RDR2 Randomly Crashing 2024

[adamwow]

Ive been seeing a bunch of people having issues with this game and I am also one of those people. I feel like I have done everything at this point, but no solution. Here is what I have tried:
Changing Vulkan to DX12
Changing DX12 to Vulkan
No DLSS
No MSI overlay
No MSI overclock
Verifying Integrity of Game Files
Reinstalling the game
Wiping my computer (twice)

So now I have practically nothing on my system other than Red Dead. Still crashing. Forgot to add before, but sometimes Ill be able to play the game for a bit longer than usual. Sometimes ill crash 5 minutes into playing, or best case Ill be able to finish a mission. What are anyone elses takes on this issue and is there anything that I should try?

[Shekelstein]

Switching from Vulkan to DX12 seems to be the best option. Also Windowed Borderless vs Fullscreen might have an effect. Remember that crashes in general CAN always happen.

Also, you say you have wiped your computer twice. But did you install up to date drivers afterwards, including graphics and optional system updates?

[Dziobas]

throwing my hat into the pile here

Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: RDR2.exe
Application Version: 1.0.1491.50
Application Timestamp: 65eec92e
Hang Signature: ed90
Hang Type: 134217730
OS Version: 10.0.22631.2.0.0.768.101
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Hang Signature 1: ed90e2cba86a870319de400711d4b6f2
Additional Hang Signature 2: 2e46
Additional Hang Signature 3: 2e469a9d6c8b78e287e61de4b908a907
Additional Hang Signature 4: 3a84
Additional Hang Signature 5: 3a840761aa154307dc547514772fc2ff
Additional Hang Signature 6: 0387
Additional Hang Signature 7: 0387384af1839c9cd1effbfda3420fe5


- formatted my PC 2 days ago
- Windows Update shows nothing missing
- up-to-date drivers on everything
- sfc /scannow and chkdsk find nothing wrong
- excluded RDR2 in Windows Security
- changed between graphics API and fullscreen/borderless/windowed

game usually ran for around an hour, I managed to get it going for three hours once, now it hangs after fifteen seconds without fail

[Man o' War]

Issues have been ongoing particularly for Nvidia users since the September the 6th 2022 update.

[gaqo]

Yes it's strange I've played about 500 hours(story mode) no problem(old CPU and GPU), but when I started playing again recently it crashed after a few minutes(it does drive you crazy).

I mean as you know, start by running reliability monitor and event viewer for info.

I have fixed it, but not sure which fix worked. Worth doing a DDU in safe mode.

In Services I turned off amBX service. I also disabled all the (non Microsoft) processes in Start up and did a clean boot, and uninstalled most apps.

[STACHIO_lolz]

Messaggio originale di Déjà Vudoo:

Messaggio originale di STACHIO_lolz:

For the last 2 days I have been playing in private session and within 10 minutes my game crashes. I have verified files, but still happens.

The same thing was happening to me in private sessions until I changed those two graphics settings I mentioned above.

Thank Deja Vudoo, I will giv it a try and report back.

[Man o' War]

Messaggio originale di gaqo:

Yes it's strange I've played about 500 hours(story mode) no problem(old CPU and GPU), but when I started playing again recently it crashed after a few minutes(it does drive you crazy).

I had 1400 hours in chapter 2 alone without a single issue before the 06 September 2022 "update".

Now I can't even play missions I've played before without a spurious low VRAM message.

[STACHIO_lolz]

Messaggio originale di STACHIO_lolz:

Messaggio originale di Déjà Vudoo:

The same thing was happening to me in private sessions until I changed those two graphics settings I mentioned above.

Thank Deja Vudoo, I will giv it a try and report back.

Well, I have tried Deja's suggestions, and have also tried DirectX, but am still randomly crashing, and this is on private session. At this point I think it is something on Rockstar's end, or maybe Steam.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Messaggio originale di STACHIO_lolz:

Messaggio originale di STACHIO_lolz:

Thank Deja Vudoo, I will giv it a try and report back.

Well, I have tried Deja's suggestions, and have also tried DirectX, but am still randomly crashing, and this is on private session. At this point I think it is something on Rockstar's end, or maybe Steam.

You try verify the game in Steam?
Make sure drives don't go to sleep.
Drivers all up to date (yes all of them)
Make sure nothing is OC'ed, Rockstar Games are much more unstable when hardware is OC'ed

[STACHIO_lolz]

Messaggio originale di Bad 💀 Motha:

Messaggio originale di STACHIO_lolz:

Well, I have tried Deja's suggestions, and have also tried DirectX, but am still randomly crashing, and this is on private session. At this point I think it is something on Rockstar's end, or maybe Steam.

