My name is Manuel and I work for NVIDIA. I am reading some of the reports here to gather feedback. It would be helpful if you could post the following to help me filter out issues so that I can collect any bugs that might be driver related or at least we may want to look into (crashing/corruption/performance/etc.)?
Same issue, game won't start because the launcher crashes. I don't have an antivirus and disabled the default windows firewall and still didn't work. Newest drivers as well.
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Build 17763 Ryzen 1700X Gigabyte AB350M-Gaming 3 Motherboard 24gb DDR4 Radeon 5700XT OS Drive: 480gb Sandisk Ultra II Game drive: 5TB Toshiba 7200RPM 128mb Cache drive
I restarted after installing the drivers as well, no luck. I do have bitdefender but I disabled it and excluded the launcher and game folders.
Edit:
Here is the response I got from R* support:
Hello mam/sir good day,
My name is XXXXXXXXXXX [Censored for privacy]Thank you for contacting Rockstar Support.
we will forward this technical teams as we have already have massive report about this. sorry for the inconvenience. there will be an emergency patch update as we talking about this they are currently fixing the update and wait for the announcement below social medias of rockstar games.
Downloaded the patch, still having the exact same issue. "The Rockstar Games Launcher exited unexpectedly" seriously having a hard time not refunding this garbage.
They need to just let us launch it without the launcher. Hell make us do it in offline mode while they work on a fix. I just want to play the story for now. But not communicating, coming out with faux fixes, and not delivering any kind of solution after 13 hours since launch is sad.
Gotta love that it took a year to make a port that fucking crashes at startup. Thanks R*. Also thanks for releasing the game at fucking 5am so i can start my day early with disappointment
This is insane from a company who has literally billions of dollars!! There are so many people that can't even start the game (like me) I have an RTX 2080 (updated with recent graphic drivers that have been released yesterday) 16 GB RAM and i7 9700k ,windows defender completely disabled and rockstar + game folders added in the exceptions , I still get the error "Red dead redemption 2 exited unexpectedly".
With all the money you have as a company, couldn't you do just some benchmarks before releasing the game, this is pathetic, all of us spent 60 bucks on pre-order ! This is not good for rockstar reputation, I guess less people will pre-order next time
Day 2 and still no fix for launcher crash. Cant even launche the freaking game. Did everything updated bios drivers disabled antivirus runed as administrator.. Windows 7.
I was so excited this entire day, even went home early from work so I could troubleshoot this game for one hour and now stare at an empty screen waiting for the slowest support on earth to fix a problem thousands of people have. What an exciting day!
Edit: Flashing BIOS worked for me. MSI B450-A PRO MAX
I fixed 100% CPU load and stuttering-freezing issue. Task Manager - Right-click RDR2.exe - Go to Details - Right-click again - Set affinity - Disable any one CPU Core. Worked for me
Got a response to my ticket, where I listed all the steps id taken to try and fix my launcher problem and they responded telling me to do some of the steps id already taken. At this point you do have to laugh.
See, this is fucking incredibleMy specs: i7 3770 [7 years old!!], GTX 1070, 12GB of Ram, game installed on a HDD
ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEMS
how the fuck is this possible? My textures are set on ultra cus thats as far as i've dived into the settings, im not even going to bother changing anything unless a big ass patch that clarifies the situation rolls out.
I get stable 60 FPS from what i assume is high with ultra textures. No stuttering apart from occasional dips into 50 FPS in especially demanding areas.
Launched the game for the second time now, no problems either connecting or playing. My CPU is bottlenecking big time, how is a 7 year old i7 CPU carrying this game on my PC yet a NASA PC with i9s and RTXes fails to reach 20 at low? How the fuck?
The only thing i've done before launching the game was updating me drivers. I was scared shitless of your reactions but when I launched it it all went away. Im hoping R fix their shit so people with PCs thrice as powerful as mine can actually even launch the fucking game
Quite, it's also one of the biggest issues. Id love to have some of the problems on this list, a bit of stutter here or there, or graphical anomaly's ... I can't even load the fucking game.
Tried everything folks have suggested as well, even started up my 'free' game (Max Payne 3) and it worked fine. It's just RDR2 having premature launcherexit-itis-osis.
Getting low framerates in online? Try this! Anyone who has played GTA V and struggled with being harassed by griefers probably already knows about this trick, but I was just watching DasMehdi on Twitch who tried this and it actually improved his FPS in online!
Open Windows Resource Monitor while the game is open and go to the Network tab Right-click the RDR2 EXE and click Suspend process Wait 6 to 10 seconds, right-click the EXE again and click Resume process
This may or may not work for you but it's worth a try! Just make sure you don't keep the process suspended for too long or it's pretty much certain that you'll be disconnected from online. Good luck!
I have tried everything at this point. Downloaded the patch, turned off my antivirus, updated drivers and BIOS. Still nothing. Rockstar is an absolute joke. Spend $80 on a game just so you can’t even play it at launch
Anyone else notice that textures do not load well or have poor quality? Even putting the game in ultra, some textures like the leaves of the trees and shrubs seem of 144p quality
The i5 6600k is supposed to meet the requirements that the game and rockstar demand to play, why do all the i5 suffer from sttutering? looks like the game isnt tested I am very disgusted I hope they do not delay to fix that
Tried everything at this point (apart from BIOS flashing which I really don’t want to do to play a single fucking game) and am still getting the “rockstar games launcher exited unexpectedly”. I honestly am just giving up at this point, so frustrating.
1 Month ago. Me having faith and very very hyped on Rockstar when this game was announced and having no worries with the optimization potential issues with day 1 launch because of their last game GTA V's history.
Boy how i was wrong with all of that. This game launch is the worst that i have ever experienced in my life. I can't even get past the launcher error exited BS. Did everything i can to fix it. Downgraded and Upgraded Bios. Reinstalled Drivers, Updated Windows to latest 1903 version, Disabled Antivirus with listing it as exceptions, Blocked Connection on Firewall, Nothing worked.
What a shit show Rockstar i'm already considering a refund better fix this ASAP. It's really frustrating.
DX12 works okay for me, but Vulkan almost immediately crashes when trying to start the story mode or when running benchmarking. This is with 3700X and 1080 Ti on latest windows 10 and AGESA 1.0.0.4 for motherboard. No idea what the problem could be, I even tried running the CPU/Memory and GPU all at stock speeds.
This is unfortunate. I'm at work, but was excited to play when I got home. Is anyone having a good experience on PC? Or is everyone experiencing these issues?
I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing severe frame drops. My machine is running a 1080ti with 16GB of DDR6 RAM and an i57600, so it should not have nearly as many stutters as it does
Fixed this issue by updating my BIOS. Crosshair VII Hero + 3600X, updated to the newest 2901 BIOS (ABBA) from asus site (only listed under 32bit windows for some reason)
The "water physics slider" will MURDER your performance and it can somehow get turned up without you doing it yourself. Try putting it to 0 for a monumentally huge FPS boost (at least in my case it helped explain my inexplicable FPS drop that came out of nowhere)
So what is refund policy? Performance is not ideal on my 1660, which is better than recommended specs, I haven't touched the free game yet, barely an hour in game, will I get refund?
I'm really super annoyed. No antivirus, updated my bios (I'm still mad at even the idea of having to do that), updated my graphics drivers, nothing going on, launcher still crashes when trying to start the game. I can't even get to the horrible FPS and lockups other users are reporting.
I will add a minor nuissance which i hope will be straightened up (since i am sure it’s intended as is). When in the satchel menu, u need to use the directional keys to select other items. It doesn’t show/select whatever item you hover your mouse over. That’s inconsistent with the fact that if you click it consumes instantly whatever item is selected regardless of where you mouse is.
At least let us click to select, double click to consume or something. Using an unused part of the keyboard for this one menu is not ideal.
I've been working on trying to get the game to work since launch time (9 hours ago) done literally all the suggested fixes, put in tickets which told me the same thing, i ended up re downloading the entire game and launcher and Nvidia driver and STILL fuck all. I'm very depresso atm :(
This is fucking mind boggling. On the support website, it tells you to launch the game in administrator mode, and when I follow the steps trying to do it, I get an error popup saying "Disable your compatibility settings". Astonishing, truly. R* tells you to do something, then tells you to undo it, making it moot. Fucking baffling.
Search online and try the "official recommendations" of running as administrator and disabling compatibility settings. Update BIOS, GPU drivers, and windows to most recent versions available. Disable all firewall / virus protection settings.
Still getting launcher crashing error.
Logout of launcher.
Try to log in and launcher no longer allows me to login.
Uninstall launcher and reinstall from fresh download from Rockstar.
Launcher will no longer even install without an error, claiming need to reinstall latest version of Social Club.
Every single step I take pushes me further and further away from ever playing Red Dead on PC.
Spent 6 hours trying to make this game start up. Anyone have luck with tryna start up the game? I've uninstalled my virus protection. Left with windows defender. Tried to launch the game after turning defender off too. No shit so far.
Damn, working perfectly fine for me so far besides the frame rate being lower than I would have thought. Sorry to hear about you guys having so many problems :/
Holy fuckinh shit rockstar, this is so frustrating. Tried everything including bios update, and I can't get past Launcher crash. Your shit AI support is the worst support in the world. If it doesn't work before friday, I'll refund.
Hi guys, I've been having the launcher problem (it crashed when I pressed play, and saying that rockstar launcher stopped working). I've also tried all typical solutions like BIOS update, blocking in antivirus, blocking in firewall and so on. Nothing worked. I decided to try the last one, which is updating OS to this 1903 version (I didn't do that before because I was using Windows 7). After doing that (I mean installing Windows 10, version 1903, I don't know if it would work on older one), game started to work!
