I'm done playing the game, because it keeps crashing randomly to my desktop and no error messages.

[v1chu †]

I don't know how to make this game run, but I'm done with it. I'm trying from yesterday to make it playable, it doesn't. The game is running smoothly about 30-60 minutes and then crashes with no error message. So how am I supposed to find the issue then when it just randomly crashes?

[Eddie]

do you have mods. if not lower graphic settings. I had the same problem and its cuz my gpu was about ready to catch on fire. Just lower graphic settings and it should stop crashing.

[Maverick]

If your on AMD GPU then disable Smart Access Memory, its in Performance, Tuning at the bottom, its not compatible with Red dead, or rockstar too lazy to patch it

[v1chu †]

Originally posted by 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌋𐌊𐌄𐌓:

do you have mods. if not lower graphic settings. I had the same problem and its cuz my gpu was about ready to catch on fire. Just lower graphic settings and it should stop crashing.

I'm running on HUB optimised settings, that use maximum of 4 GB of my VRAM. My GPU is around 72C at maximum, I remember I've ran the game last year with no issue. This stuff started happening when I upgraded to Windows 11

[v1chu †]

Originally posted by Maverick:

If your on AMD GPU then disable Smart Access Memory, its in Performance, Tuning at the bottom, its not compatible with Red dead, or rockstar too lazy to patch it

I have 3060 Ti, but thanks for sharing anyway ^^. I love this game man and I want to play it again, but it pisses me off those crashes, because I plan on 100% it with all achievements and stuff, and if it crashes like that, it might crash on important grind session and I might lose progress. I can't play it like this

[v1chu †]

Originally posted by 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌋𐌊𐌄𐌓:

do you have mods. if not lower graphic settings. I had the same problem and its cuz my gpu was about ready to catch on fire. Just lower graphic settings and it should stop crashing.

Also forgot to mention, I did try to install mods yes. The first crash occured at the barn on the prologue mission, the audio stuttered a little (game frooze for like 0.2 sec) and boom I'm on my desktop, no error messages, just the game crashed. I was like okay, it might be the mods, deleted the entire game, verified the files (files got restored). Started playing again, I got through the first mission, played a little till Charles's hunting mission in the mountains. I got to the part where I use my tracking, boom, 2-nd crash right there. I think after 40 minutes of playing if my memory is correct. I don't know what's going on with this game, genuinely.

[Maverick]

Nvidia's version of Smart Access Memory is called Resizable BAR, you need disable this either in your Driver settings or your BIOS, it effects both cards it doesnt work its a useless setting

[v1chu †]

Originally posted by Maverick:

Nvidia's version of Smart Access Memory is called Resizable BAR, you need disable this either in your Driver settings or your BIOS, it effects both cards it doesnt work its a useless setting

I doubt that could be the issue, this is only with this game. So I doubt the issue is coming on my part, is from the game itself in my opinion.

Either that, or the game doesn't like Windows 11 24H2 version. Or something is corrupted with the Rockstar's launcher, or the PC port is just garbage for the game and a recent update broke the game. I remember last year I ran the game with no issues.

[TinkyWinky69]

try to limit your fps in AMD or any other software u have.
helped for me

[Polar]

Hi, would help if you provide all troubleshooting you've performed so help can rule out all issues.

I also run a 3060ti; also I have a R75700g 32gb ddr4
I'm on w11 23h2
I maintain over 60fps, but did initially have performance drops when first playing. i ruled it down to graphics settings, and vram usage. if you're optimizing through nvdia app, make sure vram usage ingrame doesn't show it is over the alloted amount; nvdia doesn't take this into account with other apps utilizing vram (backgrounds, other apps running in background)

First check whether your crashes are being reported in EventViewer.
The description of the crash would most contain the file directory of where your rdr2 exe is located. crash report code will help indicate what hardware of yours is causing the crash.

