Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Update Addresses CPU Issues, Crashing, And More

Fans that were eagerly awaiting the PC port of Red Dead Redemption 2 got a bit of a snake bite when it did come earlier in this month. While the port was far from unplayable, it had a ton of issues. The biggest ones came from crashes, a lot of which has still gone unresolved. There’s also been a lot of issues with the Rockstar Games Launcher, resulting in a bit of a mess. There’s been several patches already, so Rockstar is remedying the situation, and there’s more today.

The newest patch for the PC version of the game addressed more issues with random crashes, specifically those that resulted in the “Red Dead Redemption 2 exited unexpectedly” message, as well as some problems people were having with stalls in 4-core and 6-core CPUs. It’s 2.9 GBs and you can see the full patch note list below.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The latest PC patch is live now.

• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in stalls on 4-core and 6-core CPUs
• Players with NVIDIA graphics cards and 4-core or 6-core CPUs should install the GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 441.34 from NVIDIA and remove any launch arguments to resolve this issue.
• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a permanent mouse cursor being displayed at all times when launching the game via the Epic Games Store
• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in the player’s cores draining at a faster rate than intended in Story Mode when running at high frame rates
• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in player weight decreasing at a faster rate than intended in Red Dead Online when running at high frame rates
• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in players not being able to place Waypoints on the Pause Menu Map in the correct location
• Improvements to address an issue with matchmaking in Red Dead Online that resulted in players with incompatible control settings joining the same session. We recommend that players using mouse and keyboard controls should switch to ‘Free Aim’ targeting mode before entering Red Dead Online.
• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in all custom graphical settings reverting to a low preset when the game was updated
• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in an ‘Activation Required’ error when loading the game after system hardware or device changes were made
• Improvements to address issues that resulted in a crash and displayed the ‘Failed to initialize graphics device’ or ‘Unable to initialize graphics driver ’errors when launching the game. If this issue still occurs, please make sure you have the latest graphics card drivers installed for your system.
• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when launching the game in Fullscreen display mode while using Vulkan
• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when launching the game with some graphics-related launch arguments active
• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash during loading screens when entering Story Mode or Red Dead Online
• Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash while modifying weapons at the Gunsmith in Red Dead Online
• Improvements to address issues that resulted in random crashes and the error “Red Dead Redemption 2 exited unexpectedly” during gameplay