-Outs - Věda a technologie
You are a gem to this community. I hope that bug gets fixed soon. Valve should hire you already lol it blows my mind that you do all of this work in addition to your job. I can’t even imagine what you’d do for them/us if they were paying you.
Nevertheless, thank you so much for all that you do and that wasn’t me asking you to do more by any means. Very grateful for all of the value you provide 🙏🏻
Thank you so much! 😭🙏
I really enjoy doing all this, and honestly just feel bad that I don't have all the equipment I want to make better content!
I'm making sure to not burn out by pacing the rate of content, and not every video will take 20+ hours to benchmark alone 😉
You are just something else bro, I just started this game and am so happy with the performance and now I'm gonna get it to look even better thanks to you, truly you deserve all the support bro, glad I subbed.
Thank you so much! 😭
I really appreciate the kind words, the sub and the view, I hope that you're happy with the results after you apply the settings! ❤️
@cryobyte33 it’s not clear from the video where I’m supposed to add the flag -cpuLoadRebalancing within the system.xml file. Can you elaborate on this? Thanks for the amazing content!
Thank you for the in depth content. Making the most of your steam deck is great. I don't often go for the heavier games but since repicking up shadow of war and loving it on the deck then picking up RDR2 I've been enjoying AAA action on such a small but surprising device and it's people like you that make that easier.
Thank you so much for supporting the channel! I really appreciate it, and it really helps me keep coming out with content like this ❤️
@@cryobyte33 no worries just appreciate the answer to my question on a month old video.
The new swap fix blew my mind, dude. You're amazing, seriously. I don't even own the steam deck yet, but I just love the investigation proccess of your videos.
Thank you for watching, and for the kind words!
The things you do blow my mind. I have no idea how these things work but you explain so well it just makes sense somehow. Steam should be shouting you out at this point. Another great video!
Thank you for watching, subbing, and the kind words! I'm really happy that I'm able to teach people about these things 😄
Awesome gameplay dude!
Thanks, I don't know how I got those headshots with the input lag I have on my setup! 😂
Thanks for watching!
@@cryobyte33 😅😂
This is an amazing resource, thank you for the thorough research and testing!
Thank you for watching, and I hope you enjoy the better performance!
these deep dive vids are brilliant. love the analysis n detail. great work. subbed 🥳
Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoy the content 😁
Fantastic video! I love tinkering with the deck and you sir make it so easy to follow. Thank you very much. Subscribed!
Thank you for watching and subscribing, it really helps out!
Wow, superb content thanks! My deck is on its way and you've already covered 4 of the big games I'll be playing on it, so looking forward to getting some decent performance :)
Thank you for watching, let me know how you like it when it comes in 🙂
I'm getting my steamdeck on Monday and your videos are like a bible for easy free performance upgrades. I do overclocking on windows and bios on pcs, but I've never used linux and I love your channel. Definitely will start patroning starting first of the next month.
Thank you so much for watching, and considering supporting me with Patreon! ❤️
I really love helping others with the random knowledge I've acquired, and hearing that even people with traditional technical ability are benefitting from it makes it even better 😄
@@cryobyte33 hey cryo, do you know the command line to check the nvme width if it's x2 or x4? i saw it somewhere on reddit, but I can't find it. i'm trying to find out if my drive is x2 or x4, thanks
@@khmergodhobbies Heya, that would be the lspci command. If you want to see just the width then "sudo lspci -vvs --01:00--.- | grep -i width" (without the quotes) should get you the supported and current width.
The supported line starts with LnkCap, the current connection is LnkSta.
Hope this helps!
Well structured and comprehensive video 👍
Thank you for watching and being subscribed, I'm glad you liked it!
This is just so bloody fantastic! Thank you.
Thank you for watching!
Incredible video, outstanding work!
Thank you for watching, and being subscribed!
Love the videos man there grate! Can't want to see more like this! Keep up the good work! Cheers!
Thank you so much for watching!
Great video as always, love how in depth it goes for people interested like myself but also if someone who was not very techy came across this they could just skip to what they need, As soon as I get my steam deck I'm gonna binge watch this channel lol
Great to see you here, as always!
Thanks for continuing to watch even if you don't have your Deck yet 🙂
Thank you for all your hard work. Very much appreciate you!
