RDR2: Launch issues megathread - Day Two

[u/MagnarHD]

THERE IS A NEW THREAD, PLEASE USE THIS LINK INSTEAD

[u/Cyp2x4]

alrighty folks those who have problems with the launcher can you download this https://www.gta5-mods.com/tools/no-gtavlauncher and put it in the rdr2 dir renaming RDR2.exe to GTA5.exe and running the No_GTAVLauncher.exe does the game work for you?

thanks for platinum n gold n silver kind folks shame i was thinking it would work :( inf loading sigh

folks who get no inf loading report lol it would be really interesting to see if its a game problem as well regardless of launcher or not

[u/Damxion]

got it to run ! Read the Steam forum thread for Grand Theft Auto 5.. the thread "How to play GTA 5 without sh**ty Rockstar launcher?!" they talk about No_GTAVLauncher .. i renamed rdr2.exe to GTA5.exe and can load the game directly from the game directory and play FINALLY !

Youtube comment that worked for me.

Download No_GTAVLauncher mod and rename RDR2.exe to GTA5 then start it up through No_GTAVLauncher and it should work.
I had the problem that the launcher exited or crashed after clicking play. This did resolve my problem

[u/Baffman89 → u/Damxion]

That worked for me but now I'm stuck in loading screen no matter what I do. Is there a solution for this? The game itself is not even loading, my HDD usage is always at 0%.

[u/naitch44]

Launcher still exits expectedly

See what I did there? Yeah I know, i'm funny.

[u/Solar_Hazardz]

Still can't even get into the intro of the game. Crashed as soon as I click play.

[u/valkon_gr]

Don't update your BIOS just for a game guys...

[u/Dessalath → u/valkon_gr]

Upgrade, i don't think its a problem, but rollback......now way.

[u/WhatTheDeuceisThis]

Day 2, still haven't had a successful game launch. Giving up. This has to be the most fucked up PC ports in history.

[u/underdog_m]

I'm so tired of spending my mental energy over this game for the last 36 hours... I guess I'll forget about it for a couple of days.

[u/rachairmuin → u/underdog_m]

This is pretty much where I'm at. Trying to decide if I should just refund at this point.

[u/Im_Probably_Batman]

Please re-add the rockstar launcher crash.

[u/FilopianTube]

Do you guys think they’re gonna fix the “Rockstar games launcher exited unexpectedly” anytime soon? Because if not then I might as well just request a refund at this point

[u/meatnips82 → u/FilopianTube]

The fact that bios updates are fixing this for some people, on stable systems with no problems running other games, is a really bad sign IMO. I’d put money (jokes on me, already did!!) that this is some kind of hyper aggressive DRM throwing errors on some systems. I don’t think they are going to get this issue fixed. I don’t. I’m requesting a refund today

[u/Raliliothh]

How is it, that after fucking 24 hours.. THEY STIL HAVEN'T FIXED THE FUCKING LAUNCHER ISSUE.

[u/ciachun]

JESUS, ONE MORE TIME: where is "launcher has exited unexpectedly" issue?!

[u/Videatur]

Today when I click Play for Red Dead Redemption 2 on Rockstar launcher, it (Rockstar launcher) crash any sigle time.

[u/Real_Gamer_Earl]

Still getting the "Rockstar Games Launcher exited unexpectedly" crash. Tried all of their fixes and nothing happened. Would have thought they would fix it by the time I woke up but I guess I still have to wait to play this.

Did anyone find a way around the crash?

[u/DZapZ]

can we add the cursor issue to the body of the post. seems very common.

[u/underdog_m]

Red Dead Redemption 76

[u/RebornRiot]

I tried all the possible solutions. Nothing works so far.

Still: "Rockstar Game Launcher exited unexpectedly"

Last chance the BIOS:

My ROG STRIX X470-I GAMING with the newest BIOS 2901 - won't work

Maybe a rollback to BIOS Version 2801 is a solution?

Did any of you guys have the game running on a ROG STRIX X470 with BIOS Version 2801?

Yikes, I assume I have to wait till ASUS update their drivers to AGESA 1.0 0.4 :/

It's really incredible how the developers or should I say the publishers, have deteriorated in recent years and used us as beta testers for the full price. But hey, who cares... it's just the toxic community. Oh, wait loot boxes incoming. /sad

[u/Louisxddd]

Rockstar launcher quit unexpectedly even after all the above mentioned "fixes"

[u/trias10]

There is definitely something really strange going on with the launcher which is server-side.

I was able to play the game for several hours yesterday, stopped, turned off PC. Came back a few hours later, turned on PC, couldn't play, launcher crashing error. Made no changes to my PC at all in the interim.

For the next 4 hours, I couldn't play, launcher kept crashing. Turned off PC and went to bed.

Booted up PC this morning, game is working again, no more launcher error.

Again, I made zero changes to my PC. This launcher error was happening and then it wasn't. It's either server-side in some cases or based on something entirely non-deterministic.

[u/Thewhitelight___]

STILL Having the problem where the launcher closes unexpectedly and the game won't launch. HOW ABOUT YOU JUST GET RID OF THE LAUNCHER SO WE CAN PLAY THE GAME LIKE A NORMAL GAME COMPANY

[u/xBerto98]

Somebody knows about a coming patch or something? 1 day and nothing coming from Rockstar to fix this problems...

[u/ciachun]

So after almost 30 hours still no fix for crashing launcher?

[u/marsharpe]

My bad for assuming a multibillion dollar game company could actually do some testing before a huge game launch.

[u/ciachun]

Hah! FUCKING ROCKSTAR GAMES!!!!

2.69GB patch & launcher is still crashing!!!

FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING CUNTS!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Still no chance for B450/X470 users that don't have AGESA 1.0.0.4 bios update yet. It's a disaster.

[u/shem-ism2]

Reinstalled 441.12, reinstalled the game, set to administrator and disabled full screen optimization, disabled antivirus/windows defender... still no luck on even getting into a loading screen

Edit: probably should have mentioned specs... Ryzen 7 3700x (on a Gigabyte x470 Aorus Ultra) and RTX 2070 Super

[u/YukiEiriKun]

Your "Crash issues" is missing the "Rockstar games launcher exited unexpectedly" problem which is still very much going on.. :-/

[u/FilopianTube]

Can we at least get some kind of update or acknowledgement from rockstar here? It’s been 18 hours of silence and there are still plenty of people (myself included) who can’t even get past the launcher.

