Runs well on RX550 4Gigs but...

[lvl♿ blanko ツ]

Hello dear RDR2 players, i have this game bought and i have played it a couple of hours, my gpu is a RX550 4GB, 16 rams of memory, and it runs well, 40-50fps on medium settings, volumetrics and textures on ultra, but sometimes, when i enter Valentine it crashes my game, just sometimes, not too often... what could it be?

[Triple G]

Something hard drive space or memory related? I mean there can be many complains about the game, but i can´t say i run into many bugs or glitches - and it never crashed for me.

Is it installed on a HDD? Have You checked Your RAM - run some stress test? Have You made changes to the pagefile? Would start with that.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Set Windows PageFile to approx 4GB min; 16 or 32GB max.

Restart the game every couple of hours helps too.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by ✪Motan⭕⃤™:

Hello dear RDR2 players, i have this game bought and i have played it a couple of hours, my gpu is a RX550 4GB, 16 rams of memory, and it runs well, 40-50fps on medium settings, volumetrics and textures on ultra, but sometimes, when i enter Valentine it crashes my game, just sometimes, not too often... what could it be?

I'm running an RX-570/FX-8350 - another pair of yams (not quite potatoes).
Textures on Ultra
Volumetrics on medium or low.
Tree Tessellation off.
Shadows to low or off (if permitted).
Then spend some time turning down what doesn't look awful and helps performance... it'll take a while.

V-Sync off in the game, but use AMD's Enhanced Sync if you have screen tearing.

Average fps should be near 60, but should run smoothly in Windowed Borderless<---seems to run smoother in Borderless for me.

[Gamefever]

What I have found works...
Literally set the screen to full screen,
It is normally set to borderless windowed, set that to full screen stops the crash.

Also I did download and install windows directX12 tools in app settings of windows but that did not stop it crashing for me.
I saw a lot of people saying pagefile but uh no, it has nothing to do with pagefile memory in fact the suggested tweak there is to set it to automatic and that means your not using pagefile with the game.
Saw all sorts of other tweaks an fixes but really how many times does saying check your drivers....A whole slew of pages of check your drivers derp well that does not help at all.

Now if that full screen does not work well then also switch from directx12 over to vulkan mode...
There is a windows directx12 tool that helps and might also try out vulkan runtime drivers and directx runtime package as well but honestly that stuff not sure why it would work all the needed files "should" be on the system >< should.

I was getting regular crashes in game while playing that totally crashed the computer till I switched to full screen and have played all dang afternoon w/o a crash....Before that though it was about every single hour so yes for me switching to full screen leavin it in dx12 was fine.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The game runs in Windowed Borderless regardless of what you set it to anyways. GTAV is the same way. It may allow you to select Full Screen, then apply and exit the game; but afterwards it will be Windowed Borderless; which shouldn't make any differences and would not crash a game simply due to that setting. You want this game running in that mode anyways. Soon as you hit Winkey or ALT+TAB you just automatically forced the game into Windowed Borderless anyways.

If you installed your GPU Driver from AMD or NVIDIA; then you will have Vulkan Runtime installed along with those as well. However RDR2 specifically may have issues if you have another version of Vulkan installed. To combat this, go to this folder...

Steam\steamapps\common\Red Dead Redemption 2\Redistributables

*Note you need 7-Zip installed to do this*

Right click the file
VulkanRT-1.1.108.0-Installer.exe

Mouse-over 7-Zip and click the option for:
Extract to "VulkanRT-1.1.108.0-Installer"
Now go to the VulkanRT-1.1.108.0-Installer folder
$WINDIR > System32
highlight the files within and right click > Copy

Now go to your "c:\Windows" folder, find the System32 folder, right click it and click on Paste. This will put the Vulkan runtime times R* supplied with RDR2 into your System32 folder. The reason to do it this way is because if you have Vulkan installed then an older installer will never work as it will refuse to over-write newer files with older ones. Thus again the reason for this method of copy + paste of the files manually.

Now run the game and use the Vulkan API.
If your game was changed to DirectX12 and that is a problem, crashes on game launch; etc. Then go to this folder; Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings ~ and delete the System.XML file ~ This has the Graphics settings, including which API to run the game. By deleting this file and re-launching the game, the file will get re-created with the default Graphics settings, including the API set to Vulkan.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

the API set to Vulkan.

Yea - mine doesn't crash using DX-12...
it just looks and runs like ass...

;)

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It doesn't LOOK any different under Vulkan.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

It doesn't LOOK any different under Vulkan.

It does at my house - when the whole thing has the hydraulic jerks.
Under Vulcan in Borderless - it's nice and smooth.
Have no idea why - and don't really care...lol

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well for one thing; your PC is too old for DirectX 12.

DX12 requires a beefy CPU & GPU. Sad to say but it is true.
You're not running RDR2 in DX12 on no 4GB GPU; I'm sorry.

580 8GB or perhaps Vega56 is probably the lowest end GPUs to run this game using DX12. Otherwise use Vulkan.

[JuiceWSA]

My 570 has 8GB.
DX12 is like ass - Vulcan is smooth with average 57-62fps.
It'll do for now.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Can you screenshot your Graphics settings for RDR2 ?