Red Dead Salvation: 12 Steps To Fix RDR2 Crashes

pczone.co.uk:

Little did I know such a casual sentence would mark the beginning of an epic quest to successfully load a game I had already played 50 hours of on my PC weeks previously. A journey of confusion, annoyance, incredible frustration, and, I’m happy to finally say, salvation.

This is the unwelcome task of getting Rockstar games to play properly on PC. A problem that a worrying number of gamers still face. It all started when the legendary developer decided to follow the popular trend and create their own games launcher. We all wish they hadn’t…

When Red Dead Redemption 2 launched on PC last autumn I was, like many folk, excited about playing it on the most powerful hardware I own – having thoroughly loved the experience on my Xbox.

However, around the same time came the release of said infamous launcher, that not only caused odd errors for those trying to load RDR2, but the by now long term PC released GTA V as well.

The main complaint was that the launcher would crash as soon as you tried to load the game. No error code, just a ‘quit unexpectedly’ message. The worst thing, however, was that at the time of launch RDR2 was only playable via the Rockstar Games Launcher. So, if you were stuck at this point, you were truly fucked.

In the months since the game has appeared on the Epic and Steam stores, and Rockstar have released a slue of patches to the launcher. For most of us these changes have been enough to remedy things. It was for me, after a week or two of waiting for the fixes back in October I was excitedly ‘makin’ noise’ as Arthur Morgan in the PC version of the game for the first time.

But that brings us to the now (well three days ago to be precise) and that innocuous phrase ‘let’s record that later’ – the game wouldn’t