Bench-a-thon Central - Red Dead Redemption 2

Submission Instructions

I. Settings

There will be leaderboards for the following three resolutions:

1920x1080

2560x1440

3840x2160

There are two main sections for quality settings. In order to have a valid submission, you must have the following:

GRAPHICS

Texture Quality: Ultra

Anisotropic Filtering: X16

Lighting Quality: Ultra

Global Illumination Quality: Ultra

Shadow Quality: Ultra

Far Shadow Quality: Ultra

Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Ultra

Reflection Quality: Ultra

Mirror Quality: Ultra

Water Quality: Custom (tied to settings below)

Volumetrics Quality: Ultra

Particle Quality: Ultra

Tessellation Quality: Ultra

TAA: Off

FXAA: Off

MSAA: Off

ADVANCED GRAPHICS

Advanced Settings: Unlocked

Graphics API: DirectX 12 or Vulkan (your choice)

Near Volumetric Resolution: Ultra

Far Volumetric Resolution: Ultra

Volumetric Lighting Quality: Ultra

Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: On

Particle Lighting Quality: Ultra

Soft Shadows: Ultra

Grass Shadows: High

Long Shadows: On

Full Resolution Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: On

Water Refraction Quality: High

Water Reflection Quality: High

Water Physics Quality: (slider maxed out)

Resolution Scale: Off

TAA Sharpening: (slider maxed, although irrelevant with TAA Off)

Motion Blur: Off

Reflection MSAA: Off

Geometry Level of Detail: (slider maxed out)

Grass Level of Detail: (slider maxed out)

Tree Quality: Ultra

Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: Ultra

Decal Quality: Ultra

Fur Quality: High

Tree Tessellation: On

II. Recording Your Results

In order to prepare results for submission in the bench-a-thon, you will need recording software, such as AMD ReLive or Nvidia Geforce Experience. Below are the steps to recording the correct scenes for a valid submission:

1. Start the benchmark without recording, but have a hotkey ready to begin recording when the time comes.

2. Right before the final scene of the benchmark ends, begin recording. If you time it right, this will not have an impact on your minimum FPS reported in the results. See the notes in part IV if you are interested in why the recording must start here.

3. Continue recording and click "Exit Benchmarking." You will now return to the main menu. Navigate as follows: Settings > Graphics. Now slowly scroll through every setting here, including the sections Video, Graphics, and Advanced Graphics.

4. Once all settings have been shown, end the recording.

Here is an example of a valid submission:

III. Submitting Your Results

Submissions are only accepted under special request currently. Stay tuned for general submission.

IV. Notes

The results reported at the end of the benchmark are only for the final scene. Your performance on prior scenes do not affect results.
If the benchmark is manually ended at any point by the user, the results reported are only for the scene where the benchmark was ended. This is why the recording must include the ending of the last scene, as there is confirmation the results are for the final scene.
Currently, the benchmark will run twice before any results are shown. This is a glitch.