Thank you so much for watching, I hope it helps!
amazing over 100 benches, wow :O Thank You!
Thank you for watching! It was quite a lot of work 😅
Bro, u work so much to make this videos, u are amazing
Thank you so much 😭
I'm really glad you liked the content, and I hope it helps you get the best performance possible. Thank you for being a subscriber and watching!
Great content, you really hit a sweet spot with the Steam Deck game performance tinkering videos! I would love to see you also try out performance boost/potato pc mods. There are a lot of those online for almost every big game. Additionally, you could even test the games on a Windows partition where it would be even easier to install mods.
Thanks for watching!
I've tried some, but I haven't seen such a major boost as it would warrant the fidelity hit. Also, some games have anti-cheat implications (mostly Elden Ring). That said, I could start including them if people would actually use them, I just can't stand how bad they look 😂
As for Windows, the performance wouldn't be the same so that wouldn't be super useful until I have some Windows-specific testing to compare with. 🙂
I’ve been looking forward to this video! Thank you sir your work is always awesome!
Thank you for continuing to support the channel, and I hope you enjoy the video!
@@cryobyte33 if they reply to your bug can you update us? I missed the glory days for this precious FPS boosts 🤣
@@Findalflin I'll let you know, but you'll probably know as soon as I do if there's a fix out 😉
@@cryobyte33 🤣 Yeah fair point. I just started playing the game for the first time. I’m going to apply your renewed swap fix when I get home. Thank you! Your work is legendary man💪
The best channel of steam deck!.Amazing work! Keep doing these amazing videos.Congrats!❤
Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoy the content 😁
@@cryobyte33 i love your explanations in each game dive.Amazing work👏👏
Great work, thank you for a long and interesting video
Thank you for watching, I hope it helps!
Awesome video! Lots of thanksfor the explanations and recommended settings. Now the game have a new update adding FSR 2.2 to the game.
And steam deck oled have a little bump on performance.
Nextly i will try the prettiest preset on my OLED hope can run near 40 fps with the help of FSR.
A tip: Attempting Sharpshooter 6 from a nearby cliff of a town will crash the game when attempting to aim with scope in center area of whatever town.
This is very very amazing work!
Thank you for watching!
Hi I'm such a big fan of RDR2 that I've cleared this game 5 times over the years with PS4. I bought the steam version this time to play with Steam Deck again, and your video was very helpful. Thank you.
That's amazing to hear, I have yet to beat it but one of these days I'll take the time to do it! Have an amazing day, and happy holidays!
I can't find rdr2 on steam deck store? Where is it
I have no idea how to do any of this, but here I am still watching and enjoying. 🤷🏽♂️
You're the best thank you so much! I'm playing it on your recommended settings and it runs like a dream beside the drop fps near water!
One feedback if i may, would be great in the future to also include a recommended settings for docked gameplay on TV ! ❤
Thank you so much for watching! I actually started adding Docked presets in my newer videos, so definitely give those a look for any games you're interested in 😁
This is amazing stuff. Thank you so much.
Thank you for watching!
This was a very interesting video! I didn't understand much and I'm too cowardly to try any of the fixes that involve changing Literally Anything in my deck that isn't a game setting (mainly because I'm afraid I won't be able to undo it if I screw up), but I still found this video very informative and engaging :)
Thank you for replying, sorry to hear that you're terrified of changing anything but I totally understand 🙂
Hopefully the recommended settings were at least helpful for you, and thank you for watching!
Thank you CryoByte for all you work.
I got the game to run with DX12 and i've got a lot more performace. The bad thing is that the water and snow doesn't render properly
Thank you for watching! Yeah, DirectX12 is VERY buggy for RDR2 on Steam Deck, and when I tested it didn't allow me to change settings without breaking the entire game 😓 I really hope that R* takes the time to fix it.
Regardless, thank you for watching!
You are incredible man! Thank you 🙏
I like the format of this video, it's great to have a few tested presets to use without having to do all the testing, It's nice you give us a range of presets to choose which one suits us best. Keep up the great work.
Thank you so much for watching, and I'm glad that the format is well received 😄
Incredible! Thank you!!
Thanks for watching this one too!
