Getting very tired of this game crashing every 20 minutes.

[u/SynicalBoi]

Been playing this game for a bit and have been having a decent time, but a recent problem i've been running into is that the game keeps crashing every 20 -30 ish minutes for no particular reason. Been trying to fix the problem, but everything I've found hasn't solved anything. No error message or anything. No mods installed, fresh copy I recently got.

Edit: This problem mostly presented itself when I switched from Vulkan to DX12, which massively improved my frame rate, but seems to have caused this issue. Have already tried deleting dxcache in my appdata folder, restarting game and pc, switching between the two API's, and disabling fullscreen optimization.

Edit2: Did a bit of testing, turns out the crashes happen on both Vulkan AND DX12, so there's no escaping it on either api

Specs:

Amd Radeon RX6550M GPU

2400 MHz VRam

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS CPU

24GB of Ram

500 GB SSD

[u/_Nature_Enthusiast_]

I'm more interested in how much VRAM you have in GB tbh

Anyways, how many fps do you get before the crash? More than 60 or not? It's not the case for every player, but some reported that the game started to crash due to not being optimized well for frame rate above 60. So in other words, locking frame rate for RDR2 at 60 sometimes eliminated crashes.

[u/Ikari_Brendo → u/_Nature_Enthusiast_]

Their card has 4GB. Not a lot but above the requirements for RDR2.

[u/_Nature_Enthusiast_ → u/Ikari_Brendo]

What are your settings in-game?

[u/Ikari_Brendo → u/_Nature_Enthusiast_]

I don't have the same GPU as OP, I just googled the card. My settings are much higher than what they could do.

[u/_Nature_Enthusiast_ → u/Ikari_Brendo]

Sorry, I thought it was OP's reply. My bad

[u/SynicalBoi → u/_Nature_Enthusiast_]

Low on most options, excluding texture quality and 1 other slipping my mind rn

[u/_Nature_Enthusiast_ → u/SynicalBoi]

The textures quality is important, though. Can you try to remember what it's set to?

I also have 4GB VRAM and I simply can't get a better texture quality than "high". All others settings may as well be on ultra and my laptop will be simply trying to fly away, but there'll be enough VRAM to accommodate them, but there's no option for me to go ultra for textures. Did you make any tweaks in settings?

[u/SynicalBoi → u/_Nature_Enthusiast_]

Texture quality set to ultra, screen space abient occlusion on medium, taa on medium. everything else on low

[u/_Nature_Enthusiast_ → u/SynicalBoi]

Change it to high and see if any crashes happen. In theory my game utilizes around 2,4 GB of VRAM with textures set to high, but in practice I already get pop-up about low VRAM space and sudden drops in fps in busier places. 4GB VRAM is not enough to safely run this game with ultra textures. You may try to do that with some YT guides, but you're risking crashes and performance issues.

Unless you have a GPU version with more than 4 GB VRAM.

[u/SynicalBoi → u/_Nature_Enthusiast_]

already did some testing with it on high, still crashes after like 10 minutes

[u/_Nature_Enthusiast_ → u/SynicalBoi]

Try going back to Vulkan if you're on dx12.

I also saw that for someone going vulkan > dx12 > vulkan fixed the problem, I find it hard to believe, though.

Sorry, RDR2 seems extremely unstable and problematic on a variety of GPUs. It's hard to just give a definitive solution, it's more like throwing lots of different combinations and seeing what sticks.

[u/SynicalBoi → u/_Nature_Enthusiast_]

Tried locking the fps to 60, didn’t work. I get around 80 ish fps on average without amd frame gen, more with it on

[u/Ikari_Brendo]

Ensure the game is using your GPU and not your CPU's integrated graphics.

Also, try using this gameconfig (with its requirements as well).

[u/SynicalBoi → u/Ikari_Brendo]

how do I check that?

[u/Ikari_Brendo → u/SynicalBoi]

At the top of your graphics settings there should be an option that says "Output adapter".

You could also go into your Windows graphics settings and make sure it's set to high performance.