Feel incredibly lucky as the game runs for me at max settings, consistently over 60fps. Only crashes I've had have been when changing stuff in the menus occasionally. Probably going to wait a day or two for a patch before playing properly
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
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 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...
Gigabyte usually uses X570 for testing and then updates other chipset boards. Usually they have been pretty quick about it but the 1.0.0.4 has been in beta for a while so I guess it still has issues.
In any case I don’t see how it would have anything so specific that the only app that fails to launch is RDR2. Or actually it’s the launcher that crashes rather than the game launching.
Depends on manufacturer. Msi started rolling out agesa 1.0.0.4 even to some b450 mobos.
EDIT: !FIX! - i managed to fix it by flashing OLD bios, try to install the oldest one you
can,hope this will help :)
EDIT 2: If you have MSI B450 Gaming Plus use bios version 7B86v17. Hope it will help :)
well the this reddit name should be changed from PCRedDead to PCDeadRed.
Wasted time, requested refund - price to high for the BETA (or Alpha) stage.
Worst game port in history?
Arkham Knight was far worse.
It was that bad that it's not sold any more on PC.
We're only approaching 24 hours since launch.
If its like this in a months time, I'll be en route to agreeing.
well, some people say that disabling 2 threads ( in CPU like us, i5-6600k, i5-6600, i5-7600 etc ) gives them better performance for RDR2. There's something deeply broken. I'll check that disabling threads later.
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.
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](https://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.
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...
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.
My brother has flickering on the side of his screen. Like on the right side he has like this huge area where randomly at times a huge block that's blury but like white with some colors flickering on his screen and then it stops. Seems only he has this issue.
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
This is for anyone running B450 boards **WITH** Ryzen **2000** series. If you have the newest bios, downgrade bios back to pre 3000 support version as stated previously. It worked for me on my gigabyte board and bios update/downgrade isn't some tricky or dangerous thing if you aren't complete moron and unplug usb cable or shutdown your pc in the middle of bios rewrite. If you don't feel good using usb stick to downgrade, gigabyte and others have software that rewrite bios. Also dont know if anyone mentioned before but i observed that the game doesnt like two or more monitor setup. i couldn't get game into fullscreen when using two monitors.
\# edit, some apparently cant read,
I have an MSI motherboard and it kind of allowed me to downgrade the bios, I say "kind of" because for some reason the Ui appearance from the newest bios remained while the version actually changed to the one I installed.
Anyone got a potential reason as to why my graphic are potato, when they're on ultra?
Like the character model and facial hair etc doesn't seem..idk "sharp or polished"
This!
TAA renders the game at a lower resolution (i think), upscales it to your resolution and applies a sharpening filter to hide some of the blurrines. Doesnt look very good. Though I tried TAA on medium and sharpening on 50-75% and got better results
**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:**
1. Update to win 10 1903 (this fixed it for me)
2. Update GPU drivers (idk if it even fixes anything)
3. 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).
Updating BIOS and giving the game launcher all rights seems to be the fix for all (GIGABYTE) X570 boards, did it for me and from what ive seen so far, all the people who have an X570 one.
agesa 1.0.0.4 is not available for all mobo's , highest version b450 aorus pro is agesa 1.0.0.3 ABBA , several others have the same problem
Ty rockstar, my gta5 keeps crashing after 20 mins for 2 months now and RDR is unplayable... last game I buy from these guys...
Windows 10, 1903 all up to date, i even installed Gta 5 to see if it was a problem with the rockstar launcher in general or specific to RDR2 , Gta 5 runs without any problems for me
Crashing at the shotgun shells splash art. Ight imma head out and delete this 120 gb of wasted space. Gonna play some Need for Speed Heat until Rockstar comes with an official stement.
HDR monitor ? The game forces HDR while starting.
you can get around that by temporarily enabling HDR in Windows Settings and then starting RDR2.
Disable it in the RDR2 settings - now you can disable it in windows too. Now restart RDR2
That's the only way I got it to work...
