It appears that RDR2 had a rocky launch on the PC. And yesterday, Rockstar released the first PC update for its latest open-world title. According to the release notes, this patch attempts to resolve all the crashing issues that PC gamers have been experiencing.
Going into more details, this update resolves an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “The Rockstar Games Launcher failed to initialize” on startup. Moreover, it fixes an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher preload decryption getting stuck and not completing. Furthermore, this patch will re-allow PC gamers to enable their anti-virus programs.
We strongly suggest restarting the Rockstar Launcher in case this update does not pop up. Below you can also find the complete changelog for this PC update.
Red Dead Redemption 2 November 5th PC Update Release Notes
- Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “The Rockstar Games Launcher failed to initialize” on startup.
- Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher preload decryption getting stuck and not completing.
- Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “The Rockstar Games Launcher exited unexpectedly” when launching Red Dead Redemption 2.
- Fixed an issue that resulted in crashes when starting the Rockstar Games Launcher from the Epic Games Launcher.
- Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “Unable to launch game, please verify your game data” when launching Red Dead Redemption 2 from the Epic Games Launcher.
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Good thing that EGS people are alpha testing this. At least once it comes out on steam we’ll be beta testing it for the people that get it in 2021.
It comes to Steam in December, lol.
Yea i know that’s why ega alpha and steam beta 🙂
Yea i know that’s why ega alpha and steam beta 🙂
I’ll wait for more patches and fitgirl repack. This game needs at least a couple more months in the oven
Why do you need a girl to install it for you?
Because it’s unfair to leave her in the kitchen all day long. /s
I’ll wait for more patches and fitgirl repack. This game needs at least a couple more months in the oven
Sadly did not fix anything for me. “RDR 2 exited unexpectedly” error or “the RGS game services are unavailable”.
Tried everything, excluded folders from my Windows Defender antivirus, set the RDR2.exe as run as admin, disable fullscreen optimizations….
No idea what to do.
i have play this game for 5 hours no problems ! update windows to 20h1 insider preview and no problem or crash !
Thanks for Beta Testing for the Steam version.
Thanks for letting us know, John.
CrackWatch. com.
Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “The Rockstar Games Launcher failed to initialize” on startup……….
You had one job R* luncher….
in my case, my antivirus was the cause for startup crash, have put the exe file in a special category, now no problem for launching the game but the optimisation really need to improve https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fc495685e53b67f854ea8d46728c9951cf249192ecdc69d69126f848ff25bee2.jpg
Same. Using bitdefender as well. Tried the Rockstar support suggestions and only thing that worked was anti-virus exclusion for RDR2.exe and folder.
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I want to pirate this video game but i have no time to play.
I want to pirate this video game but i have no time to play.
This update does absolutely nothing to fix the issues. Me and many other people still just get the launcher immediately crashing when trying to launch RDR2. I checked the version and it should be the latest one.
If Rockstar does not get this game up and running by the weekend I am asking for a refund. They had a year to develop it and it has been released in a totally unacceptable condition. Those who can get into the game seem to have stutter, fps drops, low res textures loading etc.
On ultrawides every cutscene will pillar AND letterbox the view for no good reason – there is already a mod that removes this behavior.
Mouse and keyboard controls are apparently completely disregarded with weird bindings and some menus working in ridiculous ways like not being able to use the mouse to select things in the inventory.
Rockstar have done an incredibly sh**ty job with this.
Rockstar have had a notorious inability to make proper PC ports for quite some time now, I don’t care how good GTA:V’s “port” may be. This whole entire situation was expected. How you thought this time would be different than the last five times they’ve managed to release garbage tier ports, I will never know.
GTA V AND Max Payne 3 before that.
FYI This update was for “The Rockstar Games Launcher” not the game.
I’m actually not even sure… Twice now since the game unlocked, I have seen the launcher download updates to the game. The first time was an 87MB download. About an hour ago, I restarted the game and it downloaded a 2.96 GB patch to the game, and then also reported there was another update to the Rockstar launcher.
no problems for me it run very good with windows 10 20h1 and vulkan api https://imgur.com/a/2rTb9id
I want to pirate this video game but i have no time to play.
Fixed the launcher by removing the launcher.
How does this game run for you, guys? I have a friend that own a RTX2080 and has a lot of problems with the performance, even at 1080p.
only a kunt plays at frame rates lower than 60fps
Not amazing. Was hoping for more from my 1080ti. Running at 4K I found dropping internal resolution down just a little made a huge impact. Still looks and plays miles better than the PS4 Pro though.
What exactly looks better than the PS4 Pro, I’m curios because I finished the game on the Pro and I’m considering buying the pc version.Besides resolution and fps arguments please : D
Shadows, tessellation, ambient occlusion, lighting in general, more light shafts, more fur on animals, tessellated trees, higher draw distances for everything, better reflections în water.
Really? Ok then,sounds good!
You’ll need a good PC to make use of those settings though. Other than that, mods should make it worth a second buy as well.
at launch , after testing i said here that the game run’s like s**t and the performance was much worst than expected and full of bugs people kept downvoting me even if they did’t even test it
I’ll let you know once the CODEX version is available.
#EpicFail
Fake notes, doesn’t fix a sh*t
Fortunately for me I haven’t had any of these issues with the Rockstar game launcher, though the game did manifest a VRM overheating issue my 2080 Ti had since it actually uses the GPU for everything it has (as a game should). NVIDIA is RMA’ing it for me. The game crashes about every 20-30 minutes at the same time the display driver crashes. I’d seen this behavior more recently in other games I’ve played but it was infrequent. I assumed it was overclock settings failing 0.5% of the time. Not the case. Using FurMark, the 2080 Ti was shutting off my entire machine!
Dude I’ve been there it sucks and Nvidia by default let that card run too hot to begin with.
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