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A YouTuber has gone viral after attempting to play Red Dead Redemption 2 at an almost unplayable 4 frames per second and taking 12 hours to beat one mission.
The creator, known as Mongo TV, documented his painfully slow playthrough, with clips spreading across social media due to just how extreme the performance drop is. While most players aim for at least 30–60 FPS, his setup struggles to deliver even a fraction of that.
According to reports, the Danish YouTuber is running the game on an older laptop equipped with an Intel i5-8300H and Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB of VRAM.
Despite hardware that should technically meet the game’s minimum requirements, his experience has been anything but smooth.
A Danish YouTuber is going viral for playing Red Dead Redemption 2 at 4 FPS
He said the first missions took over 12 hours to finishpic.twitter.com/J0IOasWhtz
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 10, 2026
YouTuber’s RDR2 playthrough could last nearly 500 hours
Mongo TV revealed that the opening chapter alone took over 12 hours to complete, a section that typically takes players around two hours.
At 4 FPS, every movement becomes sluggish, inputs feel delayed, and basic gameplay turns into a grind. Even simple tasks like riding a horse or aiming a weapon can feel nearly impossible due to the lack of responsiveness.
The extreme slowdown has led to estimates that a full playthrough could take upwards of 400+ hours at that pace, several times longer than the average completion time, and is on pace for 471 hours.
Clips of the gameplay have since gone viral, with viewers both amused and baffled by the dedication required to stick with such a rough experience.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is considered by many to be the greatest game of all time and is one of the reasons why the hype for Rockstar’s next game, GTA 6, is off the charts.
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Still, playing RDR2 at a mere 4 FPS is probably not the best way to experience such a masterpiece, but it does make for good content.