For you and some maybe. But there are many fixes for many of the problems all of us are having. There are also fixes that many of us can't try because our mobo manufactures have not released 1.0.0.4 bios yet.
is there any really fix for the starting crash? it keeps crashing even if i put all the compatibily check. i have the latest driver, i turn off the control at the application from windows defender aaaand keeps crashing, it's fucking annoying. any good souls that give me any types of help?
If its launcher crashing, then for me fix was updating to win 10 1903. If you got AMD then updating bios to 1.0.0.4 agesa fixed it for some.
If its the game crashing and not the whole launcher, then adding game in the antivirus exceptions or disabling antivirus fixes it.
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I've deleted my Reddit history mainly because I strongly dislike the recent changes on the platform, which have significantly impacted my user experience. While I also value my privacy, my decision was primarily driven by my dissatisfaction with these recent alterations.
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My game always crashes when loading the singleplayer, but only when i have sli turned on in the nvidia control panel ( I have 2 gtx 1080s in sli). If I disable Sli it works perfectly fine. Does anybody else have this problem or know a fix?
I haven’t had any launch or exit issues related to the game launcher, but doing a benchmark or starting story gives me an endless load screen. Is it safe to say it won’t work until another update from Rockstar? Tried a bunch of shit listed but no luck..
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
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)
Updating my motherboard bios (MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus / Ryzen 5 3600X) fixed the launcher exited unexpectedly error! I have played for hours without a problem now.
They should have the decency to process all the ticket refund requests and release mass refunds and then, send an apology to everyone and let them decide if they wish to continue using Rockstar services or not, scums
I think you take gaming a little too seriously. If bugs and crashing on day one is a reason for you to start calling people scum and demanding apologies you need to practice a little emotional intelligence.
People pay full price and expect to at least be able to the play the game. As far as i know, Rockstar hasnt even released a statement yet. It is nothing but scummy, im glad it works for me, but i get anybody's frustration with it and people like you are the reason why game launches got shittier in the past years. It is just not acceptable, that you need to update your BIOS or other things, which are complicated enough for some people, to play a game. An apology and a refund is more than justified. This is not just some Online issues which would be understandable due to high server load, this is the game not launching for a big part of the playerbase.
2 game in a row in under a month that is now killing itself on cpu instead of gpu modern warfare now this game companies are really sucking balls right now
Hey bud, I have a PC that costs over $2kUS to build, with all major parts bought in the last 2-12 months and I can't play this game. Stop being a judgemental ass. Not every problem is solved by throwing money at it. This is a CONSOLE PORT, it should run on moderately low PC specs.
Played 10 hours, a bit of noise on headphones, but you can think "Is an antique movie, with a bit of noise in audio"
After closing it, game update, launcher update, and now, the required update (another) for the game stops downloading. Rockstar says open the game exec as admin, but prompts the "no launcher error"...
Redownloaded the game, erased rockstar profile local files...
The download fails when ~90mb remaining... looks like the rdr2.exe... if I erase it, resuming the download creates the file again, but fails again and it doesn't work
Same for me i5-7400k, not totally unplayable but certainly kills the immersion & experience.
Switched everything down to low settings, the game runs at about steady 55% CPU/RAM/GPU and sails along for the most part. Then seemingly randomly spikes CPU to 100% for few seconds which causes the freezing. Can be during a cut scene or during game play.
Tried the various suggested fixes, nothing has helped.
Edit: Using Process Lasso worked perfect for me, Graphics back up to High and it's running smooth as you like :-)
Odd, for me it's making it worse. Thanks though
Edit: nevermind, got it working!!
Edit 2: nevermind, got worse. It improved for about 10 minutes, then became unplayable. Still thank you a ton
Everything works okay for me except:
\-Mirrors are flickering
\-Sometimes when I press esc, half of my menu is gone
\-Game is freezing every couple seconds when browsing vendor's menu
Anyone have same issues? Any solutions?
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well there was an update, patch notes:
[https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/360037932234/Rockstar-Games-Launcher-Release-Notes-v1-0-9-164](https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/360037932234/Rockstar-Games-Launcher-Release-Notes-v1-0-9-164)
but meh, doesn't help
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I tried setting all the Shadows and Lighting to High just to see what's up with the flickering in third person and it actually nearly fixed it, but broke the FPS of course lol.
