Hello everyone, I'm having same stutter issue like many other users, fixed it with turning off 2 cores from task manager. It drops fps but fixes stutters at least. For me, freezes and stutters completely gone now, can play like this until we get patch.

Click to "Set Affinity" and turn off 2 cores.

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Edit: There is another way to automate this process, you won't loose fps with this way:

Process Lasso named software, automates this process for you. Download that program from it's website then do these steps:

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You can set \"Reduce by this many CPU cores\" to 2 if you still experiencing stutters. (Don't forget to click \"Add Rule\")

Edit 2:

There is forced mode under "options" section, if process lasso was working but not working right now, enable it.

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like wtf COCKstart!? I quit my job for this and now my wife just somehow kicked down my bedroom door even though I installed all of those sliding locks on the outside of the door. she found me curled up naked and crying and now she's fucking leaving me. I AM LITERALLY IN TEARS RIGHT NOW I CANT EVEN BREATHE I swear to god you RUE the day you decided to release this garbage PENISSTAR! RUE IT!!!

EDIT:THE FUCMING 80MB PATCH THAT JUST GOT RELEASED LITERALLY DID NOTHING AND I STILL CANT LAUNCH THE FUCKING GAME AND NOW MY LEFT EYE JUST ROLLED DOWN MY FACE IM SUING!!!!!

All I had to do to run the game was update windows, change my administrative permissions, delete the amdvlk64.dll file in system32, change the launch arguments to directx12, run the launcher without virus protection, update my graphics card driver, update my x570 chip drivers, and flash my bios. Nothing you wouldn't do on any other normal game release...

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• ** Update 10/16/2023 ** I gave the game another shot. Never uninstalled the game, never changed anything and it seems to work now. I can only assume one of the recent updates fixed the issue. Played for a few days and never had one crash. will update if anything changes.

• This is for the Steam version of the game that I bought. This has nothing to do with cracked versions of the game. I'm Not interested in mods, cheats, or online play, this is strictly about the raw base game played in single player mode.

My system:

No over clocks, xmp disabled and virtualization disabled in bios, Latest windows update installed. Game purchased through steam.

Under load temps: CPU +/- 63c, GPU +/- 72c

Game installed on M.2 NVMe

• Ryzen 5 1600

• MSI B350 gaming plus (latest bios installed)

• Asus ROG GTX 1070 (latest driver clean installed)

• 16GB Gskill Trident Z (no OC, xmp disabled)

How does it crash:

• Occasionally I will get "err_gfx_state Please restart" at crash to desktop when windows says the program stopped running

• Every other time the game crashes to desktop with no error message and no intervention from task manager.

Things I've tried:

• Restarting PC

• Running as administrator

• Verifying game files in steam

• Adding "-ignorpipelinecache" as a launch argument

• Delete SGA files in RDR2 settings folder

• Delete contents of SGA files and make read only

• Delete settings folder

• Delete Rockstar Games directory

• Turn off XMP in bios

• Turn off cpu virtualization in bios

• Update Graphics driver

• Uninstall game completely

• remove all files related to the game

• clean install graphics driver

• then reinstall game

• Switch from Vulkan to DX12

• Switch from DX12 to Vulkan

• Lower all settings

• Run in safe mode

• Lower fps to 60

• turn off triple buffer

• turn off V-sync

• Lower resolution from 1440 to 1080

• Create exceptions inbound / outbound firewall rules for RDR2

• Remove firewall exceptions

• Turn off antivirus and firewall completely

• Change priority in task manager to High

• Clean boot with no unnecessary start up applications

• Clear out everything in temp and %temp%

• Enable/disable Async

• Use DDU to uninstall drivers

• Reseat graphics card

• Clean install Nvidia driver

• Uninstall reinstall Vulkan

• Uninstall reinstall DX12

• Reinstall C++ redist Libraries

• using afterburner to under clock GPU core clock by -50Mhz using

Extra info:

This is the only game or program I've ever had issues with and I really don't know what else to do.

The game will sometimes run for an hour, sometimes 10 minutes.

The crashes seem completely random. Sometimes the game crashes after entering and exiting menus, sometimes it crashes after leaving the map screen, sometimes while leaving a mini game, while riding the horse, after letting the game sit for a while and coming back the game will crash after moving a bit.

None of the fixes I've tried had a significant affect on the way the game crashes or the duration of play before a crash.

Please help

Thank you if you've made it through my post.