this game is crashing Partially because of vram leak

[talclipse]

My pc specs are
Cpu 5800x
Gpu strix lc 6900xt
Ram 32gb
Mobo x570
Hdd 12tb
Ssd 1tb
Win10

All drivers and windows are up to date.

I have been playing the game for about 80hrs so far on the rockstar launcher,and the game will crash randomly! Anywhere from at launch to 3 hours in.i have tried all of the suggested "fixes" that you will find online with none of them besides deleting all files but the settings.xml in "Documents/Rockstar Games/Red Dead Redemption 2/Settings" have had any impact whatsoever.

Today I decided to keep msi afterburner running and have both my system ram and the gpu vram displaying while I played as I Suspected a memory leak was causing the Majority my crashes.

I am playing at 4k near max settings and at start up the game is using 5.5gb of both vram and system ram.

i stayed in and around Strawberry for a bounty hunt,to find the giant Skeleton and cave painting, then I roamed all around that side of the map for roughly 2hrs or so looking for some wild life.

In that time both my system ram and vram went from 5.5gb to 12.6gb but I noticed that as I inched outside of town more my vram continued to climb while my system ram stayed at 12.6gb.

So I decided to make a trip to the other side of the map to test and sure enough my vram continued to climb,never decreasing at all.by the time I got to the swamps my vram was at 15.4gb.i hit the pause button and Bam it completely locked up and I had to "control +alt+delete " and bring up the task manager to shut down the game.

Red dead 2 clearly has an issue handling its vram usage where as you travel from Section to section of the map it loads in new stuff but never deletes anything.

I looked around online but I haven't found anyone else talking about this.

[talclipse]

引用自 xentionX：

Uhm.. :Grineer: have you made sure your RAM is compatible with ur mobo? and that you're not OCed? cuz im running my craptastic I7-5930k, 16gb ram, GTX 1080 and X99A GAMING 7 mobo at 2560x1440p and ive NEVER had any issues with the game besides when Rockstar failed their own updates. yeah my rig is quite dated, and i can run the game fine on medium/high to ultra settings. same with most other newer titles i can run them just fine on medium to high. and yes i know you said vram, which is GPU related. but do check ur RAM aswell. but maybe try going down from 4k.

It's an issue with the game engine not hardware. Gezz how difficult is this to understand??

Just because you don't have an issue, doesn't Invalidate the fact that others do.

I can't even understand why people are posting in here that don't have similar spec'd pcs, nor game at similar settings. Clearly lower resolutions,or lower settings aren't having this sorta crash or Nvidia cards would be crashing badly with their tiny amounts of vram.

[Cask]

Rockstar's response to my crash reports. Lots of facepalming....

Forgot to mention my resolution is 3440 x 1440.

https://i.imgur.com/1TjWWE4.png
https://i.imgur.com/s7vxIfM.png
https://i.imgur.com/924GczV.png
https://i.imgur.com/N8cIbhA.png

[talclipse]

引用自 Cask：

Rockstar's response to my crash reports. Lots of facepalming....

Forgot to mention my resolution is 3440 x 1440.

https://i.imgur.com/1TjWWE4.png
https://i.imgur.com/s7vxIfM.png
https://i.imgur.com/924GczV.png
https://i.imgur.com/N8cIbhA.png

Have you ran afterburner and noticed vram never being cleaned while playing?

Also the vram issue isn't the only reason for all the crashes.ive had mine crash while the game was launching,I've also had other Miscellaneous crashes that usually happen within the first few minutes that can't be related to the vram issue.

But all of those seem to have been fixed by deleting a few files in the settings.xml in "Documents/Rockstar Games/Red Dead Redemption 2/Settings"

[Clancy]

引用自 talclipse：

引用自 xentionX：

Uhm.. :Grineer: have you made sure your RAM is compatible with ur mobo? and that you're not OCed? cuz im running my craptastic I7-5930k, 16gb ram, GTX 1080 and X99A GAMING 7 mobo at 2560x1440p and ive NEVER had any issues with the game besides when Rockstar failed their own updates. yeah my rig is quite dated, and i can run the game fine on medium/high to ultra settings. same with most other newer titles i can run them just fine on medium to high. and yes i know you said vram, which is GPU related. but do check ur RAM aswell. but maybe try going down from 4k.

It's an issue with the game engine not hardware. Gezz how difficult is this to understand??

Just because you don't have an issue, doesn't Invalidate the fact that others do.

I can't even understand why people are posting in here that don't have similar spec'd pcs, nor game at similar settings. Clearly lower resolutions,or lower settings aren't having this sorta crash or Nvidia cards would be crashing badly with their tiny amounts of vram.

Because if people with lesser-spec'd pc's and video cards can play with almost all settings maxed for hours on end without any vram leak issues, then the problem is with the game engine and certain HARDWARE configurations, or else vastly more people would be having this same problem. It seems to be isolated to those with very high-end, relatively new cards . . .what are the odds that those cards may have issues that are causing confilcts with the game engine? Probably pretty good . . .

"Gezz how difficult is this to understand??" For some folks, quite a bit it seems . . .

[talclipse]

引用自 Clancy：

引用自 talclipse：

It's an issue with the game engine not hardware. Gezz how difficult is this to understand??

Just because you don't have an issue, doesn't Invalidate the fact that others do.

I can't even understand why people are posting in here that don't have similar spec'd pcs, nor game at similar settings. Clearly lower resolutions,or lower settings aren't having this sorta crash or Nvidia cards would be crashing badly with their tiny amounts of vram.

