GFX STATE ERROR

[Legion]

I have exhausted all remedies that I could do to possibly fix this issue.

I would like to know if RockStar is doing anything about it. I havent seen anything from them, except for blaming Nvidia and AMD drivers...

[HoxL]

Try this, First in steam, verify all your RDR2 Files. Next try using NVIDIA GeForce Experience and click on the "wrench" next to the "revert button" it is the custom settings button. Set your settings from optimal to low settings by sliding the slider all the way to left, all the way..... To the performance side... Hit apply then run the game. The game should run with the ugly low graphics and a lot of crap will be flickering, but it should run. The second you try to edit your graphic setting it normally crashes again and you have to redo the process.. Idk maybe you will get lucky.. If it still doesn't work you have to go and erase some RDR2 settings file or something. ♥♥♥♥ sucks but hope it works for you.. Is the only ♥♥♥♥ fix thing that has been working so far. Play around with D12 or Vulcan i suspect one of them is causing a issue but I really don't know. Also heard to try with game installed on your main drive C: Since i don't have enough space on my C: for this big ass game i haven't tried this one.

[xBonzaii]

That error message could have multiple causes..

Are you getting that message right after a loading screen and you're unable to load a saved game? Try running the benchmark to completion before loading into the story mode or online.

Are you getting that message randomly within the first hour of play? What fixed this problem for me was to disable cloud saving.

[Legion]

Originally posted by HoxL:

Try this, First in steam, verify all your RDR2 Files. Next try using NVIDIA GeForce Experience and click on the "wrench" next to the "revert button" it is the custom settings button. Set your settings from optimal to low settings by sliding the slider all the way to left, all the way..... To the performance side... Hit apply then run the game. The game should run with the ugly low graphics and a lot of crap will be flickering, but it should run. The second you try to edit your graphic setting it normally crashes again and you have to redo the process.. Idk maybe you will get lucky.. If it still doesn't work you have to go and erase some RDR2 settings file or something. ♥♥♥♥ sucks but hope it works for you.. Is the only ♥♥♥♥ fix thing that has been working so far. Play around with D12 or Vulcan i suspect one of them is causing a issue but I really don't know. Also heard to try with game installed on your main drive C: Since i don't have enough space on my C: for this big ass game i haven't tried this one.

I'll try this tomorrow when i have the chance. Thanks.

Originally posted by xBonzaii:

That error message could have multiple causes..

Are you getting that message right after a loading screen and you're unable to load a saved game? Try running the benchmark to completion before loading into the story mode or online.

Are you getting that message randomly within the first hour of play? What fixed this problem for me was to disable cloud saving.

I get this error at any point. During launching, during loading, during gameplay. There is not one specific moment where I can repeat the error, its completely random.
I've also done the benchmark more than I would of wanted too. Usually, I delete the sga files and then play, and im good for a bit, then i might crash or not. Sometimes it doesnt work and I crash almost usually within 10-20 minutes of gameplay.

[xBonzaii]

Originally posted by Legion:

I get this error at any point. During launching, during loading, during gameplay. There is not one specific moment where I can repeat the error, its completely random.
I've also done the benchmark more than I would of wanted too. Usually, I delete the sga files and then play, and im good for a bit, then i might crash or not. Sometimes it doesnt work and I crash almost usually within 10-20 minutes of gameplay.

Does windows crash from time to time, with a bsod? Do you experience problems in any other game?

[Sid]

If you're crashing with a GFX_State_Error.

Go in Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings, open all sga_vulkan files with a text editing software and delete everything inside them, save and put all three of them on read-only. ( File Properties, Check read only. )

You should be fine after that, this is what fixed my GFX_State_Error crashes, i've been fine for 80+ hours now. Do mind that this has a side effect, during sunset hair colours will all turn to shades of black and there's mild texture flickering during the first minutes of gameplay, aside from that everything should be good 2 go.

Please come back with the results.

[Legion]

Originally posted by xBonzaii:

Originally posted by Legion:

I get this error at any point. During launching, during loading, during gameplay. There is not one specific moment where I can repeat the error, its completely random.
I've also done the benchmark more than I would of wanted too. Usually, I delete the sga files and then play, and im good for a bit, then i might crash or not. Sometimes it doesnt work and I crash almost usually within 10-20 minutes of gameplay.

Does windows crash from time to time, with a bsod? Do you experience problems in any other game?

Yes, I do get blue screened every now and then. I do have crashing in other games but with different errors non GFX STATE

[Legion]

Originally posted by john cyberpunk alo:

If you're crashing with a GFX_State_Error.

Go in Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings, open all sga_vulkan files with a text editing software and delete everything inside them, save and put all three of them on read-only. ( File Properties, Check read only. )

You should be fine after that, this is what fixed my GFX_State_Error crashes, i've been fine for 80+ hours now. Do mind that this has a side effect, during sunset hair colours will all turn to shades of black and there's mild texture flickering during the first minutes of gameplay, aside from that everything should be good 2 go.