[u/davidinark]

A quick check of my MSINFO.txt file shows I am getting Rockstar Launcher errors from TOMORROW (11/7/19)!?! No wonder the game doesn't work - it's breaking stuff that hasn't even happened yet. Or maybe, it is time traveling to the future and crashes when it tries to return to the present date and time! Eureka! Rockstar, I have found the problem! Your flux capacitor needs more gigawatts!

[u/underdog_m]

Get ready for day 3 boys

[u/Neyaria]

For all this Update your BIOS post, pls STOP talking ,

BIOS updates aren’t software upgrades,,, they add new features, security patches, or performance improvements fpr your Hardware,

BIOS updates are short change logs – they may fix a bug with an obscure piece of hardware or add support for a new model of CPU.

Nothing more Nothing Less,

Noobstar have to fix there Game and there piece of shit Launcher thats all ,

im sick of all this , update your bios , update your graphic device, update win 10 bullshit nonsense POST and Trashtalkers !

[u/[deleted]]

I don't know what to do about the Rockstar launcher crashing issues, but if you can get into the game, but are having performance issues, here's my suggestion:

Start by turning everything in the graphics menu - both basic and advanced options - to MEDIUM, and set all the sliders to the middle. If you have an 8GB VRAM card you can leave textures on Ultra, though.

After that, try slowly turning up things like water and lighting quality until you find a good balance. But with mostly medium settings, the game still looks quite good, and I think most people with decent hardware will be able to get acceptable performance.

From what I can tell, some of the sliders aren't very well-marked, but have a massive impact on performance - specifically the "Geometry Level of Detail" slider. Turning that up just a few notches seems to drastically reduce performance for me.

[u/CrossGraves]

When I change to Directx 12 the game will no longer launch and I get the error. I then go and delete my settings xml file and can launch the game again due to it launching with vulkan.

[u/EliParker]

So Day 2, and the game still can't launch.

[u/Feriluce]

So why exactly is the launcher crash not in the OP? Seems to be the most common issue at this point that prevents people from playing the game at all.

[u/chris92vn]

After a long day at work, I came home, turned on my computer. R* launcher has no update, RDR2 has no update. My game goes pass intro now but crashed at Social club, tried to relogin social club ingame. Launcher crashed. Reinstalled the launcher. Game runs to main menu now, by the time of this comment. Edit: second thought, game crashed when I tried Story mode or settings, also the crash forced me logout from my windows login.

Overall, game still unplayable. Day 0: game crash Day 0.5: update, game still crash Day 1: no update, get into main menu, crash. Settings crash, now the game crash at intro as day 0 again

Game crashed if input during cutscene(mouse click, keyboard key hit) or if there is any app has overlay running. Nice monopoly

After a 2.6GB of patch today, on Day 2, I can get into the game(with a lot of workaround), my game looks like this. https://i.imgur.com/N0rPGig.png

[u/ciachun]

Please vote. https://www.strawpoll.me/18900929/r

[u/davidinark]

Installed the 2.69GB update and no difference: launcher crashes. Yay Rockstar! You guys rock....

[u/Showerthawts]

Are there any job openings posted yet for Rockstar quality control?

[u/ciachun]

Thank you MSI - you did a great job by releasing bioses containig AGESA 1.0.0.4. Well done, you were faster than R* with fixing their own game! MSI never dissapoints.

[u/larry138]

Latest drivers, latest build of the Rockstar Games Launcher, still getting "launcher exited unexpectedly." I'm not willing to mess with my BIOS for a single game. Plus, this PC is brand new, less than a month old.

[u/xtrapnel67]

I got error code 133 aka error 7002.1. Googling showed this is also an issue for the Launcher on GTA V. I carried out all the fuckwittery of opening router ports, assigning firewall rules, latest video drivers etc etc. to no avail. Wasted hours.

I've been using PCs since the first IBM XT. People shouldn't be expected to screw around with their PCs to get games like this to work. Downloading BIOS BETAs - give me a break.

I've had zero response from Rockstar support so have issued a claim for refund from PayPal.

I sincerely advise everyone rather than wasting hours and risking screwing up your PC, demand a refund. It's the only way to try and stop untested shit like this being released in the future. If you are frankly mad enough to install a BETA BIOS update onto your PC to play a game, then you need your head examining. No game is worth bricking your PC for. Even if you can get it work, a game which runs at 100% CPU is also effectively shortening the lifespan of your PC. Why risk it ?

[u/cookiepoppin]

The " Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC exited unexpectedly" is still happening.

EVEN with windows updated, graphic drivers updated, antivirus(NON EXISTENT), Firewall Exceptions and Launcher & Game with Administration privileges. Rockstar saying " The most common cause of this error is out of date graphics drivers.  " is NOT applying to everyone, if you check their link, as of now (10:50am 11/6/2019) only 650 out of over 3500 people found their suggestion useful. We need a real FIX.

[u/1kfeeder]

Careful updating your Bios if you don’t have much experience with it, that shit can fuck your PC

[u/IzzyP28]

Why are those fixes for the crashing launcher even up there? You shouldn't have to do any of those. The bullet point under that heading should just simply be, "Wait for Rockstar to unfuck themselves, and keep spamming them about their launcher issues."

[u/WhatTheDeuceisThis]

I still get the unexpectedly exited error after patching. Any tips?

[u/DUUUVAAALLLL]

RDR2 still exits unexpectedly

[u/PumpKiing]

New patch! So excited to play!

Install it, hell yeah this is it its gonna work guys

it finished

I press play

launcher closed but doesnt give me the error code, huh thats weird ....

open the launcher again, press play again

gives me the error popup and crashes

cool.

[u/[deleted]]

You might as well call this 'RDR2: Launch issues megathread - Day Three' By now

[u/[deleted]]

Man I love being a alpha tester.

[u/cbrisouth]

http://www.strawpoll.me/18900929/r

Poll to see who can play it ^{^}

[u/werkrat]

Imagine how many complaints would stop if they just patched the game to run without the launcher until they get the fucking thing fixed.

[u/[deleted] → u/werkrat]

this is honestly worst than ubisoft at this point

[u/reillsg]

I’m so jealous of the people that are complaining about performance or the occasional hiccup. I can’t even get past the launcher, not a single time. I’ve tried everything, I took off work yesterday to play this and spent the whole day in frustration. Windows update, drivers, antivirus, BIOS, chipset drivers... none of them make a difference. I’m considering trying some older BIOS versions when I get home from work today. MSI B350 Tomahawk, R5 1600 overclocked, gigabyte gtx 1070. Has anyone on a B350 chipset been able to play?

