Game randomly freezes, on the starting screen, in graphics settings, and when I alt/tab

[Bozo The Clown]

The game will randomly freeze, not crash. I still can hear the ambient music/volume/etc and I can see the still frame of where the game froze at, but nothing works. I can't even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ close the game manually by doing alt/tab because it won't let me alt/tab to task manager to forcibly close it. If I try to click the x on the window for the game, it won't close. If I do ctrl + shift + esc to open task manager manually, i still can't alt/tab to it. I'm stuck completely at rdr2, frozen.

The only way I'm able to close this game is when I click the window key on my keyboard and click sign out, which forces steam to close. I never had this problem before my game had to update.

Specs are: 2080 Super, 16 GB DDR4 3600 mhz, Ryzen 7 3700x.

[Orib]

To close the game, press CTRL + ALT + DEL, this will open the task manager and "ALT + TAB" your game automatically.

This happened to me, it real sucks, first of all, reboot you PC, the game should start normally, if it doesn't, you will need to reinstall rdr2 and change his compatibility mode to WINDOWS 7. (And don't forget to update your drivers to the newest version of it)

And don't forget to disable all you firewalls and antiviruses to launch the game properly.

Good luck man

[001]

Same thing happening to me :(
i5 3470
8GB DDR3
RX 580 4GB

Some say the fix is switching to DirectX12 but I can't because I'm using Win 8.1 tho others say that the same issue persist even in DX12 :(

Will reinstalling RDR2 fix the issue?? I've tried all fixes possible:
Turning Async to true
Turning all settings Low
Lasso Tool
BES Tool
Disable first 2 cores
Disabling Anti-Virus
Adding Launch Parameters

I can't remember all the things I've tried but I've been trying to play this game for 3 days and I can't really enjoy it because it freezes randomly mostly in cutscenes.

[Orib]

Originally posted by mushi mushi:

Same thing happening to me :(
i5 3470
8GB DDR3
RX 580 4GB

Some say the fix is switching to DirectX12 but I can't because I'm using Win 8.1 tho others say that the same issue persist even in DX12 :(

Will reinstalling RDR2 fix the issue?? I've tried all fixes possible:
Turning Async to true
Turning all settings Low
Lasso Tool
BES Tool
Disable first 2 cores
Disabling Anti-Virus
Adding Launch Parameters

I can't remember all the things I've tried but I've been trying to play this game for 3 days and I can't really enjoy it because it freezes randomly mostly in cutscenes.

try to reinstall the game man, it should work

[Bozo The Clown]

Originally posted by bironight:

To close the game, press CTRL + ALT + DEL, this will open the task manager and "ALT + TAB" your game automatically.

This happened to me, it real sucks, first of all, reboot you PC, the game should start normally, if it doesn't, you will need to reinstall rdr2 and change his compatibility mode to WINDOWS 7. (And don't forget to update your drivers to the newest version of it)

And don't forget to disable all you firewalls and antiviruses to launch the game properly.

Good luck man

Like I said, alt + Tab doesn't do anything. What fixed it for me was going into borderless windowed mode and setting the resolution to my monitor, but it still freezes. But this time I don't have to completely shut down my PC

[001]

Tried to reinstall the game, still having freezing issues

[Grizz_FMJ]

Same. Sometimes it is fine other times i have to ctrl alt delete 3x or so. It always happens during loading screens for story mode. Or if I shift + tab or alt +tab. Realllllllyyy annoying.

[Orib]

Well, after hours i found a solution, at least it worked to me

Go to the launch options and put this: -cpuLoadRebalancing

Like i said, it worked to me.

Good luck man

[_onyx_]

Originally posted by Bironight:

Well, after hours i found a solution, at least it worked to me

Go to the launch options and put this: -cpuLoadRebalancing

Like i said, it worked to me.

Good luck man

Does not work

[Noxsa]

increase your pagefile size! the game seems to like high pagefile size. i had loads of crashes and freezes, ever sins i set pagefile to redicules size (16GB) even i have the game on a ssd, this change seem'd to vanish the most common crashes. weird i know, but who knows it may work for you too.

