GAME KEEP CRASHING!!!

[john]

Why does this game keep crashing? I try a lot of way to keep this game from not crushing but still not working, can anyone tell me what to do?

[PacMan54109]

I have a similar issue, I am only a few hours in and it crashes or freezes my computer

[Gunter Severloh]

Do a verify integrity of cache, also list any mods your using, and your pc specs.

[ALEX]

What helped me was changing from Vulkan to DirectX 12 in the graphics options.
I haven't had a crash since then.

[pjwvdheuvel]

for me the same
changed the settings but didnt help

[ChrisCrossXP]

same here for several days. after most starts of the game it takes about 5 minutes and the game freezes and crashes. the game just closes without warning and without saving.

[Voltion]

Same here, lasts about 5-10 minutes then the textures stop loading, I can't select anything, no pause menu(just turns black and white and also freezes). Not sure what to do, every thing is up to date, including the update this game just had recently.
My PC: rtx 4090, 14900k, 64gb ddr5 @5600mhz, 980 pro ssd.

[Blackwidow]

Try nvidia driver 531.68

[Gunter Severloh]

idk if this will help but something you can try anyways:

Launcher profile cache and Steam Cache

1. Startup the Rockstar Launcher
2. Go to account information, then select delete local profile

This will only delete the local cache, it will not delete your social club account,
or saved games.

3.Select confirm.
4. Then sign in again to the launcher.

Steam Cache

Go to steam ----> settings ----> downloads ----> clear download cache

Doing this will restart steam but you will be cleared of of temp files and caches.

[Frank]

Same happened to me ! ! I played for 1 hour or 2 then the textures started to go blurry and stop loading and couldnt interact or open menus anymore ! ! I had to open social club menu and close the game ! Rtx 4090 and i9 13900k and 64 gig Ram game on SSD. Is there a solution or do we need to wait for a patch? Nvidia or Rockstar side?

[Gunter Severloh]

Might be gpu issue, as the other guy also had RTX 4090, me i have an
RTX 2060 12gb, 32gb ram, i7 700k with game on SSD and running over 40 mods
and game loads and plays fine, performance is flawless for me.
In fact i been ingame for the past 5hrs and currently ingame, so its something
with the gpu, drivers, and something else related to your system with the game.

Take a look at these links, their talking about why their GPU is crashing
the games they play with the RTX 4090, with solutions:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-graphics-cards/5/510665/rtx-4090-all-game-crash/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1174180/discussions/0/3593338530536191720/

Might be an answer here:
https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/red-dead-redemption-2.410412/page-139

[lightseeker33]

Originally posted by Gunter Severloh:

idk if this will help but something you can try anyways:

Launcher profile cache and Steam Cache

1. Startup the Rockstar Launcher
2. Go to account information, then select delete local profile

This will only delete the local cache, it will not delete your social club account,
or saved games.

3.Select confirm.
4. Then sign in again to the launcher.

Steam Cache

Go to steam ----> settings ----> downloads ----> clear download cache

Doing this will restart steam but you will be cleared of of temp files and caches.

Should we then try to enter the game via Steam or Rockstar Launcher? Does it matter?

I'm on my second play through over 600 hours total since I bought the game when it first released via steam on PC. I had a soft crash while playing about a week ago, since then both Steam and Rockstar Launcher both tell me my "Game is already running" and the game won't even load. I'm thinking it the soft crash must have been due to my graphics. But I can't get the game to load so I can fix my graphics settings, probably a Vulkan vs DX thing.

I had moved the game to my new computer and had been playing it for a couple of weeks prior to the crash.

Does anyone know how to go into the game files and set the graphics to default? If I knew where to go and what to do to make that happen it may fix the problem enough to enable the game to at least load.

I can't be the only one getting this "Game is already running" error.

Asrock 670E mobo
AMD5 78003dx CPU
34 GB of G.Skill 6000 Ram
Asrock Taichi RX 7900 XTX video card

I've updated all drivers.
Reinstalled the game and the Rockstar Launcher.
Verified game file integrity in Steam.
Verified file integrity in Windows 11 via SFC /Scannow.

[Gunter Severloh]

Game should start from steam if you launch it through steam, i have a desktop icon
i use and the launcher dont come up for me, it used too but i load right into
story without issues.
Suggest you google your error related to RDR2 and win 11, im still on win 10 64bit.

[Sil]

I had an issue where the game crashed with an error message from windows after updating my graphics driver. I went back to an older driver and the game was stable again.
So my 2 cents are: try going back to an older driver and skip the current one until another, newer one releases; then try the latest for stability.

edit: since it is mentioned, switching to DX12 API from Vulkan helped me as well but DX12 performs about 15 to 20% worse on my machine (lower fps) so that was not a satisfying option for me.

[ChrisCrossXP]

I noticed that for me the game crashes everytime I stream it through Streamlabs Desktop. If I just play the game it seems ok and does not crash...

[DogMeat]

Are you on Steam Deck? If so increasing the Swap file from 1 gb to 8 gb pretty much removed crashing for me.