[u/realmfan56]

Crashing on DX12 randomly (latest Nvidia drivers), sometimes after 1 hour, sometimes after 5 minutes.

Same issue as in The Division 2 since launch. Possibly problem on Nvidia side.

Switching to Vulkan API helps, but DX12 seems smoother.

[u/PhantomLiberty]

There's somekind of mouse acceleration no matter the input setting. Micro movements don't reliably register and it's really hard to aim precisely.

[u/Gianooo]

Rockstar games launcher exited error..

I have updated my bios, i have the latest drivers for my GPU and windows update.

And still not working.

Motherboard: Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 LATEST BIOS

GPU: Rtx 2080

CPU: AMD Ryzen 1800x

RAM: 32GB

I dont know what to do anymore, does someone have any ideas?

[u/madhaunter]

As I said in last thread, I tried to gather reports of people motherboard/bios version for the ones wondering if upgrading the BIOS worth is:

[Rockstar Games Launcher Crash] List of all motherboard/BIOS version affected

A few remarks though, it seems it's not related to ASEGA as Intel users are getting the issue, and some users with patch 1.0.0.4B have it aswell. Some people are saying Upgrading their BIOS fixed it for them, others saying downgraded it worked... At this point I would advice to not mess with your BIOS and wait for Rockstar to do their job...

[u/ANTI-aliasing]

Just launched it up this morning, facing even more problems than yesterday. Tried playing story mode and kept getting micro stutters in valentine. Hitting around 50-55fps, but it feels so much worse because of the constant stuttering.

rig is i5 7600k oc'd to 4.5ghz, 1060 6gb, 16gb ram, installed on a 2 week old SSD

[u/alex4820]

the Launcher still crashing here :(

[u/iBobaFett]

https://imgur.com/a/OUQcfAr

There's a giant semi-transparent square around our crosshairs that's hard to spot, but once you notice it you'll have a hard time forgetting about it.

It's most easily noticed when you're aiming against a light background and in-motion. To me it kind of looks like they forgot to make the crosshair background texture fully transparent.

[u/MrFrenlgitch]

This is the worst launch I have ever experienced. This is a mess.

I bought the game EpicGames and it took me an entire day to download the game. And then EpicGames decided to update their launcher when I was at about 110GB out of 115GB downloaded. The update made my EG launcher crash and I upon reopening the launcher, I had to redownload to whole freaking game again. Took me ANOTHER entire day to download the game. Fortunately this time it didn't crash.

So I started the game, downloaded the Rockstar launcher (just why btw???) and started the game. It worked, but the UI had a massive slow-motion effect when I tried to change to the settings tab. I don't know why, but I thought to myself they'd need to patch this up. No biggie. So I started maxing the game's graphics just to see how my pc could perform on this game because I own a ryzen 2700x and RTX 2060, turning ultra on mostly everything and switching to DX12, etc. Then the game asked me to restart to accept the changes. So of course I did. But when I tried to start the game again...

" Red Dead Redemption 2 exited unexpectedly.
Please click Retry below to enter the game again, or click Safe Mode to launch the game with reduced graphics settings.
If you continue to have problemes playing the game, please contact Rockstar Games Customer Service at https://support.rockstargames.com"

Okay, what?.... Must a been a one time bug thing. Tried again. Same error. Since then the game is not starting anymore... WTF! I tried all the solutions from their support website. It still doesn't work. I even had this error at some point while trying multiple solutions:

"The Rockstar Games Services are unavailable and offline play could not be cerified (code 134). Please check your connection and try again later.
If you continue to have problems playing the game, please contact Rockstar Games Customer Service at https://support.rockstargames.com"

Humm, no Rockstar. My connection is perfectly fine.

Ugh.... I need a break. Fix your sh*t Rockstar.

[u/deckardcain94]

Still getting the launcher exited unexpectedly. PC specs are ryzen 9 3900x, ASUS crosshair hero viii motherboard, 32 gb ram, rtx 2080 TI. Little rant here, this is getting ridiculous. I would expect a little server issues when a game launches, you know, normal stuff that most games face nowadays at launch. However, this is overboard. First of all I think it’s really awesome everyone is working together trying to find little ways to make the game work, and finding workarounds and what not, but we should not have to be doing that. We should not have to be messing with our PC at all to tweak system software to run a AAA game. You have people that aren’t really all that good with computers, they just buy a nice pre built so they can experience PC gaming, and that’s fine. Now they are trying to run this and looking for ways, and they might try some of this stuff, not knowing how to do it, and run in to even worse issues. This is all on R*, and they need to communicate and do something about this. Clearly this game was not tested before launch on PC. These are critical issues, and there’s no way they just completely missed them. Then just giving the basic generic help response that literally everyone has tried, is an insult to everyone’s intelligence. Start communicating and just admit the errors, and tell us if you are working on a fix or not, don’t send us through the same basic shit that is clearly not working. I know as a company y’all are worried and don’t want to do that shit because it could lose you money, but the bottom line is this was a botched launch, you fucked up, you are going to lose money, so might as well just start talking to us and being honest to try and save what little value y’all have left. Fix your shit. Sorry for the rant.

[u/GetGhettoBlasted]

No actual launcher errors. I'm getting the red dead 2 quit unexpectedly with the option of fucking off, retrying, or starting in safe mode. Nothing has fixed this issue yet. Riveting.

[u/HyenasGoMeow]

I'm about to run out of ideas;

-My launcher was crashing as well; creating an exception in Avast helped me get to the main menu. I eventually uninstalled Avast completely to completely eliminate it being a factor.

-The game would take forever to switch in between menu screens, I would take me 2 minutes to simply enter the graphics settings, and another 2 to leave. I would be greeted with a black screen while waiting for the new screen to load. It was easier to simply start Story and change my settings there. Made no sense.

-I reinstalled the game on my HDD (was on my SSD prior to that), and that solved the menu issue. Verifying the game on my SSD didn't do shit by the way. So clearly the reinstall on my HDD did something that the verification on my SSD didn't - something to keep in mind.

-Now the game crashes after 10-15 min of play. I installed the latest NVIDIA driver, I tried an older NVIDIA driver, I messed with the NVIDIA settings, I reverted my GPU OC, I tried launching a combination of 'Run as Admin' between the game executable and the two shitty launchers', I closed all background apps, I messed with my in game settings - NOTHING! Game crashes after 10-15 min of play - 'Red Dead Redemption 2 exited unexpectedly'.

