One of my biggest gripes with Red Dead Redemption on PC was its low-quality textures. And, as we were expecting, a modder decided to do Rockstar’s job and upscale all of the game’s textures.
In order to upscale the game’s textures, DayL used AI tools. As such, the improved textures retain the art style of the original ones. Moreover, they look sharper and better than before. In other words, this is a must-have for pretty much everyone.
According to the modder, this isn’t just a quick AI upscale project. Instead, he edited some textures by hand to sharpen and improve every detail while keeping the game’s original look. The mod also includes new normal maps for each texture, matching the resolution of the main texture.
Players can expect 4K textures for all roads, trails, and cliffs. The pack also comes with 2K textures for terrain, ground vegetation, and rocks.
In future versions, the modder plans to improve textures for trees, bushes, cacti, and other plants. He also plans to improve textures for train tracks, Blackwater streets, pavement, and other outdoor terrain. So, this HD pack will get even better as time passes.
You can go ahead and download this HD Texture Pack from this link. At the end of the article, you can also find some comparison screenshots. These will give you a pretty good idea of what you can expect from it.
In theory, the pack should be compatible with Reality Redemption. Reality Redemption is a mod that brings a lot of graphical improvements to RDR. This is another must-have mod.
Then we have this mod that can unlock the game’s framerate. Red Dead Redemption is locked at 144FPS on PC. In my opinion, this is a reasonable framerate cap. Still, if you want to run the game with an uncapped framerate, you can use the mod to unlock it.
Finally, here is a video, showcasing the game running at 8K with 100FPS on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. For this video, Digital Dreams also used Reshade Ray Tracing. Since RDR is an old game, it can greatly benefit from Reshade. So, make sure to watch the video.
Enjoy!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Low quality textures? I dunno… sure there's room for improvement but this honestly unnecessary
Yeah the textures looked low res, but you can't forget John: this is a 14-year old game.
True, but you have to realize that rockstar is a multi-billion dollar company and could've easily done a high quality remaster, so it's only fair that people expected a bit more effort than what was given to one of their best games.
I don't understand why people put so much energy on this kind of drama, just pirate those shameful games and voila ! Why bother ?
I think it’s pretty cool to finally be able to play this game for free, especially with my old config from 2015. Well, the wait was a little long, but the quality/price ratio is not so bad !
When the game drops down to $19.99 on sale. That's where I start caring.
It's $0.00 on some websites…😉
the before and after grass looks so bad that I'm tempted not to bash dragon age vail guard anymore
It's RS pc is just a release when they want to boost sales more then GTAO likely for some stock market crap. It's always an afterthought with these guys, so yeah mods are what makes any RS pc release worth while. I could see this being worthwhile for 2k-4k players no doubt.
The game has awful cpu optimization. They should've used vulkan instead. Dx12 is inefficient for games made on older engines.
Both DX12 and Vulkan requires the developer to write proper CPU threading code. What they should have done was use DX11 where the API does the threading for you. Even using Vulkan this port would stink for CPU efficiency
https://vkguide.dev/docs/extra-chapter/multithreading/
I agree that they should've atleast have dx11 to choose.
Vullkan would've been better. Even vulkan as a translation layer would've been far better than dx12. Cause even intel ditched their dx12 translation layer in favor of vulkan or more specifically dxvk to get higher performance in older dx9,11 titles. For a game to take full leverage of dx12 it needed to be developed from ground up with dx12. This was case with gears of war ultimate edition. Game is still in older ue3 it was developed on, and runs like sh*t even on hardware better than it's system requirements.
Looks fantastic! thanks!