Unknown Error: FFFFFFFF Are we all F'd?

[RichRuzz]

Never had issues playing previously EVER, thought it was me last night updating my 3080 drivers but apparently this is happening to a bunch of people since the last update? Anyone know if workarounds are known besides fake mumbo jumbo?

I doubt Rockstar will even bother fixing this, and if so it'll be half a year so not looking forward to playing with the game crashing on me randomly every 1-4 hours isn't ideal.

[Grasshopper]

I thought I would get up today and see a fix for this game breaking issue that happend after they gave the new update. It just goes to show Rockstar doesn't give a **** about their players. Im done with this game ...

[RichRuzz]

Originally posted by Ricky:

I thought I would get up today and see a fix for this game breaking issue that happend after they gave the new update. It just goes to show Rockstar doesn't give a **** about their players. Im done with this game ...

I might be at that point also, looking into this it seems like it effects more and more people every few updates.. I never had issues playing RDR2 on my same setup being a 3080/5900x/etc and never had stability issues... I come back after this patch and getting that error code constantly while on RDO.

[Miss_Legendary_SuperNova]

RichRuzz have you tried updating your drivers and install the latest drivers also

[RichRuzz]

Originally posted by MISS_LEGENDARYSUPERNOVA:

RichRuzz have you tried updating your drivers and install the latest drivers also

Yup, newest drivers is why I thought it was me. But apparently it's the game and has been an issue for people for a while, just seems to hit a bigger group now.

[Русифэл - MPI]

It has to do with the sound. Many of us have been troubleshooting and found turning the music off and things like that have made the error almost non existent. I have only had 1 error today now in around 8 hours of game play.

[ToTeMKallo [FIN]]

Yeah still happening. I though they´d try to fix this kind of issue ASAP but guess we´ll have quite a wait ahead of us. Way to go after releasing the first one of the big updates of the year; significant portion of the playerbase can´t even participate, or the experience would be terrible because of these crashes.

[Atomvinter]

I've had it plenty too. It can't be a graphics thing, as it never crashes in single player. It must be something related to online play somehow. Maybe there is some antivirus, firewall or network thing in Win10 that the game crashes into?

I mean, I've tried a LOT of solutions with little luck:
- switching between Vulkan and DX12, reducing graphics
- trying with DLSS on and off
- deleting settings folder
- verifying installation files with Steam
- searching for and correcting windows errors
- updating windows
- updating Nvidia drivers
- disabling shadowplay
- disconnecting all peripherals except keyboard and mouse
- disconnecting headset and only using PC speakers
- even tried running RDR with "administrator rights", but that f'ed up everything and it didn't even start, so I set it back to normal

Nothing works.

I can play for anything between 30 minutes and 3 hours, but the error always comes at some point. I see no pattern in when it happens, except that it seems to mostly happen in free roam, and not while on a mission as far as I've noticed (may be wrong though)

It can happen while randomly travelling on horse or on foot. It can happen in camp while cooking, it can happen while digging for collectibles. And I see no link to a specific event happening in game. If it always happened when enemies spawn or when the character is about to do an animation I could believe it was graphics related or corrupt installation or something, but there is no such link.

I'm at a loss.

I play a lot of different games, even buggy early access-titles, but I've never had so much trouble as I do with RDR2 Online.

Rockstar needs to fix this.

[RichRuzz]

Sadly they will not ever fix this, they've shown that if you guys look up past issues. Hell I'm pretty sure the NPCs mention to put something warm on in the PC version to this day it's still glitched. Had a Moonshine Shack in multi load forever.. couldn't run or mount, looked that up and it's existed 380+ days ago among other weird technical issues.

That aside disabled my sound card audio and went with just my DP cable going to my monitor to check and haven't crashed yet after almost hitting 2 hours. (but also last night when I first had this happen to me ever I was a few hours in)

seems like this games engine dealing with audio, or their coding is completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥, buggy, or inherently broken in its interactions with PC audio. (had constant channel swapping before this in RDR2 but never game instability)

[rigomrtsfx2001]

works fine no errors

[Steeeeeeeve]

This exact thing is happening to me too. I've never had a issue with this before I could play for hours literally and then now its play for a hour then crash. Aggravating.

[pike]

do you have steam pre-caching enabled ? maybe try turning it off , the ffff error might be happening because rdr2 textures are pre-chached by steam and be out of date , thus the crash

[Exhaust]

I tried out all the clues that Atomvinter describes with negative result. The error occurs randomly and not related to a specific action. Story mode works without an issue, so it has to do with the online mode.

[Wolfen]

Nothing worked for me as well, but considering the abysmal work the lazy jerks did with this update, i would say the ones who are not affected by the error and have to play this crap are the ones that are really fked.