Crashes? in 2024? with a 4080?

[PorchBandit]

Hey all, hoping there's somebody out there that might have an insight on this.

I'm running 64gb RAM an i9 Raptor Lake and an RTX4080 and still for some inexplicable reason RDR2 seems to crash constantly. It's usually stable for a good 20min sometimes 40min but it seems to, without fail, crash me out of missions.

Sometimes it makes total sense and will crash while I abuse the crap out of Rampage, Fair enough, spawning a bunch of legendary sturgeon in an enemy camp and turning the tornado on probably won't be stable on a twelvty80. But this frequency of crashes with very few mods in regular gameplay just doesn't make sense.

I recently installed all the drivers and performance programs from the manufacturer of my motherboard and GPU, Which I'm realising was silly not to do a few months back when I put the computer together but hopefully that will help although I have ALL the required Nvidia drivers updated already.

If anybody has any other suggestions I'd love to hear them, the game seems to use ALLOT of CPU but the GPU usage seems to be normal. I've been considering undervolting my CPU to see if that helps. I realize it's a slightly older game and I've heard some older games get all screwy on newer more powerful GPUs but for rockstar to no future proof their game seems kinda crazy

[E-Commerce Meatualization Inc]

Doubt i'll be much help but for someone else who maybe can, do you get any error codes?

You mention mods, does the same thing happen without mods?

one thing i've noticed since replaying it is this game eventually maxes out my 16gb of vram and then performance tanks down to unplayability. If you're crashing out after 20-40 minutes this might not be the problem but I also don't play the online.

[FRANCO MORICHETTI]

api dx 12 or vulkan?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Clean install NVIDIA GPU Driver 551.23

If using any Mods, it could the mods that are the cause for game being unstable as these generally have been abandoned and not updated anymore.

[Joker]

I see a lot of people with the i9-13900K complaining about different games crashing. They have to power limit, undervolt or downclock their CPU in the BIOS to get their system more stable. I've seen it so much that I just built a new rig a couple weeks ago and got the i7-13700 instead. I have 64GB RAM and an RTX 4090 and Windows 11. I tweaked my BIOS settings a little to get even more stability by turning off Multi-Core Enhancement and I left X.M.P. disabled for my RAM. I have an Asus Strix motherboard. They like to have Multi-Core Enhancement enabled by default. Other brands might have a similar setting. I avoid any overclocking. Only my 4090 has a factory overclock. The game never crashes for me.

[Sul]

This PC port is very, very terrible. It has a lot of issues. There's probably no one fix for your issue. Even if you get rid of the crashes, the port is still subpar and has a myriad of other issues.

I recommend reinstalling the game, some files might've been corrupted during download.

[Meatball]

you are using hardware that never even existed when RDR2 came out. I have a RX590 and 2700x and havent had a SINGLE issue in over 70 hrs

[ＭＩＣＨＡＥＬ]

modders are crashing your game

[[V.O.C.] Dr. Ross Geller]

I had the same problem like you for over a year with almost all my games and I replaced almost every part of my PC during that time. The GPU was never the problem. It was a faulty I9 13900k CPU and instable e cores. I had to RMA my CPU and even after getting a brand new I9; I still had to disable the e cores to prevent crashes. So I highly recommened disabling your e cores and look if this fixes your problem. Furthermore RDR2 even performs 0.6% faster if you disable the e cores.

[IcedFREELANCER]

Nvidia is prone to crashing in general if you're undervolting or OCing. Just make sure your OC/undervolt is stable by running some good stress test like 3DMark's Port Royal for ~1 hour and then make registry edit to set TDR Level to 0, there are bunch of tutorials online. Should fix your problem

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Sul:

This PC port is very, very terrible. It has a lot of issues. There's probably no one fix for your issue. Even if you get rid of the crashes, the port is still subpar and has a myriad of other issues.

I recommend reinstalling the game, some files might've been corrupted during download.

That's what Verify is for. Pointless to redownload an entire game when it's just loose files which can be repaired if they are an issue.

Funny someone actually mentioned TDR. Yes on Win10/11 for Gaming this will be very good to change. Use TDR Manipulater app for this to change all the TDR values to be higher then the OS defaults.

Some games do have issues with the whole Intel P & E core feature though. Run the CPU stock and undervolt it. Don't OC the GPU.

Wipe GPU Shader Cache, both in WinOS and in the game settings folder (in Documents > Rockstar Games)

If RDR2 is hitting above 120 FPS, enforce an fps cap max limit

[Stingrr]

i9 13900k here. I had the same problems. Crash straight to the desktop.

I use an MSI motherboard, and it seems they tweak everything for the most power and overclocking by default. My fix was to tune the CPU Lite Load down.

[Huh]

modders are crashing your game

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Huh:

modders are crashing your game

If it's RDO then yes, no doubt

[uwurawr]

The game's stable without mods. I've only ever crashed out of RDR2 with mods and I didn't even mod it much.

[addiict]

Im having crashes and Stutters and im using a 5600x and 7800xt. 1440p with not all the way Ultra but pretty close. No mods and no online. just story.

Any solutions? game runs great at 90-100 fps when its not being dumb