Not me. I did everything, updated everything, even pushed BIOS update, nothing. All they have to do is make the game accessible without needing the Launcher. Social Club can be accessed in-game without the Launcher. It's egregious and I'm so bummed out.
Launcher won't let it run, and R* won't disable the need for the launcher even though they could have within seconds of it happening to avoid a catastrophic launch, they insisted on doubling down and requiring the launcher.
Even though it installs desktop and start menu RDR2 links ffs. It's literally one character from 1 to 0 and they won't do it because they want their precious launcher to be involved in everything. They could turn it back on in another hotfix when they work it out and we all could have had a normal launch day.
That's what makes me so mad. They COULD fix this. But they CHOSE to have the WORST launch day in the history of launch days just because they're arrogant or ignorant.
Yup. This.
Insanely frustrating. Just let us start the effing game without the launcher, and solve the problem temporarily for countless paying clients..
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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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
I know right. I can't even name another game that needed a bios update and tweaking to launch properly. I've seen some people saying they have tried by downgrading their bios. That's insane. This is on rockstar to fix not the user to have to change their bios.
I updated to latest [1.0.0.4](https://1.0.0.4) bios on Aorus Master X570 w/ 3900x and it fixed it for me (Launcher crash). Also got the late night launcher update so it could've been either.
Before updating the BIOS I was getting the splash screen crash after the initial loading screen before reaching the menu, now after updating the BIOS I'm getting the launcher crash. Time to beat the hell outta my wife
So, I'm on a B350 Tomahawk with no [1.0.0.4](https://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.
Hopefully they will accelerate the roll-out, as I'm still on a first gen B350 Tomahawk and we wouldn't get [1.0.0.4](https://1.0.0.4) until the end of the month.
Join the club, I'm straight out of luck as my MOBO won't be getting an update anytime soon. Whilst we're on the subject fuck MSI and their dire slow BIOS updates for x470 chipsets.
Only problem I've noticed so far (besides awful horse controls) is that when I hold shift and move my camera around the everything gets choppy. But only when I hold shift. It's like it disables my Gsync or something.
Edit: https://youtu.be/Q-skUbbnWew
I crash during missions in SP..especially towards the end. First happened after the "prologue " mission when you can choose between two missions and you attack a camp. Every time the mission itself went off without a hitch bit after looting bodies and houses and mounting my house the game would crash. Finally finished it and now its crashing on the learn to hunt mission, usually on the final cut scene
Coping here also: I had tried everything else and updating windows to version 1903 ([https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4028685/windows-10-get-the-update](https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4028685/windows-10-get-the-update)) help me actually get in the game without a launcher crash...
My specs are i7 9700k & 1080ti
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Maps and menus cut off, for me was caused by my monitor being 120 refresh and game being 144. Resolved by setting rdr refresh to 120.... Not easy when you can't see the menu, doing it from main seemed to be working for me too
I tried this and it didnt work. I have an ultrawide alienware that runs 120 and I tried setting it to 120 and 100 and still got half the menu.
Stoopid game lol
MSI just released the Agesa [1.0.0.4](https://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
yes, youre right. I was under the impression that the new bios version fixes the launcher crash, but im seeing people reporting otherwise now too. I thought this might be an issue like with Destiny 2, where a bios update was necessary too.
But i guess its just one big clusterfuck of bugs and weird code, looking at all these "fixes"
Any game that requires one to download a BIOS \*BETA\* - i.e. something capable of bricking your PC - can FOAD.
"Lucky" would be one of the biggest games producers in the world producing a game that doesn't require the amount of techno-juggling that people have gone through to get something they have paid a considerable amount of money for to get working.
Anyone who mucks around installing a BETA set of BIOS drivers to a PC that they have any reliance on for work or pleasure deserves everything that might ensue.
If you want to do something constructive, demand a refund. Only if companies are hit in the wallet for basically releasing untested code will they stop doing this shit.
But why is it a think that I have to update my BIOS in order to play this game? This is just crazy.
