How we can turn off the Rockstar Achievment announcement in game? Making my game crash

[maldorf]

Ive had this happen about 4 times now. It doesnt always crash, but its common it seems. When an achievement pops up on the screen the game crashes. Gives me the out of memory error. Thats the only time I get that error.
its not my hardware, ive got 12 GB ram on my 3080ti and 64 GB system ram.
So is there a way to stop the game from displaying those? Right now I end up having to repeat that part of the game again. The 2nd time you experience it, it does not show the achievement because youve already done it, so im able to advance in the game thank goodness.
Tonight I had to catch "the tyrant" fish in the lake 2x. Thats a long one, and is a pain in the ass.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Are you using Vulkan or DX12 in-game?

[eli_GO]

Find the game in your Library -> Properties -> General and untick the "Steam Overlay while in-game".

The same thing happened to me and it's not the Rockstar notification that causes the crash but the Steam notification. And don't worry, even if you only see the Rockstar achievements, you will still get the achievements on Steam.

[maldorf]

Originally posted by eli_GO:

Find the game in your Library -> Properties -> General and untick the "Steam Overlay while in-game".

The same thing happened to me and it's not the Rockstar notification that causes the crash but the Steam notification. And don't worry, even if you only see the Rockstar achievements, you will still get the achievements on Steam.

oh,ok. It looked like it was a Rockstar announcement. I will turn off the Steam then.

[maldorf]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Are you using Vulkan or DX12 in-game?

DX12

[Bad 💀 Motha]

No it is the Rockstar Overlay.
Want a way to confirm this?

Once RDR2 loads up, just go into Story Mode. You don't have to do anything special. Once in that game world, press Home key to bring up SocialClub, now browse through that a few seconds, such as clicking the Achievements tab for example. That's it. Now close it and go back to playing around in Story Mode.

Now let's see how long your game will last just walking around before the game crashes. All due to you bringing up the Rockstar SocialClub Overlay.

I knows it's not the Steam Overlay cause I use this often when playing RDR2 and it's never crashed my game. I use it when taking a break and being up the Steam Forums, Steam Friends and also bringing up YouTube within the Steam Browser to load up some music. And I've run through this scenario on about a dozen PCs so far. The game always crashes within minutes after using the Rockstar Overlay. However it's odd because pop-ups for Achievements and friends going online or offline all via SocialClub doesn't cause the game to crash.

If some how you are able to point to Steam Overlay as the culprit, then you probably have Hardware Acceleration enabled in the Steam Client settings which mean any use of the Overlay or Web Browser relies on your GPU, which can easily cause some games to crash because of this.

[maldorf]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

No it is the Rockstar Overlay.
Want a way to confirm this?

Once RDR2 loads up, just go into Story Mode. You don't have to do anything special. Once in that game world, press Home key to bring up SocialClub, now browse through that a few seconds, such as clicking the Achievements tab for example. That's it. Now close it and go back to playing around in Story Mode.

Now let's see how long your game will last just walking around before the game crashes. All due to you bringing up the Rockstar SocialClub Overlay.

I knows it's not the Steam Overlay cause I use this often when playing RDR2 and it's never crashed my game. I use it when taking a break and being up the Steam Forums, Steam Friends and also bringing up YouTube within the Steam Browser to load up some music. And I've run through this scenario on about a dozen PCs so far. The game always crashes within minutes after using the Rockstar Overlay. However it's odd because pop-ups for Achievements and friends going online or offline all via SocialClub doesn't cause the game to crash.

If some how you are able to point to Steam Overlay as the culprit, then you probably have Hardware Acceleration enabled in the Steam Client settings which mean any use of the Overlay or Web Browser relies on your GPU, which can easily cause some games to crash because of this.

This sounds more like it. I really think its the Rockstar achievements. I guess there is no way to stop them from popping up? Its only happened to me maybe 4 times and ive played over 90 hours, so not a big deal I guess. The biggest pain is having to redo parts of the game.

