Constant Crashes

[pQue]

I have found several older threads with this issue. However I have not found any particular solution, and the consensus in some threads even was, that this issue should be fixed by now, which at least on my end is certainly not true.

My problem is basically what the title says: This game crashed 4 times in less than 10 hours. 3 times to desktop, 1 time to reboot.

I just built this system 7 weeks ago. Since then, I played Divinity 2, Borderlands 3, Overwatch, No Man's Sky all with 0 crashes. Even 102 hours of the somehow notorious Cyberpunk 2077 with only 1 single crash. I highly doubt there's something wrong with the PC.

My system:
Win 10, X570 Aorus Ultra, 32GB DDR4-3600 (C16), Ryzen 9 5900X, RTX3080, game loading from Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2, system installed onto 980 PRO M.2

• All drivers are up-to-date
  
• Even BIOS is the most recent one
  
• RDR2 game is also updated (obviously, when running over Steam)
  
• It's a fresh and first installation, so risk of corrupted files is very low. Problem started around 2 hours into the story.
  
• Graphics settings are all either on high or ultra
  
• System temperatures are good, CPU and GPU are very far from overheating
  
• framerates are super smooth, no perceivable drops, and constantly above 100fps

Is this problem still as common as one year ago when there were more threads about it? Or do I have some very exotic fringe case here?

Any input is appreciated. Thanks.

[pQue]

BTW, I have tried with cloud saving on and off. It happened in both cases.

And it seems to get worse. Now, after posting this thread, I have started the game again, and it crashed to desktop only 10 minutes later.

[Twitchey]

I started getting crashes about every 20 minutes after one of the recent patches, and tried a bunch of stuff in the settings eventually fixing it, but im not sure exactly what was causing it.

Windowed borderless mode seemed to fix most of the issues for me there, and maybe try switching between direct x and vulkan?

[pQue]

Ok thanks, I will first try borderless windowed mode and, if the issue continues, vulkan after that.

[Ctrl Alt Pyke]

Same boat here...

I came back after a while to RDR2 and it keeps crashing like crazy for no apparent reason ...

[pQue]

So it keeps getting worse for me. Now the crashes are happening every 5 minutes. What's going on? How can it suddenly get so much worse? I mean I got here with crashes every 2-3 hours, but now it's unplayable.

I have also tried all 4 combinations between DX12/Vulkan vs. Fullscreen/Windowed Borderless.

Maybe the mission I'm in right now is especially prone to crashes?

I am trying to go on a bear hunt with Hosea. First we go to Valentine to sell the large black Shire horse and buy a new one. The farthest I got was riding out of Valentine with my new horse and then crashing as the game goes into a riding cutscene. But most times I don't even manage to buy a new horse before the game crashes.

I swear... if I have to hear one more time how Hosea's horse was stolen, Davey got drunk and Lenny and Jenny wouldn't have worked out, I'll go mad.

[Thite]

I put about 110 hours into the game last year and never had any crashes.
Came back to play the story again this year (no changes to the PC), played 20 hours just fine and then had a complete computer crash last night while playing.
Now I'm nervous to load it back up since people say it just gets worse and worse.

[brucilla "the muscle"]

u said "any input", so here goes:
disable HDR in windows, see if it helps
(saved me from freezes, had no outright crashes tho)

[pQue]

Thanks @brucilla but it did not solve it.

In the meantime I have tried other possible solutions I found around the web. Nothing worked.

This includes:

• Deleting graphics cache files (the ones starting with 'sga') for both graphics APIs
  
• disabled/enabled triple buffering
  
• experimentally just lowered a lot of the graphics settings, but it still crashed. So I'm back at ultra settings.
  
• someone even suggested blocking RDR2 launcher in windows firewall (outgoing and ingoing). This didn't help as well. So I unblocked it again.

This is very broken. It's fascinating how such 100% gamebreaking issues are still unresolved after the game was released on PC more than a year ago. I wrote a support ticket to Rockstar because they don't seem to have an active forum.

I'm working through my 'steam-sale pile of shame' and won't come back to RDR2 until it's resolved. This is a shame, because I really liked the story and atmosphere so far. Started Tomb Raider and - of course - there was not a single crash in the last two plus hours. It's definitely RDR2-specific, as I suggested in the original post.

[SayneX]

I just started the game up and crashed right after the 2 hour mark. I came to the discussions to see if anyone has experienced this. I also waited till now to try this game with a 3090, 10900k and 32gb ram with same M.2. That is a sad predicament that this might be a issue that keeps happening. The other issue I have is the volume keeps dropping to like real low and got to go to the volume mixer to max it each time.

[FizzyCerb VT]

Bought it wanted to play but its unplayable, crashes so often, 3090 too

[pQue]

idk... from everything I read online, not only this discussion, it seems that high(est) end systems are more affected (predominantly 3080s and 3090s) and that it's somehow connected to graphics cache files.

Get this... I got a very fast, but sadly not too helpful, first response to my ticket. I described everything in even more detail than I did here. I also provided dxdiag, msinfo and launcher log files.

Support wanted me to "first send screenshots of the issue, so he's able to investigate it" xD I mean... it's a crash. What's there to screenshot? It either goes directly to desktop or worst case (getting more common) directly to system reboot.

I replied that I can't provide a screenshot for said reasons and am waiting since.

[apafelyido]

I managed to avoid a lot of crashing by doing the following.

Set the API of the game to Vulkan. Some people report that Vulkan runs the game with less problems, others say it is DX12 that does the job. In my case Vulkan runs better.

I've set the launch options of the game with the following parameters: -ignorepipelinecache -framelimit -cpuloadrebalancing

I've also modified the compatibility settings of both the PlayRDR2.exe and RDR2.exe apps. I've ticked the "disable full screen optimization" box in the Compatibility tab in the properties of both apps. I changed the High DPI Scaling settings and ticked the boxes under "Program DPI" and "High DPI scaling override". In the two drop down options for each section of the High DPI scaling settings, I set the first one to "(when) I open this program" and the other one to "System". Then I set both programs to run in Windows 7 compatibility mode.

I haven't had much crashes since, and had only 2 crashes in a week. For context, I run the game with Intel HD 520 integrated graphics. Crappy performance is to be expected in my case.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Have you all tried rollbacking to a previous version of the graphics driver? I had issues with a older pc that would not play this one game with the most current graphics driver, and rolling it back worked for me. Also you could try a factory reset of your graphics driver and see if that works. Only thing would you would need to reinstall the newer grpahics drivers.

IT sounds stupid, but sometimes the newest graphics drivers are crap.

[Twitchey]

Ouch pQue, that's pretty harsh... Not really sure what else to try there.

There are ways to skip missions, if you want to create a backup manual save, and then try quickly failing the mission a couple of times, it will allow you to skip checkpoints that way, if you just want to see if it is the quest causing it.

I have heard that the most recent patch seems to have bugged out some quests for some people, so, maybe. But yeah not sure :(

[lucian lazarus]

for me, down clocking my ram from 3000mhz to 2133mhz fixed it for me., i've read that sometimes overclocks can cause crashing