: If you have a few dollars to spare on Steam, the independent app Lossless Scaling on Steam is heavily used by the low-end community. It allows you to use spatial upscaling and frame generation on older GPUs that don't natively support modern DLSS or FSR frame generation. Custom Configuration Files
This file can be opened with any text editor to manually drop quality variables below what the in-game sliders allow, or to paste in heavily optimized community XML presets. Always make a backup copy of your original system.xml before changing anything!
These targeted manual adjustments will help recover the most frames with the least amount of visual degradation: The 5 Biggest Performance Killers : If you have a few dollars to
Are you attempting to run this on an or a dedicated low-end graphics card ?
: Keep this strictly Off . It is incredibly resource-heavy. Use TAA instead to keep the edges smooth at a fraction of the performance cost. Always make a backup copy of your original system
Navigate to your PC's documents folder: Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings . Locate the file named system.xml .
Ensure you unlock the "Advanced Settings" in your graphics menu to change your API: It is incredibly resource-heavy
If you are looking for external configuration files (like community-made "Hakux" or "Potato" settings):