[_onyx_]

Originally posted by Noxsa:

increase your pagefile size! the game seems to like high pagefile size. i had loads of crashes and freezes, ever sins i set pagefile to redicules size (16GB) even i have the game on a ssd, this change seem'd to vanish the most common crashes. weird i know, but who knows it may work for you too.

Does not work. Mine is 32GB

[Noxsa]

Originally posted by _onyx_:

Originally posted by Noxsa:

increase your pagefile size! the game seems to like high pagefile size. i had loads of crashes and freezes, ever sins i set pagefile to redicules size (16GB) even i have the game on a ssd, this change seem'd to vanish the most common crashes. weird i know, but who knows it may work for you too.

Does not work. Mine is 32GB

going to say the same here, as in other post. its not because it did not work for you! that this will not work for the OP.

PC's are not the same, and this may work for him. don't be such a negative nancy

[_onyx_]

Originally posted by Noxsa:

Originally posted by _onyx_:

Does not work. Mine is 32GB

going to say the same here, as in other post. its not because it did not work for you! that this will not work for the OP.

PC's are not the same, and this may work for him. don't be such a negative nancy

Naming and shaming is not alowed. I am not a Nancy.

[Noxsa]

Originally posted by _onyx_:

Originally posted by Noxsa:

going to say the same here, as in other post. its not because it did not work for you! that this will not work for the OP.

PC's are not the same, and this may work for him. don't be such a negative nancy

Naming and shaming is not alowed. I am not a Nancy.

LOL name shaming, you really think that's name shaming, that's a saying for someone who looks negative at things all the time, djeeez.
but i guess anything is good to report someone eh! you are lucky i don't start reporting you for baiting people into a rage, reply. all posts you made after me was pure "nope does not work, false, lie's" witch is inpossible as what i "suggest" can't be wrong or right, its a suggestion, a possibility for a fix.

anyways, making to many false reports gets you in trouble also eitherway so there is that.

edit: why the profile private, you on a second acc maybe? is your main banned eh... tsk tsk
if i did not knew better i would say you have a thing for me, seems you only talk negative about my reply's to people...

[Jed Clampet]

Originally posted by _onyx_:

I am not a Nancy.

Well, "a Nancy" means something.... 'different' here... LOL!

[_onyx_]

Originally posted by Noxsa:

Originally posted by _onyx_:

Naming and shaming is not alowed. I am not a Nancy.

LOL name shaming, you really think that's name shaming, that's a saying for someone who looks negative at things all the time, djeeez.
but i guess anything is good to report someone eh! you are lucky i don't start reporting you for baiting people into a rage, reply. all posts you made after me was pure "nope does not work, false, lie's" witch is inpossible as what i "suggest" can't be wrong or right, its a suggestion, a possibility for a fix.

anyways, making to many false reports gets you in trouble also eitherway so there is that.

edit: why the profile private, you on a second acc maybe? is your main banned eh... tsk tsk
if i did not knew better i would say you have a thing for me, seems you only talk negative about my reply's to people...

Why the private profile?

Because i do not use any of the other steam services. And because i like my privacy. I never got banned and i have just this account. I play mostly solo games. I always keep all my internet profiles to a bare minimum.

I only share my data with people who I actualy know.

I will not respond to you further unless we can talk on topic and constructive.

Page file size increase is not solving the RDR2.exe appcrash because pagefilesize is not the cause of the problem most people have.

Why i cannot inform others that larger page file (mine is 32GB) does not solve it I do not understand. If page file solved it for you you did have a totally different problem on your machine.

Rockstar them selves admitted alreay that its a problem with their RDR2.exe file which causes appcrash on many systems.

If you feel baited into rage by feedback that increasing pagefile does not solve it, maybe seek other ways to calm down.

I just reported that it does not work (on my machine, which was logical that i meant my machine because i only can share my experience and knowledge about the issue in relation to pagefile sizes).