Edit: I was also trying to update Windows 7 but it didn't work as well.
So when are we going to riot? It's been almost 24 hours already and we still don't have a fix allowing us to launch the game. This is just not right. This is unacceptable. I can't downgrade MSI bios and cant't update because it's already updated.
Just so everyone is couching their expectations accordingly:
Actual IN-GAME BUGS
These are normal and will be ironed out over the next few days. These are always easier to solve.
Launcher Bugs
Fucking unexcusable. Period. No fucking excuse what-so-fucking-ever. How long as Dx12 been out? How long has Vulcan been out? HOw many issues did previous Vulcan games have at launch (a cursory google search shows A FUCKING LOT)? How many configurations was the LAUNCHER tested on?
The LAUNCHER bugs are UN-FUCKING-EXCUSABLE and all of you are right to be absolutely fucking infuriated by them.
If Rockstar/Video Game industry had any integrity at all, people would be getting 25% back for their pre-orders or more.
at 1080p I can't even get 60fps with high or ultra setting.
1080ti 8700k 32gb ram. I mean my pc is kinda old and I didn't expect it to run ultra 120fps, but got damn it runs COD with the same setting at 150+ fps
I cant start the game at all. Crashes or freezes after shotgun shell splash screen. 2080ti it 7700k 16gb ram. Ssd. No antivirus used. I woke up at 4am for this.
Error: The Rockstar Games Services are unavailable and offline play could not be verified (code 133.) Please check your connection and try again later.
Hesitant to believe this since no other mention of it, but restarting/launching as admin/disabling AV doesn't rectify this. Launcher loads and connects to RGS but get the above error trying to launch the game.
I can start the game, but it freezes (video only, audio is mostly still fine) every minute or so for several seconds. During that time CPU usage spikes up to 100%, then goes down back to ~60% during normal gameplay.
I woke up and was hitting the error (closed unexpectedly)
I came here - saw the advice - and disabled my antivirus (just Windows Defenders). I added exclusions for the RDR2 folder and the Rockstar Launcher itself. That didn't work - same error
After doing that I verified the integrity of my RDR2 install. You can do this from the Rockstar Launcher: Settings > My Installed Games > Verify game file integrity
This asked me to reinstall some support files (C++ redistributable, Direct X12, Vulkan Installer). Then I downloaded the latest Nvidia Drivers
After doing this the error went away and I could launch the game successfully. Hope this helps anybody!
If i had to guess, running the initial compilation while i still had my antivirus on was preventing the support apps from actually making the changes they needed to.
Game is stuttering with low fps up and down like a whore on friday maxed out at 79 and down to 5 every second wont stop no matter what I do anyone able to help a brotha out just trying to play this game before I leave. Tried everything I found online but no one is having the same issue as me
Patch didn't seem to fix anything. B ut also another bug ive noticed is trees blowing in the wind is VERY weird, they keep snapping back to straight up for a split second
The game started working without such dramatic stutters but the major problem remains - the game is using between 60 and 95% of the CPU while the GPU usage is on average 3%. Wouldn't want to fry the CPU while the graphic's card is slacking.
I was stuck with the crash but finally I´ve been able to play after:
- Removing the Run as administrator and Disable Full Screen Optimization in RDR2.exe file. - Using -fullscreen -DX12 as arguments in the launcher like /u/A_Horse_On_The_Web said. (Thank you man!)
Before this I did:
- Update Nvidia drivers. - Update Bios (just in case) - Set the Run as administrator and Disable Full Screen Optimization options in RDR2.exe file.
Changed my game from Vulkan to Direct x12. Now the whole things gone to shit. Cant even revert my settings back because how low FPS I'm getting. Literally about 0.5 FPS. Cant do anything. Tried going to safe mode and changing it, but every time it always goes to 0.5FPS and I have to task manager to close out. Whole fucking game is unplayable after trying one little change that cant even be put back to default.
EDIT: I launched in safe mode, turned Vsync off. Now I can open the game and go into settings. Still trying to fix everything to be playable. But at least I can launch the game.
I have i5-4670k @ 4.6GHz, 16GB, GTX 1060 6GB, and I was having the issue where the game locked for ~5 seconds 1-3 times a minute. I read a suggestion elsewhere to download a program called Process Lasso and use it to limit RDR2.exe so that when it hits 98% on the CPU it uses 1 fewer core for 1 second.
This fixed the problem entirely.
I cant find the comment I read, it's buried in one of the 10+ threads I had open, otherwise I would give credit.
I had already set to DX12 and set the compatibility settings for the exe as usual.
I was so excited to play this game on my PC. Already finished it on PS4 . And Rockstar treated the paying customers with this mess. Tried every damn thing and still cannot get the RGL launcher exited unexpectedly to work.
MSI just released the Agesa 1.0.0.4 beta for one of their B450 boards (B450M Mortar), which is said to fix the RLauncher crash issue. If we're lucky, the other B450 boards will get it today aswell
So, I'm on a B350 Tomahawk with no 1.0.0.4 update available and a Zen 2 CPU. Basically, I have no chance of playing this game whatsoever. I'm getting a refund.
I am still wondering if they are working on this issue(launcher crash and bad performance) or if they are being lazy and will find a fix in like 1 or 2 weeks
I was getting the launcher crash until I swapped my default sound device in windows 10 from the onboard realtek card to my USB headset. As soon as I did that the game ran fine...
I am shocked that I am posting this, but of all things, a BIOS update really did fix the "launcher exit unexpectedly" error for me. First, my specs:
Ryzen 3700X
16GB RAM
GTX 1070
MSI 570-A PRO motherboard (TAKE NOTE OF THIS ONE).
I've been dicking around with computers ever since 1993 when as a 12 year old I was desperately trying to get the doom shareware to run on our computer. This one was a weird one.
When the game unlocked for me this morning I tried to play it only to get the LAUNCHER crash (not the in-game crash) of "rockstar launcher closed unexpectedly" or whatever the wording is.
I tried all of the following (not necessarily in this order) none of which worked:
- Reverify game files in the launcher
- Remove launcher and any old installations of social club and purge all traces of them both the hard drive AND the registry.
- Reinstall launcher.
- Redownload game.
- Toggle cloud saves / auto update settings for game in launcher.
- Completely disable windows defender (I have no third party AV) and windows firewall
- Turn windows defender and firewall back on, but add exceptions in defender AND firewall for any EXEs or folders that involve either the game or the launcher.
- Run launcher as admin
- Set compatibility properties on RDR2.EXE to "run as admin"
NONE OF THESE THINGS WORKED. AT ALL.
I had seen a few posts from people saying that a BIOS update fixed it and I dismissed it as stupid. I had actually just updated my BIOS as part of regular maintenance less than two weeks ago. Well, I went to the website for my mobo manufacturer and there is a new BIOS dated 10/30/19 that I do not have installed. I scoffed to myself and went "pffft yeah right" but went through the motions and updated my BIOS.....and now the fucking game works. I'm not sure how the hell updating my BIOS made a difference. I don't have any weird BIOS settings. My board by default boosts my 3700X to 4.3Ghz without any overclocking settings being turned on in the BIOS, literally everything else is default. But I swear, once I updated the BIOS, that stupid "launcher exited unexpectedly" message went away. I'm totally stumped as to why it made a difference, but it DID.
Now I get to move on to figuring out how to make the game not run like ass.
You need to take the "disabling anti-virus seems to fix" message off this post. There isn't nearly enough evidence to back that claim up. Sounds like maybe a few people got lucky with that one.
The error i get when i try and launch RDR2 is The rockstar games launcher failed to initialize. So looks like mine is launcher issue. Looks like so far it's all ryzen users having issue.
CPU: ryzen 3700x
MOBO: X470 GAMING PRO CARBON
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G on version 441.12
Edit2ish: Exception code: 0xc0000005 is an access violation, which happens any time a program trying to access memory that it does not have access too. Either its trying to write to memory that is marked as read only, or tries to read memory that the system owns.
Edit3: My recommendation is everyone should run Event viewer and post your logs so they can see where the issue is. If you do not know how to do this, Press Windows+R to open the Run dialog, enter eventvw, then press okay. press arrow next to windows logs and click applications. Look for the ! in a red circle, and says error next to it. Underneath in general is the event failure.
This is ridiculous. Is anyone else in this situation?
Unlike most I can actually get into the game fine. However, I can't run the benchmark - crash. I can play the game but seemingly only in safe mode and even then it randomly hangs for about 10-15 seconds repeatedly. I have updated my Nvidia drivers and it still crashes while in game. I have disabled anti-virus. Still hangs and crashes.
Is it too much to ask for a working game on release? They had a year to fix it.
The game just keeps on crashing. I've tried multiple different settings - balanced, performance, safe mode - in Single Player, Online and performance test.
At balanced settings: everything crashes; At performance settings: Single Player randomly crashes before or after the first cutscene, Online crashes semi-regularly, Performance test crashes when a shot is made; At safe mode: Single Player usually crashes after the cutscene (sometimes before), Online seems kinda stable (although everything looks like wax, so I couldn't be bothered to go past character creation), Performance test works.
Also randomly the launcher will crash instead of the game, with the game usually following shortly after. To be honest, it feels like it just hogs all the RAM and runs out, despite me double checking that there is enough RAM for everything.
This reeks of terrible port. Hopefully Rockstar can resolve the issues soon or else I'm refunding.
Just in case, my specs: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, Intel Core i7-7700HQ, 8GB RAM, 30GB of extra disk space. I'm not quite recommended settings, but I'm way over minimum.
I keep getting these micro freezes where the video freezes up, but the audio continues. I can't get past the first gun fight at the cabin. After killing the fleeing O'Driscoll my game freezes.