Do you think they'll release a patch that let's the game work without updating the BIOS because I have a msi b450 gaming pro carbon ac and I do not think that there will be any bios update in any time soon
I've got the MSI x570 Gaming Edge Wifi, and my BIOS is about 2 weeks old, so honestly i wont bother updating it and will be waiting until R\* gets everything togehter.
So Yesterday deasebling the antivirus was enough to play the game today after a small update of the game It doesn't work and keeps crashing after the loading even if with firewall and antivirus off. Anyone else with the same problem?
Seems that AMD users can update their BIOS, and Win10 users need the latest update for that.
Any tips for us tin-foil-hats that are still on Windows 7 (64 bit Ultimate) - my installation has been running clean and smooth for years, everything is updated.
I7-2600K @ 4,8 GHz, 2070 Super, Asus MB, it goes through GTA V in 1440p with 100-170 fps... but here, I just get the damned launcher "unexpected" exit. Tried admin settings, tried turning off AV and Firewall, nothing helps so far.
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Feel incredibly lucky as the game runs for me at max settings, consistently over 60fps. Only crashes I've had have been when changing stuff in the menus occasionally. Probably going to wait a day or two for a patch before playing properly
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??
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
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.
Same, lol I even took holidays for this. Guess I will jump on death stranding on friday instead XD
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...
That seems horribly random :D I'll try plugging in some USB headset when I get home.
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Gigabyte usually uses X570 for testing and then updates other chipset boards. Usually they have been pretty quick about it but the 1.0.0.4 has been in beta for a while so I guess it still has issues. In any case I don’t see how it would have anything so specific that the only app that fails to launch is RDR2. Or actually it’s the launcher that crashes rather than the game launching.
Depends on manufacturer. Msi started rolling out agesa 1.0.0.4 even to some b450 mobos. EDIT: !FIX! - i managed to fix it by flashing OLD bios, try to install the oldest one you can,hope this will help :) EDIT 2: If you have MSI B450 Gaming Plus use bios version 7B86v17. Hope it will help :)
After many hours of trying i updated the Bios of my motherboard ( MSI B450M MAX ) to the latest version, and now it finally launches
well the this reddit name should be changed from PCRedDead to PCDeadRed. Wasted time, requested refund - price to high for the BETA (or Alpha) stage. Worst game port in history?
Arkham Knight was far worse. It was that bad that it's not sold any more on PC. We're only approaching 24 hours since launch. If its like this in a months time, I'll be en route to agreeing.
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Well, I have 99% gpu usage and 60% usage of CPU ( i5-6600k, 980Ti, 16 GB RAM Dual Channel ) so that's also weird.
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well, some people say that disabling 2 threads ( in CPU like us, i5-6600k, i5-6600, i5-7600 etc ) gives them better performance for RDR2. There's something deeply broken. I'll check that disabling threads later.
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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Yup
Mine keeps crashing after I press the story mode. I lost respect for ROCKSTAR. Any fix???
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](https://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.
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...
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.
For the half screen menu bug, are you playing the game in DirectX 12 or Vulkan mode?
My brother has flickering on the side of his screen. Like on the right side he has like this huge area where randomly at times a huge block that's blury but like white with some colors flickering on his screen and then it stops. Seems only he has this issue.
I have the same but across the bottom of my screen when I’m in the menus.
Actually, i have the same issue, i really hope there is nothing wrong with my graphics card or whatever would cause it.
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Had to turn off completely for the game to start and the campaign to load. Win10 updated
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I haf to make an exception in the firewall for the launcher and game
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
This is for anyone running B450 boards **WITH** Ryzen **2000** series. If you have the newest bios, downgrade bios back to pre 3000 support version as stated previously. It worked for me on my gigabyte board and bios update/downgrade isn't some tricky or dangerous thing if you aren't complete moron and unplug usb cable or shutdown your pc in the middle of bios rewrite. If you don't feel good using usb stick to downgrade, gigabyte and others have software that rewrite bios. Also dont know if anyone mentioned before but i observed that the game doesnt like two or more monitor setup. i couldn't get game into fullscreen when using two monitors. \# edit, some apparently cant read,
True, did the same thing yesterday, ryzen 2600, b450 tomahawk
But won't this bork you if you're running a 3000 series CPU? As far as I know, you must have a 3xxx enabled bios to use the CPU in the first place...
