Blue Screen all time

[Samuca]

I recently bought the game and in 5 hours of playing I had about 5 or 6 blue screens, I've already checked my drives, I've checked practically everything and nothing accused my hardware, I have an ideapad gaming 3i from Lenovo, I've already contacted them and they checked and there is nothing wrong with my laptop, I sent a request to rockstar but they don't respond to me.

Can someone help me?

[Flybye]

Blue screen is hardware related. So 5 hours into the game and blue screen? To me that sounds like your laptop could be overheating. Have you checked your temps?

[Samuca]

Originally posted by Flybye:

Blue screen is hardware related. So 5 hours into the game and blue screen? To me that sounds like your laptop could be overheating. Have you checked your temps?

yeah, both the processor and the video card remain at less than 80° Celsius or 176 Fahrenheit, a friend told me that it could be driver problems, but I've already updated everything and it still continues, I start the game and then it passes 20/ 30 minutes of her blue "whea uncorrectable error".

[Flybye]

If it was me, as a test, I'd have a fan blowing on it to make sure nothing else is getting too toasty for its own good. Laptops sometimes dissipate heat in odd ways, and other things get hot. Ya never know if it could be some other component of the motherboard, the video card, ram, or the drive.

I'd say it could be drivers, but drivers usually would just error out into windows. The BSOD is like a something REALLY went wrong with communicating with hardware message. Did you try a clean driver install? I just looked up your laptop. I think most of those models tend to have an Nvidia card, and the Nvidia driver gives a clean install option. Device manager can also let you know if there are any other bad/missing drivers.

[Samuca]

Originally posted by Flybye:

If it was me, as a test, I'd have a fan blowing on it to make sure nothing else is getting too toasty for its own good. Laptops sometimes dissipate heat in odd ways, and other things get hot. Ya never know if it could be some other component of the motherboard, the video card, ram, or the drive.

I'd say it could be drivers, but drivers usually would just error out into windows. The BSOD is like a something REALLY went wrong with communicating with hardware message. Did you try a clean driver install? I just looked up your laptop. I think most of those models tend to have an Nvidia card, and the Nvidia driver gives a clean install option. Device manager can also let you know if there are any other bad/missing drivers.

Yeah, I did that, my room has air conditioning and I put a fan to eliminate that option too and it still keeps giving BSOD.

About the video card drive, I downloaded nvdia experience which is software for the card itself to monitor it and from there I updated the drive to the latest one (12/12/2023) and still nothing changes, search there , I saw a lot of complaints that RDR2 wasn't running well on this notebook even with the recommended specifications, research and see what you think so you can help me

[Flybye]

RDR2 can be very problematic for some. It is with me. I get that GFX crash which I've learned to go around by deleting the *final.init.* files before starting the game in folder:
C:\Users\**\Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings

Have you tried changing between DX12 and Vulkan? Disabling DLSS (kills performance but good as a test)?

What are the full specs of your laptop?

[Samuca]

Originally posted by Flybye:

RDR2 can be very problematic for some. It is with me. I get that GFX crash which I've learned to go around by deleting the *final.init.* files before starting the game in folder:
C:\Users\**\Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings

Have you tried changing between DX12 and Vulkan? Disabling DLSS (kills performance but good as a test)?

What are the full specs of your laptop?

Yes, in DX12 the game runs but after 10/20 minutes it crashes again, in Vulkan it doesn't even open, the blue screen during the loading phase.

my settings:

i5-11h300
16gb ram
gtx 1650 4b
ssd 500gb

[Flybye]

Ok here we go. Try some or all things on this small list.

1) StartMenu > type Graphics and click on it to open Graphics Settings.
Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling make sure its set to OFF. You may get a pop up window. Make sure you select High Performance.

The Graphics performance preference:
Click Browse and navigate to the RDR2 game folder and add PlayRDR2.exe and RDR2.exe to the listi. Change the Options for both to use High Performance GPU.

2) Try disabling the integrated graphics in your BIOS.
Some might suggest doing it in the device manager by disabling the integrated graphics there, but I always prefer the BIOS.

3) Try changing to Vulkan but dont start the game just yet. Delete any files with Vulkan in it at:
C:\Users\**\Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings
Then start the game, switch to Vulkan, restart the game.

GL

[Samuca]

Originally posted by Flybye:

Ok here we go. Try some or all things on this small list.

1) StartMenu > type Graphics and click on it to open Graphics Settings.
Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling make sure its set to OFF. You may get a pop up window. Make sure you select High Performance.

The Graphics performance preference:
Click Browse and navigate to the RDR2 game folder and add PlayRDR2.exe and RDR2.exe to the listi. Change the Options for both to use High Performance GPU.

2) Try disabling the integrated graphics in your BIOS.
Some might suggest doing it in the device manager by disabling the integrated graphics there, but I always prefer the BIOS.

3) Try changing to Vulkan but dont start the game just yet. Delete any files with Vulkan in it at:
C:\Users\**\Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings
Then start the game, switch to Vulkan, restart the game.