Can say in october 2023 this still work like a beauty on the prettiest mode. On my pc i have everything on ultra and get over 60 fps, but sometimes I just want to lay in bed and play and this is perfect for what i want personally. Pretty much locked 30 fps and just runs great and looks great. Thank you for this
A little late to the party but I just bought my deck. Great video, and I also use the prettiest settings in my desktop PC. Thx for the good work
Amazing work, thank you
Thank you for watching this video as well 🙂
22:56 you just couldn't make it 2 hours huh 🤣🤣 nice video as always man
As a long time Linux user I love that you're bringing all these Linux tweaks to a whole new set of users. Bravo man.
Thank you so much, I'm just really happy that people are finally starting to see that Linux is a great OS for things other than servers and POS systems 😅
@@cryobyte33 😀 Oh don't get me started.... right with you man, right with you.
Wow this is a great video. Well put together and it shows you put a lot of care and effort into this. Keep it up!
One suggestion/ask is if you could point out some of the differences (if any?) on some of the presets. I know you've listed the graphical settings but I mean more things that you can observe in the game on different settings. Eg on prettiest are there a lot more people in towns? Do puddles still form on the performance setting?
Probably more in the realm of Digital Foundry stuff but it would be interesting to know how different settings can impact that playing experience on the Steam Deck :)
Thank you for watching!
That's a good idea, and I'll see how viable it is in the context of the video's pacing in the future 🙂 The footage in the background is of the respective preset, so you should be able to see some difference in the video already, though!
Thank you for the suggestion, and again for watching, I really appreciate it!
Thank you so much for this guide and the swap fix, i think you should make a short video for the updated version, so people don't wear out their ssd for nothing
Thank you for the idea, I might be able to piece together an updated "Easy performance boosts" video with some existing footage and the explanations, if you think that would make sense?
Thanks for watching!
Excellent work! I think you're on to something with the "swappiness" setting. Cyberpunk now runs much more smooth with the swappiness set to 1 but with a 1gb vram setting. Now there's no need for me to switch to 4gb between that and red dead.
Awesome! 4GB of VRAM should still benefit C77, especially on the lows, but it's good to know you can avoid the hassle of BIOS when swapping 🙂
Omg , bro , its awesome! I was so sceptic about steam deck , but saw one lot near me for low price and bought it. And with all tweaks from your another video , and 500 gb 50$ ssd from amazon it works in stable 30fps on prettiest preset(+ taa sharpening and motion blur) for 2:10! And i have lcd deck , not oled , without any undervolting. Game looks amazing , thanks!
great content, thank you for the efort.
Thank you for watching and being a subscriber, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This is an amazing Deck Dive
Thank you for watching, I'm happy you enjoy the content 🙂
Excellent vid
Thank you for watching, and being a subscriber!
Not sure if you mentionned it (dont think you did) but one of the issue with RDR2 performance seemed to be related to how close you were to a body of water in the game. And I did notice my FPS dropping to the high 20s in the prologue when there is snow and streams of water. With that fix it's all back to a rock-solid 40 FPS. Insane stuff. Congrats.
hey i have a windows machine and i have this problem when i am near water my fps drop from 37 to 25 is there any fix
Thank you! Just installed and it seems I'm getting better fps. I haven't ran a benchmark though.
The benchmark is horribly inaccurate, so definitely test with gameplay 😉
Thank you for watching!
Truly an amazing insight, thanks mate, just a question, does the swapping affect all Games or only the ones you showcase?
Thanks for watching!
Swapping affects all games in all locations (SSD or otherwise), as long as you're on SteamOS and not Windows 🙂
Thanks for your service!
Thank you for watching!
Hi, if you don't mind me asking what was your compatibility layer and did you insert the wine code in preferences? I could have took my time to make it look like I know what I'm on about but I've finally pulled the trigger on the game after months and of course this is the only video that stuck in my mind for setting all that time ago. Much appreciated
Awesome. I'll swap that swap file and try this out. Shout out to Vance!
Hell yeah, let me know how it goes! 😄
BIG shoutout to Vance, what a legend!
Awesome work! Makes a huge difference from the swap change alone. Have you heard anything else about the vram fix? Is it still broken?