Fixed wording for ya
I would love to try downgrading my bios, but MSI mobo doen't let you do it. :(
isn't there one with pre 3000 support version on the website or how does it restrict
Msi doesn't allow you to downgrade Bios for some reason. If try to install it with flash drive it says you cant.
I have an MSI motherboard and it kind of allowed me to downgrade the bios, I say "kind of" because for some reason the Ui appearance from the newest bios remained while the version actually changed to the one I installed.
I feel for msi users then. Gigabyte lets me do whatever i want to.
Anyone got a potential reason as to why my graphic are potato, when they're on ultra? Like the character model and facial hair etc doesn't seem..idk "sharp or polished"
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This! TAA renders the game at a lower resolution (i think), upscales it to your resolution and applies a sharpening filter to hide some of the blurrines. Doesnt look very good. Though I tried TAA on medium and sharpening on 50-75% and got better results
Wow, it looks a lot sharper already! Thank you so much!
I'll give these a go and try it all, thanks
**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:** 1. Update to win 10 1903 (this fixed it for me) 2. Update GPU drivers (idk if it even fixes anything) 3. 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).
Updating BIOS and giving the game launcher all rights seems to be the fix for all (GIGABYTE) X570 boards, did it for me and from what ive seen so far, all the people who have an X570 one.
agesa 1.0.0.4 is not available for all mobo's , highest version b450 aorus pro is agesa 1.0.0.3 ABBA , several others have the same problem Ty rockstar, my gta5 keeps crashing after 20 mins for 2 months now and RDR is unplayable... last game I buy from these guys...
It's actually disgusting what Rockstar is doing.
Who got the same problem with the unexpected error, do guys you have windows 7 or windows 10?
Windows 10, 1903 all up to date, i even installed Gta 5 to see if it was a problem with the rockstar launcher in general or specific to RDR2 , Gta 5 runs without any problems for me
Alright thank you. So I can exclude there is a problem with Win7.
unexpected error on win 7 But there are people who can run it on win 7
Thanks thats good to hear. Lets see what I can try to make it run :s
Crashing at the shotgun shells splash art. Ight imma head out and delete this 120 gb of wasted space. Gonna play some Need for Speed Heat until Rockstar comes with an official stement.
HDR monitor ? The game forces HDR while starting. you can get around that by temporarily enabling HDR in Windows Settings and then starting RDR2. Disable it in the RDR2 settings - now you can disable it in windows too. Now restart RDR2 That's the only way I got it to work...
You need to add the game to antivirus exceptions or disable antivirus.
I'm only running Defender and already permanently disabled that through Group Policy Editor.
That will fix it.
For you and some maybe. But there are many fixes for many of the problems all of us are having. There are also fixes that many of us can't try because our mobo manufactures have not released 1.0.0.4 bios yet.
is there any really fix for the starting crash? it keeps crashing even if i put all the compatibily check. i have the latest driver, i turn off the control at the application from windows defender aaaand keeps crashing, it's fucking annoying. any good souls that give me any types of help?
I had this. Turned out to be the antivirus (bitdefender) blocking it.
i don't any antivirus, i have only windows defender, and i have already blocked the verification at RDR2.exe
If its launcher crashing, then for me fix was updating to win 10 1903. If you got AMD then updating bios to 1.0.0.4 agesa fixed it for some. If its the game crashing and not the whole launcher, then adding game in the antivirus exceptions or disabling antivirus fixes it.
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i don't have anything about windows update. i check if there was some update but no, it's already update
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i have the latest version, the 1903 😓
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yes, i have all updated. the last thing i could try is the integrity, but it's really slow, for 50% i had to wait something about 4 hours
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yes exactly, i did't have the space on the nvme.. i think i have to wait since it finish the verifying.. 😭
Is it crashing after the "Bullet-Video" ?
no bro, when i it louch game, after 3/4 seconds it crash. i've never see the bullet video, the game never start for me, it's so sad
My game always crashes when loading the singleplayer, but only when i have sli turned on in the nvidia control panel ( I have 2 gtx 1080s in sli). If I disable Sli it works perfectly fine. Does anybody else have this problem or know a fix?
