Red Dead Redemption 2 may be a stunning masterpiece that ranks as one of the best games this generation, but its PC launch wasn’t exactly smooth, owing to the game not running well even on some of the most high specced machines around.
Rockstar has put out several patches for the game since then, and things have gotten better. The newest patch, 1.14.1, is another one squarely aimed at fixing a lot of the specific issues that exist with the PC version, including stability when running using the Vulcan API, fewer crashes, better performance, and so on. This patch also has some more general fixes for the Xbox One version of the game. PS4 owners get left out (maybe Xbox has patch-exclusivity for Red Dead).
Jokes aside, though, hopefully this helps bring the level of performance and stability for the game on PC up to more acceptable levels. It’s a great game—but people need it to actually run without killing their machines before they can get to recognizing its brilliance.
The full patch notes are below:
Red Dead Redemption 2 Update 1.14.1 Release Notes
[November 25, 2019] General / Miscellaneous – PC
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when changing Windows audio devices/settings while the game was running
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when launching the game after switching between Vulkan and DirectX 12
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when graphical settings were changed and applied while close to the VRAM limit
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash during loading screens when launching Story Mode or Red Dead Online
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when attempting to quit the game
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when switching between several input devices
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash during gameplay when using keyboard and mouse controls
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when transitioning between Story Mode and Red Dead Online
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when entering Photo Mode while the player was in cinematic camera mode
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash during certain weather conditions on systems with multiple graphics cards
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in graphical errors and other instability when using Vulkan with multiple graphics cards
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a random crash during gameplay when using DirectX 12
- Improvements to address issues that resulted in random crashes during gameplay in Story Mode and Red Dead Online
[November 25, 2019] General / Miscellaneous – Xbox One
- General fixes and improvements to stability and performance