RDR2 Steam Deck Settings

u/ZeldaMaster32's RDR2 Steam Deck settings

Goals:
- 30fps target
- Best possible visuals
- 16:10 (1280x800)

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VIDEO:
Resolution: 1280x800
Screen Type: Fullscreen
Vsync: Off*
     Gives the best framepacing but is
     reported to cause crashing. Atm
     leaving it off
Triple Buffering: Off*
     Same disclaimer as above

GRAPHICS:
- Texture Quality: Ultra
- Anisotropic Filtering: 8x
- Lighting Quality: Medium
- Global Illumination Quality: High
- Shadow Quality: High
- Far Shadow Quality: High
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Ultra
- Reflection Quality: Medium
- Mirror Quality: Low*
     Haven't really tested the perf
     diff on Deck, might be able to go
     higher
- Water Quality: Custom*
     See advanced settings below
- Volumetrics Quality: Custom*
     See advanced settings below
- Particle Quality: Medium
- Tesselation Quality: High
- TAA: High*
     Medium can get you like a 1% boost
     but didn't bother personally
- FXAA: Off
- MSAA: Off

ADVANCED SETTINGS (Unlocked):
- Graphics API: Vulkan
- Near + Far Volumetric Quality: Low
- Volumetric Lighting Quality: Medium
- Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Res: Off
- 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: HALF*
     Didn't test much, lower by 1 tick if
     you get fps drops around water
- Resolution Scale: Off (Native Res)
- TAA Sharpening: Slightly below half*
     Preference, found this to be best.
     Alter accordingly
- Motion Blur: On***
     Preference, helps with the 30fps imo,
     negligible perf difference
- Geometry Level of Detail: 2/5
- Grass Level of Detail: 2/10
- Tree Quality: Medium
- Parallax Occlusion Map Quality: Medium
- Decal Quality: High
- Fur Quality: Medium
- Tree Tesselation: Off

WARNING: This game is known for crashing. These settings probably won't fix that, but seem to be the ideal for best visuals at 30fps which will persist once the crashing issue is fixed. Enjoy!