Red Dead Redemption 2 System Requirements

An Intel Core i5-2500K CPU is required at a minimum to run Red Dead Redemption 2. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core i7-4770K to play the game. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 150 GB available. By contrast, the game developers recommend somewhere around Red Dead Redemption 2 on your system drive. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060. The minimum memory requirement for Red Dead Redemption 2 is 8 GB installed in your computer. If possible, make sure your have 12 GB in order to run Red Dead Redemption 2 to its full potential.

Sometimes, you’ve got to wait a little longer to get the very best and that’s certainly the case with Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC. Available on the consoles in time for Christmas 2018, PC owners had to wait a full year for their iteration of RDR2 to arrive, with the Steam release scheduled even later still.

The gargantuan install size aside – you’ll need 150GB of space – the fact that the original release came out on Xbox One led to the assumption that it’d run no problem on any number of more powerful PCs. Yet Rockstar has spent the extra time adding so many extras that, as we’ll get to in a moment, there are some technical issues to deal with.

On the game front though, Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC includes new ‘story mode’ content such as extra weapons, bounty hunting missions and hideouts. It comes with free access to the multiplayer Red Dead Online as well as extra specialist roles. Simply put, all the tweaks, additions and modifications that have made this highly-acclaimed game so popular on the consoles are available on PC from day one.

Graphically, no one will be surprised that RDR2 on PC is the best-looking version. Increased draw distance, better global illumination, environmental textures, reflections and ambient occlusion and ultrawide aspect ratio across multi-monitor support offer an unparalleled level of immersion. Plus there’s that unlocked frame rate too.

Yet, as it turns out, so many improvements have taken a bite out of Red Dead Redemption 2’s frame rate. Shortly after the game’s release, Nvidia announced that even its high-performing GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card couldn’t give you RDR2 at 4K and 60 frames per second. Nvidia suggests that rendering at a lower resolution, either 3264x1836 or 2880x1620, then upscaling to 4K will give you a sizeable performance improvement with only a minimal reduction in image clarity, while the company also dropped a day-zero patch to help all of its users.

Speaking of patches, the PC release was marred by a large number of players simply unable to get the game going, followed by a frantic scramble by Rockstar Games to understand what the problem is. We assume that, with enough time, this will be fixed. We'll keep you posted on this.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will run on PC system with Windows 7 and upwards.

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