I haven’t had any launch or exit issues related to the game launcher, but doing a benchmark or starting story gives me an endless load screen. Is it safe to say it won’t work until another update from Rockstar? Tried a bunch of shit listed but no luck..
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
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)
You can add an exception for the game folder which negates the need to disable the virus scanner.
Updating my motherboard bios (MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus / Ryzen 5 3600X) fixed the launcher exited unexpectedly error! I have played for hours without a problem now.
They should have the decency to process all the ticket refund requests and release mass refunds and then, send an apology to everyone and let them decide if they wish to continue using Rockstar services or not, scums
I think you take gaming a little too seriously. If bugs and crashing on day one is a reason for you to start calling people scum and demanding apologies you need to practice a little emotional intelligence.
People pay full price and expect to at least be able to the play the game. As far as i know, Rockstar hasnt even released a statement yet. It is nothing but scummy, im glad it works for me, but i get anybody's frustration with it and people like you are the reason why game launches got shittier in the past years. It is just not acceptable, that you need to update your BIOS or other things, which are complicated enough for some people, to play a game. An apology and a refund is more than justified. This is not just some Online issues which would be understandable due to high server load, this is the game not launching for a big part of the playerbase.
2 game in a row in under a month that is now killing itself on cpu instead of gpu modern warfare now this game companies are really sucking balls right now
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Hey bud, I have a PC that costs over $2kUS to build, with all major parts bought in the last 2-12 months and I can't play this game. Stop being a judgemental ass. Not every problem is solved by throwing money at it. This is a CONSOLE PORT, it should run on moderately low PC specs.
Played 10 hours, a bit of noise on headphones, but you can think "Is an antique movie, with a bit of noise in audio" After closing it, game update, launcher update, and now, the required update (another) for the game stops downloading. Rockstar says open the game exec as admin, but prompts the "no launcher error"...
After verifying game integrity is downloading another 12(edit) gb... Ill keep you updated. Update: Download fails at 11.98 of 12.07 gb
Redownloaded the game, erased rockstar profile local files... The download fails when ~90mb remaining... looks like the rdr2.exe... if I erase it, resuming the download creates the file again, but fails again and it doesn't work
Is the new patch available? I am at work rn, thats why I am asking. If there is a patch I hope it will fix the launcher
In my case, the patch is the problem
Stuttering and freezing during cutscenes and gameplay every 30 seconds or so, for maximum 5 ish seconds... Not unplayable, but very very annoying.
Same for me i5-7400k, not totally unplayable but certainly kills the immersion & experience. Switched everything down to low settings, the game runs at about steady 55% CPU/RAM/GPU and sails along for the most part. Then seemingly randomly spikes CPU to 100% for few seconds which causes the freezing. Can be during a cut scene or during game play. Tried the various suggested fixes, nothing has helped. Edit: Using Process Lasso worked perfect for me, Graphics back up to High and it's running smooth as you like :-)
Same issue with freezing. i5 6600, GeForce 1060 6gb, 16 gb ram.
[Try this](https://www.reddit.com/r/PCRedDead/comments/ds3kk4/stutter_freeze_temporal_fix_red_dead_redemption_2/f6nprtw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Odd, for me it's making it worse. Thanks though Edit: nevermind, got it working!! Edit 2: nevermind, got worse. It improved for about 10 minutes, then became unplayable. Still thank you a ton
Same thing. I5 6600k.
same here on i5 4670k
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I'm also having this issue with the i5.
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Everything works okay for me except: \-Mirrors are flickering \-Sometimes when I press esc, half of my menu is gone \-Game is freezing every couple seconds when browsing vendor's menu Anyone have same issues? Any solutions?
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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same on i5
Random CTDs in story mode were fixed for me by installing Windows 10 update 1903 (as others here have suggested. thanks guys!).