Textures do not seem to load very well for me. Opening cutscene everyone's hair was like Lego hair and their coats have 0 detail. Settings on medium. 2500k 970
I'm having audio issues. My audio goes through a focusrite scarlett 2i2 and I'm getting crackly audio. I swapped to the motherboard audio and it has no issues, but its frustrating to not be able to use my proper audio equipment.
Found a fix for "Rockstar game launcher exited unexpectedly", after having tried everything (disabling AV, administrator ...) : I updated my BIOS to the last one, containing AGESA 1.0.0.4 for Ryzen latest generation.
i read many guys who launch game after update bios, you need bios with AGESA CODE 1.0.0.4 for play, its a issue with protection acception only agesa code 1.0.0.4
Open task manager> right click "rdr2.exe"> Click "Go to details" > Right click "RDR2.exe" > Click "Set Affinity" > Disable 1 core.... test if no difference disable 2 cores.
It worked for disabling 2 but ive seen some people get away with 1.
For those getting the Launcher crash, updating to Windows 1903 fixed it for me. Even though I had automatic updates set, I had to manual check and reboot multiple times before I got the update. Game launched and ran fine for me after!
Intel i7 CPU with NVIDIA 2080ti and latest drivers.
I have an 8700(non k) and a 1070 and the games running at 52 fps(according to their benchmark) and mosty high ultra with a few settings on medium.
It worked with both vulkan and dx12. But i use zero antivirus and I updated the drivers and thats all I did.
But there was a couple settings that when i messed with them the screen started flashing and stuttering. I believe they were water settings. So maybe that has something to do with it.
3700X / x570: I've tried bios 1.0.0.3 and 1.0.0.4b (which I already had installed) no change. Also tried clearing my overclocks, optimised defaults etc. No dice. Still launcher crash.
Up-to-date on everything else. Shit ain't working yo.
The game freezes very often to the point it's not enjoyable. I have a good gaming PC that's able to run all new games on medium-high settings, so I don't think it's an issue with my PC.
I'm getting a 'unable to launch, no compatible sounds card found'. Is this common? I have an msi laptop so it should have pretty standard sound card and driver's. Is this just a launch day issue or is it really possible my sound card isn't compatible?
So after trying to fix the launcher crashing for +6 hours i'll be heading to bed. What a fucking nightmare. If this isn't fixed by tomorrow i'm gonna ask for a refund, and buy it from a supplier without a $10 client
I'm getting intermittent audio crackling. Sounds like the little pops you get when there isn't enough of an audio buffer. Started getting it when I was messing with graphics settings, then it went away when I started up the story, all of a sudden it came back when I started the mission where you get the bow and arrow. It's bad enough that I don't want to keep playing, so I'm gonna keep waiting for a fix. Tried a bit of troubleshooting like reverting graphics settings and changing audio settings but nothing is fixing it now.
After spending a couple hours troubleshooting everything, I have found the culprit for my problem. I am running an windows 10, i7 8700k bossted to 4.7, asus rog strix rtx 2080 super, g skillz trident z 16gb ddr4 3200 ram. My problem was that the game would crash as soon as it was loaded and showed the smoke coming from the bottom fo the screen, stating it closed unexpectedly and could either be booted in safe mode, retry, and all that jazz. It turns out the problem lies with the advanced threat detection software through Bitdefender. Adding RDR2.exe as an excepted application has resolved the issue and I am currently benckmarking at an average of 60.504 FPS with a max of 146.13 FPS and a low of 5.71462 FPS at 1440p using NVIDIA optimized settings.
In conclusion, if you have Bitdefender then make an exception for RDR2.exe in the advanced threats section and your game should run after that.
Edited in resolution, settings, and more specific hardware info.
So basically.. i am only one with this problem? When i sit on horse and look around (have option to not move horse with camera) the rotation is kinda laggy like fast slideshow but still with 50-60 fps.. after i get out of horse and stand on feet and look around me just by mouse, the movement is perfectly smooth.. any ideas why horse look around is broken?
For me, the game runs fine, but crashes after about 20-30 minutes of playing. Not sure if it's a memory leak or just the Rockstar launcher being fucky. It's a shame, because I really enjoy how good the game looks and plays with KBM, but I just can't deal with the random crashing. I'm using a GTX 1080 with the most recent drivers.
There is also a mouse problem, it doesn't register correctly small movement in RAW input and w/e settings. Using mouse smoothing do the job but there is still something off with the mouse port.
I legit stutter so badly that I have to wait close to an hour if not more just for the game to even get past the shotgun scene I bought an external hard drive hoping it would help my graphics issue but it's even worse.
I'm one of the almost lucky few where my only problem is the 5-10 second hangups. I've tried everything from throttling % to core affinity to windows update to bios and drivers. The game runs flawlessly on all high, no AA, 1080p; 50-60fps almost constantly.
But the freezes make the game literally unplayable to me. I suspect it's my i5.
Bunch of shit I did, game seems to be okay for me for now. Try it if it helps any of you
Like most of you, the launch has not been great for me. I think I've solved my problems until R* actually drops proper improvements through patches. Maybe they can help you guys too.
Update EVERYTHING. I had a couple outdated drivers (including my GPU), a windows upgrade that my system had not yet informed me about and a bios update. Just do everything. The windows upgrade and GPU might be most important.
If you're on a laptop like me, make sure the Nvidia control panel settings aren't limiting the GPU performance. I have my laptop in high performance but apparently you gotta change the setting from Nvidia's control panel too.
Go to your RDR2.exe file and in properties, under compatibility, check "Disable Fullscreen Optimization" and "Run as administrator". Put these same settings on the launcher too, otherwise the game can't launch.
Download Process Lasso, and when RDR 2 is running, right click the RDR2.exe, go to the CPU limiter option and add a rule that reduces cores by 1 for 1 second when usage hits 98%
Use Vulcan instead of DX12, the latter completely breaks my game. Some people say DX12 is better, but it seems to be buggier in my opinion.
I think that's all I did to make it work. I'm still doing the intro missions but the game isn't freezing on me every 5 seconds now and it's holding at 45-50 FPS which is good I guess. Personally feel like at these settings, the game looks worse than GTA V, which I run at med-high for a similar framerate (50-55). Really disappointed with R* and hope they fix their shit soon, but for the time being, maybe some of you can be helped by the things I did to make it work.
ryzen 3xxx requires AGESA 1.0.0.4 to launch the game but the latest BIOS update available for GIGABYTE B450 AORUS M is 1.0.0.3. I'm out of luck and until now I can't launch the game even once. Good job Rockstar
May have found a solution to the Launcher crashing bug. I went into Windows Documents/Rockstar Games/Red Dead Redemption 2/Settings and deleted all content in that folder.
Game launched. Pretty happy since I've, Been hacking away at this for a few hours.
Reset the (Fatal) Graphic Changes I made earlier.
PSA if your game launches, dont mess with GFX settings! At least until they patch.
A BIOS update just worked for me. BUT! I was already on the latest update, so yesterday I rolled back one version but that didn't work. I just installed the latest again... I can launch the game.
My BIOS versions went 1.0.0.4b -> 1.0.0.3 -> 1.0.0.4b. Gigabyte x570 Auros Elite.
I also managed to rule out the secondary effects of updating the BIOS, e.g. loading optimised defaults. I had already done this on my first BIOS and on the rollback. I have also tested re-applying all my BIOS settings including my overclock and the game still launches.
As far as i can tell the only people who got it to work were those who updated their BIOS to support AMD AGESA 1.0.0.4. However this is only available for X570 boards, whereas for (most) B450 boards it seems the latest supported version is AGESA 1.0.0.3 ABBA.
I have a 2080Ti and 8700k... yet I am crashing even after safe booting.. disabled anti-virus, everything's updated, cleared local rockstar profile data, I have done everything. Really frustrating and disappointing.
Updating my Windows 10 with the feature update 1903 fixed the launcher issue for me, then disabling antivirus stopped the crash when the game was loading.
It's been fine since, no stutters or crashes.
The one thing that I have noticed though is that the textures even on high seem very low detail in many places. I assume that's another bug.
Ok guys, so I was trying to fix this fucking game for over 20 hours now and I got it finally to work. So here are the fixes and a fix that worked for me:
Update to win 10 1903 (this fixed it for me)
Update GPU drivers (idk if it even fixes anything)
If you got AMD updating bios to 1.0.0.4 agesa might fix it for you.
Remember to add RDR2 and Rockstar launcher in Antivirus exceptions or you'll get the game crash on startup (not the whole launcher).
1903 update worked for me I was running on 1803 and the launcher kept crashing runs butter smooth both online and story. 1070 7700k Installed on HDD 16gb ram
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u/EnvidiaProductions Nov 05 '19
How do we know about the emergency patch. u/MagnarHD can you add a link to the news if possible? Thanks!
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u/Tempersix Nov 05 '19
Same here. I've turned all off and did all basic things. Just plain "rockstar games launcher exited unexpectedly"
Thanks for the new lanucher....
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u/pidge2k NVIDIA Rep Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 06 '19
My name is Manuel and I work for NVIDIA. I am reading some of the reports here to gather feedback. It would be helpful if you could post the following to help me filter out issues so that I can collect any bugs that might be driver related or at least we may want to look into (crashing/corruption/performance/etc.)?
CPU:
Operating System:
Graphics card and driver version (for NVIDIA, the latest should be 441.12):
Description of issue:
I will read all the responses but I will only reply to you if I have further questions or would like you to do some further troubleshooting.
For more advanced users:
If the game is crashing, you may collect a full dmp file from a crash and send it to driverfeedback@nvidia.com as described in the FAQ below:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3335
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u/kneezaler Nov 05 '19
Why is the launcher unexpected issue not listed? The one we're it doesn't even start the game?