Because if people with lesser-spec'd pc's and video cards can play with almost all settings maxed for hours on end without any vram leak issues, then the problem is with the game engine and certain HARDWARE configurations, or else vastly more people would be having this same problem. It seems to be isolated to those with very high-end, relatively new cards . . .what are the odds that those cards may have issues that are causing confilcts with the game engine? Probably pretty good . . .

"Gezz how difficult is this to understand??" For some folks, quite a bit it seems . . .

Plenty of people have already stated they game at lower resolutions with lesser hardware and have no issues.

Also if you are one to stay in one area for hours at a time or die often,it's unlikely you will ever run into the vram leak,as I clearly stated multiple times that the work around for the vram issue is to save then reload that save which cleans out the vram during the reload which also happens when you die.

So for the vram issue lower end rigs that game at 1440p and below will rarely experience it as those textures are much smaller thus much more of them can be fit into vram..

[Cask]

引用自 talclipse：

引用自 Cask：

Rockstar's response to my crash reports. Lots of facepalming....

Forgot to mention my resolution is 3440 x 1440.

https://i.imgur.com/1TjWWE4.png
https://i.imgur.com/s7vxIfM.png
https://i.imgur.com/924GczV.png
https://i.imgur.com/N8cIbhA.png

Have you ran afterburner and noticed vram never being cleaned while playing?

Also the vram issue isn't the only reason for all the crashes.ive had mine crash while the game was launching,I've also had other Miscellaneous crashes that usually happen within the first few minutes that can't be related to the vram issue.

But all of those seem to have been fixed by deleting a few files in the settings.xml in "Documents/Rockstar Games/Red Dead Redemption 2/Settings"

I'm going to download AB and test. What lines did you remove from settings.xml ?

[Mr Green]

引用自 talclipse：

引用自 Clancy：

Because if people with lesser-spec'd pc's and video cards can play with almost all settings maxed for hours on end without any vram leak issues, then the problem is with the game engine and certain HARDWARE configurations, or else vastly more people would be having this same problem. It seems to be isolated to those with very high-end, relatively new cards . . .what are the odds that those cards may have issues that are causing confilcts with the game engine? Probably pretty good . . .

"Gezz how difficult is this to understand??" For some folks, quite a bit it seems . . .

Plenty of people have already stated they game at lower resolutions with lesser hardware and have no issues.

Also if you are one to stay in one area for hours at a time or die often,it's unlikely you will ever run into the vram leak,as I clearly stated multiple times that the work around for the vram issue is to save then reload that save which cleans out the vram during the reload which also happens when you die.

So for the vram issue lower end rigs that game at 1440p and below will rarely experience it as those textures are much smaller thus much more of them can be fit into vram..

Yo I think you're right, low end cards never have the stutter

[Gamefever]

I can not run my usual podcast channels I like to listen to while playing the game, get crashes with the browsers open. Reading that the game has a memory leak that leads to this actually does not surprise me now. Dont like it cause I like to listen to my news an stuff while playing a game.

[talclipse]

引用自 Cask：

引用自 talclipse：

Have you ran afterburner and noticed vram never being cleaned while playing?

Also the vram issue isn't the only reason for all the crashes.ive had mine crash while the game was launching,I've also had other Miscellaneous crashes that usually happen within the first few minutes that can't be related to the vram issue.

But all of those seem to have been fixed by deleting a few files in the settings.xml in "Documents/Rockstar Games/Red Dead Redemption 2/Settings"

I'm going to download AB and test. What lines did you remove from settings.xml ?

Make sure you set up Afterburner to show your vram used and have osd setup. Once mine gets up to around 12-14gb(because I have a 16gb gpu) I save then reload that save and it will clear out the vram.

You don't edit the settings.xml. rather you delete all files but the settings.xml in "Documents/Rockstar Games/Red Dead Redemption 2/Settings".

I believe I read that some sorta cache files get stored there and can cause some crashes..

[Neurosys]

I've noticed if I time it just right, start twitch studio, start RDR2. shotgun load scene starts, alt-tab.... set it as the target window and start the stream capture.....Now alt tab back to RDR2 real fast.... KER-CHUNK! Everytime. Easy to reproduce.

my Workaround: wait for main menu screen to be up, give a few moments, pretty music and waving trees, ok now alt tab and set cap window+startCap.

RTX 2070, DX12, ultra

[GrimFate4700]

By any chance have any of you tried updating your network cards.

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

I can confirm, that this games is suffering from a VRAM leak on Vulkan, especially with RX 6000 cards.

The only way to fix this, is to switch to DX12 or deactivate SAM in your Radeon settings.
Your game wont run as smooth as it did before, but its better than crashing every 2-3 hours.

edit: I swear to god, Ive never encountered such a huge pile of garbage, when its about the stability.
So many different errors and almost no updates from the publisher.

[pike]

probably not , good hardware doesnt mean you have it setup right and working properly, just means you have a fat wallet

[liulies]

Cpu 3600
Gpu 6800xt
Ram 32gb
Ssd 1tb 2tb
Win10 21h1

Still same problem.
Vulkan and SAM on. According to Radeon driver overlay, VRAM went to 16047MB

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

AMD Support told me that they are aware of this problem but Rockstar needs to fix and adress the Vram leak.
The last RDR2 Update caused this issue for RX 6000 and RX 5000 cards.

If you ask me, I dont think that they care. Were talking about Rockstar here.
The same Rockstar, who forces you to use a Internet connection while playing offline games.

I wouldnt expect wonders. ;)
Just get used to it, or deactivate SAM, switch to DX12 or try to switch to "windowed mode", as soon as your VRAM hits 13000-15000MB.
That should buy you some time.