Steam asking to install RDR 2 again

[Evee1669]

help

[aleksandarlozo]

Same here. It;s asking to reinstall, WHY? What is this?

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Is the game on USB?
Sounds like the acf files are missing.
Games will then appear as uninstalled.
External hard drives may connect or disconnect from the computer at inopportune times as part of their normal operations. If you encounter this issue with an external drive, install Steam and your games to an internal drive instead.

[xXUmbrellaAgentXx]

Rockstar launcher , thats what. it keeps breaking their games, im now seeing this same issue with GTA V and 4. It is most def THEM. Same with Ubissofts launcher, like wth is wrong with these companies? they just strive to double down on things that do not work ro break games. maybe in hopes you will buy another one out of sheer addiction? idk makes no sense. just keeps happening. these companies could care less and it is why priacy is so high right now and well deserved. idgaf what anybody says. when you buy something, you should own it not have to have t taken away, glitch, break, or just not work at all as advertised. insane really.

[ProperCharva]

Originally posted by WraithDesignz:

Rockstar launcher , thats what. it keeps breaking their games, im now seeing this same issue with GTA V and 4. It is most def THEM. Same with Ubissofts launcher, like wth is wrong with these companies? they just strive to double down on things that do not work ro break games. maybe in hopes you will buy another one out of sheer addiction? idk makes no sense. just keeps happening. these companies could care less and it is why priacy is so high right now and well deserved. idgaf what anybody says. when you buy something, you should own it not have to have t taken away, glitch, break, or just not work at all as advertised. insane really.

no its not i have never had an issue with the launcher when it first released it was a bit dodgy but steam players hate other launchers thats the reason you talk sh*t about it lol

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It can happen when your PC crashes or something like that. I've had this happen before.

Just exit Steam entirely, then go to Steamapps folder; delete everything under Downloading and Temp. If you have more then one Steam Library Drive/Folder then do it on all drives.

Then go and edit the app manifest for RDR2
appmanifest_1174180.acf
to address this issue, ensuring Steam the game is present and installed.

Right click the ACF file and Edit w/ Notepad or similar app.

Put this contents inside...

"StateFlags" "4"
"installdir" "Red Dead Redemption 2"
"LastUpdated" "1706840301"
"SizeOnDisk" "128259178983"
"StagingSize" "0"
"buildid" "13334406"
"UpdateResult" "0"
"BytesToDownload" "167168"
"BytesDownloaded" "167168"
"BytesToStage" "506864"
"BytesStaged" "506864"
"TargetBuildID" "13334406"
"AutoUpdateBehavior" "0"
"AllowOtherDownloadsWhileRunning" "0"
"ScheduledAutoUpdate" "0"

^ This is Line # 7 - 23 ~ But I left out Line # 13 since that would list the owners SteamID

Make sure all your line spacing is correct once you add/change the lines in YOUR file. Save the changes to file. Now load up Steam, right click RDR2 and click Verify. Wait til done.

[AverageTrafficCone]

This game is miles beyond retarded almost every time I boot it up at a place with slightly less than decent wifi it instantly becomes unplayable

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by AverageTrafficCone:

This game is miles beyond retarded almost every time I boot it up at a place with slightly less than decent wifi it instantly becomes unplayable

Change your IP or DNS.
Or do a network adapter reset and dns flush.
Open Task Manager before the game loads up, put it on the Performance tab, launch RDR2 then switch to Task Manager and hold down F5 until the game starts loading then click the game window.