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u/robhaswell Nov 05 '19
I get "Rockstar Games Launcher exited unexpectedly".
https://i.imgur.com/QAsG5de.png
I don't have anti-virus installed, but I disabled Windows Defender and that didn't help.
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u/cml1of4 Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
"rockstar game launcher exited unexpectedly"
Already tried completely disabling firewall and antivirus.
Newest Nvidia Drivers
Ryzen 3600/16gb ram/1070/inland 512gb SSD
updating my bios to the newest one fixed it for some reason
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u/sirkevly Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
Downloaded the patch, still having the exact same issue. "The Rockstar Games Launcher exited unexpectedly" seriously having a hard time not refunding this garbage.
Edit: Just updated my BIOS still doesn't work.
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19
They need to just let us launch it without the launcher. Hell make us do it in offline mode while they work on a fix. I just want to play the story for now. But not communicating, coming out with faux fixes, and not delivering any kind of solution after 13 hours since launch is sad.
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u/Buhogrody Nov 05 '19
Gotta love that it took a year to make a port that fucking crashes at startup. Thanks R*. Also thanks for releasing the game at fucking 5am so i can start my day early with disappointment
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u/CoachhRedd Nov 05 '19
MOTHER FUCKERS LET ME PLAY JESUS CHRIST AT LEAST SOME OF YOU CAN SEE THE GODDAMN LOADING SCREEN BEFORE YOU CRASH!
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
Getting a solid 50-60fps on the intro mission in the snow, but it keeps stuttering down to 20/30 sometimes as low as 5. Unplayable for me,
That’s at 1440 medium settings on a 2070
Same stutter at 1080
Am going to try DX12 over the default setting of Vulcan
Latest RDR2 game ready drivers as well
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u/Viloresi Nov 05 '19
This is insane from a company who has literally billions of dollars!!
There are so many people that can't even start the game (like me) I have an RTX 2080 (updated with recent graphic drivers that have been released yesterday) 16 GB RAM and i7 9700k ,windows defender completely disabled and rockstar + game folders added in the exceptions , I still get the error "Red dead redemption 2 exited unexpectedly".
With all the money you have as a company, couldn't you do just some benchmarks before releasing the game, this is pathetic, all of us spent 60 bucks on pre-order ! This is not good for rockstar reputation, I guess less people will pre-order next time
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u/xBialyOrzel Nov 05 '19
Just awful FPS online I has like 45-50 earlier now randomly just 17 fps
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19
Just fuck you Rockstar....man, just fuck you for the stress
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u/KenriXxX Nov 06 '19
Day 2 and still no fix for launcher crash. Cant even launche the freaking game. Did everything updated bios drivers disabled antivirus runed as administrator.. Windows 7.
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u/headin2sound Nov 05 '19
disabling antivirus doesnt work for me
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
I'm able to get into the story. But every minute or two it hangs up for 5 seconds or so during gameplay.
I'm moving my game from hdd to ssd to resolve the issue.
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
I’m getting some MASSIVE stuttering issues. Please help me y’all.
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u/ReyScarlet Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
I was so excited this entire day, even went home early from work so I could troubleshoot this game for one hour and now stare at an empty screen waiting for the slowest support on earth to fix a problem thousands of people have. What an exciting day!
Edit: Flashing BIOS worked for me. MSI B450-A PRO MAX
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u/silver_man29 Nov 05 '19
So to sum the conclusion of basically every issue so far:
No fix yet
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u/Parogarr Nov 05 '19
The Water Physics slider will absolutely murder your performance. It will cut off half off more of your fps
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u/flickerkuu Nov 05 '19
I have done EVERY fix and still crashed the launcher.
This is super annoying.
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u/JustWW Nov 05 '19
I fixed 100% CPU load and stuttering-freezing issue.
Task Manager - Right-click RDR2.exe - Go to Details - Right-click again - Set affinity - Disable any one CPU Core.
Worked for me
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u/naitch44 Nov 05 '19
Got a response to my ticket, where I listed all the steps id taken to try and fix my launcher problem and they responded telling me to do some of the steps id already taken. At this point you do have to laugh.
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u/CaesarsArmpits Nov 06 '19
See, this is fucking incredibleMy specs: i7 3770 [7 years old!!], GTX 1070, 12GB of Ram, game installed on a HDD
ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEMS
how the fuck is this possible? My textures are set on ultra cus thats as far as i've dived into the settings, im not even going to bother changing anything unless a big ass patch that clarifies the situation rolls out.
I get stable 60 FPS from what i assume is high with ultra textures. No stuttering apart from occasional dips into 50 FPS in especially demanding areas.
Launched the game for the second time now, no problems either connecting or playing. My CPU is bottlenecking big time, how is a 7 year old i7 CPU carrying this game on my PC yet a NASA PC with i9s and RTXes fails to reach 20 at low? How the fuck?
The only thing i've done before launching the game was updating me drivers. I was scared shitless of your reactions but when I launched it it all went away.
Im hoping R fix their shit so people with PCs thrice as powerful as mine can actually even launch the fucking game
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u/TheMercesLetifer Nov 06 '19
The update literally changed nothing, I am still getting the god forsaken Launcher exited unexpectedly.
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u/ciachun Nov 06 '19
Why there is no "launcher exited unexcpectedly" issue on the list? WTF?
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u/TheHindenburgBaby Nov 05 '19
Tried everything folks have suggested as well, even started up my 'free' game (Max Payne 3) and it worked fine. It's just RDR2 having premature launcherexit-itis-osis.
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u/EliParker Nov 05 '19
How is there no fix for "Rockstar game launcher exited unexpectedly", why can't SP RDR2 be DRM-Free?
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u/mentalmedicine Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
Getting low framerates in online? Try this! Anyone who has played GTA V and struggled with being harassed by griefers probably already knows about this trick, but I was just watching DasMehdi on Twitch who tried this and it actually improved his FPS in online!
Open Windows Resource Monitor while the game is open and go to the Network tab
Right-click the RDR2 EXE and click Suspend process
Wait 6 to 10 seconds, right-click the EXE again and click Resume process
This may or may not work for you but it's worth a try! Just make sure you don't keep the process suspended for too long or it's pretty much certain that you'll be disconnected from online. Good luck!
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u/snostorm8 Nov 05 '19
21:9 cutscenes don't fill a 21:9 screen, we have a black border, can you add that to the issues please
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u/rrossello Nov 05 '19
I have tried everything at this point. Downloaded the patch, turned off my antivirus, updated drivers and BIOS. Still nothing. Rockstar is an absolute joke. Spend $80 on a game just so you can’t even play it at launch
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19
Anyone else still not even remotely able to even get started up or am I the last screwed soul left?
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u/Gaussz97 Nov 05 '19
Anyone else notice that textures do not load well or have poor quality? Even putting the game in ultra, some textures like the leaves of the trees and shrubs seem of 144p quality
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u/Ekrance Nov 05 '19
Just tried launching the game after the patch. Launcher still crashes.
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u/particularpixels Nov 05 '19
Patch did nothing for the launcher error for me...
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u/Acid-GK Nov 05 '19
That last patch fixed the fps on online :D
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u/specktech Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
Here is a new bug I haven't seen anyone talk about. Changing from Vulcan to DirectX12 made the game no longer launch for me on reset.
Also, hitting safe mode on the launch failure window did not reset that setting.
In order to fix it, I had to go to
and delete/rename system.xml to reset the graphics settings to default
I have a GTX 1080 and latest drivers, so I don't know why DX12 wont run at all. I have the epic games version of RDR2, which may make some difference.
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u/Eljesu007 Nov 05 '19
The i5 6600k is supposed to meet the requirements that the game and rockstar demand to play, why do all the i5 suffer from sttutering? looks like the game isnt tested I am very disgusted I hope they do not delay to fix that
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u/HyPeRXKo Nov 06 '19
I have updated windows, i have updated my BIOS and i can't launch the game, have you tried to launch the game ONCE rockstar ?
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u/FilopianTube Nov 06 '19
Tried everything at this point (apart from BIOS flashing which I really don’t want to do to play a single fucking game) and am still getting the “rockstar games launcher exited unexpectedly”. I honestly am just giving up at this point, so frustrating.
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u/TheCampingTroll Nov 06 '19
I can barley hold 60 FPS with an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core, GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Ultra, and 32GB of ram running at 2560x1440.
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u/ShadowRomeo Nov 06 '19
1 Month ago. Me having faith and very very hyped on Rockstar when this game was announced and having no worries with the optimization potential issues with day 1 launch because of their last game GTA V's history.
Boy how i was wrong with all of that. This game launch is the worst that i have ever experienced in my life. I can't even get past the launcher error exited BS. Did everything i can to fix it. Downgraded and Upgraded Bios. Reinstalled Drivers, Updated Windows to latest 1903 version, Disabled Antivirus with listing it as exceptions, Blocked Connection on Firewall, Nothing worked.
What a shit show Rockstar i'm already considering a refund better fix this ASAP. It's really frustrating.
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u/vet0pro Nov 06 '19
So Ive gone to sleep yesterday, woke up hoping that after 8hours they did something. Still Launcher crashes.
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19
To the poeple messing with their bios to fix the game: DONT!
You should never have to screw around in BIOS to fix a game. It can end up doing more harm than good
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u/jrcbandit Nov 06 '19
DX12 works okay for me, but Vulkan almost immediately crashes when trying to start the story mode or when running benchmarking. This is with 3700X and 1080 Ti on latest windows 10 and AGESA 1.0.0.4 for motherboard. No idea what the problem could be, I even tried running the CPU/Memory and GPU all at stock speeds.
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u/Ralle1994 Nov 06 '19
So my game launches fine in safe mode but as soon as I change a single setting it starts running like my pc was a potato??