Unfortunately it's still broken. I have more details near the end of my CU2 announcement video, which I recommend watching. Thank you for watching!
Your app enabled me to run new world on my deck. Thank You!
Thank you for watching, and I'm super happy to hear that I helped run a new game on the Deck 🙂
@@cryobyte33 i got a weird one for you. On desktop mode in home folder there is a 12gb swapfile. But under devices - home there is the 16gb swapfile that was made using your app. The 16gb swapfile was used recently. The 12gb swapfile hasnt been used since its creation. Is ot safe to delete the 12gb swapfile?
@@sigmastun1191 That's... weird. Uhhh it should be safe, but I would check that the 12GB version isn't being used with 'swapon -s'. Let me know what happens!
@@cryobyte33 the 12gb swap file was ok to delete. Info center showed memory has 16gb swapfile. Deleted 12gb swapfile, restarted and its all ok.
@@sigmastun1191 Still super weird, but thanks for letting me know! May your frames be quick 🙂
Awesome, as always 👏 👍
So the newest swap fix will benefit (or beak even with) all games that use swap correct? Or is this a setting that will need to be tweeked for different games?
Thanks for watching!
It will either benefit or break even in all situations I'm aware of, no per-game tweaking necessary 🙂
@@cryobyte33 Beautiful! That is the best kind of fix!
Haven't started RDR2 yet. So once will, at least I know that need to rollback to 1gb of VRAM. Thanks for your work!
Thanks for watching, and I hope you enjoy it!
I definitely hope Valve fixes the issue that's hindering the VRAM expansion fix quickly. Seems like a huge oversight on their part.
Agreed, I'll be submitting a bug report this weekend and hope that they seriously investigate it. In all fairness, they may not have tested with non-default VRAM values and that would have made the issue much harder to diagnose.
Thank you for watching!
@@cryobyte33 thank you for submitting a report rather then just making s CZcams video about it! Seriously thank you
Please reply to this comment if there's any further development regarding this issue, I too am patiently waiting for more information...
@@xDARKSHADEx unfortunately, nothing has happened in the meantime, I’m still waiting to hear back in some capacity other than “we forwarded this info” 😓
@CryoByte33 Anything yet?
Nice work! I like your voice, its good to hear idk lol.
Btw I guess there isn't anything to fix the "shadow-lag" around moving stuff, like your own character, using FSR right? Its only thing that annoys me from FSR, I dont care that much if its blurry but I dont like these weird shadows around the character
Thanks for the compliment, never gotten one for my voice! 😅
As for the "shadow lag", I think you mean what's normally called ghosting. FSR 2 and 2.1 both have it pretty bad at these resolutions.
FSR basically works by taking a lower resolution image and reconstructing it into a bigger one with a fancy algorithm, but a lot of the time it can get messy between the subject (character) and landscape.
TL;DR: Not really at the moment, but as FSR gets better, the problem should too.
Thanks for watching!
this is neat! Will be testing some games with this. If I understand correctly, this is more focused on GPU optimization,
but how about tweaks to the cpu as well? for the more cpu-intensive games out there? is such thing possible?
Thanks for watching!
The answer is yes, and I did do some CPU testing here. In particular, I disabled 2, 4, 6, and 8 cores, disabled SMT, and pinned the CPU at 2, 2.5, 3, and 3.5Ghz to see if there was any benefit 🙂
We don’t have the ability to overclock or under volt just yet, but I hope we get it at some point because I’ll be the first to try it.
My only regret is that I didn’t find this video until the epilogue of the game and played through dozens of hours at an unstable 30fps. This is brilliant!
Thanks for watching! I have yet to get that far, but I can't wait 😄
There is no way I stay up late doing your upgrades just to wake up in the morning and I gotta update it lol either way great vids 😅
Sorry about that, but I'm happy that you'll have much better performance now 🙂
Thank you for watching!
@@cryobyte33 yes I noticed a pretty nice boost in Days Gone so far amazing stuff keep it up your channel is gonna be big as this market needs you 🙂
Nice vid again, hope they fix the vram bug.
Thank you for watching!