GL

It gave me a blue screen again, I give up my friend.
cyberpunk 2077 is running on ultra and doesn't drop any fps, no crashes, RDR2 doesn't even leave the loading screen and crashes BSOD, thank you for all this bro!

[Flybye]

Aw well maybe next build! I'm curious; Did you try doing a file integrity check?

[Samuca]

Originally posted by Flybye:

Aw well maybe next build! I'm curious; Did you try doing a file integrity check?

I've already reinstalled the game and the same problem remains, that's all, I was playing Days Gone just now on ultra too, and it ran at maximum fps without dropping anything.

Search the specs of Days gone, you'll see that my laptop is normal and at full speed, but unfortunately there's something that doesn't want me to play RDR2 hahaahah

[vvvvoid2]

Same problem in my case (same PC, seems to be a hardware design problem of this laptop :( there are more complaints like this on the internet). Fortunately, it works quite well on the built-in graphics (Intel Arc) - with almost minimal settings, of course :(
Strange that other games work well (even 3Dmark doesn't see any issue).

edit: I wouldn't count on an improvement in some next driver version: I've had this laptop for almost 2 years and it doesn't work as it should all the time. Vulkan crashes instantly and DirectX crashes after a while (it's quite playable with medium settings, crashes very rare, but better is to choose Intel Arc with minimal settings - no crashes at all).
Maybe the BIOS upgrade from Lenovo would help, but it seems that the latest version is even worse :(

[vvvvoid2]

an update: I can confirm that it's a BIOS issue. After the last upgrade (H4CN34WW, release date: 2024.01.15) the game crashes instantly even in DirectX mode :D
Seems that BIOS is under development, maybe one day they will fix it :D

[cwa]

Red Dead Redemption 2 online is very broken right now.
This is the solution as @axcha already pointed out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFd2af8wINE

I agree Rockstar beeing part of the problem, because they could and should take action against it.

But, I do also have an opinion about the root of the issues.

There are many problems, hence they are coming from a single source, which is not Rockstar tbh.
Alot of gamers cheating with mods or with mod menus like fortitude, to be precise.
These menus allow you to do all sorts of things, spawn dragon breahing creatures, pin explosions to players, mess with the controls of other players and also the controls of horses of other players.
You can also attach the burning hoofs and spawn in all sorts of entities, like flying ships and crap.

Now, it is a fact that these menus are causing the crashes in rdo.
The menus it self even advertising to fix game crashes. That is, because as a cheater myself, the menu prevents other cheating players with the same menu to interact with my character. So yes, this of course fixes the problem.

This is quite clever I have to admit, sell Software which is the root but also the solution to a problem.

But this guy, LucianoStillModz is just a greedy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, he wants to get Moneh, not Rockstar. And doing so, he gives a ♥♥♥♥ about ruining the game for everyone. From a developer point of view, he is not doing anything special. He just calls in events, special effects and animations which rockstar has already implemented.

So, in my opinion, people like him are just disgusting scumbags. But I am pretty sure he makes alot of money out of it. Given the pure amount of players using this crap.

Thats the second part of the problem then, the players using this crap. Here is where blaming Rockstar comes into place, in my opinion.
Because people which would normally not cheat may just tryout these menues, because
a) Everybody is using it and nothing happens, no bans no nothing (Rockstars fault).
b) They hear that using a menu will fix crashes, which it does, as I explained earlier.

Being an open-source developer myself, I do believe that people like Luciano are beeing the morally bottom of our society.
He won't probably just stop doing so, even if I would whish he would question himself and his actions.
It does cost Rockstar alot of money and it pisses hundreds of thousands of honest players off.
And it pulls also thousand of honest players into cheating.

I hope Rockstar as a company is taking legal actions against such individuals to be honest.

This is my personal opinion, I cannot prove my statements. Well I could probably if i would buy the stupid mod and reverse engineer the ♥♥♥♥ out of it.

He is also hardcore and obviously lying to his paying userbase, which everybody should notice bevore evaluating buying his cheats.
Let me point that out in his promotion video (Read the comments if you are interested):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ2slBInKPo


Q: how much of a risk is spawning in treasure money and gold bars?
A: You wont get banned havent heard of a rdr2 ban in like a year (which might be true right now, but also could change tomorrow)

Q: You happen to know how someone can crash a fortitude user? I was just crashed by someone.
A: I never get crashed lol

My favorite one:
Q: Undetectable online?
A: Yes 👍 (But detecting other players using the mod beeing advertised as a feature of the mod itself, lol)


And now please rockstar, there are so many ways of easy detection of this players:
- Detect nocliping
- Detect burning hoofs when you not allow it (my guess is there was kind of a halloween special)
- Detect players spawning in any entities
- Detect players messing with horses of other players
- Detect players having significant gold $rdo increases without actually completing any missions
- probably many more

[Nora]

event viewer will tell you the reason for the bsod

[cwa]

Thank you Hayley, this is a very good information.