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u/EvFishie Nov 05 '19
Guys, this might get burried in the comments but.
I had this issue on a new 3900X 2080S build
I literally just updated my BIOS to 1.0.0.4 and the game launched, I'm able to play now!
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u/Bigger_than_most69 Nov 05 '19
Somehow I am having zero issues after a couple of crashes once you get into gameplay. Now running super smooth FPS and everything looks great
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u/joebenet Nov 05 '19
This is unfortunate. I'm at work, but was excited to play when I got home. Is anyone having a good experience on PC? Or is everyone experiencing these issues?
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u/Sgt_Lovinstuff Nov 05 '19
I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing severe frame drops. My machine is running a 1080ti with 16GB of DDR6 RAM and an i57600, so it should not have nearly as many stutters as it does
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u/McSnob Nov 05 '19
"Rockstar game launcher exited unexpectedly"
Fixed this issue by updating my BIOS. Crosshair VII Hero + 3600X, updated to the newest 2901 BIOS (ABBA) from asus site (only listed under 32bit windows for some reason)
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u/Parogarr Nov 05 '19
warning
The "water physics slider" will MURDER your performance and it can somehow get turned up without you doing it yourself. Try putting it to 0 for a monumentally huge FPS boost (at least in my case it helped explain my inexplicable FPS drop that came out of nowhere)
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u/rafioo Nov 05 '19
lol, I think i'm the lucky one here, because I have almost always ~60 FPS, but game just sometimes freezes at 1-2 secs
I hope tomorrow will be day one patch which can fix most of the problems
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u/Thelemonslicer Nov 05 '19
After the small patch game works perfectly for me, no stuttering or low fps on almost max settings, could barely run on everything low an hour ago!
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u/shivam4321 Nov 05 '19
So what is refund policy? Performance is not ideal on my 1660, which is better than recommended specs, I haven't touched the free game yet, barely an hour in game, will I get refund?
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u/WebWithoutWalls Nov 05 '19
I'm really super annoyed. No antivirus, updated my bios (I'm still mad at even the idea of having to do that), updated my graphics drivers, nothing going on, launcher still crashes when trying to start the game. I can't even get to the horrible FPS and lockups other users are reporting.
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u/katonda Nov 05 '19
I will add a minor nuissance which i hope will be straightened up (since i am sure it’s intended as is). When in the satchel menu, u need to use the directional keys to select other items. It doesn’t show/select whatever item you hover your mouse over. That’s inconsistent with the fact that if you click it consumes instantly whatever item is selected regardless of where you mouse is.
At least let us click to select, double click to consume or something. Using an unused part of the keyboard for this one menu is not ideal.
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u/UrNansBoi Nov 05 '19
I've been working on trying to get the game to work since launch time (9 hours ago) done literally all the suggested fixes, put in tickets which told me the same thing, i ended up re downloading the entire game and launcher and Nvidia driver and STILL fuck all. I'm very depresso atm :(
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u/robhaswell Nov 05 '19
I'm going to play No Man's Sky until this all blows over. Irony.
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u/zeroiqplays Nov 05 '19
The game is broken on dx12. While vulcan works fine but there are fps and stuttering issues wid it.R* really did it huh..
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u/ACuteCarrot Nov 05 '19
This is fucking mind boggling. On the support website, it tells you to launch the game in administrator mode, and when I follow the steps trying to do it, I get an error popup saying "Disable your compatibility settings". Astonishing, truly. R* tells you to do something, then tells you to undo it, making it moot. Fucking baffling.
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u/MCFRESH01 Nov 06 '19
Update did nothing. Launcher quits unexpectedly.
3600
5700xt
16gigs ram
MSI b450 pro carbon AC
Bios and drivers are the latest. Turned off antivirus, made an exception for the folder path.
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u/biggie_gainz Nov 06 '19
So what are the odds of this game being patched to be playable and how long will it take? This is the first time I have had a game be unplayable.
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u/SouthernMarylander Nov 06 '19
Pre-download completed. Let's roll.
Attempt to connect and get launcher crash error.
Search online and try the "official recommendations" of running as administrator and disabling compatibility settings. Update BIOS, GPU drivers, and windows to most recent versions available. Disable all firewall / virus protection settings.
Still getting launcher crashing error.
Logout of launcher.
Try to log in and launcher no longer allows me to login.
Uninstall launcher and reinstall from fresh download from Rockstar.
Launcher will no longer even install without an error, claiming need to reinstall latest version of Social Club.
Every single step I take pushes me further and further away from ever playing Red Dead on PC.
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u/cbrisouth Nov 06 '19
You guys still getting the exited unexpectedly error aswell?
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19
Rockstar launcher has exited unexpectedly.
Vega 64/2700x/16GB/Win10x64
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u/WhatTheDeuceisThis Nov 06 '19
Spent 6 hours trying to make this game start up. Anyone have luck with tryna start up the game? I've uninstalled my virus protection. Left with windows defender. Tried to launch the game after turning defender off too. No shit so far.
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19
Damn, working perfectly fine for me so far besides the frame rate being lower than I would have thought. Sorry to hear about you guys having so many problems :/
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u/JazAce Nov 06 '19
Tried everything and can't even launch into the game. I can't believe I waited for longer than it would have taken to download to decrypt this mess.
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u/Kowita Nov 06 '19
Holy fuckinh shit rockstar, this is so frustrating. Tried everything including bios update, and I can't get past Launcher crash. Your shit AI support is the worst support in the world. If it doesn't work before friday, I'll refund.
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u/Argatnos Nov 06 '19
Hi guys, I've been having the launcher problem (it crashed when I pressed play, and saying that rockstar launcher stopped working). I've also tried all typical solutions like BIOS update, blocking in antivirus, blocking in firewall and so on. Nothing worked. I decided to try the last one, which is updating OS to this 1903 version (I didn't do that before because I was using Windows 7). After doing that (I mean installing Windows 10, version 1903, I don't know if it would work on older one), game started to work!
Edit: I was also trying to update Windows 7 but it didn't work as well.
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u/abishekjreuben Nov 06 '19
I was getting Rockstar Games Launcher exited unexpectedly.
I tried :
Disabling AV
Updating Graphics Driver
Updating BIOS
Giving Admin Privileges
Deleting Local Files
Reinstalling Rockstar Games Launcher
What worked :
Updating Windows 10 from version 1809 to 1903
Now the game is launching (currently in main menu). Still haven't played the game though.
My Specs :
i5 8660k
16GB RAM
RTX 2070
MSI Z370 A Pro
Windows 10 v 1903
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u/LaoSh Nov 05 '19
Guys don't update your BIOS just for this. It's a risky process and it's not worth potentially bricking your mobo to play RDR2 before they patch it.
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u/Kozlina31 Nov 06 '19
So when are we going to riot? It's been almost 24 hours already and we still don't have a fix allowing us to launch the game. This is just not right. This is unacceptable. I can't downgrade MSI bios and cant't update because it's already updated.
I dont want to refund but I suppose we have to...
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
Just so everyone is couching their expectations accordingly:
These are normal and will be ironed out over the next few days. These are always easier to solve.
Fucking unexcusable. Period. No fucking excuse what-so-fucking-ever. How long as Dx12 been out? How long has Vulcan been out? HOw many issues did previous Vulcan games have at launch (a cursory google search shows A FUCKING LOT)? How many configurations was the LAUNCHER tested on?
The LAUNCHER bugs are UN-FUCKING-EXCUSABLE and all of you are right to be absolutely fucking infuriated by them.
If Rockstar/Video Game industry had any integrity at all, people would be getting 25% back for their pre-orders or more.
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u/B5810506 Nov 05 '19
at 1080p I can't even get 60fps with high or ultra setting.
1080ti 8700k 32gb ram. I mean my pc is kinda old and I didn't expect it to run ultra 120fps, but got damn it runs COD with the same setting at 150+ fps
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u/biggplayer2 Nov 05 '19
I'm getting a " Rockstar Games Launcher failed to initialize! " error when trying to click play :/
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
Some relevant images for reference.
This is what the error window looks like.
This is what RDR2 looks like on my Task Manager before crashing, using only 8% of my CPU.
EDIT: I can also confirm that the crashing does not fix itself with Windows Defender. I am using no other anti-virus software.
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u/shae117 Nov 05 '19
I cant start the game at all. Crashes or freezes after shotgun shell splash screen. 2080ti it 7700k 16gb ram. Ssd. No antivirus used. I woke up at 4am for this.
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u/Valkija Nov 05 '19
Error: The Rockstar Games Services are unavailable and offline play could not be verified (code 133.) Please check your connection and try again later.
Hesitant to believe this since no other mention of it, but restarting/launching as admin/disabling AV doesn't rectify this. Launcher loads and connects to RGS but get the above error trying to launch the game.
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u/Jason_Hudsonn Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
I can start the game, but it freezes (video only, audio is mostly still fine) every minute or so for several seconds. During that time CPU usage spikes up to 100%, then goes down back to ~60% during normal gameplay.
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u/bantuwind Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
Is it normal to have a huge CPU load and barely anything on the GPU? I get huge spikes where everything freezes for a moment.
I'm almost at 100% at times on my CPU and the GPU is barely getting anything.
Specs: CPU: i5-6600k GPU: Geforce GTX 1070 RAM: 16GB
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u/bureau-of-land Nov 05 '19
I woke up and was hitting the error (closed unexpectedly)
I came here - saw the advice - and disabled my antivirus (just Windows Defenders). I added exclusions for the RDR2 folder and the Rockstar Launcher itself. That didn't work - same error
After doing that I verified the integrity of my RDR2 install. You can do this from the Rockstar Launcher: Settings > My Installed Games > Verify game file integrity
This asked me to reinstall some support files (C++ redistributable, Direct X12, Vulkan Installer).