I plan to submit a bug report to Valve this weekend 🙂
I was JUST going to comment on your last video about the 1gb to 4gb fix causing MAJOR issues (I couldn't even hold 30 fps before, making it really unenjoyable for me). It was a great fix during the update issue, thank god it's now "fixed"
Glad I could get the video out before too many more people were blindsided by it! I spent the greater part of 2 days tracking the issue down, I can't imagine how it felt for others.
Thank you for continuing to watch and support the channel!
@@cryobyte33 Yeah I was wondering why it seemed that my steam deck was certainly running lower fps in most of my AAA games compared to when I first got it...I kind've thought it might have been a placebo effect after having the deck for some time.
ALSO, Thank *YOU* for the great video, and for continuing to support steam deck games (especially those like red dead that need the most help possible, which will usually translate to most other graphically intensive games as well)
@@cryobyte33 also, one more thing. where did you type the -cpuLoadRebalancing?
Also, I assume to switch Async and transfer queues, we just have to change those values from "false" to "true", correct?
I don't know how I missed this, I'm so sorry!
I put it in the game properties! If you don't have anything there use:
%command% -cpuLoadRebalancing
And correct, that is how I changed them. I didn't think anyone else would want to actually change them so I kept the details quick 😅
@@cryobyte33 sorry, are you referring to the “launch options” section in properties? Or the XTML? Sorry, just want to clarify!
Hi! Thanks a lot for you work. Do you have any setting recommendations for the SD Oled? Also, should the default cryobyte settings be changed every time I want to play RDR2 (since VRAM problem)?
Incredible video. Just one question: Can the Swap resizer mod impact negatively performance in other games or emulators? I want to download and install it but I wouldn't like to be activating and deactivating each time. Many thanks and keep it up!!
Thank you for watching!
Prior to the swappiness change, it COULD have affected some CPU-only tasks that used a ton of memory. With the swappiness set to 1 there should no longer be a performance penalty in any situation, to the best of my knowledge.
As for emulators in particular, I've heard from viewers that the swap fix, even with a swappiness of 100, helps them quite a bit, especially the newer ones.
@@cryobyte33 you are an angel hahahaha keep up the incredible work. You just got yourself a new patron
Hi there, how is it the VRAM problem as of today? thanks for the video!
Considering the bug you mentioned that's messing up proper utilization of the GPU/CPU, it would be super interesting (for someone like me) for you to revisit your tests on this game if a fix for it is released. Please consider doing this.
I do plan on revisiting, if even just for a mini-deep-dive, so don't worry about that 😉
Thank you for watching, and continuing to support the channel!
@@cryobyte33 I was informed by someone today who's currently using the Proton 7.0-5 beta (that will be released soon) that there is a RDR2 patch contained in it. I have no idea if it's related to what you were talking about in this video, but it's worth noting.
@@originalalienone Thank you for letting me know! I tried Proton Experimental, so I'm not sure if it skipped that, but I can definitely look into it.
Update: Here's the issue contained github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6240 , and it doesn't look like it'll fix this, just resolve a crash issue.
@@cryobyte33 Ah, that's too bad. Well, thanks for the replies! You're providing a great source of help and information to the Steam Deck community, and we appreciate it. I'm part of the two-man team running Pixel Deck, and we follow your work with GREAT interest. Thank you for the work you put into stuff like this. It's very illuminating.
@@originalalienone 😲 Thank you for watching, and I'm happy to help you guys do push the Deck forward too!
Awesome video! For the 40hz in game settings, what do you set in game resolution to? Also if not native is there a particular setting you recommend for native resolution in game at 40hz?
For 40hz I recommend the native resolution 🙂
Thank you for watching!
Appreciate you 🙏🏻
Thank you for watching!
Nice vid once again. In regards of that RDR2 VRAM BuG, could you report it to Valve/Steam? You did very good analysis and have evidences. If you open a ticket to the support and provide explanation they can give it to Developers.
Thanks for subbing and watching!
I actually plan to do that this weekend, good looking out 😄 I'm hoping that with more people knowing of the problem, it'll help them realize it's a real issue.
@@cryobyte33 Valve has a good approach towards possible BUGs. I think once you provide them the data you gathered they will have more than usually when I report suspicion for BUGs (funny enough they were so far only for Rockstar games)
@@MiFonito Great to hear that they're receptive. I was worried about having it brushed off 😅
@@cryobyte33 I have actually the opposite experience with them. They never pushed for closure of a ticket. Even after I found a solution they told me if I really want close the ticket that it can stay open in case issue would repeat. As somebody who has experience with many other companies customer support this approach from Valve shocked me.