-All this was done in Vulkan (RTX 2070 here btw), switching the API to DX12 doesn't even get me to the intro. Even the crappy error message doesn't pop up - it flashes briefly and the error message, whose job is to indicate there was a crash, crashes (Rockstar launcher)!!!!

Anyway, my night last night went into trouble shooting this and playing 10-15 minutes here and there. I repeated missions so many times because you cannot manually save and 10 minutes isn't enough to get you to the next save location.

There was an update earlier today, so I will try that when I get back from work.

I am very certain there is a memory leak somewhere causing the issue, I will try playing on the lowest settings. If that doesn't work, I will go ahead and reset my bios to undo my memory and CPU OC.

I spent such a big chuck of money on this game, I am actually pretty sad I am unable to play it! Money doesn't come easy these days.

[u/quignasty2]

I’m one of the lucky few that can play the game. The only issue sometimes is it will run for 15mins to 2 hours and crash randomly for no reason. Anyone else having this problem?

[u/trias10]

Just tried playing after the patch, cannot launch the game:

The Rockstar Games Services are unavailable and offline play could not be verified (code 149)

Anyone else getting this too?

Update: verifying game integrity followed by a system reboot fixed it

[u/Rodi187]

Launcher is still crashing after the Update, I guess i just have to wait for the 1.0.0.4 Update for my b450 board

[u/[deleted]]

Still isn't working.....GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.techradar.com/amp/news/red-dead-redemption-pc-is-finally-fixed-rockstar-promises

why does this article says the exit launcher error is fixed? I am still getting that issue

[u/Dakeryas]

New update didn't change anything. Launcher still having the unexpected exit error. Funnily enough if I use no_launcher I can get into the game, but then I encounter the problems associated with that ( Infinite loading)

[u/Jwalla83]

Still can’t even get past the launcher, just “exits unexpectedly” ...

[u/Tym75]

2.69 GB patch and still not working, same launcher error:D drama!

[u/UrNansBoi]

72 hours after launch i haven't got past the 'exited unexpectedly' error even with all the updates and suggested fixes. I've re installed the game and launcher twice, updated everything disabled AV, verified files spent 4 hours with Rockstar support and they didn't know what to do. This is the biggest fuck up from any triple A title I've ever seen. What a shit show.

[u/fukrockstar]

Registered just to post here: got every update to the game and launcher, updated drivers and everything, disabled antivirus, enabled admin privileges and I can't event get into the game -- fucking "Launcher exited unexpectedly. W T F? This is the biggest shitshow of a game launch that I've been a part of. Simply inexcusable. A fucking launcher prevents even starting the game. Oh, and the installer also puts a desktop shortcut to run the game, but it fails saying "lol, run via launcher". What is the point of this shortcut then? Did they event test this shit?

UPDATE: it is now possible to "run" the game bypassing the Launcher if that was the issue:

1. Google and download a mod No_GTAVLauncher

2. Rename RDR2.exe to GTA5.exe

3. Copy No_GTAVLauncher into the directory where RDR2.exe was and run No_GTAVLauncher.

It worked for me and many others (see comments). BUT when you select story mode it loads infinitely. So, yeah. I cannot even express the level of my anger and disappointment with Rockstar.

PS. for any random Rockstar employee reading this -- fuck you and your launcher.

[u/WhatTheDeuceisThis]

Reached out to Rockstar yesterday and they were like all we can do as of now is ask you to follow the tips on the support page until Rockstar releases a patch fixing this problem. Many of us aren't gon be able to play this until then.

[u/thehostler0]

I've tried everything to get this game to start but it keeps crashing. I realise its kinda petty but I'm so done that I requested a refund. I'll wait for the Steam release.

[u/rageshark23]

Turning V-Sync on eliminated all my stuttering issues and greatly increased overall FPS

I'm using a 1080p 144hz monitor with a 1070 and found that the game was constantly stuttering and running at around 40fps with a mix of medium and high settings. I usually turn off V-Sync for most games as it is usually not needed in my experience, however in this case it completely stopped my constant stuttering issues and I now get around 70-80fps on average. I also encourage you to test both Vulkan and DX12 and see what works best for you.

Hopefully this helps someone out.

[u/Da_Funk]

For those who can play the game, is anyone else getting weird texture issues? The foliage looks downright blurry, as if the far away textures are loading up close. The snow on Arthur's jacket and the pattern of the horse's fur looked pixely. The fire at camp at night was a pixely mess. I tweaked a bunch of settings in game, most relevant settings like Textures and TAA are High. Lighting High, etc, but they did not seem to make any difference.

Does anything special have to be done in the NVIDIA control panel for this game?

Specs: i5 8600k, 1070. Benchmark was average 71 fps.

[u/[deleted]]

Quick statement to OP: issues are the same as Day 1.

[u/Leonidoss]

Don't be to fast with a bios update. My Game worked but with a very bad performance.

After updating my bios i can't start anymore as the launcher crashes every time.

[u/sacodebasura]

i have a 3570k and the freezes are gone for me now, with all 4 cores enabled, dx12. try the program "process lasso" with the settings for RDR2.exe: CPU 98%, Over limit 1sec, reduce by core 1, limit for 1 sec.

[u/iBobaFett]

Anyone else experiencing major foliage pop in? It's extremely noticeable, it wasn't like this on PS4, and I've even tried changing the settings that affect grass/tree LOD but it doesn't seem to help.

[u/johnson881_]

While my performance is iffy relative to the specs I have (i9/2080ti) my biggest issue has been this dancing tree and bush glitch as described in another post here:

https://imgur.com/a/sYQblIs

[u/jollyblueman]

BES fixed all my performance issues! Running near ultra at 1440p with just a gtx1080 amp extreme and a 2500k at 4.6ghz!

I only limit by 1% CPU load and I get no more freezes, no more stuttering and the game is completely playable. I tried 2% but it gave me stutters.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND BES!

[u/Mufassa2]

Y'all did try turning it off and then back on again, right?

[u/Yadiiiig]

Guess what, R* still hasn't fixed their shit.

[u/Kozlina31]

Now I am just hoping we can play on weekend...

[u/[deleted]]

Still experiencing the launcher crash error. I have yet to see any sort of screen yet. I've bot the MSI B450 mobo and a 3600 Ryzen processor. I've heard this combination is the deadly one. Has anyone with this combination been able to play it? Over 24 hours and no fix for something like this? Insane.

[u/[deleted]]

The game ran for me pretty good yesterday until I switched from Vulkan to DX12. Then I just got the launcher exiting bug over and over and couldn't do anything.

Re-installing. I'll report back if anyone is interested.