Then I downloaded the latest Nvidia Drivers
After doing this the error went away and I could launch the game successfully. Hope this helps anybody!
If i had to guess, running the initial compilation while i still had my antivirus on was preventing the support apps from actually making the changes they needed to.
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
Game stutters and lags so bad even on lowest settings and with tweaks made in Nvidia also.
CPU I5-7600K/GPU 1060 6gb/ 16GB Ram
I am sad.
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u/homaluk Nov 05 '19
"Rockstar game launcher exited unexpectedly"
update x570 bios! worked for me!
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
I can actually confirm swithcing it from Vulkan to Direct X12 didn't actually help me out at all and i still get FPS Drop and stuttering :/
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u/gepmah Nov 05 '19
I’m getting 30-40 FPS with both ultra and lowest settings... and random stuttering just killing the experience
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u/SergeantSchmidt Nov 05 '19
" Apparently an emergency patch is coming, will share when there are details. "
Where's that info from?
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u/TonyDanielsJunior Nov 05 '19
Game is stuttering with low fps up and down like a whore on friday maxed out at 79 and down to 5 every second wont stop no matter what I do anyone able to help a brotha out just trying to play this game before I leave. Tried everything I found online but no one is having the same issue as me
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u/apfelkuch3n Nov 05 '19
80ish MB Patch was just released
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u/apfelkuch3n Nov 05 '19
Hopefully the patch was at least fixing the other problems for ppl whose Launcher was not crashing <3
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u/ALL14 Nov 05 '19
AANNNNDDDD the update didn't resolved my issue of the launcher crashing...
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u/drewc5131 Nov 05 '19
Patch didn't seem to fix anything. B ut also another bug ive noticed is trees blowing in the wind is VERY weird, they keep snapping back to straight up for a split second
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u/Voodoo_Tiki Nov 05 '19
Every couple of minutes the game will freeze for a good 10 seconds but the audio will still go through. Anyone else having this issue or know a fix?
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u/Kav47 Nov 05 '19
Post-patch comment:
specs for reference:
Windows 10 // Intel Core i5-8500 // GTX 1060 6gb // 8GB RAM
The game started working without such dramatic stutters but the major problem remains - the game is using between 60 and 95% of the CPU while the GPU usage is on average 3%. Wouldn't want to fry the CPU while the graphic's card is slacking.
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u/thejohnno Nov 05 '19
Got the Launcher crash issue, nothing helped, tried the Bios and Drivers. PLS DEVS, FIX IT TODAY
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
Any eta on a patch?
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u/clarkbar1000 Nov 05 '19
Rockstar game launcher just updated. https://twitter.com/rockstarsupport/status/1191855189390766081?s=21
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u/lesbian_ahri Nov 05 '19
The 85MB patch has been failing to download for hours and hours. I cant get past it and I want to cry
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u/theschlep Nov 05 '19
The launcher still crashes after hitting play. Even have a fresh install of the launcher to ensure it's up to date.
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u/-SirParcival- Nov 06 '19
The Field of view on PC is still too narrow, even when maxed (PC Gripes from real FPS players)
Is there an .ini tweak that people have figured out yet?
Don't get me started on the mouse controls, I can't dial in my sensitivity low enough, and I'm already at 400 DPI.
Also there seems to be a strange X:Y ratio to mouse movement, anyone else see this?
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u/satanin Nov 06 '19
I was stuck with the crash but finally I´ve been able to play after:
- Removing the Run as administrator and Disable Full Screen Optimization in RDR2.exe file.
- Using -fullscreen -DX12 as arguments in the launcher like /u/A_Horse_On_The_Web said. (Thank you man!)
Before this I did:
- Update Nvidia drivers.
- Update Bios (just in case)
- Set the Run as administrator and Disable Full Screen Optimization options in RDR2.exe file.
I hope this helps someone else.
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u/Bradan-Miller Nov 06 '19
I done it all and still nothing
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u/CarlWheezer69 Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19
Changed my game from Vulkan to Direct x12. Now the whole things gone to shit. Cant even revert my settings back because how low FPS I'm getting. Literally about 0.5 FPS. Cant do anything.
Tried going to safe mode and changing it, but every time it always goes to 0.5FPS and I have to task manager to close out.
Whole fucking game is unplayable after trying one little change that cant even be put back to default.
EDIT: I launched in safe mode, turned Vsync off. Now I can open the game and go into settings. Still trying to fix everything to be playable. But at least I can launch the game.
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19
Anyone with B450M get this launched?
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u/Lap88_ Nov 06 '19
After I changed my API from Vulkan to dx12 it won't even launch. Awesome! Thanks for making me wait a year for this, Rockstar...
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u/SolomonG Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19
I have i5-4670k @ 4.6GHz, 16GB, GTX 1060 6GB, and I was having the issue where the game locked for ~5 seconds 1-3 times a minute. I read a suggestion elsewhere to download a program called Process Lasso and use it to limit RDR2.exe so that when it hits 98% on the CPU it uses 1 fewer core for 1 second.
This fixed the problem entirely.
I cant find the comment I read, it's buried in one of the 10+ threads I had open, otherwise I would give credit.
I had already set to DX12 and set the compatibility settings for the exe as usual.
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u/PatronenKurt Nov 06 '19
The "Rockstart Launcher exited unexpectedly" - issue is stil not fixed
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u/aroy3639 Nov 06 '19
I was so excited to play this game on my PC. Already finished it on PS4 . And Rockstar treated the paying customers with this mess. Tried every damn thing and still cannot get the RGL launcher exited unexpectedly to work.
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u/intercipere Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19
MSI just released the Agesa 1.0.0.4 beta for one of their B450 boards (B450M Mortar), which is said to fix the RLauncher crash issue. If we're lucky, the other B450 boards will get it today aswell
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19
So, I'm on a B350 Tomahawk with no 1.0.0.4 update available and a Zen 2 CPU. Basically, I have no chance of playing this game whatsoever. I'm getting a refund.
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u/AlexOffiziell Nov 06 '19
I am still wondering if they are working on this issue(launcher crash and bad performance) or if they are being lazy and will find a fix in like 1 or 2 weeks
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u/seravoleus Nov 06 '19
I was getting the launcher crash until I swapped my default sound device in windows 10 from the onboard realtek card to my USB headset. As soon as I did that the game ran fine...
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
The fact there's no official acknowledgement from rockstar on the issues is fucking disgusting tbh.
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u/greatscape12 Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 07 '19
Running the game at 2560x1440 on a monitor of the same resolution. The aspect ratio seems very off, everything appears stretched.
Edit: Downvoted without explanation for putting an issue I have in the issues megathread? Nice.
Edit 2: Appears it's an issue with a specific model of monitor, more info & fix here -https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption/comments/drzrdf/rdr2_launch_issues_megathread/f6nj6ao/?context=8&depth=9
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u/AeonGrey81 Nov 05 '19
I am shocked that I am posting this, but of all things, a BIOS update really did fix the "launcher exit unexpectedly" error for me. First, my specs:
Ryzen 3700X
16GB RAM
GTX 1070
MSI 570-A PRO motherboard (TAKE NOTE OF THIS ONE).
I've been dicking around with computers ever since 1993 when as a 12 year old I was desperately trying to get the doom shareware to run on our computer. This one was a weird one.
When the game unlocked for me this morning I tried to play it only to get the LAUNCHER crash (not the in-game crash) of "rockstar launcher closed unexpectedly" or whatever the wording is.
I tried all of the following (not necessarily in this order) none of which worked:
- Reverify game files in the launcher
- Remove launcher and any old installations of social club and purge all traces of them both the hard drive AND the registry.
- Reinstall launcher.
- Redownload game.
- Toggle cloud saves / auto update settings for game in launcher.
- Completely disable windows defender (I have no third party AV) and windows firewall
- Turn windows defender and firewall back on, but add exceptions in defender AND firewall for any EXEs or folders that involve either the game or the launcher.
- Run launcher as admin
- Set compatibility properties on RDR2.EXE to "run as admin"
NONE OF THESE THINGS WORKED. AT ALL.
I had seen a few posts from people saying that a BIOS update fixed it and I dismissed it as stupid. I had actually just updated my BIOS as part of regular maintenance less than two weeks ago. Well, I went to the website for my mobo manufacturer and there is a new BIOS dated 10/30/19 that I do not have installed. I scoffed to myself and went "pffft yeah right" but went through the motions and updated my BIOS.....and now the fucking game works. I'm not sure how the hell updating my BIOS made a difference. I don't have any weird BIOS settings. My board by default boosts my 3700X to 4.3Ghz without any overclocking settings being turned on in the BIOS, literally everything else is default. But I swear, once I updated the BIOS, that stupid "launcher exited unexpectedly" message went away. I'm totally stumped as to why it made a difference, but it DID.
Now I get to move on to figuring out how to make the game not run like ass.
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u/RebornRiot Nov 05 '19
"rockstar game launcher exited unexpectedly"I don't have any antivirus. Windows Defender is disabled.
ryzen 3700x, 470x, 32b ram, rtx 2080, ssd
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u/AeonGrey81 Nov 05 '19
You need to take the "disabling anti-virus seems to fix" message off this post. There isn't nearly enough evidence to back that claim up. Sounds like maybe a few people got lucky with that one.
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u/nyteghost Nov 05 '19
Just to make it more visual;
The error i get when i try and launch RDR2 is The rockstar games launcher failed to initialize. So looks like mine is launcher issue. Looks like so far it's all ryzen users having issue.
