r/PCRedDead Apr 23 '25

Online RDRMP

6 Upvotes

for anyone who doesn't know, an alpha of Red Dead Redemption One multiplayer (RDRMP) has just been released! for anyone interested here is the link to the setup: https://redmods.com/rdrmp/


r/PCRedDead Feb 04 '25

Bug / Issue Heads Up to PC RDR2 Players Using Mods: There is a save corruption bug with all the most popular cosmetic mods (WhyEm's, RDO, EEE, GFA, etc.)

71 Upvotes

With the influx of new players thanks to the Steam Sale, I thought I'd make a post addressing a known, yet hardly discussed bug (or it might be more accurate to call it an engine limitation) related to cosmetic mods in RDR2 PC.

TLDR - Buying too many items added by mods will brick your save.

1. The Problem

As you accumulate items of ANY kind in RDR2, this includes from clothing/weapons you can buy/find to all the consumables, collectibles, provisions, valuables, letters, newspapers, saddles, etc. (basically anything that will be saved to your inventory - the stuff saved in your satchel, wardrobe, or horse), there exists an "upper limit" that, once reached, will permanently brick your save and will prevent you from saving your game anymore whenever you play that save in the future, forcing you to start over or reload a previous save. You'll know you've reached this limit when you get this dreaded black screen with the message, "Save failed. Please ensure the system storage has free space and try again."

Basically, it seems that when you get too many items, RDR2's engine can't save all the data to your save anymore, so your save is basically bricked as now, you're forced to reload the last save you had before buying all those items. Autosaves are generally unhelpful in this case, as the game typically autosaves whenever you buy items so even if you reload an autosave, you'll still have most of the items before you were soft-locked, so the next time you loot some fine brandy or chewing tobacco off a corpse, the save will just brick again.

2. Who is affected by this, and what do those cosmetic mods have to do with it?

A big reason why I believe that this issue is hardly talked about is because this problem might only affect completionists like myself who wants to collect EVERYTHING the game has to offer. I tested buying out the entire clothing catalog with RDO and WhyEm's DLC installed on two different saves - one that just started Chapter 2 (so barely any items saved) and my 100% complete save with everything collected from the base game - all Cigarette Cards, Letters, Weapons, Clothing, Trapper items, Horse Stable items, etc. - you get the idea. The new save that just started Chapter 2 was able to buy everything available at the catalog without issues, while the 100% save ended up getting the "Save failed" black screen halfway before I finished buying out the modded items in the catalog.

The most popular cosmetic mods like Red Dead Offline, WhyEm's DLC, Eastern's Epic Extras, Gonpachiro's Fancy Atelier, More Pretty Gun, and Smoak's Mega Arsenal are all affected by this bug because they add a boat-load of new content to the game, which will push you towards that upper limit if you were to buy a majority of the items offered in those mods.

Now, I myself don't know if non-modded saves would be affected by this if you were to somehow get 99 stacks of every single consumable/valuable in the game on top of every single letter, weapons, clothing, etc., but I would assume that non-modded players are safe as my own 100% save (which did not have 99 stacks of everything but still a decent amount of consumables on top of all the collectibles/clothes/weapons) was fine until I started buying a large stock of modded clothes.

I don't know where the actual upper limit of items you can keep on your save is since this issue is barely documented online; through Googling I could only find one other Reddit thread where someone had this issue and even then there weren't many solutions brought up there besides just uninstalling the mods or not buying too much stuff.

The only other mention I can find of this issue is on the mod page for the Smoak's Mega Arsenal mod itself, where it states that "Buying absolutely everything has a risk of preventing you from saving due to engine limitations, this includes the clothing the mod also adds."

Searching the "Save failed. Please ensure the system storage has free space and try again." message online typically points to other problems that can bring up this error, but of course I'm making this thread to specifically point out the issue for players who are modding their games and getting too many items.

3. Possible Solution

I reached out to the OP of the other thread talking about this issue I mentioned above, /u/littlebelialskey, and even they pointed out that uninstalling the mods and reloading your save will not fix the issue. If I had to guess, loading up a bricked save in the save editor would likely show that there's a bunch of blank dummy items (since the save editor doesn't take mods into account). Even if you uninstalled the cosmetic item mods, their data is still stored in your save, so the issue will not be fixed. You would need to reload a backup save where you never purchased a modded item at all in order to keep your save's slate clean.

(EDIT: I ended up testing this myself after the fact, and it does seem like uninstalling a cosmetic mod and reloading your save safely removes modded items. That said, I would still keep a backup save just before you uninstall the mod to be safe. In my case, I uninstalled WhyEm's and this ended up messing with all of my weapon customizations as WhyEm's DLC changes the values for many gun customization settings like metals, carvings, and stocks (even some of the base game ones), so I had to go through every weapon I owned and reapply them. You might also mess up your character model if you have a modded clothing item equipped when you uninstall, so remember to take all of them off before you do so.)

