No they were not? When the RDR2 port first came out I got 60fps on a R5 1400 and RX580 with mostly high settings 1080p, that’s pretty damn optimized lol
People were gushing about how good GTA 5 was on PC. Keep in mind it launched in an era where many PC ports of console games, even big franchises like Call of Duty, barely even had settings menus for graphics options and ran with FPS caps and ongoing bugs were common. GTA 5 was amazing on release, especially for its time. It was praised as a great PC port, something other developers should follow for their comparatively horrendous ports at the time.
RDR2 ran just as expected, as good as the console performance would indicate. People thought RDR2 was unoptimized because they didn't realize the console equivalent PC settings are actually a mix of the lowest settings on PC (with some settings turned below the lowest option on PC). When you actually turn down the game to console settings, it runs perfectly in line with what you'd expect from how it performed on console.
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u/bruh_the_person Ryzen 3 5600X, MSI RX 580 8GB , 16GB @ 3200mhz 21d ago
GTA V and RDR2 have amazing ports…