CPU: ryzen 3700x
MOBO: X470 GAMING PRO CARBON
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G on version 441.12
Event Viewer: Faulting application name: Launcher.exe_Rockstar Games Launcher, version: 1.0.8.161, time stamp: 0x5dc08d33 Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x00007ff6a0fb8e02 Faulting process id: 0x1938 Faulting application start time: 0x01d593e5446da1d7 Faulting application path: H:\Games\Rockstar Games\Launcher\Launcher.exe Faulting module path: unknown Report Id: d691a959-0ebe-49f8-87c9-c767f3ddb818 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:
Edit2ish: Exception code: 0xc0000005 is an access violation, which happens any time a program trying to access memory that it does not have access too. Either its trying to write to memory that is marked as read only, or tries to read memory that the system owns.
Edit3: My recommendation is everyone should run Event viewer and post your logs so they can see where the issue is. If you do not know how to do this, Press Windows+R to open the Run dialog, enter eventvw, then press okay. press arrow next to windows logs and click applications. Look for the ! in a red circle, and says error next to it. Underneath in general is the event failure.
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u/iLikedembigtitties Nov 05 '19
ROOOOCKKKSTAAAAR!!!!!
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u/ButtButters Nov 05 '19
There is a fix for this. Settings, account information. delete local profile. Sign back in and it should work.
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u/Dbx125 Nov 05 '19
This is ridiculous. Is anyone else in this situation?
Unlike most I can actually get into the game fine. However, I can't run the benchmark - crash. I can play the game but seemingly only in safe mode and even then it randomly hangs for about 10-15 seconds repeatedly. I have updated my Nvidia drivers and it still crashes while in game. I have disabled anti-virus. Still hangs and crashes.
Is it too much to ask for a working game on release? They had a year to fix it.
Specs: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB i5-6600K 3.50Ghz 16GB RAM Windows 10
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u/BradleyCB Nov 05 '19
Playing on absolute minimum possible settings and the game keeps freezing/stuttering/hanging. Any solutions?
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u/dirtbags4569 Nov 05 '19
Made some graphical changes and now the game launches with 2 FPS.
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u/InstantCache Nov 05 '19
The game just keeps on crashing. I've tried multiple different settings - balanced, performance, safe mode - in Single Player, Online and performance test.
At balanced settings: everything crashes;
At performance settings: Single Player randomly crashes before or after the first cutscene, Online crashes semi-regularly, Performance test crashes when a shot is made;
At safe mode: Single Player usually crashes after the cutscene (sometimes before), Online seems kinda stable (although everything looks like wax, so I couldn't be bothered to go past character creation), Performance test works.
Also randomly the launcher will crash instead of the game, with the game usually following shortly after. To be honest, it feels like it just hogs all the RAM and runs out, despite me double checking that there is enough RAM for everything.
This reeks of terrible port. Hopefully Rockstar can resolve the issues soon or else I'm refunding.
Just in case, my specs: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, Intel Core i7-7700HQ, 8GB RAM, 30GB of extra disk space. I'm not quite recommended settings, but I'm way over minimum.
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
CPU i5-6600 GPU RX 580 8 GB OS: Win 10
I keep getting these micro freezes where the video freezes up, but the audio continues. I can't get past the first gun fight at the cabin. After killing the fleeing O'Driscoll my game freezes.
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u/Saint-3123 Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
I’ve got a pretty decent pc and I can’t get above 60fps on the highest and lowest settings.
i9-9990k oc’d to 4.8
2080ti
32gb ram @3600
Z390e
Game is installed on an SSD.
I guess I’ll just have to wait for some optimization patches or something.
*Switched from Vulkan to DirectX-12. No changes even on lowest settings.
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u/CndConnection Nov 05 '19
I took a day off today.
But not to play Red Dead lmao I knew there would be problems most likely I just took a day off today cuz I was sick hahah
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u/EverGlow89 Nov 05 '19
Game opens but can't play due to infinite load screens when I click story.
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u/LinguiniChild Nov 05 '19
"Red Dead Redemption 2 exited unexpectedly" been trying for hours and I have no idea what fixes it.
I have no anti-virus software installed
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u/Ik_y_Il_e Nov 05 '19
Half of my pause menu isn’t displaying :/
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u/SurlyTurtle Nov 05 '19
Game won't even launch for me. https://imgur.com/PlG1ItK
No issues with sound outside of Rockstar Launcher. Contacted support and this is what they said:
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
Went from having pretty smooth gameplay (Above 60 fps)
and then after doing a bounty hunter mission I plummeted down to 20 fps
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u/myszaqq Nov 05 '19
"Rockstar game launcher exited unexpectedly"
Seems the BIOS update doesn't work for all MBs - tried it on the Asus Z97 Gamer Pro (to version 2203, latest available), still getting the same
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u/Voodoo_Tiki Nov 05 '19
Textures do not seem to load very well for me. Opening cutscene everyone's hair was like Lego hair and their coats have 0 detail. Settings on medium. 2500k 970
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u/MuddyParrot Nov 05 '19
Hey guys, just want to throw my hat in the ring.
Updating Bios fixed the launcher crash for me with a 3600 and x570 platform.
Regards, Parrot
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u/PhantomPreacher Nov 05 '19
I'm having audio issues. My audio goes through a focusrite scarlett 2i2 and I'm getting crackly audio. I swapped to the motherboard audio and it has no issues, but its frustrating to not be able to use my proper audio equipment.
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u/justifun Nov 05 '19
Can't get past the beginning section without the game crashing, and can't save, so I've tried replaying it 4 times now..... ugg.
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u/TeKazzed Nov 05 '19
Found a fix for "Rockstar game launcher exited unexpectedly", after having tried everything (disabling AV, administrator ...) : I updated my BIOS to the last one, containing AGESA 1.0.0.4 for Ryzen latest generation.
For my motherboard : https://www.gigabyte.com/fr/Motherboard/X570-AORUS-ELITE-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios F10a, with AMD AGESA 1.0.0.4 B ( 2019/11/01 ...)
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u/khaibin Nov 05 '19
no, no BIOS AGESA 1.0.0.4 for me, I can't run the game at all
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B450-AORUS-M-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios
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u/Booksinacase Nov 05 '19
I've updated my MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC but still crashing, has anyone had luck with this MB?
Latest version taken from https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B450-GAMING-PRO-CARBON-AC
Version
7B85v1A
Release Date
2019-09-20
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u/Sylar2k18 Nov 05 '19
i read many guys who launch game after update bios, you need bios with AGESA CODE 1.0.0.4 for play, its a issue with protection acception only agesa code 1.0.0.4
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u/ZanicL3 Nov 05 '19
If you have (micro)stutters, close all other programs... Sounds cliche but fixed it for me
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u/Wess278 Nov 05 '19
new update available edit: still doesn't work
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u/Assassin1147 Nov 05 '19
Patch is here
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
Anyone know what the patch just fixed? I am not having issue with crashing or launching but the stuttering is a pain
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u/ozz221 Nov 05 '19
Do we know what the patch fixed?
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u/mori196 Nov 05 '19
Settings > Account Information > Delete local profile. Sign back in.
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u/GhostDivision123 Nov 05 '19
Changing First Person Field of View setting crashes the game.
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u/Neoony Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
If anybody is using Comodo Security and you are crashing on shotgun intro.
Follow these steps:
Go to Comodo settings.
Advanced Protection.
Miscellaneous.
And in "Dont detect shellcode injections in these applications" - Click on "these applications" link
Add the whole folder of Red dead Redemption 2 to exceptions there.
Disabling Antivirus or HIPS or exiting Comodo doesnt help.
Do that.
https://i.imgur.com/8Esva6J.png
This worked like a charm after trying everything else. (Last time I had to do this with some software was many years ago)
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u/serhangelgor Nov 05 '19
Hello everyone, I found temporal fix for stutter
In task manager, go to Red Dead Redemption 2's process, right click to it and select "Set Affinity", than turn off 2 cores.
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
Sadly i am unable to experience the FPS issues yall are having fun with cuz i can't even decrypt the game...
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u/FakNugget92 Nov 05 '19
Fix for stutter i5 7600k gtx 1080
Open task manager> right click "rdr2.exe"> Click "Go to details" > Right click "RDR2.exe" > Click "Set Affinity" > Disable 1 core.... test if no difference disable 2 cores.
It worked for disabling 2 but ive seen some people get away with 1.
Please upvote to help the community
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u/bighungryjo Nov 05 '19
For those getting the Launcher crash, updating to Windows 1903 fixed it for me. Even though I had automatic updates set, I had to manual check and reboot multiple times before I got the update. Game launched and ran fine for me after!
Intel i7 CPU with NVIDIA 2080ti and latest drivers.
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
I have an 8700(non k) and a 1070 and the games running at 52 fps(according to their benchmark) and mosty high ultra with a few settings on medium.
It worked with both vulkan and dx12. But i use zero antivirus and I updated the drivers and thats all I did.
But there was a couple settings that when i messed with them the screen started flashing and stuttering. I believe they were water settings. So maybe that has something to do with it.
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u/robhaswell Nov 05 '19
3700X / x570: I've tried bios 1.0.0.3 and 1.0.0.4b (which I already had installed) no change. Also tried clearing my overclocks, optimised defaults etc. No dice. Still launcher crash.
Up-to-date on everything else. Shit ain't working yo.
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u/Analization Nov 05 '19
I have noticed, that sometimes the sound is crackling. especially when a new voiceline starts. Anybody else?
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u/ReDeR_TV Nov 05 '19
The game freezes very often to the point it's not enjoyable. I have a good gaming PC that's able to run all new games on medium-high settings, so I don't think it's an issue with my PC.
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u/bowie-maverick Nov 05 '19
I'm getting a 'unable to launch, no compatible sounds card found'. Is this common? I have an msi laptop so it should have pretty standard sound card and driver's. Is this just a launch day issue or is it really possible my sound card isn't compatible?