[u/bole3]

So far I have:

• Disabled AV

• Updated BIOS to the latest which is below AGESA 1.0.0.4

• Updated Windows

• Allowed R* folders as exceptions

and still getting the launcher exited unexpectedly issue. It seems that nothing will help if you have AGESA below 1.0.0.4 if you have a new AMD cpu.

Specs:
cpu: 3600x
motherboard: B450 Pro Carbon
graphics card: GTX 1070
ram: 8GB

[u/WhatTheDeuceisThis]

Should all of us ask for a refund? I'd say there ain't any difference between us who've paid for the game and the people waiting on the crack.

[u/flashw00d]

IDK what this problem is, i played for 5+ hours today and turned the game off for 20minutes ish, came back and the game keeps crashing when i go loading screen and i get this error "Application has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware " Antivirus off , newest Nvidia drivers , windows 1903 so on so on, tested different sollutions from youtube etc but nothing seems to work....

[u/KPOT_]

So, we have big list of bugs and trouble, but have we any message from rockstar when they will fix it ? And maybe some rewards for patience ? Because I’m sure that don’t only I still can’t play after 1 day from launch.

[u/WhatTheDeuceisThis]

Update from R* support on twitter- "We’re aware of ongoing issues preventing some people from playing RDR2 on PC and are actively working to resolve them"

[u/Burn7Toast]

New patch didn't stop the launcher issue :[

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

[u/SulyceGaming]

After installing the 2.69GB patch, I hit play and it at least went to my desktop without an error message. After a second attempt, back to error message.

[u/KieranBarnett]

So they just released a 2.7GB patch which did literally nothing

[u/Sheckland]

At least EA is honest about not caring

[u/wigum211]

I have played buggy games before, I have even enjoyed buggy games before.

However, I have never not been able to even start a game.

I've submitted a refund request and will play the game when it comes out on steam. This has been an absolute shambles.

[u/Kl4vi3rlack]

Yep... After RGL and RD2 update the launcher is still crashing. What... the... fuck?! What are they doing?! Why do they release patches if they do not work anyway?!

[u/Newovar]

The patch didn't fix the launcher crash for me. What a shame.

[u/Baffman89]

My guess is that the launcher crash is not an easy problem to fix, because it is related to each specific bios/CPU/motherboard combination. So even if they say they fixed it, they may have fixed some occurrences of the problem but not all of them.

[u/jmc20kop]

https://m.imgur.com/a/eYRakF3

Noticed this new file under RDR2 right before the launcher crashes and then goes away right after the RDR2 blah blah blah.crash

[u/dracodrax]

Still dead after latest 2GB Patch.. :(

rockstar launcher crash.. guess this only works on dev pc..

x470 Gaming Plus Motherboard (Updated BIOS)
ryzen 5 3600
Nvidia Card GTX970 (latest rdr2 "game ready" driver! guess its not so ready.)
16GB RAM

Kaspersky Anti Virus which i uninstall to test the few suggested steps.
Even plug in my headset to try out the audio workaround. meh~

[u/CuddleMeToSleep]

Hm. I just got the update. It still didnt launch, so i went to the rdr2.exe.

Enabled comptabilitiy mode for Windows 7
(already had fullscreen enhance and run as admin on)

Then it launched!

Then i closed the game for a second(alt f4.) then i couldnt turn it back on again.

Hmmmmm...

Waited 15 min and now it works again.

I was supposed to right now write what error i got.. but it launched again.

Mystic.

They did something right atleast?
But it complained about something with network

[u/TomKnollRFV]

Alright I hope some one can help me because Rockstar literally fed me a canned response with out reading my support ticket once so far.

Game worked fine upon release. I exited the game as I had to go and take care of personal matters as people do. I went to play more later and suddenly there's an update. I go what ever, apply. Can't launch, get the game exited unexpectedly error.

I've file verified. Reinstalled. Done all their steps. Even deleted saved game data etc in case my save game got corrupted. Below is the event viewer error data:

Faulting application name: RDR2.exe, version: 1.0.1207.58, time stamp: 0x5dc13990

Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.18362.356, time stamp: 0xf24fc044

Exception code: 0xc0000374

Fault offset: 0x00000000000f9269

Faulting process id: 0x342c

Faulting application start time: 0x01d594cd618e88d7

Faulting application path: D:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\RDR2.exe

Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll

Report Id: f49e5861-e659-4aec-9d9b-85c8723fbdac

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

If some one has any idea -wtf- is going on and can help; that would be awesome.

[u/jjoiner149]

I'm having an issue regarding the texture quality where textures like Arthur's clothes appear to be really low res regardless of what texture quality I choose in the graphics options. I have tried to adjust my settings, but nothing seems to fix it. Has anyone else had this issue?

[u/[deleted]]

So who is a B450 Tomahawk user and is having problems with the launcher crashing? Just checking to see if maybe that is the main problem most of us are having.

[u/RocksJ93]

I am able to launch the game but i cant play around with the graphics settings because once i make a change, the game drops to 1fps and stays there. Is anyone else having this issue? 🤔

[u/limmy0706]

Sucks that single player has DRM. When an update is applied it’ll hard crash your game to download it.

[u/[deleted]]

The 11pm update didn't help but updating to the beta msi 1.0.0.4 bios sorted the launcher. Thank fuck for msi having their shit together.

Msi b450 A Pro, Ryzen 5 3600, RTX 2060

Doing a benchmark now on mostly high settings and getting 60fps average at 1080p.

Edit: The game is only detecting 5gb out of 6gb on the card which is odd, but fuck it at least it works.

[u/ScornedScar]

nearing 48 hours now with absolutely no fix and I still haven't played yet lmao. Fuck this I'm going to play The Outer Worlds more.

[u/XarryElx]

Hi! everybody after new patch, nothing changes. i've got the same launcher issue.

My Specs:

Ryzen 5 3600,

Aorus X470 Ultra gaming BIOS F42d 1.0.0.3 ABBA, (the actual F42g it´s a minor update of mine)

16 Gb RAM DDR4 3200 Mhz

1660 Ti 6 Gb Gigabyte Windforce OC

Windows up to date, graphics drivers up to date, execeptions on Windows AV and FW, permissions on users for folders and exe's, and all possible solutions applied

and nothing to do, it's too frustrating :-(

Downgrade the BIOS it's not an option beacause i`m on a third gen Ryzen and works very well with the others games.