Please come back with the results.

I will try this. Thanks

[xBonzaii]

Originally posted by Legion:

Yes, I do get blue screened every now and then. I do have crashing in other games but with different errors non GFX STATE

Then the issue could be that your pc is unstable..

I had the same problem in the first few months after I had built my pc, random crashes in games & random bsod's.

At first, I didn't think much of it, almost like it was normal. My pc was brand new, everything should work the way it's supposed to, I thought.

But looking back, the bsod's were actually an indication of a hardware problem. Under 'normal' circumstances, when your pc is stable, windows 10 is very unlikely to ever crash..

In my case, the factory overclock on my ddr4 ram was the culprit. An unstable overclock that was causing memory errors..

I dialed the overclock back to a lower tier, never had a bsod since. And for me, RDR2 is the only game that was randomly crashing.

I suggest that before you try to find a specific fix for RDR2, you download prime95 and let the blend test run for at least an hour. If your system is unstable, it won't take long before you start seeing errors.

https://www.mersenne.org/download/

And this program also helped me to identify the problem with my pc..

https://www.memtest86.com/

!!!!

Seriously, and I cannot stress this enough, if you're getting random bsod's, make sure that there isn't an underlying problem with your pc before you try to fix the crashes in this game.

Otherwise, you won't be able to fix RDR2's crashing, no matter what you try, and you'll just get more and more frustrated.. I hope this helps..

!!!!

[Legion]

Originally posted by xBonzaii:

Originally posted by Legion:

Yes, I do get blue screened every now and then. I do have crashing in other games but with different errors non GFX STATE

Then the problem could be that your pc is unstable..

I had the same problem in the first few months after I had built my pc, random crashes in games & random bsod's.

At first, I didn't think much of it, almost like it was normal. My pc was brand new, everything should work the way it's supposed to, I thought.

But looking back, the bsod's were actually an indication of a hardware problem. Under 'normal' circumstances, when your pc is stable, windows 10 is very unlikely to ever crash..

In my case, the factory overclock on my ddr4 ram was the culprit. An unstable overclock that was causing memory errors..

I dialed the overclock back to a lower tier, never had a bsod since. And for me, RDR2 was the only game that was randomly crashing.

I suggest that before you try to find a specific fix for RDR2, you download prime95 and let the blend test run for at least an hour. If your system is unstable, it won't take long before you start seeing errors.

https://www.mersenne.org/download/

And this program also helped me to identify the problem with my pc..

https://www.memtest86.com/

!!!!

Seriously, and I cannot stress this enough, if you're getting random bsod's, make sure that there isn't an underlying problem with your pc before you try to fix the crashes in this game.

Otherwise, you won't be able to fix RDR2's crashing, no matter what you try, and you'll just get more and more frustrated..

!!!!

Thanks for the details. I will say that I have gone through my bios and made sure I was not overclocking. I will check again at a later time, and will run the program that you suggested. I will post what/if there is an issue. Thanks.

[Loðbrók]

Go to Setting and switch to DX12 instead of Vulkan, fixed my problem (Im using Nvidia)

[Legion]

Originally posted by Daryl Flynn:

Go to Setting and switch to DX12 instead of Vulkan, fixed my problem (Im using Nvidia)

I crash with either setting.

[Legion]

Update: Using Prime95 along with Google to narrow down my issue. I've narrowed it to my motherboard/CPU being under powered. I've played with the numbers in my BIOS and I have not crashed since then. Still getting infinite loading, but I cant fix that, so I will say that I have fixed my issue.

[NorthernANTs]

Originally posted by HoxL:

Try this, First in steam, verify all your RDR2 Files. Next try using NVIDIA GeForce Experience and click on the "wrench" next to the "revert button" it is the custom settings button. Set your settings from optimal to low settings by sliding the slider all the way to left, all the way..... To the performance side... Hit apply then run the game. The game should run with the ugly low graphics and a lot of crap will be flickering, but it should run. The second you try to edit your graphic setting it normally crashes again and you have to redo the process.. Idk maybe you will get lucky.. If it still doesn't work you have to go and erase some RDR2 settings file or something. ♥♥♥♥ sucks but hope it works for you.. Is the only ♥♥♥♥ fix thing that has been working so far. Play around with D12 or Vulcan i suspect one of them is causing a issue but I really don't know. Also heard to try with game installed on your main drive C: Since i don't have enough space on my C: for this big ass game i haven't tried this one.

Cannot be the drivers was starting to act up before I updated my drivers, that is the reason i even found out there was new drivers out there, I looked because it was acting up hoping it would fix it.