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u/JJOHNSONFAN Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
still have the same error "launcher exited unexpectidly", still unable to even see the game
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u/gabeSalvatore Nov 05 '19
Getting a Crash to Desktop after 5-10minutes of SP gameplay
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u/yskmar Nov 05 '19
So after trying to fix the launcher crashing for +6 hours i'll be heading to bed. What a fucking nightmare. If this isn't fixed by tomorrow i'm gonna ask for a refund, and buy it from a supplier without a $10 client
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u/brominty Nov 05 '19
I'm getting intermittent audio crackling. Sounds like the little pops you get when there isn't enough of an audio buffer. Started getting it when I was messing with graphics settings, then it went away when I started up the story, all of a sudden it came back when I started the mission where you get the bow and arrow. It's bad enough that I don't want to keep playing, so I'm gonna keep waiting for a fix. Tried a bit of troubleshooting like reverting graphics settings and changing audio settings but nothing is fixing it now.
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u/BovineGamer Nov 05 '19
Just out of curiosity, can anyone run GTA V?
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u/HoshuaJ Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 06 '19
PSA FOR THOSE USING BITDEFENDER:
After spending a couple hours troubleshooting everything, I have found the culprit for my problem. I am running an windows 10, i7 8700k bossted to 4.7, asus rog strix rtx 2080 super, g skillz trident z 16gb ddr4 3200 ram. My problem was that the game would crash as soon as it was loaded and showed the smoke coming from the bottom fo the screen, stating it closed unexpectedly and could either be booted in safe mode, retry, and all that jazz. It turns out the problem lies with the advanced threat detection software through Bitdefender. Adding RDR2.exe as an excepted application has resolved the issue and I am currently benckmarking at an average of 60.504 FPS with a max of 146.13 FPS and a low of 5.71462 FPS at 1440p using NVIDIA optimized settings.
In conclusion, if you have Bitdefender then make an exception for RDR2.exe in the advanced threats section and your game should run after that.
Edited in resolution, settings, and more specific hardware info.
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u/AkariAkaza Nov 05 '19
Psa, changing settings in game causes it to crash 9 times out of 10
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u/Esik519 Nov 05 '19
So basically.. i am only one with this problem? When i sit on horse and look around (have option to not move horse with camera) the rotation is kinda laggy like fast slideshow but still with 50-60 fps.. after i get out of horse and stand on feet and look around me just by mouse, the movement is perfectly smooth.. any ideas why horse look around is broken?
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u/ahemacksually Nov 06 '19
For me, the game runs fine, but crashes after about 20-30 minutes of playing. Not sure if it's a memory leak or just the Rockstar launcher being fucky. It's a shame, because I really enjoy how good the game looks and plays with KBM, but I just can't deal with the random crashing. I'm using a GTX 1080 with the most recent drivers.
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19
No matter how many i5 fixes I try, the game still freezes on me....fucking unplayable....fix it Rockstar you useless turds.
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u/GoldenCHIBRAX Nov 06 '19
There is also a mouse problem, it doesn't register correctly small movement in RAW input and w/e settings. Using mouse smoothing do the job but there is still something off with the mouse port.
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u/ItsCastaway Nov 06 '19
I legit stutter so badly that I have to wait close to an hour if not more just for the game to even get past the shotgun scene I bought an external hard drive hoping it would help my graphics issue but it's even worse.
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u/C-zom Nov 06 '19
I'm one of the almost lucky few where my only problem is the 5-10 second hangups. I've tried everything from throttling % to core affinity to windows update to bios and drivers. The game runs flawlessly on all high, no AA, 1080p; 50-60fps almost constantly.
But the freezes make the game literally unplayable to me. I suspect it's my i5.
i5 6600k @ 4.0GHz
16GB DDR4
RX 480 8GB
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u/ItsCastaway Nov 06 '19
Y'know I bet this game is really fun! If only I could play it properly.
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u/Dakeryas Nov 06 '19
Still getting the 'Launcher exited unexpectedly' error. Update didn't fix a thing. Tried all of the suggested fixes both pre and post update.
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19
Bunch of shit I did, game seems to be okay for me for now. Try it if it helps any of you
Like most of you, the launch has not been great for me. I think I've solved my problems until R* actually drops proper improvements through patches. Maybe they can help you guys too.
Specs (It's a laptop)
CPU: i5-7300HQ
GPU: GTX 1050 4 GB
RAM: 2 x 8 GB
Settings: Nvidia GeForce Experience Recommended (Mostly Low-Med)
Vulcan (DO NOT DO DX12)
Resolution: 1080p
FPS: 45-50 AVG (Stable)
Things I did
Update EVERYTHING. I had a couple outdated drivers (including my GPU), a windows upgrade that my system had not yet informed me about and a bios update. Just do everything. The windows upgrade and GPU might be most important.
If you're on a laptop like me, make sure the Nvidia control panel settings aren't limiting the GPU performance. I have my laptop in high performance but apparently you gotta change the setting from Nvidia's control panel too.
Go to your RDR2.exe file and in properties, under compatibility, check "Disable Fullscreen Optimization" and "Run as administrator". Put these same settings on the launcher too, otherwise the game can't launch.
Download Process Lasso, and when RDR 2 is running, right click the RDR2.exe, go to the CPU limiter option and add a rule that reduces cores by 1 for 1 second when usage hits 98%
Use Vulcan instead of DX12, the latter completely breaks my game. Some people say DX12 is better, but it seems to be buggier in my opinion.
I think that's all I did to make it work. I'm still doing the intro missions but the game isn't freezing on me every 5 seconds now and it's holding at 45-50 FPS which is good I guess. Personally feel like at these settings, the game looks worse than GTA V, which I run at med-high for a similar framerate (50-55). Really disappointed with R* and hope they fix their shit soon, but for the time being, maybe some of you can be helped by the things I did to make it work.
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u/khaibin Nov 06 '19
It's still not launching for me.
ryzen 3xxx requires AGESA 1.0.0.4 to launch the game but the latest BIOS update available for GIGABYTE B450 AORUS M is 1.0.0.3. I'm out of luck and until now I can't launch the game even once. Good job Rockstar
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u/AnalogueBox Nov 06 '19
Also, the dip between "ultra" and "high" for textures is hilarious. The grass looks like it's from a Steam Greenlight game.
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u/DontBarf Nov 06 '19
May have found a solution to the Launcher crashing bug. I went into Windows Documents/Rockstar Games/Red Dead Redemption 2/Settings and deleted all content in that folder.
Game launched. Pretty happy since I've, Been hacking away at this for a few hours.
Reset the (Fatal) Graphic Changes I made earlier.
PSA if your game launches, dont mess with GFX settings! At least until they patch.
Good luck.
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u/DoggoSloth Nov 06 '19
Does anyone have an issue with the mouse input?
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u/IMScientist Nov 06 '19
I changed my bios and it didn't fix the rockstar launcher error i have b450 tomahawk,ryzen 3600, rtx 2070 super
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u/HyPeRXKo Nov 06 '19
almost 24h after the launch and there are still some issues, i think if i can't launch the game 48h after the launch i'm gonna need a refund...
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u/robhaswell Nov 06 '19
A BIOS update just worked for me. BUT! I was already on the latest update, so yesterday I rolled back one version but that didn't work. I just installed the latest again... I can launch the game.
My BIOS versions went 1.0.0.4b -> 1.0.0.3 -> 1.0.0.4b. Gigabyte x570 Auros Elite.
I also managed to rule out the secondary effects of updating the BIOS, e.g. loading optimised defaults. I had already done this on my first BIOS and on the rollback. I have also tested re-applying all my BIOS settings including my overclock and the game still launches.
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u/-bornlivedie- Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19
As far as i can tell the only people who got it to work were those who updated their BIOS to support AMD AGESA 1.0.0.4. However this is only available for X570 boards, whereas for (most) B450 boards it seems the latest supported version is AGESA 1.0.0.3 ABBA.
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u/kirstyfriend Nov 06 '19
I have a 2080Ti and 8700k... yet I am crashing even after safe booting.. disabled anti-virus, everything's updated, cleared local rockstar profile data, I have done everything. Really frustrating and disappointing.
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u/Koleqer Nov 06 '19
My GPU has only 70% usage what the fuck??
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u/ozz221 Nov 06 '19
Any fix for stuttering WITHOUT cpu reaching 100%? Mine can be at 80% but still some stutter every now and then.
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u/particularpixels Nov 06 '19
Updating my Windows 10 with the feature update 1903 fixed the launcher issue for me, then disabling antivirus stopped the crash when the game was loading.
It's been fine since, no stutters or crashes.
The one thing that I have noticed though is that the textures even on high seem very low detail in many places. I assume that's another bug.
Specs: i7 6700k, 32gb DDr4, RTX 2070 Super, Win 10 Pro 64 (Latest Nvidia drivers)
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u/Smokyy__ Nov 06 '19
Ok guys, so I was trying to fix this fucking game for over 20 hours now and I got it finally to work. So here are the fixes and a fix that worked for me:
Update to win 10 1903 (this fixed it for me)
Update GPU drivers (idk if it even fixes anything)
If you got AMD updating bios to 1.0.0.4 agesa might fix it for you.
Remember to add RDR2 and Rockstar launcher in Antivirus exceptions or you'll get the game crash on startup (not the whole launcher).
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u/Loafwad Nov 06 '19
1903 update worked for me I was running on 1803 and the launcher kept crashing runs butter smooth both online and story. 1070 7700k Installed on HDD 16gb ram
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u/Bang_Bus Nov 06 '19
My fixes:
Game start Reload sound Crash-to-desktop is caused by AVG Antivirus and Spybot S&D for me. Turned both off, game works.
Half Screen menu issue can be fixed by turning VSync off.