how to enter an argument

[dhaelyn]

So support gave me some instructions on how I might fix my issue of the game crashing to desktop after 3 photos. They told me to log into the launcher as admin and goto settings and enter this argument "-ignorepipelinecache-USEALLAVAILABLECORES-high". A couple problems with this... when I log in as admin there are no choices for adding an argument. The only spot I could find was to right click the launcher icon after starting the game. A window comes up and shows argument with an empty box but it wont allow me to enter anything and then the game takes over and I have to exit because it wont allow anything while the game is open. Any help would be appreciated.

[levla]

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[firestorm]

In the left pane of steam highlight the game (without launching it) and right click, chose properties and the launch options will be available on the page that pops up.

You've already found it, but you found it when the game was launching.

[dhaelyn]

Originally posted by firestorm:

In the left pane of steam highlight the game (without launching it) and right click, chose properties and the launch options will be available on the page that pops up.

You've already found it, but you found it when the game was launching.

I added the line there and it's still crashing to desktop with no error. The launcher loads, I choose either story or online and it shows me 3 pics and crashes on the third. been working on this issue for years and have never been able to get it to work. I've returned the game now twice and bought it a third time today because my brother is now playing it and wants me to play. I'm at a loss and tech support is worthless. They dont even bother reading my ticket when they respond. They just give me the same canned answers over and over.... verify integrity of files, download newest drivers, uninstall and reinstall, etc.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You must put spaces with those commands.

-ignorePipelineCache -high -cpuLoadRebalancing -useAllAvailableCores

Wipe out the junk cache in this folder:
Documents > Rockstar Games > Red Dead Redemption 2 > Settings
Do not delete the System.XML file in this folder, unless you feel the need, as that will wipe your saved in-game graphics settings.

Click StartMenu > type Graphics Settings > click that to load into that setting panel. Select Classic/Desktop + Browse. Locate and select the RDR2.EXE and then select High Performance GPU

[dhaelyn]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

You must put spaces with those commands.

-ignorePipelineCache -high -cpuLoadRebalancing -useAllAvailableCores

Wipe out the junk cache in this folder:
Documents > Rockstar Games > Red Dead Redemption 2 > Settings
Do not delete the System.XML file in this folder, unless you feel the need, as that will wipe your saved in-game graphics settings.

Click StartMenu > type Graphics Settings > click that to load into that setting panel. Select Classic/Desktop + Browse. Locate and select the RDR2.EXE and then select High Performance GPU

I have put spaces in, removed the extra files which just come back then next time I load the game. I have determined that it's not my hexcore processor causing the issues as I went into the msconfig and turned off 5 and 6 and ran the game with just 4 and it still crashes after the 3rd picture. I looked at the launcher information and it has all the correct information about my graphics card, cpu, everything. There's even a spot in the launcher that gives the errors for the crash but I dont understand it...
[2023-05-31 12:28:55.540] [DISPLAY] [ 7796] [crashdetection] Reading game exit file...
[2023-05-31 12:28:55.541] [WARNING] [ 7796] [crashdetection] Not found: EXIT_CODE
[2023-05-31 12:28:55.541] [WARNING] [ 7796] [crashdetection] No exit code found in exit file.
[2023-05-31 12:28:55.541] [WARNING] [ 7796] [crashdetection] Not found: ERROR_FILE_HASH
[2023-05-31 12:28:55.541] [DISPLAY] [ 7796] [crashdetection] No additional error information found.
[2023-05-31 12:28:55.541] [WARNING] [ 7796] [crashdetection] Not found: ERROR_MESSAGE
[2023-05-31 12:28:55.541] [DISPLAY] [ 7796] [crashdetection] No additional error message found.
[2023-05-31 12:28:55.541] [DISPLAY] [ 7796] [crashdetection] Deleting game exit file...
[2023-05-31 12:28:55.541] [ ERROR ] [ 7796] [crashdetection] Exit code 0xc000001d indicates a fatal game exit (reason: Unknown Error Code)

Not sure what else to add, I did replace my video card as it had only 3gb. I installed a geforce rtx 3060 with 12gb gddr6. On this most recent install of the game it automatically loaded the vulcan lines so I didn't have to do that.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Did you wipe out everything to do with NVIDIA and GeForce Experience and do a clean install of latest gpu driver?

When you change GPU go into the Rockstar Games folder in Documents and wipe out what's in the RDR2 Settings folder.

Click StartMenu > type Graphics Settings. Click on that to bring up its settings. Click Classic/Desktop + Browse. Locate and select RDR2.EXE and select High Performance 3060

Get rid of all 3rd party AVor 3rd party background apps to rule those as a problem.

Then right click Steam > Run As admin
Once launched and ready, right click Rockstar Launcher > Run As Admin. Once that is ready launch RDR2 from the Rockstar Launcher.

