Still Broken...

[Voltion]

Not sure what to do. Every now and then I revisit the game, it was fine a few months ago, came back to it the last couple of weeks and the game just stops rendering in the first couple of minutes. My PC runs on windows 11, is not overclocked, has a 4090, 14900k (I think this damn thing might be the root of the problem and I am probably going to switch back to AMD sooner than later, this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing causes issues in a bunch of other games as well and I have to use XTU and turn down the frequency manually and have to use Intel failsafe in the BIOS, anyways...), 64gb ddr5 @5600, and 980 pros. I've tried validating the files, updating everything, reinstall, vulkan, dx12, and nothing works. The game just stops functioning after a couple of minutes, CPU starts cooking (only getting to 30-40% load) trying to do what ever the game is telling it to do, not sure what to do to fix this problem. I've played this in the past for multiple hours in a session with the same exact system, so I'm at a loss. If anyone knows a fix or has the same issues I'd like to hear anything.

[Frank]

I found a discussion someone tried to change cpu affinity and it fixed it for him if you try it let me know ! I am trying it right now and played for 2 hours I would like to hear for you if it changed things too. I only unchecked the last 7 cores because having only 7 enabled caused me some lags at some specific places ! ! I have RTX 4090 and I9-13900k

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1174180/discussions/0/6393480947847655554/?l=italian

``FIXED! In the main menu screen, go to your task manager and expand Red Dead Redemption. Go to the game .exe file and right click to 'go to details'. The find the rdr2.exe and right click to 'set affinity'. Turn off all of CPUs after 7. Game should work like a charm.

I guess the i9 has too many cores for the game or something technical like that. Anyways, happy gaming.``

Let me know if it works for you ! !

[Frank]

Originally posted by Frank:

I found a discussion someone tried to change cpu affinity and it fixed it for him if you try it let me know ! I am trying it right now and played for 2 hours I would like to hear for you if it changed things too. I only unchecked the last 7 cores because having only 7 enabled caused me some lags at some specific places ! ! I have RTX 4090 and I9-13900k

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1174180/discussions/0/6393480947847655554/?l=italian

``FIXED! In the main menu screen, go to your task manager and expand Red Dead Redemption. Go to the game .exe file and right click to 'go to details'. The find the rdr2.exe and right click to 'set affinity'. Turn off all of CPUs after 7. Game should work like a charm.

I guess the i9 has too many cores for the game or something technical like that. Anyways, happy gaming.``

Let me know if it works for you ! !

The same thing just happened ! ! Game is beyond broken on some rigs lol ! ! Sorry I thought i had something here ! !

[Frank]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Disable E-Cores in BIOS.
All these newer Intel CPUs are complete trash for Gaming.

I really don't know anything about over or underclocking and I'm afraid to break something but I found in msi center I can change P-Core (Default 58) and E-core ratio (Default 43) is there something I can do here? I saw somewhere that someone changed P to 50 and E to 40 and it helped but reduced the voltage -0.060 or something like that but I dont have this option.

Do you think it will ever get patched so we dont have to play in our pc BIOS ?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

There is also a free easy to use app called CoreDirector, which allows you to add App EXEs to the listing within the app in order to disable efficiency mode (the use of E-Cores) when that app it ran

https://videocardz.com/newz/coredirector-is-a-new-free-tool-designed-to-keep-apps-off-intel-e-cores

[Frank]

FIXED (so far lol) Thanks my friend ! ! I changed the core Ratio in MSI center instead of playing on balanced mode I used customize in user setting and set the ratio of P-Cores at 50 and E-Cores at 40 and didnt touched anything else ! ! Is it what we call underclocking cpu?? Guess it reduces the temperatures or stability issues I don't know ! ! Played for 4 or 5 hours no issues ! ! First time in a while I can do that without the texture not loading properly after an hour ! ! Didnt experienced any lags I think all was running normal ! ! Changed back to balanced when I dont play this game ! !

[Roy-ARJ]

Originally posted by Frank:

I found a discussion someone tried to change cpu affinity and it fixed it for him if you try it let me know ! I am trying it right now and played for 2 hours I would like to hear for you if it changed things too. I only unchecked the last 7 cores because having only 7 enabled caused me some lags at some specific places ! ! I have RTX 4090 and I9-13900k

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1174180/discussions/0/6393480947847655554/?l=italian

``FIXED! In the main menu screen, go to your task manager and expand Red Dead Redemption. Go to the game .exe file and right click to 'go to details'. The find the rdr2.exe and right click to 'set affinity'. Turn off all of CPUs after 7. Game should work like a charm.

I guess the i9 has too many cores for the game or something technical like that. Anyways, happy gaming.``

Let me know if it works for you ! !

I'm too having troubles playing the game, it has started crashing since Chapter 3 in towns like Rhodes, Van Horn and Valentine. It doesn't crash in the wilderness though. Whenever i enter those towns it crashed within 15-20 mins, just CTD with no error at all. I have Intel 14700K and 4070 Ti. I tried your method turned off all CPUs after 7, Hopefully it works, thanks for sharing your method, I will update if that finally solves the problem.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Roy-ARJ:

Originally posted by Frank:

I found a discussion someone tried to change cpu affinity and it fixed it for him if you try it let me know ! I am trying it right now and played for 2 hours I would like to hear for you if it changed things too. I only unchecked the last 7 cores because having only 7 enabled caused me some lags at some specific places ! ! I have RTX 4090 and I9-13900k

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1174180/discussions/0/6393480947847655554/?l=italian

``FIXED! In the main menu screen, go to your task manager and expand Red Dead Redemption. Go to the game .exe file and right click to 'go to details'. The find the rdr2.exe and right click to 'set affinity'. Turn off all of CPUs after 7. Game should work like a charm.