Yo, just wanted to update you and say that I just opened a ticket with Steam Support, let's hope that they take a look 🙂
Amazing work broheim. Could you do witcher 3?
Good idea, thanks for the suggestion!
I have a few videos already planned, but I'll add it to the list 🙂
@@cryobyte33 That would be awesome! Thanks for the great videos sir! Can't wait to see the next one.
Thanks for your content 😊 boot video !!:)
Thank you again for the idea, I need to figure out how to make one since I'm not an animator! 😅
It's a little late, but I added a custom boot video for patrons 😄
Have you tested other values of swappiness, such as 5, 10, or 30, and in other games? Wondering if 1 would decrease performance in games that needs the memory/swap. Thanks for the vid.
I have tried 1, 25, ,50, 75 and 100. The swap still gets used even at 1, it will just prefer the RAM until the memory is nearly full. Of course, feel free to test other values and let me know if you notice something else.
Thank you for watching!
@cryobyte33
Can you elaborate on where to add the -cpuLoadRebalancing flag within the system.xml file? It’s not clear from the video. Thanks for the amazing work with these videos!
Thanks for this. Is the default swap tendency 1 also?
Thank you for watching!
The default swap tendency for the Deck is 100, but my recommendation is changing it to 1.
@@cryobyte33 Thanks. I actually just redid your swap script and it did say current value is 100. I should have tried that before asking lol. Thanks again!
thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Hey, thanks for the amazing breakdown of everything, amazing video as always! I've used the balanced setup and it works really well.
However, I've found a problem in Red Dead Online. Generaly speaking the performance drops (which is expected), but it does so especially in Lagras and Lagras to Saint Denis area. The fps drops to 29 and the green line just makes consistent spikes - just like with the VRAM bug. Do you know how to improve the performance in Online and how to fix the fps drop in the Lagras X Saint Denis area?
Best regards!
Thanks for watching!
Hmmm I’ve not played too much online so I haven’t been there, is there extremely dense vegetation in that area? 🤔
@@cryobyte33 yes, it's a swamp area with a lot of trees and bodies of water. Actually, I think it is shown in a benchmark for a moment too.
I'm not sure if the fps is still that bad in singleplayer yet, but I'll try to check it out.
@@youllneverknow396 thank you for the info, in the benchmark that swamp location usually gets more FPS than the heist, which got far more FPS than strawberry 🤨
@@cryobyte33 You're welcome, although I probably just added something onto your already full plate haha. And yes, I've noticed the benchamark fps too, it only proves that it doesn't really show the real results - which you've mentioned yourself. As I said, I'll try to visit that place in singleplayer with the balanced settings and see if it's only online problem or not 🙂
@@cryobyte33 hello there! So I've checked Saint Denis and Lagras area in singleplayer. In Saint Denis my fps was jumping between 33-37 fps and Lagras area was pretty much 40 fps.
In online, Saint Denis as between 27-37 fps and interestingly, Lagras turned out to be around 33 fps and the glitch did not occure again 🤔 it's possible it was just a one time thing
Hi! Thanks to you, I'm having fun playing rdr2 on Steam Deck. Is it possible to analyze the Death Stranding Directors cut? I'm having so much fun, but there are so many parts where the frame falls.thank you!!
Thank you for watching! I have DS:DC on my very short-list so I'm hoping to get to it soon 😁
Is the rain a same factor as body of water ?
Having trouble with my settings coping some CZcams tutorials seem to go wrong. 😢
Any chance you could do Skyrim?
Love the videos.
I plan to eventually, but that means that I'll need to mod it which takes a while. Thank you for watching!
Any changes to VRAM as of April 2023? Also considering the launch of proton 8
Nope, 1GB is still best, the issue is unfortunately an engine bug so I don't believe P8 will help here 😓
This is amazing! Is there a difference between “steam-deck-swap-resizer” and “steam-deck utilities”? I installed CryoUtilities but I’m not sure if I should also install the resizer? Thanks!!
steam-deck-resizer is the legacy version, CryoUtilities is the correct one 🙂 Thank you so much for watching and using the script!