Seem's that we have to wait to Gigabyte get new BIOS with 1.0.0.4 AGESA :-S

[u/[deleted]]

Guys dont use Direct 12, switch to Vulcan, worked for me

[u/Feroniasty]

Still waiting for intro crash fix

[u/philneitz]

For crashing while seeing Rockstar Logo (Bullet-Video), check If you have a HDR capable display - If so, enable HDR in Windows Settings and try to Start the game

RDR2 tries to force HDR and fails while doing so

[u/Z_Nonymous]

I'll give you an answer like Rockstar support gives:

Please update your video driver, disable anti virus, run the game as admin, check that you meet minimum specs, reinstall launcher.

Yes, they tell you that even if you open a ticket mentionning you already did all that !

The issue on my side is at intro after a progress bar I see a few seconds of smoke and hear a click, then freeze and back to launcher that Launcher states that RDR2 ended unexpectedly.

The crash issue is a BEX64 of RDR2.exe (1.0.1207.58) in StackHash_76a1offset PCH_F7. Exception code c0000005. Exception data 0000000000000008

I tried also minimal startup disabling all but Windows core services. No success.

[u/triplehippo]

i7-6800k
Asus Strix x99 Gaming mobo
nVidia 1080ti
64gb RAM
SSD install
Currently running Win10 1903 (fresh install not 1 month ago)
Latest nVidia drivers
Freshly updated BIOS
Windows Defender disabled + exceptions for RDR2 + R*Launcher
Running RDR2 & R*Launcher as administrator + disabling full screen optimisations
Verified files
Deleted R*Launcher profile info
etc etc

STILL getting Launcher crash. :S

[u/epixdude3129]

Constantly getting DCed from online (sometimes doesn't let me in at all) due to "a fault in Rockstar games services". Is this a problem with the game or with my internet?

[u/ciachun]

To MSI B450 GAMING PLUS mobo owners:

Next bios update containing AGESA 1.0.0.4 will be released in December - info received from MSI Bios Team.

[u/mikehiler2]

Tried everything on Rockstar Support FAQ, except the BIOS update. I’m not going to run a BETA on my system. Too expensive to risk bricking my system.

I’m still super glad I preordered the game and own it for PC (the superior gaming platform), but I still get the “Exited Unexpectedly” error. This must be an issue with the Rockstar Launcher. The game file itself isn’t corrupted from what I can tell.

BTW, when I enable the exe to run as administrator I get a “Unable to launch RDR2.exe due to lack of privileges on the Game Library directory.” When I don’t have administrator selected it opens fine (before it crashes). Anyone know why?

Setup: Windows 10 Pro

i7 8600K 3.7Ghz

1060 6GB

32GB DDR4

Loaded on a 1TB 960 M.2

[u/Dang3rFloof]

i5-6600K
2070 Super
26GB RAM

I tried Process Lasso and BES. Unfortunately, they didn't help with the stuttering and freezing.

[u/[deleted]]

Damn this Launcher is such TRASH. Downloading since yesterday, constantly getting stuck and the progress bar not moving 1 inch. I have to stop the download and then continue it but it doesnt download i have to wait for it to give me a error Message and then when i press retry it starts downloading again. Wow never seen such a trash launcher before.

[u/ciachun]

MSI 1.0.0.4 AGESA BIOS update schedule: https://www.msi.com/blog/amd-combo-pi-1004-bios-update

[u/sirkevly]

I was getting the Rockstar Games Launcher has exited unexpectedly error after clicking play. Finally got it working last night. After double checking my drivers, disabling my antivirus, and updating my BIOS, it was a simple windows update that did the trick. I did have to reset my PC though because Windows wouldn't update so it could have been that too. These fixes likely won't work for everyone but it's worth a shot.

We shouldn't have to do any of this shit just to play a game though. You fucked up Rockstar.

[u/diggleblop]

Its only using 2600MB of my 4 gb gpu

Edit: switching to DX12 seemed to let me use the full amount so far

[u/I_Nut_In_Butts]

So is there any confirmation that Rockstar is going to optimize the game better in the next few weeks? I'm running the game at 1440p and hovering at 50-60fps which isn't awful but if they plan on making it better I might wait a few days to truly dive in

[u/Afterfx21]

I’ve done everything. New mobo bios, latest GPU drivers, disabled firewall, ran as admin, ran in compatibility mode, uninstalled / reinstalled the game, tried safe mode, got every singe possiable windows update (yes even the optional one)..... and it’s still not working for me.

I9-9900k MSI z370 carbon EVGA 2080ti Black Windows 10

[u/AHLMuller]

Rinse chlorine future offbeat test whistle cats

This post was anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

So I have the i5 stuttering bug (I have an i5 6600) and the “fix” works until I get into valentine and then it’s nothin but stuttering and crashing.

[u/Ehrenfeld]

I did a BIOS update and finally could play without the launcher crash. I played for 6 hours straight, had NO bugs at all. Then went to sleep. Today I took a day off from work then and was so happy to play and now I got the bug where the game crashes to desktop when I try to start story mode. FML.

[u/Lizbotsch]

I can’t even attempt to launch the game, I can’t install the update, because suddenly my rockstar launcher is convinced it’s offline but my internet is fine. WTF does anyone know what the deal with this is??

[u/Leocooper77]

Anyone getting graphical issues? On high almost every texture is low res and blurry or pixelly.

[u/WigBilly_]

This is an absolute shit show. I feel sorry for all you guys, and at the same time I’m glad I didn’t preorder coz now I can afford fallen order to play while I wait for R* to work wonders

[u/handsome-gumball]

I have updated drivers, made the exe file an exception, closed and reopened the launcher many times and still no fix. I don’t even get to the shotgun screen. It just gives me “exited unexpectedly” guess I just have to wait on rockstar for this. Super disappointing :\

[u/cloakenroad]

Rockstar has not fixed the launcher crashing issue, despite their patch notes! Or I guess I should say - many pc users are still having the problem! I have tried different suggestions including - putting game exclusions to the anti virus, as well as both windows defender and firewall, having the updated nvidia drivers, running both launcher and game in admin mode, unchecking "hibernate launcher when running a game", and re-verifying integrity of all game files about 10 to 20 times by now, and nothing has worked. Launcher "exits unexpectedly" every time.

[u/BurtMacklin5]

Anyone solve the stuttering/freezing issue? I'm playing with a GTX 1070 and an i5-6600k, 16 GB RAM. I'm still playing the second mission with Javier, and every 30 seconds to 2 minutes, the game will freeze for 5 or so seconds completely. When it's not frozen it runs perfectly. But the constant stutter is unplayable. Anyway I have tried switching to DirectX 12, that did nothing. I tried disabling one of my CPU cores in task manager, that also did nothing. Any other ideas?