If you believe it to be an OS issue, you should perform a system check for corrupted window files. depending on if you have this installed on ssd or hd, the later would be the culprit, but if on ssd, verify there's not an issue with your ssd - this would be indicated in the eventviewer logs as well.

verify your RAM isn't an issue. depending on how much ram you actually have, like if you have 2 16 stick, take one out, adjust settings for graphics. if it doesn't crash, you may have a bad ram stick. this can happen on some games, and not on others. rd is very ram intensive, and will bottleneck

if not this, your processor should have preinstalled tempature monitoring, can rule out if infact hardware is overheating and shutting the game down to preserve health. also monitory taskmanager performance, again to rule out bottlnecks and or other software conflicting and overruning hardware.

rollback your nvdia drivers.
we don't need the latest and greatest drivers on our gpu's (you and I)
the latest drivers are catered to the 4k and 5k series. Try to gauge the latest gpu driver that was installed before you installed w11, to see if that gpu driver is having an issue. if you rollback and it doesnt crash, great, but would also test the latest driver again to verify the driver isn't damaged... even if it doesn't crash other games, it will crash some in situations

reinstall/update DirectX and windows all together. though before doing this, verify event viewer of any issues that could point to this.
install latest visual c++ redistributables.

all in all, eventviewer is going to indicate the issue. from there, we can continue on possible culprits. feel free to respond with your findings, happy to further dig in to help.

[v1chu †]

Originally posted by Polar:

Hi, would help if you provide all troubleshooting you've performed so help can rule out all issues.

I also run a 3060ti; also I have a R75700g 32gb ddr4
I'm on w11 23h2
I maintain over 60fps, but did initially have performance drops when first playing. i ruled it down to graphics settings, and vram usage. if you're optimizing through nvdia app, make sure vram usage ingrame doesn't show it is over the alloted amount; nvdia doesn't take this into account with other apps utilizing vram (backgrounds, other apps running in background)

First check whether your crashes are being reported in EventViewer.
The description of the crash would most contain the file directory of where your rdr2 exe is located. crash report code will help indicate what hardware of yours is causing the crash.

If you believe it to be an OS issue, you should perform a system check for corrupted window files. depending on if you have this installed on ssd or hd, the later would be the culprit, but if on ssd, verify there's not an issue with your ssd - this would be indicated in the eventviewer logs as well.

verify your RAM isn't an issue. depending on how much ram you actually have, like if you have 2 16 stick, take one out, adjust settings for graphics. if it doesn't crash, you may have a bad ram stick. this can happen on some games, and not on others. rd is very ram intensive, and will bottleneck

if not this, your processor should have preinstalled tempature monitoring, can rule out if infact hardware is overheating and shutting the game down to preserve health. also monitory taskmanager performance, again to rule out bottlnecks and or other software conflicting and overruning hardware.

rollback your nvdia drivers.
we don't need the latest and greatest drivers on our gpu's (you and I)
the latest drivers are catered to the 4k and 5k series. Try to gauge the latest gpu driver that was installed before you installed w11, to see if that gpu driver is having an issue. if you rollback and it doesnt crash, great, but would also test the latest driver again to verify the driver isn't damaged... even if it doesn't crash other games, it will crash some in situations

reinstall/update DirectX and windows all together. though before doing this, verify event viewer of any issues that could point to this.
install latest visual c++ redistributables.

all in all, eventviewer is going to indicate the issue. from there, we can continue on possible culprits. feel free to respond with your findings, happy to further dig in to help.

I just installed it on my HDD, played about 2 hours and still crashed on the end of a mission. Again, no error messages. Straight up into desktop, what the ♥♥♥♥ is wrong with this game?

[v1chu †]

Originally posted by Polar:

Hi, would help if you provide all troubleshooting you've performed so help can rule out all issues.

I also run a 3060ti; also I have a R75700g 32gb ddr4
I'm on w11 23h2
I maintain over 60fps, but did initially have performance drops when first playing. i ruled it down to graphics settings, and vram usage. if you're optimizing through nvdia app, make sure vram usage ingrame doesn't show it is over the alloted amount; nvdia doesn't take this into account with other apps utilizing vram (backgrounds, other apps running in background)

First check whether your crashes are being reported in EventViewer.
The description of the crash would most contain the file directory of where your rdr2 exe is located. crash report code will help indicate what hardware of yours is causing the crash.

