I have to verify integrity of game files every day to get this game to run smoothly.

[Richard I]

RAM might be my issue, I have an upgrade coming in this weekend.

But the game runs very smooth, once I verify the integrity of game files. Before then, it is very choppy. Every day that I play. So I leave, verify integrity, and it runs very smooth.

What could cause this?

[levco6350]

I have the same issue. I have a problem of memory running out, but I don't understand that because I have enough memory. Tried validating files, rebooting, nothing helped.

16GB RAM
8GB GPU - latest driver

[Richard I]

Originally posted by levco6350:

I have the same issue. I have a problem of memory running out, but I don't understand that because I have enough memory. Tried validating files, rebooting, nothing helped.

16GB RAM
8GB GPU - latest driver

Just upgraded to 16GB ram from 8GB. with RDR2 in-game it is using about 60% memory. Single digit FPS, the game is unplayable.

Now instead of verifying game files buying me a most of a day, it's only buying me about 20 minutes before the issues start again.

No clue what it could be. My CPU and GPU are nowhere near maxed out, they can handle this game. And I know because even with 8GB ram it runs smooth as butter, until it turns to unplayable seemingly out of nowhere.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Because you keep rebooting/shutting down your PC without first exiting out of Steam properly.

[Richard I]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Because you keep rebooting/shutting down your PC without first exiting out of Steam properly.

Does that cause issues? I may try the right way next time. I assume that is Steam -> Exit?
I've just been hitting the X.

[nusuns]

Ran the game fine for years on a 1080Ti with a solid 80 fps. 1080ti dies I get a 4070 and the game gets a boost in fps but terrible stuttering in the city areas and towns. I tried everything but ultimately just lived with it for months. Now for the last week or so I get memory errors upon loading the game. Very strange.

Ryzen 3600x
16gb ram
4070
Fresh install of OS when I got the 4070

edit did a memory test with PassMark MemTest86 and passed

[Richard I]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Because you keep rebooting/shutting down your PC without first exiting out of Steam properly.

Reinstalled the game. Played great for about 3 hours, now out of nowhere the game became unplayable. Didn’t exit steam or anything during this time.

Not sure what it is. Just listing the symptoms in-case there’s ever a fix one day people can see

[Richard I]

Originally posted by nusuns:

Ran the game fine for years on a 1080Ti with a solid 80 fps. 1080ti dies I get a 4070 and the game gets a boost in fps but terrible stuttering in the city areas and towns. I tried everything but ultimately just lived with it for months. Now for the last week or so I get memory errors upon loading the game. Very strange.

Ryzen 3600x
16gb ram
4070
Fresh install of OS when I got the 4070

edit did a memory test with PassMark MemTest86 and passed

That's very different from my experience. You have a way better GPU than I do to, I think I have a 2070.

Mine isn't location dependent, it's more of time-dependent. The more time I spend in the game, the greater risk I am of it turning unplayable.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by TheGriffinator:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Because you keep rebooting/shutting down your PC without first exiting out of Steam properly.

Reinstalled the game. Played great for about 3 hours, now out of nowhere the game became unplayable. Didn’t exit steam or anything during this time.

Not sure what it is. Just listing the symptoms in-case there’s ever a fix one day people can see

Then it's an issue with your secondary drives going to sleep and thus Steam can't see them unless you exit Steam, refresh the drives and relaunch Steam. Edit your power plan and don't allow drives to sleep

[Richard I]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by TheGriffinator:

Reinstalled the game. Played great for about 3 hours, now out of nowhere the game became unplayable. Didn’t exit steam or anything during this time.

Not sure what it is. Just listing the symptoms in-case there’s ever a fix one day people can see

Then it's an issue with your secondary drives going to sleep and thus Steam can't see them unless you exit Steam, refresh the drives and relaunch Steam. Edit your power plan and don't allow drives to sleep

You talking about the harddrive?

Watched a video a little bit ago talking about page file and virtual memory and all that, just to test I uninstalled RDR2 from my external SSD and am installing it on my internal SSD.

Just changed power plan to never sleep. Not sure how to refresh drives, when I look it up it talks about doing recovery on the PC


If this works I owe you one man. More than one honestly, this game is too awesome not to play.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You had it on an external drive? No wonder

[Richard I]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

You had it on an external drive? No wonder

Yeah, all of my other games ran well on the external, wasn't sure the difference since they are both SSD.

But I saw my laptop reading my internal as SSD, and external as USB, so not sure if there's a performance decrease there. Just finished some settings changes and windows updates, let's try this out/

[Richard I]

Installed on internal SSD, set most graphical settings to low (game looks bad now), edited power plans, couple other YouTube ideas

Game still gets choppy after about 30 minutes this playthrough. Unplayable. No idea what to do at this point. Assuming it is something to do with my CPU utilization. It dropped to 2-3% and now the game barely runs

[Richard I]

Can’t catch a break. Updated my graphics driver, game looked great and was running at 90 FPS, CPU utilization was at 70% instead of single digits, GPU was at 90+% instead of 20-30%, but the game won’t run more than 30 seconds without crashing.

This game has never crashed before, but it’s crashing every time I enter story mode now. Nvidia redid my settings for what my PC could handle (made most things ultra) all I did was drop the filtering, drop some ultra settings to medium, disable MSAA and other things, and just crashed now


Update: Switched to DirectX12. Stopped crashing, but game runs just as bad as before. Enabled Nvidia overlay. FPS goes from 45 and smooth to 7-9. Average latency jumps from 60 to 400 and doesn’t come back down until I leave the game. Think it’s a latency issue, will need to look into potential fixes

[Richard I]

Not sure what to do at this point. Played with affinity in task manager, set priorities, run as administrator, async true in the system.xml, countless other potential fixes.

I even factory reset my computer, full drive clean. Latest driver, latest windows update, I don’t get it

Now the game is either really low fps but playable, or just choppy and unplayable from the get go.



Not sure if my 2.6 GhZ CPU being stuck at 0.78 has anything to do with it. Not sure if it’s normal, or how it really works

Open to any fixes, but unfortunately I think I’m going to have to give up on RDR2. Shame, chapter 2, grinded like crazy for the legend of the east satchel, and don’t get to enjoy the story because of, whatever this is. Don’t even know what the issue would be. Run most games on ultra with no problems whatsoever.

Just don’t get why the game ran phenomenal for a straight week and then turned into this.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You could have started off by listing your full PC Specs. Since it sounds like you're on a potato PC that doesn't even meet the requirements.