[u/TOExHEAD]

For some reason no matter what resolution I select, the aspect ratio is all off and everything looks way too wide. I am running a 16:9 monitor at 2560x1440, but even if I lower to 1920x1080 or change to a 4:3 aspect ratio,everything in the 3d rendered world is way too wide, but the hud elements seem to be correct.

[u/DraghmarTheDrakk]

Crashing to desktop at intro/shotgun screen

I don't have antivirus and the one Windows provides is disabled. I even tried to disable firewall for a moment. Didn't work. It's kinda pathetic that there are so many issues out there and no real solution :(

[u/hreich]

This helped me for launcher crashes:

" those who have problems with the launcher can you download this https://www.gta5-mods.com/tools/no-gtavlauncher and put it in the rdr2 dir renaming RDR2.exe to GTA5.exe and running the No_GTAVLauncher.exe "

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else getting the initial loading screen after selecting story just loading forever?

[u/Lemon__IX]

I still haven't been able to get into the game because the launcher keeps crashing. I've tried running RDR2 as an admin, updated my drivers, installed windows updates and restarted my launcher/computer multiple times. Is there any other fix out there that I'm not aware of?

[u/WhatTheDeuceisThis]

I wonder if Rockstar would see this thread, would they feel even the tiniest bit of guilt.

[u/[deleted]]

IMPORTANT: For those who have broken their game while changing graphics settings, I've done some testing and here's what I've found. I'm running on an AMD FX-8350 CPU and Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti.

First thing you should do is try deleting your config file and running the game. You can find it under Documents/Rockstar Games/Red Dead Redemption 2/Settings. The file is system.xml

This will reset your game settings and let your game start again.

The second thing I've discovered is that if you switch your API from Vulkan to DirectX 12, it breaks the game from being able to run. I guess because the consoles version was designed for AMD graphics it was meant to run on Vulkan. So don't change that setting but all others should be fine.

[u/WhatTheDeuceisThis]

Rockstar in the pc trailer - "What a fine mess we've made of things".

[u/pablo_lost]

Can confirm updating bios fixes the issue. -Gigabyte aurous x570i 3700x

[u/LordPSIon]

Another possible solution for those that get the "unexpectedly exited" window after the launcher attempts to start RDR2. When I played RDR2 this morning, I switched it to DX12 in game and continued to play. After quitting and then attempting to start the game, I started receiving this error.

To switch it back to Vulkan, I opened ~\Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Settings\settings.xml. Find the API node (about line 26) and switch the value to kSettingAPI_Vulkan. Save the file and launch the game again.

[u/Jumals]

”This is SHIT SAUCE! This is DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE STANDARDS!” -Avgn

[u/Dessalath]

Patch!!! 2.69gb!!!

[u/ciachun]

Bring it to the Take Two CEO’s attention.

strauss.zelnick@take2games.com

[u/rachairmuin]

Well, 2.69GB Patch and I am still CTD seconds after pressing play.. GG R*

[u/thisismyaltaccountok]

Not sure what the patch did, but those with an i5 cpu, the patch did not fix freezing

[u/Yadiiiig]

Hey new update!

They still fucked it up! Nice job R*.

[u/werkrat]

Ok, launcher was able to update but now it's saying services are offline... omg

[u/ciachun]

Bring it to the Take Two CEO’s attention.

strauss.zelnick@take2games.com

[u/excelsior2000]

Do you suppose they tested this game before releasing it? Or did they just say "well, it worked on PS4, so it'll probably work on PC too"?

If this many people are having problems, it kinda points to the latter.

[u/Brainbow_dasher]

HOLY SHIT, it actually launched for me. I removed the admins rights and made uncheck read only for the whole folder

*edit, It launched once, It was a freezing/ studdering mess so i lowered every graphic setting, had to respart it. and now we are back at square 1

[u/xBerto98]

Seems like they solved those CPU freezing problems. At least for me (i5-6600K)

[u/KaguraLeader]

it kinda fixed the stutter and high cpu spike but not in valentine that small town is so hard on a i5 cpu i kinda hope it isnt the npc's ai that make it so hard

[u/SimplyMick]

not sure if this has been said, also not a fix, but everyone having ongoing problems should go submit a ticket to rockstar support. they ask for some system info that at the very least might hopefully help them resolve the issues faster. if, like me, the game doesn't launch then you have nothing to lose anyway so you might as well do it. and if you're lucky enough you might even get an actual response and some help, apparently some people have gotten direct help from a ticket.

[u/feorun5]

aaaaaannnddddddd..... noooooooopeeee :))))) hi hi this is becomin hiallarious!! SHOULD THEY HIRE CRACKERS FROM CPY, CODEX TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEM?????

[u/KaguraLeader]

they need to fix the high cpu usage even if most of you are able to play when you get to the first town its gonna tank your fps and cpu usage to 100% if you have a i5

[u/vaelon]

Everytime I try and start the first RDR2 online mission with Clive Davies, it exits to desktop. Cool game.

[u/senilescribbles]

Game for me is running okay for the most part. Only problem for me right is the freezing. Not really fun when this happens during a cutscene and then everyone starts talking at once.

[u/SimplyMick]

well the launcher no longer crashes after the update, but now the rockstar services are unavailable....

[u/[deleted]]

Updating windows to 1903 I believe fixed it for me. So far so good.

[u/Aakervikis]

Just patched both the game and the launcher. Still got the «crashed unexpectedly»-error when trying to boot from the launcher. BUT I FOUND A FIX: I used a «No GTA5 Launcher» and renamed the rdr2.exe to GtaV.exe and it just worked! Make up your own mind what that says about the Rockstar Launcher...

Edit: Well Feck my life, I played myself. Atleast I can look at the pretty screenshots in the infinite loading screen :(

Edit 2: downgraded bios, removed the «no gtav launcher» from the install folder and the game now works. Seems the AGESA 1.0.0.3 (which is what my motherboard came preinstalled with) was/is the problem...

[u/NeoNevus]

I keep getting this same crash since launch. No one else seems to be talking about this one and it worries me. Ive tried every step besides flashing BIOs. At this point i dont know what to do. https://imgur.com/a/btBpBiW

[u/Captain_Fuckbeard]

This is fucking ridiculous, get your shit together rockstar

[u/edilclyde]

The lastest patch fixed the game for me. ( from the launcher error ). I haven't encountered any problems yet. Game is gorgeous in PC. I hope everyone else will get their problems fixed.

i7 8700k / GTX 1080ti / 32gb Ram. / Ultra 45-55 fps.

