Red Dead Redemption 2 and Online

Just a random collection of things related to Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online. From what I've heard Rockstar has pretty much abandoned the game at this point, but you can still make it enjoyable. See below for more.

Useful links

• A great interactive map of Red Dead Online! 
  

Crash Fix aka Anti-Cheater Fix aka Private Sessions

Probably common knowledge by now and just saved here so I don't need to go looking. Created and published by people here and here and in other places. Just search for “Red Dead Online private session” using your favorite search engine. 

• Find the installation folder of Red Dead Redemption 2 (for Steam it's usually …\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Red Dead Redemption 2)
• Switch to the folder \x64\data
• Place the startup.meta (see below) file there
• Open the file with a text editor and replace password at the very end of the file with something more complex
• Have your friends do the same thing with the same password so you can play together
  

startup.meta:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CDataFileMgr__ContentsOfDataFileXml>
 <disabledFiles />
 <includedXmlFiles itemType="CDataFileMgr__DataFileArray" />
 <includedDataFiles />
 <dataFiles itemType="CDataFileMgr__DataFile">
  <Item>
   <filename>platform:/data/cdimages/scaleform_platform_pc.rpf</filename>
   <fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <filename>platform:/data/ui/value_conversion.rpf</filename>
   <fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <filename>platform:/data/ui/widgets.rpf</filename>
   <fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <filename>platform:/textures/ui/ui_photo_stickers.rpf</filename>
   <fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <filename>platform:/textures/ui/ui_platform.rpf</filename>
   <fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <filename>platform:/data/ui/stylesCatalog</filename>
   <fileType>aWeaponizeDisputants</fileType> <!-- collision -->
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <filename>platform:/data/cdimages/scaleform_frontend.rpf</filename>
   <fileType>RPF_FILE_PRE_INSTALL</fileType>
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <filename>platform:/textures/ui/ui_startup_textures.rpf</filename>
   <fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
  </Item>
  <Item>
   <filename>platform:/data/ui/startup_data.rpf</filename>
   <fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
  </Item>
	<Item>
		<filename>platform:/boot_launcher_flow.#mt</filename>
		<fileType>STREAMING_FILE</fileType>
		<registerAs>boot_flow/boot_launcher_flow</registerAs>
		<overlay value="false" />
		<patchFile value="false" />
	</Item>
 </dataFiles>
 <contentChangeSets itemType="CDataFileMgr__ContentChangeSet" />
 <patchFiles />
</CDataFileMgr__ContentsOfDataFileXml>
 
password

Graphics Settings

 Based on Hardware Unboxed' Red Dead Redemption 2 Optimization Part 1 and Part 2.

Reducing the game resolution should help a lot too, e.g. from 1920x1080px to 1600x900px.

Setting	Value (Higher Profile)
Texture Quality	High
Anisotropic Filtering	4x
Lighting Quality	Medium
Global Illumination Quality	High
Shadow Quality	High
Far Shadow Quality	High
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion	Medium
Reflection Quality	Low
Mirror Quality	Ultra
Water Quality	Medium
Volumetrics Quality	Medium
Volumetrics Quality	Medium
Particle Quality	Ultra
Tesselation Quality	Ultra
TAA	Medium
FXAA	Off
MSAA	Off

Setting	Value (Higher Profile)
Near Volumetric Quality	Low
Far Volumetric Quality	Medium
Volumetric Lighting Quality	Medium
Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution	On
Particle Lighting Quality	Medium
Soft Shadows	High
Grass Shadows	Medium
Long Shadows	On
Full Resolution SSAO	Off
Water Refraction Quality	Low
Water Reflection Quality	Medium
Water Physics Quality	2 / 5
TAA Sharpening	Any
Motion Blur	Off
Reflection MSAA	2x
Geometry Level of Detail	1 / 5
Grass Level of Detail	2 / 10
Tree Quality	High
Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality	Medium
Decal Quality	Ultra
Fur Quality	High