CTD First day of owning game.

[xNUTTZACHx]

I just bought the game last night and had it install after I went to bed. I started it up first thing this morning and I can't get past the main menu. I get the sepia loading screen then instant CTD, no error screen, code, nothing. So I decide to check my settings, instant CTD once I hit the settings key. Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on?

I have the latest Windows update, the latest Nvidia driver, I have tried deleting my profile and settings from the document folder, verifying the game file integrity. Nothing seems to help.

[craigsters]

you may need to re-install windows ten, if your windows ten has errors or is the wrong version it may effect your game

Red Dead Redemption 2 game details

Dec 5, 2019: Red Dead Redemption 2 is officially out on the PC! You graphics need to be GeForce GTX 770 or Radeon R9 280 or better to run it. And your CPU has to be at least a Core i5-2500K or AMD FX-6300 and more horse power gets you more fun.

[Ben-Rogue]

What are your hardware specs?

[xNUTTZACHx]

Originally posted by Ben-Rogue:

What are your hardware specs?

Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2678 v3 @ 2.50GHz
RAM: 12GB
64b OS
Quadro P5000 v.452.06

[Ben-Rogue]

Well, that's certainly not a hardware combination that this game would be optimised for. If it's not even getting into settings, than this definitely seems like an issue with you GPU not being supported. I doubt Quadro cards are officially supported with "game-ready" updates, which are essential for this game to even work.

[xNUTTZACHx]

Originally posted by Ben-Rogue:

Well, that's certainly not a hardware combination that this game would be optimised for. If it's not even getting into settings, than this definitely seems like an issue with you GPU not being supported. I doubt Quadro cards are officially supported with "game-ready" updates, which are essential for this game to even work.

Well I am actually in the middle of a rebuild, what would you recommend as a good hardware combo for this game specifically?

[Ironix8148]

Goto Users\<username>\Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings
and delete all SGA files.

Then in the Steam Library:

Right-click on Red Dead Redemption 2
Select Properties
Select Set Launch Options
In the text box, add -ignorepipelinecache
Select OK

...also add -ignorepiplinecache into the R* Launcher's settings.

You might also try launching the game alternatively by going to:

This PC > Local Disk C: (or Data Volume E:) > Program Files (86) > Steam > steamapps > Common > Red Dead Redemption

...scroll down until you find both the "Play RDR2" and "RDR2 icons, right click and run as administrator.

[Ben-Rogue]

Originally posted by xNUTTZACHx:

Originally posted by Ben-Rogue:

Well, that's certainly not a hardware combination that this game would be optimised for. If it's not even getting into settings, than this definitely seems like an issue with you GPU not being supported. I doubt Quadro cards are officially supported with "game-ready" updates, which are essential for this game to even work.

Well I am actually in the middle of a rebuild, what would you recommend as a good hardware combo for this game specifically?

That all depends on the resolution, frame-rate and visual quality you want to play at. I personally game at 4k with high-ultra settings and get around 50-70FPS with my Ryzen 2700x 16GB 3200MHz Ram, Radeon 5700XT Pulse.

I fyou don't mind 1080p or 1440p medium to high settings; any modern CPU with at least 6 cores and multi-threading, 16GB Ram and a decent mid-range card with minimum 6GB VRAM should run this game fine. 4k60 on Ultra settings is a real struggle even on high-end systems, but for that I'd recommend at least 8 cores, 16GB Ram, plus a RTX 2070 or 5700XT GPU. Though, new GPUs are about to hit the market, so it might pay to wait a month or two for price cuts on current gen or see what next gen brings if you're concerned about prices... I would also definitely recommend installing this game to even a cheap SSD, else your load times will be terrible!

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Originally posted by xNUTTZACHx:

Originally posted by Ben-Rogue:

What are your hardware specs?

Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2678 v3 @ 2.50GHz
RAM: 12GB
64b OS
Quadro P5000 v.452.06

Does your CPU support sse4.2? I looked on Intel ark and only saw sse4. If it doesn't I'd be surprised. It seems like it should. My 10-year old Xeon supports sse4.2. but I didn't see it for yours when I looked up the specs and without sse4.2 this game won't load up the map.
You can go to the top of this page and click Help> then System Information. Look at the log and see if sse4.2 is supported. You can also paste it here and we can see your hardware the way Steam see's it.
After looking your GPU it appears to have limited vulkan support 1.0 so not sure if that is a factor, something to keep in mind though.
Another odd thing is you have 12gb ram and 16gb vram. That's actually configured backwards. You want more ram than your GPU has, not the other way around.
Look to see if your CPU has a dual, triple, or quad-channel memory controller. If it's a dual or quad-channel, then your 12gb ram is going to be terribly inefficient because 12gb won't be matching. Triple-channel is ok, though.
Good luck!

[xNUTTZACHx]

Originally posted by ANTI-MASKER™:

Originally posted by xNUTTZACHx:

Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2678 v3 @ 2.50GHz
RAM: 12GB
64b OS
Quadro P5000 v.452.06

Does your CPU support sse4.2? I looked on Intel ark and only saw sse4. If it doesn't I'd be surprised. It seems like it should. My 10-year old Xeon supports sse4.2. but I didn't see it for yours when I looked up the specs and without sse4.2 this game won't load up the map.
You can go to the top of this page and click Help> then System Information. Look at the log and see if sse4.2 is supported. You can also paste it here and we can see your hardware the way Steam see's it.
After looking your GPU it appears to have limited vulkan support 1.0 so not sure if that is a factor, something to keep in mind though.
Another odd thing is you have 12gb ram and 16gb vram. That's actually configured backwards. You want more ram than your GPU has, not the other way around.
Look to see if your CPU has a dual, triple, or quad-channel memory controller. If it's a dual or quad-channel, then your 12gb ram is going to be terribly inefficient because 12gb won't be matching. Triple-channel is ok, though.
Good luck!

Here is the full log:
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Blade
Model: Shadow Computer
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2678 v3 @ 2.50GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x3f
CPU Stepping: 0x2
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2500 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Quadro P5000
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 27.21.14.5671
DirectX Driver Version: 27.21.14.5671
Driver Date: 9 30 2020
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA Quadro P5000
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1bb0
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1600 x 900
Desktop Resolution: 1600 x 900
Primary Display Size: 14.96" x 8.27" (17.09" diag)
38.0cm x 21.0cm (43.4cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 0x
Primary VRAM: 16383 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: BladeShadow (NVIDIA High Defini

Memory:
RAM: 12286 Mb