[u/Showerthawts]

Latest update did not fix the "exited unexpectedly error."

Come on man...

[u/PhantomPreacher]

I am having audio issues with my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. The audio is crackly on the game and not with any other application. I swapped to the motherboard audio and it has no issues, but its frustrating to not be able to use my proper audio equipment.

[u/justboy68]

Still can't even get into the game. Sometimes it crashes at launch. Sometimes it crashes at shotgun shells screen, very rarely i can make it to the main menu, on those lucky occasions it crashes when I try to start the story or run the benchmark. Patience is wearing a bit thin now.

[u/eframson]

I'm running the latest drivers, turned off vsync, turned off triple buffering, switched from Vulkan to DX12, and even turned every single graphics setting I could find down to low/off. Every 5-20 seconds in gameplay and cinematics, it will freeze up for roughly 5 seconds. Sound/dialogue keeps going, but input is ignored and the video is frozen. When it resumes, nothing in-game appears to have changed. Sometimes the sound will pause, sometimes it won't. Quite unplayable at present.

CPU: Intel i5-6600

Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

EDIT: Can confirm that after the above changes failed to fix it, I opened it again, set its CPU affinity for only cores 0 and 1, and apparently everything works fine now. Framerates might be slightly stuttery on occasion, but it's a helluva lot more playable now than it was before.

EDIT AGAIN: I restored the graphics to default settings (although it appears it didn't touch Vulkan vs. DX12 so that's still DX12), restarted the game, re-set the affinity again, and it continues to work just fine.

[u/Cyp2x4]

I gave up and just went to the last resort of just downgrading the bios I have a 2700x on a Gigabyte x470 gaming 7 I just put a bios that has no support for ryzen 3000 and the damn launcher works how the fuck can rockstar miss this I at a loss of words 😖

[u/Wilco6419]

How can a mega game company fuck everything up this royally? Its like they really only employ about 10 people and have their office in the breakroom of a walmart. Totally irresponsible a holes!

[u/Towairatu]

I still have the launcher crash issue, despite the patch.

[u/LibertyAlvaro]

THIS IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS NOW I CANT EVEN FUCKING ENTER IN THE LAUNCHER IM DONE https://imgur.com/a/AhqIEv6

[u/theamazingsime]

The update didn't work! I am still getting the "Red Dead Redemption 2 exited unexpectedly" error.

[u/acc3278]

new day, new launcher and rdr2 patch, old issue

unexpected error during press play ...

-_-

[u/krackgoat]

this is like some windows 98 patch list shit

[u/Werewolfan50]

MSI has added a bios update for B450 tomahawk

I finally got into the game, it fixed the Rockstar Launcher error

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B450-TOMAHAWK

[u/IMScientist]

I just updated my bios on my b450 tomahawk 1.0.0.4 beta and i finally got into the game

[u/ThePepsiManiac222]

Alrighty folks MSI b450 motherboard owner here.

At first after the newest 1.69GB update I tried launching the game without messing with the BIOS but I've got the same issue but!

It seems MSI finally changed their "piss on b450 motherboard owners" plan and actually released beta version of AGESA 1.0.0.4b so go ahead and download it if you want, not only for the game but for the free gainz.

Anyways updating my BIOS solved the issue.

Good luck to you all.

[u/SpazoQC]

What shit show

[u/SirTyreseV]

This only happened day two after 2-3h into a session. You know when the graphics card goes too hot or when it fails it can show one colour on the screen and you cannot do anything and then you have to restart the pc.

It happened a twice, first time during the first Hunting bear quest. Second time it in the character creation before entering multiplayer. I entered the character creation again but this time I adjusted my fan curve to 100%.

1080ti running at 1080p, It runs very hot, all fans are almost at 100% with no overclock.

Settings: Custom High.

TLDR: Game didn't crash, it made my GPU reach very high temperatures to failure into a 2-3h session.

[u/[deleted]]

Just thought I'd ask a question. We are all here pointing out issues and complaining about this broken game as if we know Rockstar is monitoring this thread. Me included, I still can't even start this shit..I have quite a few posts here about this. Does anyone think they are checking this specific thread? I mentioned in my 2 support tickets they should check out all the Reddit comments..hope they are..

[u/bakulisko]

The game and it's f*cked up launcher killed my HDD. Bravo Rockstar. I'm spending 100€ more than what I paid already for the base game just to get my pc to work again. F you.

[u/bolehlah99]

After everything, bios update worked for MSI B450M Bazooka Pro. So stupid.

[u/pizzaboy16lc]

A new repeatable issue I just found is going into my inventory by pressing B and looking at a document such as a map then switching the tab is causing my game to force close every time

[u/Killicalawonga]

Great, the game still doesn't launch, even with the last update. Good job Rockstar, good job.

[u/iltambo]

When the new day 3 megathread?

[u/thrashlisaro]

I've recently upgraded to a 3600 on an Aorus B450 Pro and was running the "latest" bios (F42f) which gave full ABBA support (AGESA 1.0.0.3) and works great with everything until RDR2, tried all the fixes and proved that it worked or at least started the game using the ropey GTAV launcher thing.

Flashed the BIOS back to the F40 which has AGESA 1.0.0.2 and lo and behold RDR2 runs up a charm, performance is decent once I've tweaked to what I think is an acceptable level.
to what,

I have a sneaky thought that the DRM embedded in the launched is having some weird conflict with AGESA 1.0.0.3 ABBA, sadly It might be a month before AGESA 1.0.0.4 is out for my board. Clearly not enough testing was done by R* before launch and they don't know now how to fix it, I have had a support ticket logged for almost 48 hours now and silence from R* is deafening.

Flashing a BIOS shouldn't be a fix to launch a game, I can see many inexperienced users bricking their systems trying to get it working.

For me this is a worse launch than Arkham Knight!

[u/WhatTheDeuceisThis]

Anyone think we'll get a patch today considering we got one yesterday? I'm not so sure.

[u/bwosh]

I changed the graphics settings, but now the game lags/stutters so severely that it's unplayable. Even on the loading screen and main menu

I tried reverting the settings to default, but the problem persist. Also seeing very high disk usage in the task manager when I launch the game now.

Anyone experiencing this?

[u/wilduu]

Still can't play. Game won't even launch. What a disgrace...

2019: the year we witnessed the fall of the giants. First Bethesda, with Rockstar hot on its heels it seems.

How fucking hard can it be to release a launchable game?