[Smoakz]

i know this is quite an old thread at this point but i was having the same issue. it is 100% caused by the Rockstar Achievement Notification. I always have steam overlay off because it does cause issues in some games. the only other overlay i use is Geforce Experience. i even turned that off while troubleshooting to no avail. That being said i did find a way to turn off the rockstar notifications. you can't turn off the overlay completely but if you go into the settings there is an option to disable in game achievement notifications. since i have done this i haven't had the issue in 3-4 days. hopefully this helps anyone else still having this problem in 2024

[maldorf]

Originally posted by MIG Smoakz:

i know this is quite an old thread at this point but i was having the same issue. it is 100% caused by the Rockstar Achievement Notification. I always have steam overlay off because it does cause issues in some games. the only other overlay i use is Geforce Experience. i even turned that off while troubleshooting to no avail. That being said i did find a way to turn off the rockstar notifications. you can't turn off the overlay completely but if you go into the settings there is an option to disable in game achievement notifications. since i have done this i haven't had the issue in 3-4 days. hopefully this helps anyone else still having this problem in 2024

Nice! Im done with the game, but thanks for posting that. I looked around and never found that setting. This may help others.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The Rockstar SocialClub overlay would show popups in the upper right; while Steam Overlay would display popups in the lower right.

Disable the Steam Overlay and then relaunch the game and see how it does.

[schyeah]

december 2024
steam overlay is disabled, but still got the same error
its rockstar launcher issue, because friends notifications crash the game too

you can try to delete dx12 shaders cache and some temp windows files. its helps for some time

UPD to fix:
1. Launch the game (in main menu, for example).
2. Open Social Club overlay ('Home' button).
3. Click the 'gear' button.
4. Chose the 'Settings'.
5. Select the 'Profile' category.
6. The 'Hide Notification' should be 'ON'.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Should be fine if run the game using Vulkan

[schyeah]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3410065013

[Bad 💀 Motha]

That's usually a problem with the API on some configs. Switch game to Vulkan. Or if already on Vulkan try switch to DX12, apply and then back out to main menu, exit game. Wait a moment then relaunch the game.

[Nicholas Steel]

For those unaware, the setting within Steam to turn off the Overlay does not stop it from being injected and active in the games Process, it just tells it to hide the Overlay visibility and ignore hotkeys related to it.

The only way that I know of to truly stop the Steam Overlay from being loaded in to a games process is to delete the relevant Overlay files (GameOverlayRenderer.dll, GameOverlayRenderer64.dll, SteamOverlayVulkanLayer.dll and SteamOverlayVulkanLayer64.dll) from your Steam installation (not game installation) so that the Overlay can't be successfully loaded. Back them up first.

You can restore the files when you're finished playing this game. May need to delete them again whenever Steam updates itself.

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

No it is the Rockstar Overlay.

It may not necessarily be the Rockstar Overlay, it may be the result of a bad interaction between multiple overlays (not unheard of) and since we can't seem to disable Rockstar's we have to disable the others.

[IceLancer]

Anything that messes up with hardware acceleration or overlays will cause crashes.
Simply eliminate them all.
Steam if disabled wont crash. But there are others that will.
Google Chrome if running in background can cause crash due to H.A , i got msg popup once from youtube and game crashed.
Never crashed again once i turned off chrome hardware acceleration.
Reshade, msi afterburner , gog friend notifications. Anything overlay is a no go!

P.S its not a matter of something trying to inject it self in overlay. Its when it tries to activate it self that causes crashes. Chrome didnt cause problems running in background , until it tried to send me popup msg while i was playing a game.
So disabled steam overlay is good steam. It wont try to send you anything and it wont cause crash

Discord with its hardware acc and overlays can cause real havoc as well !
If you absolutely have to use discord, then use it from chrome while HW.A is disabled.

Fck just play the game. Kill anything and everything that could frell things up and have fun