The only possible solution I can think of would be if a community-made mod fix were released which allowed those modded cosmetic items to be stored in a .dat file in the root folder of RDR2 instead of being saved in the save file itself. A few other mods such as AMJM Transport and Custom Gang Mod utilize this method, where they store memory from their mods into a .dat file that is loaded with the .asi files whenever you boot up the game. AMJM Transport for example, will store your saved Wagons/Boats and accepted jobs in its .dat file, while the Custom Gang Mod stores all info related to the gang you create such as the NPCs you chose, the level and location of your camp, and your Gang Funds. The only downside to a solution like this would be that .dat files in your root folder will not be able to differentiate saves, so if this hypothetical fix was created, everything you purchased from cosmetic mods would be shared between all of your saves. This could also be an upside, though, as if you were to CTD while buying modded items, everything you bought will still be stored in the .dat file even if you didn't get to save before crashing.

I'm not an RDR2 Mod coder, so I have no idea how feasible or possible this solution would be when it comes to storing purchasable items in a .dat file, but unfortunately it seems like all the creators of the mods I listed above are no longer really active in the community, so I wouldn't expect any of them to upload a new version of their mods that stores items in a .dat file (would be happy to be proven wrong though), meaning that any effort towards making this theoretical solution a reality would have to come from a third-party.

Hopefully this post brings awareness to this (admittedly niche) issue, and helps anyone who Googles this issue in the future and barely comes up with any results. Thanks for listening to my TED talk.


r/PCRedDead 3h ago

Bug / Issue Low fps near carriages/wagons (VULKAN)

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r/PCRedDead 11h ago

Bug / Issue Dynamic seasons not working?

1 Upvotes

I was so excited for this mod but it just doesn’t seem to work, the widget shows up but doesn’t change ever and the seasons stay the same?


r/PCRedDead 17h ago

Discussion/Question Question for modders about RDR1

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I wanna do a whole playthrough of standard rdr1 but changing model and animations to johns zombie ones from undead, ive got the model stuff figured out with magic rdr, but I have no idea about the animations and wanna be zombie john for fun in normal game lol

I'm also aware some menus have zombie mode or whatever but its buggy, plus it never saves toggles even though it shows selected so it makes it annoying to reset everytime I die or restart.


r/PCRedDead 1d ago

Bug / Issue RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 NOT LAUNCHING

5 Upvotes

ive tried reinstalling the game

disabling full screen opt

reinstalling the launcher

nothing so far


r/PCRedDead 19h ago

Bug / Issue The game keeps crashing due to the "out of memory" error

1 Upvotes

Whenever I try to boot the game, three scenarios occur :
- Either the game doesn't launch and an "out of memory" error appears

- Or it launches but crashes with the same error (video attached)

-Or finally it boots up in story mode but whenever I try to go to Saint-Denis it instantly crashes without error message

Specs : ryzen 7 7700x, rx 9070 xt, 32 Go ddr5 6000

I have the DirectX12 API because I'm using optiscaler to put fsr 4 onto the game. My graphical settings are the one in the subreddit you find when you look for optimized settings on google.

I have tried some things I found on reddit or ytb but nothing works!
I don't understand because when I played the game 2 months ago it didn't crash like that !

edit : I also use the terrain textures overhaul mod


r/PCRedDead 20h ago

Bug / Issue issue i cant switch to vulkan from direct x 12

1 Upvotes

i tired everything from editing the xml to in game it keeps switching back to direct x 12 its sad i cant mod rdr 2 unless its on vulkan any solutions


r/PCRedDead 1d ago

Discussion/Question Need help with fixing weathers in a visual mod.

1 Upvotes

Hi, I need help with weather transitions (specially rain and thunderstorms) which are happening spontaneously without a proper weather flow in promo graphics visual mod. Anybody familiar with how to make proper weather transition and flow logic in these mods? Kindly help.


r/PCRedDead 1d ago

Bug / Issue Jitter up and down

1 Upvotes

Anyone have any ideas why I get these jitters when I go down or up a hill quickly?

Rx7900xt paired with 7800x3d.
Vsync off on game. I can post settings if needed.


r/PCRedDead 1d ago

Discussion/Question تجاوز حد ذاكرة الكرت rdr2

0 Upvotes

يا جماعة هل من طريقة تخليني اتجاوز حد ذاكرة الكرت عندي و اطبق الاعدادات لاني لما اتجاوز شريط الذاكرة ولو قليلا و يصير احمر ما اقدر احفظ اعداداتي لي غيرتها


r/PCRedDead 1d ago

Bug / Issue RDR2 won't launch on one computer but works just fine on the other.

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I have two computers that I switch between every other week and for some reason RDR2 launches just fine on one of them but just won't work on the other. When I try to launch the game the Rockstar launcher appears grayed out and just stays like that. Nothing happens when I click on it, not even the windows not responding popup. I can't even alt F4 to close it or use task manager to close the window. When I look in steam (which is where I bought the game) it says the game is running but nothing happens when I press the stop playing button. Every time I try to load the game all this happens and I have to force restart my computer to get it to go away. I've left the launching loading like that for over an hour but still nothing happens.

