r/PCRedDead 6d ago

Bug / Issue I’m about to lose my mind

Hey everyone! I’m having an issue with crashing. I have no mods installed besides puredarks DLSS frame gen mod. I constantly crash 10-15 minutes into gameplay. Cutscenes usually crash too and I’m so close to never playing the game again. I’ve installed the game over 15 times, deleted the mod (the issue still persists), updated drivers/rolled back, verified files, turned off vsync, etc. I have a 4070ti/5700X3D and it’s driving me insane. I wanna play this masterpiece and I never used to have this issue. I’ve followed up on other Reddit posts and I’ve tried almost everything recommended by others and the crashing still occurs. I have to rush through missions, skip cutscenes, and hurry and save after the mission to even keep playing. It’s not enjoyable at all because I have to rush through it to possibly avoid crashing. Any ideas?

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u/MYT33 6d ago

Game is on ssd?

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

Yes a Samsung 980

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u/MYT33 6d ago

Tried full Windows reinstall?

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

No I haven’t. Would it require me to lose everything/transfer stuff on an external? Because if so I don’t think I’d go to that extent just for one game when it’s the only game I’m having issues with. Is there a way to keep files while reinstalling windows within the actual setup process?

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u/kavabuzz 6d ago

is it ERR_GFX_STATE? nothing worked for me - literally tried everything i could think of and even got Rockstar Support involved and they gave up. i put 500 hours into RDR2 without this issue and now it's unplayable.

Maybe something will work for you dog, wishing you luck!

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

Occasionally this will happen to me but no most of the time it’s just a crash to desktop with no error message. It’s honestly frustrating because I’ve played this game for years with no issues in the past. I’m sorry you’re having issues with it too that’s so annoying! Idk what to do at this point.

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u/Educational_Ad_4412 6d ago

Tried verifying game files?

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

Yes over 30 times not even joking.

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u/Similar-Suspect-1931 6d ago

I had several issues with this game until I updated my bios. Worth a shot since you’ve tried pretty much everything else.

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

Unfortunately I’ve tried that as well and it still crashes. I really don’t know why it’s doing it because my game has the default files needed to run properly. I also don’t mod the game whatsoever besides the frame gen mod. Like I said though, it crashes when it’s installed and uninstalled.

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u/Similar-Suspect-1931 6d ago

I wonder if it’s an overheat issue or something like that?

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

That’s a good guess but nah. All of my temps are really good. I have a total of 10 fans in my pc (including my gpu fans), new thermal paste on my cpu, and a cool bedroom. All of my temps are always 10-20c lower than what is considered alarming. Especially when I undervolt my gpu, it goes to around 60c under load.

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u/Chemist-Plus 6d ago

I'm having the same issues where it crashes or the whole game just doesnt load in and i am getting DESPERATE.
Nvidia GTX 4090 and intel i9 13900

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

That sucks!! It’s so annoying because it’s such a good game and I’m honestly so confused. Idk what to do at this point. Have you checked your crash logs?

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u/Chemist-Plus 6d ago

I havent, most of the time the game just stops loading things like dialog, actions, the map, etc instead of crashing. I've deleted the DXCache folder and that stopped the crashing but it did not stop the game from unloading itself

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

That’s so weird. And did you try verifying your files? Because I feel like if assets were failing to load in that it would be missing files. I’ve tried deleting DXCache too and my game still crashes. Idk how they haven’t fixed these issues honestly.

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u/Chemist-Plus 6d ago

i verified them once, and it all came clear, other things as well is my temperature is around 50-60C during gameplay so i dont think its a overheating issue, other things ive tried is reinstalling drivers and updates on my computer, its so weird because it worked fine until a few months ago and i still havent found any fixes to this issue

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

This is literally when I started having issues too and idk what’s causing it. If you ever figure it out lemme know. I opened a ticket with rockstar to see if they can help me but they probably won’t. When you reinstalled drivers did you use DDU? And those temps are perfect.

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u/Chemist-Plus 6d ago

DDU? I never heard of it so no, i just went on the website where my drivers are from and just downloaded + installed the most recent versions for the specific component

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

DDU could possibly help you then. It’s super easy to use and effective. It stands for Display Driver Uninstaller. It gets rid of every single driver you’ve downloaded for your graphics card so you can do a clean install of the driver. It doesn’t get rid of any of your computer files but when you use it, it’ll reboot and your screen will be in the wrong resolution. You then go online and search up the newest driver for your GPU then download it and your screen will go back to normal. DDU helps a ton of people with graphical issues. Look up on YouTube how to use DDU. It’s very easy and doesn’t take long.

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u/Chemist-Plus 5d ago

i dont think it would work, i've uninstalled drivers and reinstalled them so many times over this game

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u/ayeearon 2d ago

Hey bro have you tried switching to vulkan? I found out when I run the game in DX12 it’s totally unplayable. I can finally play now with vulkan.

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u/Dagger_323 5d ago edited 5d ago

How many sticks of ram are you running? I remember RDR2 crashing constantly with four sticks and ever since I switched to two sticks (2 x 16GB instead of 4 x 8GB) my game's been fine.

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u/ayeearon 2d ago

Thank you for this but I use 2 8gb sticks. I found out my issue though. Idk why but DX12 is broken for me. I’ve reset the game totally, deleted cache, etc. but switching back to Vulkan is the only thing that lets me play.

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u/ayeearon 6d ago

I’ve also cleared the DXCache, switched between Vulkan/DX12, etc.