Found another cause of Rockstar's launcher crashing.

[Wrinkly]

I use a small 4GB RAM drive to mainly buffer live TV, AMD's Radeon™ RAMDisk - http://www.radeonramdisk.com/software_downloads.php

The Rockstar launcher crashes when this is enabled and works fine if disabled, even though the Launcher/Steam/RDR2 should not be looking at it. I spent a couple of hours with support pulling out my USB devices,12 of them, before trying this as a last resort. Oddly enough GTA V works fine with the RAM drive enabled.

I hope this helps someone else, though using a RAM drive is pretty unusual.

[Ancient]

I had the same issue when using ImDisk RAMDisk and my purpose was similar: I use it to buffer my CCTV security cam feeds on my 2nd monitor.

It seems that if the game sees 32GB of RAM in my system and can't access any/all of it, it crashes. I tried with an 8GB, 4GB, 2GB and 1GB RAMDisk and it just doesn't like any of it. Much as I hate to do it, I put the CCTV buffers on my NVMe while I'm playing RDR2 now, but the whole point of me using the 8GB RAMDisk was to avoid burning all that write endurance on a $500 2TB 970 EVO Plus NVMe, so I'm not exactly happy about it.

[Wrinkly]

Rockstar's support are aware of it now, so lets hope we see this fixed.

[longjohn119]

引用自 Wrinkly：

I use a small 4GB RAM drive to mainly buffer live TV, AMD's Radeon™ RAMDisk - http://www.radeonramdisk.com/software_downloads.php

The Rockstar launcher crashes when this is enabled and works fine if disabled, even though the Launcher/Steam/RDR2 should not be looking at it. I spent a couple of hours with support pulling out my USB devices,12 of them, before trying this as a last resort. Oddly enough GTA V works fine with the RAM drive enabled.

I hope this helps someone else, though using a RAM drive is pretty unusual.

Thanks for the tip, I also run a RAM disk for the exact same reason (I also have my browser cache and temp folders in there too) and I fought this game for 5 weeks trying everything and nothing worked for me so far ...... The problem is just turning it off will muck up my system if I don't move the Temp file and browser cache back to a physical drive

[Ancient]

引用自 russell_john：

引用自 Wrinkly：

I use a small 4GB RAM drive to mainly buffer live TV, AMD's Radeon™ RAMDisk - http://www.radeonramdisk.com/software_downloads.php

The Rockstar launcher crashes when this is enabled and works fine if disabled, even though the Launcher/Steam/RDR2 should not be looking at it. I spent a couple of hours with support pulling out my USB devices,12 of them, before trying this as a last resort. Oddly enough GTA V works fine with the RAM drive enabled.

I hope this helps someone else, though using a RAM drive is pretty unusual.

Thanks for the tip, I also run a RAM disk for the exact same reason (I also have my browser cache and temp folders in there too) and I fought this game for 5 weeks trying everything and nothing worked for me so far ...... The problem is just turning it off will muck up my system if I don't move the Temp file and browser cache back to a physical drive

I feel you. I would just put them on a RAID 0 HDD array (or a NAS) with 350MB/s throughput or something though, temp files and browser cache are not really going to require a RAMDisk. It may speed up a system a few seconds here or there over the course of a day long period of time, but they aren't crucial.

Unfortunately, those of us that use RAMDisks are less important than Linux users when it comes to developers/publishers. We're a 0.01% minority and I kind of doubt they'll make any changes specifically for us.

[longjohn119]

This did at least fix my start crash problem but I haven't played it long enough yet to determine if in-game crashes are fixed too

As far as ram disks go I've been using one since March of 2013 on 3 different builds and never once had a problem, it's something I set up when doing the initial install and never have to touch again .... until Rockstar came long

Rockstar Games - Show us an API and we'll break it

[jjj]

引用自 Wrinkly：

I use a small 4GB RAM drive to mainly buffer live TV, AMD's Radeon™ RAMDisk - http://www.radeonramdisk.com/software_downloads.php

The Rockstar launcher crashes when this is enabled and works fine if disabled, even though the Launcher/Steam/RDR2 should not be looking at it. I spent a couple of hours with support pulling out my USB devices,12 of them, before trying this as a last resort. Oddly enough GTA V works fine with the RAM drive enabled.

I hope this helps someone else, though using a RAM drive is pretty unusual.

I tried turn audio to 48000k, tried turn off controller when game start, tried turn off all the service by msconfig when computer start, tried upgrade video card driver. None of these work.

Finally I found this thread, just turn off my memdisk then games works perfectly.

[Eminem]

There really needs to be a sticky thread on the front page for stuff like this.

[󠀡]

Turn off weird ♥♥♥♥, problems go away. This type of genius level troubleshooting deserves a reddit gold.

[Wrinkly]

引用自 󠀡：

Turn off weird ♥♥♥♥, problems go away. This type of genius level troubleshooting deserves a reddit gold.

Don't be so ignorant

[Frostregen]

引用自 Eminem：

There really needs to be a sticky thread on the front page for stuff like this.

Yep.
I'm using Ramdisks since 1993 (MS-DOS back then), and RDR2 is the very first software ever having a problem with the pure existence of a Ramdisk.

R* must be doing some very strange stuff within their launcher and/or RDR2. (Probably I don't even want to know...)

[Tagobert]

After some minor RDR2 updates I have still the same issue. I think no fix will coming in the future due to such a tiny affected group. Are there any workaround what could help?

[eTheBlack]

Have same issue from start, gonna send this thread to R* Support, but I doubt fixing any time soon, its R* afterall

[solo_tseng]

I got this launcher crash issue also when I tried to play GTA5 and RDR2.
I am using Dataram RAMDisk and the launcher always crash till I found this topic.
Now I have to disable ramdisk to make the game work so R* never fix this afterall

[Kokosnoot]

Just want to mention that disabling the RAM drive also made RDR2 work for me; after trying a lot of the usual suggestions and wasting way too much time on that.

[weezard]

It's 2023 and this issue still hasn't been fixed. It probably never will.