I guess the i9 has too many cores for the game or something technical like that. Anyways, happy gaming.``

Let me know if it works for you ! !

I'm too having troubles playing the game, it has started crashing since Chapter 3 in towns like Rhodes, Van Horn and Valentine. It doesn't crash in the wilderness though. Whenever i enter those towns it crashed within 15-20 mins, just CTD with no error at all. I have Intel 14700K and 4070 Ti. I tried your method turned off all CPUs after 7, Hopefully it works, thanks for sharing your method, I will update if that finally solves the problem.

Monitor your thermals.
As inside towns there are much more NPCs and such.

Verify game in Steam. Game properties > Local Files > Verify > wait until done.

Wipe the gpu shader cache in where the game stores the settings file. The SGA files there. Along with what's inside %localappdata% > NVIDIA

Do a clean install of NVIDIA GPU Driver 555.99

[Roy-ARJ]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by Roy-ARJ:

I'm too having troubles playing the game, it has started crashing since Chapter 3 in towns like Rhodes, Van Horn and Valentine. It doesn't crash in the wilderness though. Whenever i enter those towns it crashed within 15-20 mins, just CTD with no error at all. I have Intel 14700K and 4070 Ti. I tried your method turned off all CPUs after 7, Hopefully it works, thanks for sharing your method, I will update if that finally solves the problem.

Monitor your thermals.
As inside towns there are much more NPCs and such.

Verify game in Steam. Game properties > Local Files > Verify > wait until done.

Wipe the gpu shader cache in where the game stores the settings file. The SGA files there. Along with what's inside %localappdata% > NVIDIA

Do a clean install of NVIDIA GPU Driver 555.99

Been there done all that buddy. Nothing worked. So far after trying that method it hasn't crashed yet, been playing Black jack in Van Horn since half an hour.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Roy-ARJ:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Monitor your thermals.
As inside towns there are much more NPCs and such.

Verify game in Steam. Game properties > Local Files > Verify > wait until done.

Wipe the gpu shader cache in where the game stores the settings file. The SGA files there. Along with what's inside %localappdata% > NVIDIA

Do a clean install of NVIDIA GPU Driver 555.99

Been there done all that buddy. Nothing worked. So far after trying that method it hasn't crashed yet, been playing Black jack in Van Horn since half an hour.

So you say it's not working; and then working all in the same message.

Bro WTF?

[Roy-ARJ]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by Roy-ARJ:

Been there done all that buddy. Nothing worked. So far after trying that method it hasn't crashed yet, been playing Black jack in Van Horn since half an hour.

So you say it's not working; and then working all in the same message.

Bro WTF?

Lmao read it properly, i said i tried that guy's method and so far it's working.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Hmm ok then a simple...

So far after trying that method it hasn't crashed yet, been playing Black jack in Van Horn since half an hour.

...would have sufficed.

[Roy-ARJ]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Hmm ok then a simple...

So far after trying that method it hasn't crashed yet, been playing Black jack in Van Horn since half an hour.

...would have sufficed.

So far nothing worked mate, every other game works like a charm. No idea wtf is wrong with RDR2 these days, it is constantly refusing to run in towns, either closes immediately or freezes for 1/3 secs and crashed to desktop with no error. Looks like i will have to give up :(

[Deinsensai]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1174180/discussions/0/6364230086936777846/

Look here, found the solution buddy, playing now almost 40+ Hours without any issue.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Roy-ARJ:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Hmm ok then a simple...

So far after trying that method it hasn't crashed yet, been playing Black jack in Van Horn since half an hour.

...would have sufficed.

So far nothing worked mate, every other game works like a charm. No idea wtf is wrong with RDR2 these days, it is constantly refusing to run in towns, either closes immediately or freezes for 1/3 secs and crashed to desktop with no error. Looks like i will have to give up :(

The errors will be in Windows Event Viewer or within the SocialClub folder; either within Documents or %LocalAppData% folder structures.

That kind of issue could be a number of reasons. Such as OCed hardware; cpu, ram, gpu and for whatever reason is unstable it that game. Could be thermal throttle issues, gpu driver issues, gpu tdr timeout issues, or corrupted game files.

Verify game files in Steam. The Steam Veridy option for each game allows verify and repair of missing and/or corrupted files.

It can also help to go to the Red Dead 2 folder in Documents and wipe out the settings and profile folders as well. Allowing Game to retreated those files fresh again. If you have any story mode saved games, then don't wipe those. Those will be the files that start with SRDR within Profiles > YourID# folder. The ones that end in 00-14 are manual saves. The one that ends in 15 is tye Autosave file, that one is safe to delete as it would get recreated later after loading up into story mode.

[Voltion]

Hey all I just saw all these posts! just came back from a trip so I've been away. Thanks for all the replies!!! I will try to troubleshoot the game this week!