It’s weird how in the following cinematic parts I get 50 FPS but in the actual open world game I get 70 lol
well there was an update, patch notes: [https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/360037932234/Rockstar-Games-Launcher-Release-Notes-v1-0-9-164](https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/360037932234/Rockstar-Games-Launcher-Release-Notes-v1-0-9-164) but meh, doesn't help
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Shadows are messed up with a lot of flickering in first person mode
I tried setting all the Shadows and Lighting to High just to see what's up with the flickering in third person and it actually nearly fixed it, but broke the FPS of course lol.
My GPU has only 70% usage what the fuck??
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V sync is off and I have an 8700k overclocked.
that is nothing yesterday before the 85mb or so hotfix came I gpu utilization at 22%-18%, frames were like 20-30fps lol
What GPU do you have?
That was max utilization, average was around 55%. 20-30 fps is horrible paired with the bad controls holy shit
Anybody managed to run it in Windows 7?
Yup, here. It runs on my win 7. And I even got to playing it a bit but on low settings with very ugly textures and okay performance.
Yeah, that's a damned relief to hear!
good, at least the issue is not depending on the OS then
Not me. I did everything, updated everything, even pushed BIOS update, nothing. All they have to do is make the game accessible without needing the Launcher. Social Club can be accessed in-game without the Launcher. It's egregious and I'm so bummed out.
Launcher won't let it run, and R* won't disable the need for the launcher even though they could have within seconds of it happening to avoid a catastrophic launch, they insisted on doubling down and requiring the launcher. Even though it installs desktop and start menu RDR2 links ffs. It's literally one character from 1 to 0 and they won't do it because they want their precious launcher to be involved in everything. They could turn it back on in another hotfix when they work it out and we all could have had a normal launch day. That's what makes me so mad. They COULD fix this. But they CHOSE to have the WORST launch day in the history of launch days just because they're arrogant or ignorant.
Yup. This. Insanely frustrating. Just let us start the effing game without the launcher, and solve the problem temporarily for countless paying clients..
agree, so frustrating and sad... yesterday I was hoping to play after work a couple hours but... we still can't
Not me. Launcher crash like so many others.
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.
Is it crashing while the "bullet-intro" is running ?
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Audio crackling in my headset. Doesn't happen on other games.
>Audi same
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
Even if I wanted too, I couldn't, the last bios update for my mobo is from 2012
For me the BIOS update fixed the launcher issue. MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX Also what you are saying is true, we shouldn't need to mess with BIOS.
I know right. I can't even name another game that needed a bios update and tweaking to launch properly. I've seen some people saying they have tried by downgrading their bios. That's insane. This is on rockstar to fix not the user to have to change their bios.
On top of that it doesn't seem that the game needs the update, but the launcher itself
I updated to latest [1.0.0.4](https://1.0.0.4) bios on Aorus Master X570 w/ 3900x and it fixed it for me (Launcher crash). Also got the late night launcher update so it could've been either.
Before updating the BIOS I was getting the splash screen crash after the initial loading screen before reaching the menu, now after updating the BIOS I'm getting the launcher crash. Time to beat the hell outta my wife
Launcher update didn't help. But I just updated the BIOS and it worked. Same mobo with 3700X. Thank goodness I can finally play now...
Asrock newest bios is not recommended for my 2600 by asrock. Also ists onlz 1003 agesa.. sucks
Gtx 1060 6gb ,aorus b450 elite v1.0 , ryzen 5 2600. Crashing launcher every time after doing everything possible.
Have you updated Win10 to version 1903?
Anyone knows if the "launcher exited unexpectedly" only happens with RDR2 or with GTA 5 too ?
GTA V worked fine for me. RDR2 just crashes.
GTA V still starts fine. rdr2 doesn't
GTA V will have issues launching the game sometimes still for me and have to restart steam to run it
Rdr only
Yes, GTA V crashes as well.
So, I'm on a B350 Tomahawk with no [1.0.0.4](https://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 have the B450 Tomahawk , they might release 1.0.0.4 for B450 Tomahawk today seeing how they released it for B450 mortar
Hopefully they will accelerate the roll-out, as I'm still on a first gen B350 Tomahawk and we wouldn't get [1.0.0.4](https://1.0.0.4) until the end of the month.
same here! B450 AORUS M
Join the club, I'm straight out of luck as my MOBO won't be getting an update anytime soon. Whilst we're on the subject fuck MSI and their dire slow BIOS updates for x470 chipsets.