@@cryobyte33 Just curious, do you know if the 1G VRAM bug stills exists?
@@Buffypoodle I’ve heard 50/50 since the latest update. I think that it probably still exists, but haven’t gotten to test it quite yet.
Hello! Just got a steam deck oled, is there an updated recommended setting for high graphics? I bought a steamdeck oled for red dead redemption2 only. That’s how much I love this game! And I really value pretty settings over battery life. Please please please guide us thank you!
I remember reading about the VRAM thing in the early days of the Steam deck. 1gb is basically 'auto' in steam OS so it's recommended to leave it. 4gb is recommended for Windows though as it has no access to adjust on the fly.
However I've definitely seen some improvements using 4gb in steam OS in some games..
Correct, 1GB SHOULD be the ideal, but my testing shows that 4GB performs marginally better in most games. There's a big explanation in my "EASY & SAFE Health & Performance Boosts" video if you want to check it out, but the TL;DR is that it's not performing correctly since the CPU can evict VRAM at will.
Thank you for watching!
@@cryobyte33 awesome man I'll take a look 👍
For somereason in the game it seems to prefer 25 fps on recomended swapieness and vram on the prettiest settings.
Great video! Thanks for all the effort you put in. I am using your recommended settings. When I run Red Dead Redemption 2 on the Steamdeck with the internal display everything is fine and I can play for hours without any problems. When I connect my Steamdeck to an external monitor I get random crashes of the game. The game just freezes and I have to use the SteamOS menu to exit the game. Do you have any idea maybe where these crashes are coming from and what I could try to fix? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Interesting, I haven't had the same issue but I would guess either a dock issue or an issue using a higher resolution. If it's a resolution issue, you should be able to isolate it by using the handheld resolution when docked, and monitoring for additional crashes.
Thank you for watching!
Awesome. Hope we see Gotham Knights now!
Forza Horizon 5 is next, but you never know what the future holds!
The most demanding area in the game is along "little creek river". even when i get 40+ fps in strawberry my frames are destroyed there. especially during sunrise and sunset
Interesting, I haven't completed the game and am only in chapter 3, so the most demanding that I've been to were Strawberry and Saint Denis.
Thank you for watching and letting me know for future videos! 🙏
You may already have answered that in previous videos, if so I'm sorry but I missed it.
Which fan profile are you using on SteamOS for the tests.
Updated (quieter) or Older (Louder)?
I haven't answered this, and no shame in asking questions 🙂
I use the updated profile since I figured it's what most people would stick with.
Sad to report as of July 2023, the VRAM bug still persists. I had to turn min VRAM back to 1gb
Good vid
Hello, sorry for being off topic. But I no longer know what to do and where else to look for information. Have you seen a bug with ground textures in RDR2, or maybe you have heard about it? An example of what I'm talking about: in your your video at 23:42. The fact is that I found a lot of mentions of a similar problem, but nowhere is it said about a guaranteed way to solve it. Thank you in advance for your help.
Yes, this is a known interaction of Proton and the RAGE engine that RDR2 uses. Theoretically it can be patched, but I don't think any current version of Proton avoids the issue 😞
Just a random tid bit. I’ve been using the prettiest settings for campaign, and my battery is getting about 1 hour 15 minutes instead of 1 40. Not sure if I’ve missed anything. Though the game runs really well! Thank you
Interesting, I would guess that you're around a lot of water in-game. At the time of testing I was mainly in the plains region with some trips to Horseshoe Overlook, so I didn't trigger the engine bug while testing for battery life.
It's been quite a while since testing this, but I've been meaning to go back to it, I'll make sure to double-verify my results next time.
Thank you for watching, and for letting me know!
Thanks a ton for the in depth look into tweaks and performance; I'm seeing much lower frames however. Is there something other than the swap fix, 1gb vram and your settings that I need to tweak? In valentine for example, I get dips down to 19, with 23 average on your "high" preset, when you mention getting a solid 30, so I'm hoping there was something I missed. Also, in my search for more perf, setting powertools smt off gave me way more FPS than using the standard 8 threads. Not using powertools, I'm spending lots of time below 25 FPS in all areas.