You try verify the game in Steam?
Make sure drives don't go to sleep.
Drivers all up to date (yes all of them)
Make sure nothing is OC'ed, Rockstar Games are much more unstable when hardware is OC'ed

I have updated drivers, and verified install. I do not get to play more than 15 minutes before it crashes, nothing is going to sleep in that time.
I'm not sure what OC'ed means.
Sometimes it crashes at a cut scene, but mostly just whenever.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Messaggio originale di STACHIO_lolz:

Messaggio originale di Bad 💀 Motha:

You try verify the game in Steam?
Make sure drives don't go to sleep.
Drivers all up to date (yes all of them)
Make sure nothing is OC'ed, Rockstar Games are much more unstable when hardware is OC'ed

I have updated drivers, and verified install. I do not get to play more than 15 minutes before it crashes, nothing is going to sleep in that time.
I'm not sure what OC'ed means.
Sometimes it crashes at a cut scene, but mostly just whenever.

OC / OC'ed = OverClocked (CPU, RAM, GPU for example can easily be overclocked and many users do this to gain some extra performance, however if not done correctly to where the PC overall is stable, it can easily cause data corruption, apps/games randomly crashing, etc.)

There are Logs saved from Rockstar for issues like that but it might be within many places.
You can look here for such Logs. First, load up the app/game that gave you problems and see if you can get it to crash within a rather short period of time, when it crashes, take note of the actual Date + Time it crashes. Then from there, look at the Error Logs for a possible explanation of the latest crash and hopefully from that you or others you share that info with could better determine what the actual problem is that's causing the crash. Many apps and games don't often give you popups with very defined/informative error explanations; many of them just get force-closed during such a crash, then you are left to find and read the error logs that got created during or after the crash occurred.

For Windows OS; error logs are stored within Event Viewer > Windows > Application
You can right-click on the StartMenu (aka WinLogo) to get easier access to things such as Event Viewer.

For Rockstar Launcher/SocialClub stuff; error logs gets stored here:
Documents > Rockstar Games > Launcher
and
Documents > Rockstar Games > Social Club
and
%LocalAppData% > Rockstar Games

Another possible reason for such random crashing could be your CPU and/or GPU getting too hot and thus is thermal throttling, which can often lead to apps such as Games either becoming sluggish in performance during the thermal throttle period, or just straight up crashing cause the hardware is way too hot.

[Dziobas]

Messaggio originale di Dziobas:

throwing my hat into the pile here

game stopped crashing after putting it to DX12 and setting it fullscreen non-windowed, very weird since I've tried it before but oh well

[STACHIO_lolz]

Messaggio originale di Bad 💀 Motha:

Messaggio originale di STACHIO_lolz:

I have updated drivers, and verified install. I do not get to play more than 15 minutes before it crashes, nothing is going to sleep in that time.
I'm not sure what OC'ed means.
Sometimes it crashes at a cut scene, but mostly just whenever.

OC / OC'ed = OverClocked (CPU, RAM, GPU for example can easily be overclocked and many users do this to gain some extra performance, however if not done correctly to where the PC overall is stable, it can easily cause data corruption, apps/games randomly crashing, etc.)

There are Logs saved from Rockstar for issues like that but it might be within many places.
You can look here for such Logs. First, load up the app/game that gave you problems and see if you can get it to crash within a rather short period of time, when it crashes, take note of the actual Date + Time it crashes. Then from there, look at the Error Logs for a possible explanation of the latest crash and hopefully from that you or others you share that info with could better determine what the actual problem is that's causing the crash. Many apps and games don't often give you popups with very defined/informative error explanations; many of them just get force-closed during such a crash, then you are left to find and read the error logs that got created during or after the crash occurred.

For Windows OS; error logs are stored within Event Viewer > Windows > Application
You can right-click on the StartMenu (aka WinLogo) to get easier access to things such as Event Viewer.

For Rockstar Launcher/SocialClub stuff; error logs gets stored here:
Documents > Rockstar Games > Launcher
and
Documents > Rockstar Games > Social Club
and
%LocalAppData% > Rockstar Games

Another possible reason for such random crashing could be your CPU and/or GPU getting too hot and thus is thermal throttling, which can often lead to apps such as Games either becoming sluggish in performance during the thermal throttle period, or just straight up crashing cause the hardware is way too hot.

Well turns out it was over heating for me. I had a fan on my computer in a cabinet with the doors open, but that was still too much for it. Moved it out of the cabinet and no crashing today.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If you change settings in say; AMD or NVIDIA GPU Control Panel, or in-game Graphics. Exit the game to save the settings you've changed. Then go and wipe out the AMD/NVIDIA GPU shader cache.

Do not set in-game Reflections above Medium; it tends to cause random game crash issues. Same for DLSS and FSR when setting either of these to Balanced. If you use one of these features in-game, use Quality or Performance.

[Giggity]

Oh I thought it's just me. After the late June update, the game is just unplayable. Can't alt+tab without everything stuttering. Graphics went to s**t. Everything in the environment takes too long to load. It's not my rig, I was playing fine before the said update.

[Shekelstein]

Messaggio originale di Giggity:

Oh I thought it's just me. After the late June update, the game is just unplayable. Can't alt+tab without everything stuttering. Graphics went to s**t. Everything in the environment takes too long to load. It's not my rig, I was playing fine before the said update.

You are saying that everything takes too long to load. Do you play from a HDD? Because the moving of the files due to the update wold explain the issue. A solution would be a defragmentation.
If you are using an SSD DO NOT attempt to use defragmentation to solve the issue. It severely damages their lifespan.