[dhaelyn]

Originally posted by ⓀⒾⓦⒾ‰:

those launch arguments are placebos that get thrown around regardless of actual issue and rarely make any difference at all

you keep saying the game crashes after taking a third photo and youre not saying it crashes without taking photos so im gonna guess you have a problem with the overlays or a write issue in windows. something totally irrelevant anyway

So, I'm not taking photos. I've never seen the game. I launch the game and the double shotgun comes up says rockstar then 2 screens of blab and then you're at the start of the game where you can choose game/online/social. I click game or online and while the game loads you get photos of things from the old time. Pic of a mountain, a tent, some people on horse back that sort of thing. They fade in then out. At the third photo it stops and I'm looking at the desktop again. I dont know how else to describe what's happening

[dhaelyn]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Did you wipe out everything to do with NVIDIA and GeForce Experience and do a clean install of latest gpu driver?

When you change GPU go into the Rockstar Games folder in Documents and wipe out what's in the RDR2 Settings folder.

Click StartMenu > type Graphics Settings. Click on that to bring up its settings. Click Classic/Desktop + Browse. Locate and select RDR2.EXE and select High Performance 3060

Get rid of all 3rd party AVor 3rd party background apps to rule those as a problem.

Then right click Steam > Run As admin
Once launched and ready, right click Rockstar Launcher > Run As Admin. Once that is ready launch RDR2 from the Rockstar Launcher.

When I removed the game I went in and completely removed any file, folder or mention of rockstar, rdr2 or it's launcher. Since I have never actually been so far as to play the game there wasn't much to delete and I had no worries about deleting it. I have checked the new files and they show nothing from the old video card and only mention the new one. I dont know what AVOR 3rd party background apps are but there is absolutely nothing running in the background. Support asked me what else was running in the background and gave specific instructions on how to find that and the only thing running was chrome and I closed that out and then the only thing listed was task manager and rdr2. I've also put the game in windowed mode since I've seen online that it can also be an issue.

[Ruffknuckles]

Are all of your drivers and BIOS for your motherboard up to date?

[dhaelyn]

Originally posted by Ruffknuckles:

Are all of your drivers and BIOS for your motherboard up to date?

yes. New driver for video came out yesterday and is loaded

[dhaelyn]

I read in another post that I should turn off nvidia's dlss so I've done that but there's no change

[Ruffknuckles]

Originally posted by dhaelyn:

Originally posted by Ruffknuckles:

Are all of your drivers and BIOS for your motherboard up to date?

yes. New driver for video came out yesterday and is loaded

I mean the motherboard's drivers. Specifically the chipset driver. That fixed crashing issues for me in the past. Also, I had to rollback to nvidia driver 532.03 to get Red Dead to run without crashing.

[dhaelyn]

This issue has been going on for over 3 years so it cant be the video driver. Mother board/bios is up to date

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The latest driver actually are often another problem. They often do not work with some games. Often times you have to pick and choose using an older driver for an older game.

However the NVIDIA 532.03 game ready driver is much better, allowing much more stable gameplay from RDR2 compared to any of the 531.xx drivers

If the game crashes to desktop then you need to go look within Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Applications and see what the issue is. It will be listed in there.

In the future, you never have to go through this uninstall of a game, it's dumb, it's doesn't do anything. Games on steam are just a batch of files, it has zero install process. So what you do if a game has a missing or corrupt game file? You click verify, and wait til that is done. It will cross check your local file checksums and file sizes to that on the Steam servers. If there is a mismatch, the file gets replaced with an original from the servers. This saves you from redownloading the entire game again.

Then you would go to the folders elsewhere outside of the steam folder. Such as the Rockatar Gamea folders that reside within Documents and AppData and remove anything to do with RDR2, SocialClub and Launcher. Along with uninstalling Rockstar SocialClub and Launcher from Settings > Apps (or classic Control Panel > Programs and Features). Then download and install latest version of Rockstar Launcher from the Rockstar SocialClub website.

This plus what I said above in Post#6 should help.

If you still havea crash to desktop issue then it's your software, hardware or driver issues outside of the Game or Launcher that is the culprit

[dhaelyn]

So I checked the viewer logs and there is nothing for RDR2. I dont use this so I'm not familiar with it's functions but following your directions I opened the viewer went to window logs and apps and checked for saved logs and then it asked for which app and I clicked rockstar and launcher as well as rdr2. I also looked at the files listed in the middle pane and there was nothing about rdr2.
When I returned the game and got my money back the second time the game was uninstalled and I went in and deleted everything from my hard drives dealing with rockstar. Launcher, rdr2, social club etc.
I'm the first to admit I'm not a genius when it comes to digging around in my pc. It's crazy that I've figured out this much. I have never been able to get this game to work and it's always been the same issue. over the last 3 years I have updated the hard drives, the mother board, the video card twice and have maintained the newest drivers.