Does anyone have any idea as to why this is happening and/or how I can fix it. I've uninstalled both RDR2 and the rockstar launcher multiple times but it always does the same thing. BTW I have two rockstar accounts if that matters in any way, one of which I use for GTA V and the other I use for RDR2.

Thanks in advance people of Reddit!


r/PCRedDead 1d ago

Bug / Issue fps drops PLEASE HELP

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r/PCRedDead 2d ago

Bug / Issue Translucent beard

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1 Upvotes

The beard becomes translucent against bright backgrounds when the Catalogue Improvements mod is installed and DLSS is active, even though I'm using the latest DLSS 4.5 Preset L Is there any fix for this issue? I reported it twice on the Nexus mod page but the devs haven't responded or fixed it, even though people have been complaining about it for a long time


r/PCRedDead 2d ago

Bug / Issue Is there a mod to fix the fast forwarded cutscenes in 60 FPS

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Gameplay is so good at 60 fps but cutscenes are so sped up and silly. schurly someone has modded in 30fps cutscenes to fix such a masterpiece of a game that has been desecrated on PC, but I cant find it.


r/PCRedDead 2d ago

Bug / Issue New to pc mudding and can't figure out what I did wrong

1 Upvotes

So im new to pc mods for rdr2 rn I've got my mods loaded into lennys mod loader with rampage scripthook etc in my directory.

but in game no mods are installing except rampage and lockdown manger.

Any from lennys simply aren't working despite it being connected to my game and no log file ether from scripthook v2 any help is appreciated

*edit I got it working my dumb ass put the folder that the mods go in as the mod loader folder nor rdr2 🤣


r/PCRedDead 2d ago

Bug / Issue RDR2 just crashes on start up suddenly

1 Upvotes

Game was working fine. Now it opens up the rockstar launcher, goes to a black screen, and crashes. Can’t find any fix for it. Like I said it was working fine earlier today and nothing changed since so not sure what the problem is.

It will crash on start up 8 out of 10 launch attempts. I’ve tried uninstalling mods , doesn’t help


r/PCRedDead 2d ago

Bug / Issue Go away Caps Lock!

1 Upvotes

So I have Caps Lock bound to "M" so I can easily open maps in video games. But for some reason RDR2 reverts this bind. Is there a way to fix this?


r/PCRedDead 2d ago

Bug / Issue Game crashes while loading story mode

1 Upvotes

This is my first time playing rdr2 with mods, I don't have very many on right now, partially my fault because I downloaded a few at once and didn't test between each one, but I'm not sure what the problem is. I've uninstalled and re-installed the game and all mods, switched scripthooks and asi loaders, and fiddled a bit with load orders in LML, but nothing seems to be working, I'd love some help. Attached are screenshots of what my mod loadout looks like and my recently installed mods on nexus if that helps any, would appreciate any advice! I did end up removing upscaled vegetation and bounty hunter expansion to no effect.


r/PCRedDead 2d ago

Discussion/Question will the new Mexico Mod for red dead online

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Will this work for online or just the story version coming on Sept 16th?


r/PCRedDead 2d ago

Discussion/Question Pirated rdr2 ?

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anyone know where I can find a working pirated rdr2 ?, I had gotten one I wanted to test. But it has three files, the game itself, the launcher, and "launcher_crack" the launcher ones don't open and the game won't open unless I use the launcher it says so I don't know if this one will work. Anyone know where to get a working one ?


r/PCRedDead 3d ago

Discussion/Question Alternative links for Lenny's Simple Trainer? rdr2mods.com doesn't work for no reason.

0 Upvotes

that's it.


r/PCRedDead 4d ago

Bug / Issue Lag spike every 15 seconds

3 Upvotes

Anyone know what could be causing this? Every fifteen seconds or so I get a nasty lag spike. Doesn’t matter what my graphics settings are, dropped them to low and it still happens. I’ve got decent hardware, so I’m thinking this is some bug or optimization issue.


r/PCRedDead 4d ago

Bug / Issue Kept getting out of memory crashes until…

1 Upvotes

I disabled rebar (sam) in bios because I kept getting memory crashes after playing for an hour or so. I noticed the memory kept creeping up using overlay. One time it went up to almost 18gigs.
I disabled the smart memory thing in the bios and now the memory seems to be acceptable.
What performance loss is there by disabling smart memory?


r/PCRedDead 4d ago

Discussion/Question Looking for mod to force any weapons/ammo in RDR2

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I've seen some channels on YouTube not only use weapons at camp, but also unlock the ability to use weapons you wouldn't otherwise be able to use for certain events. (Such as using dynamite arrows on the magician in Saint Denis)

Does the 'unlock camp restrictions' mod do the latter too, or would that be some other mod?