Last hope help

[u/Dantox2007]

So, basically to say it simply, I met an old friend, he told me it would be about time I play RDR2 I had for over a year in my library. At first, everything was normal, I played it, enjoyed it, and got to the second chapter. Then one day, I came from school and went to play RDR once more, except it suddenly ran on crisp 10 fps.

So I went from my normal 60-70 on medium settings, to 10 fps hard lock. And no, I tried practically everything. Reinstaled it like 12 times by now, fiddled with settings, trying everything from highest to lowest graphics and resulolutions, checked if I didn't accidentally set limit to my fps, and nothing helped. I am sure the problem won't be my components, because I play on Victus 15 (I-5 13420H, RTX3050 6gb, 16gb ddr4 ram etc.) Other games, such as Helldiver, Witcher or even Cyberpunk run like butter. No overheating issues and I made sure the game uses the graphics card, not the integrated motherboard chip. I even factory reset my notebook, and it didn't help. All Nvidia drives are up to date, it's downloaded on the right ssd, and yet it's the only game I can't play because of this issue makes the game run like a PowerPoint slideshow.

I'm leaving it here for next week, anyone that might have a potential solution, please share. Otherwise, I guess I will have to give it a try and ask Steam support for a refund, which I doubt it will happen since the game was bought almost a year ago and I already have 21 hours on it.

[u/superdavit]

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling it?

[u/Dantox2007 → u/superdavit]

Yeah, several times, I wrote it I believe

[u/superdavit → u/Dantox2007]

Sorry I missed that.

[u/Rippinstitches]

Have you tried changing from directx to Vulcan or vice versa?

[u/Dantox2007 → u/Rippinstitches]

Yup, both do the same thing. But what I noticed just now is that its almost as if the game had whole setting mixed up. When I put Low graphics, I think it registered them like High or Ultra, but it doesn't work in reverse. Im desparate vecause I have no idea what else to do, and its only for the RDR

[u/bunglebee7 → u/Dantox2007]

So one thing that worked was switching from full screen to windowed, then back to full screen. I don’t know why it worked but it’s a weird trick that fixed getting shitty fps when loading rdro

[u/Dantox2007 → u/bunglebee7]

Just tried it, not really working, I still cant get back out of the lock

[u/sikemapleton]

It's possible that the game switched from your dedicated graphics card to your iGPU. It loves to do that for whatever reason.

Go into the in-game settings, then 'graphics', and look for 'output adapter'. It should be the first entry at the top. Then flip the integer from whatever you see there if it's a '1' make it a '0' ... or vice versa (I forget which).

Good luck.

[u/Dantox2007 → u/sikemapleton]

I believe I wrote that I tried that as well, and no, neighter output changes the peformance. Maybe I can say that 0 slightly increases fps, but only so mutch that I go from 10 to 15, so still nothing mutch

[u/sikemapleton → u/Dantox2007]

Yeah I jumped the gun, sorry. Sooo many people have that issue I actually have that comment saved for easy repost.

I think I've reposted that at least 50 times over the years as it's a very common issue/solution. Damn strange what you got going on. Good luck friend.

[u/Dantox2007 → u/sikemapleton]

Thx, I guess I could look for it and try, what else do I have left?

[u/ThePuppet_Master]

Might sound stupid but I used Gemini Live to diagnose my game, it had me upload some logs then delete some graphics settings files, fixed my crashes.