If you believe it to be an OS issue, you should perform a system check for corrupted window files. depending on if you have this installed on ssd or hd, the later would be the culprit, but if on ssd, verify there's not an issue with your ssd - this would be indicated in the eventviewer logs as well.

verify your RAM isn't an issue. depending on how much ram you actually have, like if you have 2 16 stick, take one out, adjust settings for graphics. if it doesn't crash, you may have a bad ram stick. this can happen on some games, and not on others. rd is very ram intensive, and will bottleneck

if not this, your processor should have preinstalled tempature monitoring, can rule out if infact hardware is overheating and shutting the game down to preserve health. also monitory taskmanager performance, again to rule out bottlnecks and or other software conflicting and overruning hardware.

rollback your nvdia drivers.
we don't need the latest and greatest drivers on our gpu's (you and I)
the latest drivers are catered to the 4k and 5k series. Try to gauge the latest gpu driver that was installed before you installed w11, to see if that gpu driver is having an issue. if you rollback and it doesnt crash, great, but would also test the latest driver again to verify the driver isn't damaged... even if it doesn't crash other games, it will crash some in situations

reinstall/update DirectX and windows all together. though before doing this, verify event viewer of any issues that could point to this.
install latest visual c++ redistributables.

all in all, eventviewer is going to indicate the issue. from there, we can continue on possible culprits. feel free to respond with your findings, happy to further dig in to help.

There's nothing wrong in the Event Viewer, no error messages whatsoever. Just the game crashing randomly, buggy PC port that's all.

[Luister41]

Juegazo

[v1chu †]

Originally posted by Polar:

Hi, would help if you provide all troubleshooting you've performed so help can rule out all issues.

I also run a 3060ti; also I have a R75700g 32gb ddr4
I'm on w11 23h2
I maintain over 60fps, but did initially have performance drops when first playing. i ruled it down to graphics settings, and vram usage. if you're optimizing through nvdia app, make sure vram usage ingrame doesn't show it is over the alloted amount; nvdia doesn't take this into account with other apps utilizing vram (backgrounds, other apps running in background)

First check whether your crashes are being reported in EventViewer.
The description of the crash would most contain the file directory of where your rdr2 exe is located. crash report code will help indicate what hardware of yours is causing the crash.

If you believe it to be an OS issue, you should perform a system check for corrupted window files. depending on if you have this installed on ssd or hd, the later would be the culprit, but if on ssd, verify there's not an issue with your ssd - this would be indicated in the eventviewer logs as well.

verify your RAM isn't an issue. depending on how much ram you actually have, like if you have 2 16 stick, take one out, adjust settings for graphics. if it doesn't crash, you may have a bad ram stick. this can happen on some games, and not on others. rd is very ram intensive, and will bottleneck

if not this, your processor should have preinstalled tempature monitoring, can rule out if infact hardware is overheating and shutting the game down to preserve health. also monitory taskmanager performance, again to rule out bottlnecks and or other software conflicting and overruning hardware.

rollback your nvdia drivers.
we don't need the latest and greatest drivers on our gpu's (you and I)
the latest drivers are catered to the 4k and 5k series. Try to gauge the latest gpu driver that was installed before you installed w11, to see if that gpu driver is having an issue. if you rollback and it doesnt crash, great, but would also test the latest driver again to verify the driver isn't damaged... even if it doesn't crash other games, it will crash some in situations

reinstall/update DirectX and windows all together. though before doing this, verify event viewer of any issues that could point to this.
install latest visual c++ redistributables.

all in all, eventviewer is going to indicate the issue. from there, we can continue on possible culprits. feel free to respond with your findings, happy to further dig in to help.

Okay, I gave the .exe RDR 2 all permisions. I've disabled FullScreen Optimizations. I checked for it to always start it as administrator, so far no issues.

[ElightenedGamer]

Originally posted by Maverick:

If your on AMD GPU then disable Smart Access Memory, its in Performance, Tuning at the bottom, its not compatible with Red dead, or rockstar too lazy to patch it

Thanks man! I just got a amd rx 7800 and started a having this problem. Unknown ffffff just randomly. I got pissed at first cuz I just dropped $2600 on a new set up, but found out it's the game and the devs won't fix it. I'll try this out.

[WHTSUPTURKY]

75 CUSTOM HZ, FPS HIGH-ULTRAHIGH SETTINGS ON 9700K,2080S 32FB RAM RUNS LIKE BUTTER G15 CX -MSRP 1600$