Red Dead Redemption — Settings, Requirements & Optimization
2010 · Shooter, Action · Rockstar North · ESRB Mature · Metacritic 95

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My Red Dead Redemption Settings Card
Generated at GameFigs on 2026-08-21. Game demand tier: 6/9.
Official system requirements
Publisher-published Minimum / Recommended values via RAWG. Real-world performance varies with drivers, resolution and your full build.
| Spec | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum: | Recommended: |
| Processor | Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system | Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system |
| Memory | OS: Windows 10 64-Bit | OS: Windows 10 64-Bit |
| Graphics | Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670 / AMD FX-9590 | Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-8500 / AMD Ryzen 5 3500X |
| Storage | Memory: 8 GB RAM | Memory: 8 GB RAM |
| DirectX | Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R7 360 | Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2070 / AMD RX 5700 XT |
| Item 7 | DirectX: Version 12 | DirectX: Version 12 |
| Item 8 | Storage: 12 GB available space | Storage: 12 GB available space |
About Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption is a third-person open-world adventure game which implements the Wild West at its best: it is very much GTA-clone but in bizarre stylistics and the very beginning of the twentieth century. This is the second title of a franchise, being preceded by Red Dead Revolver and followed by Red Dead Redemption 2 coming out in late 2018. We play as John Marston who gradually takes down and take out criminals and those, who crosses his path. Among the combat mechanics, the most interesting one is "Dead Eye" — it allows one to point multiple targets out in slow motion and then shoot them simultaneously. The game features 16-players multiplayer and cooperative and also has zombie DLC — Undead Nightmare. Additional content adds two modes to the original game: undead overrun in which you have to survive an infinite amount of zombie waves, and Land Grab in which player has to defend the particular piece of land to gain control of it.
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Sources & attribution
- Game data (release year, genres, platforms, system requirements, description, cover art) via RAWG.io, retrieved 2026-08-21.
- FPS bands, presets and upscaler advice on this page are GameFigs planning estimates from the game's demand tier — not benchmark results.
How the Red Dead Redemption optimization card is computed
Each game is scored on a 0–9 demand tier from its published PC requirements (and a year/genre fallback when requirements are absent). Your GPU and CPU selections map to comparable-class scores. The generator compares your hardware score against the game's demand to pick a starting preset, estimate an FPS band at 1080p/1440p/4K, and recommend an upscaler (DLSS / FSR 3) and ray-tracing posture. The output is a planning guide — always verify in-game with the built-in benchmark when available.