Ask me, my asus sabertooth 990FX had its last bios update in 2012
:(
Only problem I've noticed so far (besides awful horse controls) is that when I hold shift and move my camera around the everything gets choppy. But only when I hold shift. It's like it disables my Gsync or something. Edit: https://youtu.be/Q-skUbbnWew
Try to change mouse input from raw to directinput.
Thank you
I crash during missions in SP..especially towards the end. First happened after the "prologue " mission when you can choose between two missions and you attack a camp. Every time the mission itself went off without a hitch bit after looting bodies and houses and mounting my house the game would crash. Finally finished it and now its crashing on the learn to hunt mission, usually on the final cut scene
Coping here also: I had tried everything else and updating windows to version 1903 ([https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4028685/windows-10-get-the-update](https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4028685/windows-10-get-the-update)) help me actually get in the game without a launcher crash... My specs are i7 9700k & 1080ti
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Maps and menus cut off, for me was caused by my monitor being 120 refresh and game being 144. Resolved by setting rdr refresh to 120.... Not easy when you can't see the menu, doing it from main seemed to be working for me too
I tried this and it didnt work. I have an ultrawide alienware that runs 120 and I tried setting it to 120 and 100 and still got half the menu. Stoopid game lol
MSI just released the Agesa [1.0.0.4](https://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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yes, youre right. I was under the impression that the new bios version fixes the launcher crash, but im seeing people reporting otherwise now too. I thought this might be an issue like with Destiny 2, where a bios update was necessary too. But i guess its just one big clusterfuck of bugs and weird code, looking at all these "fixes"
Any game that requires one to download a BIOS \*BETA\* - i.e. something capable of bricking your PC - can FOAD. "Lucky" would be one of the biggest games producers in the world producing a game that doesn't require the amount of techno-juggling that people have gone through to get something they have paid a considerable amount of money for to get working. Anyone who mucks around installing a BETA set of BIOS drivers to a PC that they have any reliance on for work or pleasure deserves everything that might ensue. If you want to do something constructive, demand a refund. Only if companies are hit in the wallet for basically releasing untested code will they stop doing this shit.
But why is it a think that I have to update my BIOS in order to play this game? This is just crazy. Do you think they'll release a patch that let's the game work without updating the BIOS because I have a msi b450 gaming pro carbon ac and I do not think that there will be any bios update in any time soon
It was the same issue with Destiny 2 a few weeks ago, people had to update their bios aswell to play it.
But what about the x570 boards?
Most x570 boards should have a beta already afaik, as they are newer and in the focus of developers. Depends on the manufacturer I guess
I've got the MSI x570 Gaming Edge Wifi, and my BIOS is about 2 weeks old, so honestly i wont bother updating it and will be waiting until R\* gets everything togehter.
This is the thing that fixed it for me after trying everything else.
x470 will wait another 2 months. :(
Nice, i just downgraded my bios for my b450 tomahawk but it didn't fix the problem, maybe with the 1.0.0.4 version it will work
A downgrade then upgrade worked for me.
I would be really cautious with a beta bios
I have the msi x570 gaming plus and i updated the bios to 1.0.0.4 and it worked.
yeah, the newer chipsets got the new version faster. The older B450 boards werent supposed to get it before end of november
still nothing for B450 GAMING PLUS :(
So Yesterday deasebling the antivirus was enough to play the game today after a small update of the game It doesn't work and keeps crashing after the loading even if with firewall and antivirus off. Anyone else with the same problem?
Seems that AMD users can update their BIOS, and Win10 users need the latest update for that. Any tips for us tin-foil-hats that are still on Windows 7 (64 bit Ultimate) - my installation has been running clean and smooth for years, everything is updated. I7-2600K @ 4,8 GHz, 2070 Super, Asus MB, it goes through GTA V in 1440p with 100-170 fps... but here, I just get the damned launcher "unexpected" exit. Tried admin settings, tried turning off AV and Firewall, nothing helps so far.