This game is still broken for many pc players.

[X-cert]

Title. Just want to let it be known you may run into trouble playing the game at all even on a new rig.

[grimphoenix]

rockstar launcher is basically completely broken on many modern systems because they have not updated it to recognize parts produced after the game started to lose popularity. also see online the many people talking about how they got rid of the launcher through whatever method and all the issues went away.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by grimphoenix:

rockstar launcher is basically completely broken on many modern systems because they have not updated it to recognize parts produced after the game started to lose popularity. also see online the many people talking about how they got rid of the launcher through whatever method and all the issues went away.

recognize parts? Can you explain this? Do you even know what you're talking about here?
The Rockstar Launcher looks at your system using DXDIAG.

Find me one post on here where anyone is playing RDR2/RDO properly without the Launcher? If they are, it's a cracked version of the game. If you look on YouTube you will see people who've tried a cracked version of RDR2 and it's 100% terrible junk. It's filled with unfixable glitches. The game and launcher works fine most of the time. Yes it is sad that Rockstar has to implement an always-online DRM, but Rockstar games have been this way since GTA4 came out on PC. Did you forget or perhaps you're just new to PC?

Not to mention, cracked versions of games can easily contain keyloggers, phishing tools, information-stealing malware. Not even worth it.

[grimphoenix]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by grimphoenix:

rockstar launcher is basically completely broken on many modern systems because they have not updated it to recognize parts produced after the game started to lose popularity. also see online the many people talking about how they got rid of the launcher through whatever method and all the issues went away.

recognize parts? Can you explain this? Do you even know what you're talking about here?
The Rockstar Launcher looks at your system using DXDIAG.

Find me one post on here where anyone is playing RDR2/RDO properly without the Launcher? If they are, it's a cracked version of the game. If you look on YouTube you will see people who've tried a cracked version of RDR2 and it's 100% terrible junk. It's filled with unfixable glitches. The game and launcher works fine most of the time. Yes it is sad that Rockstar has to implement an always-online DRM, but Rockstar games have been this way since GTA4 came out on PC. Did you forget or perhaps you're just new to PC?

Not to mention, cracked versions of games can easily contain keyloggers, phishing tools, information-stealing malware. Not even worth it.

I should clarify, the posts saying the issues were fixed by removing the launcher are mostly old ones from the days where you could just rename the launcher to "gtav.exe" and the game would skip the launcher. cracks are not great, but for many people the game runs worse now then when the launcher could be easily worked around.
while the launcher looks at your parts with DXDIAG the issue is that if the launcher reads a part that it does not recognize (examples being a 4080 super or other newer computer parts) it can often display those parts as not existing due to them not being recognized as either a compatible part or a non compatible part due to the launcher's lazy coding.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The game doesn't perform poorly because of the launcher.
Anyways suggesting this just has a very terrible POS PC, simple facts.

I'm always willing to help folks though. Many are just impatient and don't know anything about how to troubleshoot problems.

Some of these folks have laughable PC specs so it's no wonder they have issues running a game such as this. Or at least running it in a smooth, stable fashion. Many Users also have their PCs clogged up with tons of junk, which either has no business on there or is getting in the way of things. Many aren't even aware they have all sorts of junk running in the background.

[E-Commerce Meatualization Inc]

Yeah, lots of people who are having trouble playing a nearly 5 year old game on steam that's borderline abondonware just have junk PC's.

It's not the game, it's just all the people's PCs. Very convenient Rockstar apologetics going on.

[Clancy]

Originally posted by Bean Bag Chairist:

Yeah, lots of people who are having trouble playing a nearly 5 year old game on steam that's borderline abondonware just have junk PC's.

There you have it . . .

[E-Commerce Meatualization Inc]

Lmk how it works if you do. Rockstar shouldn't care. They stopped caring about this game years ago.

[jhr_digitalartist]

ive had 2 times where the game crashes at the same time, knocking all the graphics settings down to LOW or OFF has let me play through them. then after the trouble spot i save and put all my settings back to HIGH/ULTRA etc - but the first scene of Fleeting Joy continues to crash even with all the settings low/off and resolution at 1024. this is the last rockstar game im going to buy, i dont even give a damn about gta 6. i looked forward to play rdr2 for years especially since they couldnt be bothered to port it to PC. and now i cant get past this one spot because the game crashes to the desktop.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by jhr_digitalartist:

ive had 2 times where the game crashes at the same time, knocking all the graphics settings down to LOW or OFF has let me play through them. then after the trouble spot i save and put all my settings back to HIGH/ULTRA etc - but the first scene of Fleeting Joy continues to crash even with all the settings low/off and resolution at 1024. this is the last rockstar game im going to buy, i dont even give a damn about gta 6. i looked forward to play rdr2 for years especially since they couldnt be bothered to port it to PC. and now i cant get past this one spot because the game crashes to the desktop.

Have you verified the game files?

Disabled Defender?

What else is running in background?

Check your drive(s) for bad spots / corruption?

Defrag or Optimize your drives?

Try playing the game after turning off in-game Auotsave feature and Rockstar Launcher Cloud Save Sync?

[X-cert]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by jhr_digitalartist:

ive had 2 times where the game crashes at the same time, knocking all the graphics settings down to LOW or OFF has let me play through them. then after the trouble spot i save and put all my settings back to HIGH/ULTRA etc - but the first scene of Fleeting Joy continues to crash even with all the settings low/off and resolution at 1024. this is the last rockstar game im going to buy, i dont even give a damn about gta 6. i looked forward to play rdr2 for years especially since they couldnt be bothered to port it to PC. and now i cant get past this one spot because the game crashes to the desktop.

Have you verified the game files?

Disabled Defender?

What else is running in background?

Check your drive(s) for bad spots / corruption?

Defrag or Optimize your drives?

Try playing the game after turning off in-game Auotsave feature and Rockstar Launcher Cloud Save Sync?

When I say there are people who have done this and more, on fresh PCs, it's for real.
No need to get frustrated people are experiencing a problem, as kind of you to feel that was as it is.
But trust people when they have said, not only just in this thread, that they have tried that. And then some.

A vanilla game on a brand new pc should work.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

A new PC is missing stuff needed for Games right off the bat. That's normal.

Windows 10 and 11 also are not configured well for gaming so until you do that (or the app in question) then yes it's sometimes a problem.