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Top Alpha wolf has Red Dead Redemption 2

Dec 15, 2019 @ 8:42am

My game keeps freezing

Ok so I have about 24 hours on this game and all of a sudden my game is starting to just stop working not taking input and if it was taking input my screen would just freeze up and I would have to press alt tab to fix it but the same thing would happen a few seconds later.
Is this a common issue or am I the only one because its becoming more and more frustrating

I7 7700
16 gb ram
rx 5700

My specs should be more than enough right?

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Originally posted by Nacrolepsy:

Do this two steps:
1.Hit windows button + R..a pop up window will show up write in this pop up window %temp% then hit enter now a folder will show up just delete all files within this folder
2.go to documents --->Rockstar games ---> red dead redemption 2 and search for a file call "xml" when you find it just delete it

Sorry for my bad english..engilsh is not my native language.

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Moban351 Dec 15, 2019 @ 9:12am

i think a lot of people are experiencing this after the latest patch. Hopefully rockstar fixes it soon. I've twice now gotten perfect rabbit kills for a challenge and lost it due to crashes!

Vector Dec 15, 2019 @ 10:09am

I have the same, but i have the Epic / non steam version.
The last 2 patches did not repair it.

i7 8700
32 gb ram
Gtx 1080 ti

In ultra settings it comes more often i think.

Top Alpha wolf has Red Dead Redemption 2

Dec 15, 2019 @ 10:43am

Originally posted by Vector:
I have the same, but i have the Epic / non steam version.
The last 2 patches did not repair it.

i7 8700
32 gb ram
Gtx 1080 ti

In ultra settings it comes more often i think.

Yeah it is weird because I just went on my laptop that only has a 1050ti i5 7300hq and 8gb ram and the fps is pretty low obviously but no crashes. I play on high/ultra on my main rig and usually get 80 fps+ so its strange that this is all of the sudden happening

Shrapnel

Dec 15, 2019 @ 10:51am

Originally posted by Killers are smelly:
Ok so I have about 24 hours on this game and all of a sudden my game is starting to just stop working not taking input and if it was taking input my screen would just freeze up and I would have to press alt tab to fix it but the same thing would happen a few seconds later.
Is this a common issue or am I the only one because its becoming more and more frustrating

I7 7700
16 gb ram
rx 5700

My specs should be more than enough right?

Specs look good I think the problem is you bought a AAA game a month after its release it wont be completed for at least 5 more so...

Top Alpha wolf has Red Dead Redemption 2

Dec 15, 2019 @ 12:23pm

Originally posted by Shrapnel:
Originally posted by Killers are smelly:
Ok so I have about 24 hours on this game and all of a sudden my game is starting to just stop working not taking input and if it was taking input my screen would just freeze up and I would have to press alt tab to fix it but the same thing would happen a few seconds later.
Is this a common issue or am I the only one because its becoming more and more frustrating

I7 7700
16 gb ram
rx 5700

My specs should be more than enough right?
Specs look good I think the problem is you bought a AAA game a month after its release it wont be completed for at least 5 more so...

especially since its from rock star they are known for there ports XD

paule404

Dec 15, 2019 @ 1:10pm

Originally posted by Killers are smelly:
Ok so I have about 24 hours on this game and all of a sudden my game is starting to just stop working not taking input and if it was taking input my screen would just freeze up and I would have to press alt tab to fix it but the same thing would happen a few seconds later.
Is this a common issue or am I the only one because its becoming more and more frustrating

I7 7700
16 gb ram
rx 5700

My specs should be more than enough right?

Hello!
I've been having issues aswell but i applied some of the following steps below and the game isn't crashing anymore, hoping this might help you aswell, trying can't hurt at this point i guess.
I have disabled SteamOverlay. Running my graphicscard on factory clock speed. And lastly apllied -ignorepipelinecache to my launch options for RDR2 on steam.

Good luck! Have a good one.

Nado

Dec 15, 2019 @ 1:34pm

This glitch is related to the latest Radeon Driver, disable the Enhanced Sync in Radeon Software.

Moban351 Dec 16, 2019 @ 11:42am

happening to me and i have a gtx 2080ti

pschaknorris has Red Dead Redemption 2

Dec 16, 2019 @ 11:52am

happening to me too and i have a gtx 2070s. But only after the last patch. One week before it was pretty fine.

Moban351 Dec 16, 2019 @ 12:17pm

noticed this in the patch notes of the latest nvidia driver 441.66:

Windows 10 Issues
 [Grand Theft Auto V]: The game frequently crashes.
NVIDIA is working with the application developer to resolve the issue.

I wonder if they should mention the same is happening to RDR2. I know the engines and stuff are different but who knows what library or whatever they are calling from GTA V, it might be the same as RDR2.

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Top Alpha wolf has Red Dead Redemption 2

Dec 16, 2019 @ 1:14pm

Yeah I think it's a common issue but rockstar just wont help lol

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AGUXING Dec 17, 2019 @ 10:10pm

Originally posted by Leonardo:
This glitch is related to the latest Radeon Driver, disable the Enhanced Sync in Radeon Software.

I've been dealing with the same problem everyone else seems to be dealing with, and it started happening when i turned Enhanced Sync ON, now that i turned it off, its back to working like it normally did, so HERE'S THE RIGHT ANSWER!
Thank you Leonardo.

Last edited by AGUXING; Dec 17, 2019 @ 10:11pm

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Moban351 Dec 17, 2019 @ 11:26pm

i have an nvidia card and have vsync on but i'm using gsync. Game crashes between 20 minutes to an hour every time I play.

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MeowCats Dec 18, 2019 @ 12:43am

Originally posted by Moban351:
i have an nvidia card and have vsync on but i'm using gsync. Game crashes between 20 minutes to an hour every time I play.

Experiencing the same here, unfortunately. All the fixes that were suggested didn't do anything. Not even taking off CPU/GPU overclock, disabling all sorts of software running in the background etc. Plenty of users have these random crashes (there are plenty of threads on reddit about this.) and it seems to be related to certain hardware-software combination.. nobody knows the real cause.

I gave up on troubleshooting because i'm certain it's an issue with the game. Rockstar has released atleast 20 fixes alone just for different types of crashes. All the tickets i've sent only received an automatic response so far. I'm not sure if they'll ever fix this or atleast give a solution to fix it.

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