That’s… interesting. When I disabled SMT I got frames in the 21-24 range 🤨 everything I did was listed in the preset and I rode across nearly the half the map in the “prettier” preset (Strawberry > Valentine > Saint Denis) and never saw FPS below 28.
Normally I might attribute it to maybe IO speed, but with the SMT results you’re getting that doesn’t make sense.
The only reason I’d expect you to get better FPS with SMT disabled would be for TDP reasons, maybe the TDP limiter is broken on your Deck somehow?
Thank you for watching, and I hope we can get yours working as well as mine!
@@cryobyte33 Yeah, it's a little frustrating seeing the FPS you get, and doing exactly the steps required, only to end up with 5-10 fewer FPS! With this said, a major caveat is that more recently I've been playing red dead online, although I would have guessed FPS would be higher due to the much sparser map. That said, I will retest story mode to be sure.
@@russ838 one other viewer did mention RDO as well, but they mentioned a specific location on the map, the swamp outside Saint Denis. Maybe fetching other player’s data holds up the rendering or something?
@@cryobyte33 Possible (more verif needed) PSA: Red dead online loses 5-10 fps for no apparent reason. Went back to singleplayer with a tactical deck restart as well, and I'm at 30-28 fps. Indeed the smt trick doesn't help! Might be specific to Red dead online due to networking load or something? I'll keep testing.
@@russ838 I'm actually wondering if RDO holds up each frame until it gets info from the server about player positions. Do you have a USB to ethernet adapter that you could plug into your network with?
Thanks! I appreciate your work! I have a question- I did the swappiness fix using your awesome installer- but am hesitant to do the VRAM increase, as it hurts RDR2. Is the improvement in all my other games (GoW, Jedi Fallen Order, TitanFall2, etc) due to the VRAM increase worth how much it will hurt RDR2? I'm torn. Like a confused child, I need guidance. Thanks in advance.
Thank you so much for supporting the channel, and for watching the videos!
I'll start by saying that some users report that the bug has been fixed in SteamOS 3.4, but I haven't had the time to verify that yet. If that's the case, then setting it to 4GB of VRAM is a no-brainer.
In the case that it isn't fixed, I would say that it depends on how often you play RDR2, and how immediately you want to be in-game. When it was installed, I didn't mind rebooting the Deck to change the VRAM really quickly because I played the game at a relaxed pace anyway. If you play often and want to just press play to hop right in, it might benefit you to leave it at 1GB.
Out of the games you mentioned, I've only personally tested God of War, which does benefit quite a bit from 4GB of VRAM. I've heard that Jedi Fallen Order does as well, but can't attest to that one.
Hopefully this was helpful, I'm sorry that I don't have a definitive answer after the 3.4 update!
@@cryobyte33 indeed you are the one spoken of in prophecy. This whole community owes you a debt of gratitude.
If you ever get the opportunity to, you should try a benchmark with and without your changes wandering around in Saint Denis, the largest city in RDR2. I've been able to find RDR2 steam deck benchmarks, but NEVER in Saint Denis, and Saint Denis is known for FPS drops.
I'm going to try to get back to it soon, but I did test in Saint Denis for part of this video. The reason I chose Strawberry, however, is because there's a RAGE bug around running water, and Strawberry's river is a perfect area to test the lowest FPS dips in the game.
That said, I haven't spent a TON of time in Saint Denis in my actual playthrough since I'm still pretty early in the game, so I'll try to do that if I can pick it up again 🙂
Thank you for watching!
This is interesting cause I keep getting crashes about 10-15 mins when using 1gb vram bios setting but when put on 4gb it runs fine except near water. I just wanna play smoothly 😭
This is a bug with the RAGE engine that it uses. Rockstar is aware of the issue, but a source tells me that they aren’t putting anymore development effort into the game 😞
Thank you for watching, though!
Just waiting for this game to go on sale for my steam deck
Thanks for watching!
I think it's actually on sale right now, at least in Sweden and the US.
Thanks!
I changed Vram to 4GB and don't play it often so I leave it and don't play this.... don't like to reboot anything and go to bios, my PC is hibetnated over years if possible having 590+ Chrome tabs ;)