[FIXED] Pls Halp. Game becomes un-interactable after ~5-30m of play.

[jasonridesabike 0]

Hey All,
 

PC SPECS

• i9-13900k
• RTX 3080 TI
• 32GB DDR5
• Samsung Evo 980 Pro 2TB NVMe
• Windows 11 22H2 update

Temps are all sane, I've checked.

I only play story mode.
 

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Background
 

Early this year I played through about 20 hours without any issues at all, then I took a break. I recently just tried to pick it up again and I'm getting one of 2 bugs after 5-30m:

• The game becomes mostly un-interactable. I can no longer interact with NPC's, the pause menu fails to load any options, can't get on horse, etc.. etc..
• The game seemingly starts to fail to stream in assets. Textures become muddy and polygons become very simple. Looking back where I came from I can see all the high res textures and high quality polygons, it's just whatever area I'm wandering into.
   

This does seem to occur more often around my horse.
 

Here's what I've tried:

• Delete all mods, had a few installed (like disable vignette).
• Completely delete and redownload/reinstall the game from Steam.
• Close literally everything and anything running in the background.
• Disable nvidia in game overlay.
• Update to 22h2 preview of Windows 11 (Rockstar apparently suggested that this helps)
• Tried DX12 and Vulkan
• Disabling effeciency cores entirely from BIOS
• I've tried to run the game as administrator, but that doesn't seem to be possible due to the Rockstar launcher. I've tried directly launching exe as admin as well as setting it to open as admin in compatibility mode. Both cases fail to start due to the Rockstar launcher.
   

This has consumed so much time.

Anyone know how to fix this or what's up? No issues in any other game, just RDR2 😞
 

Thaaaaanks

Edited July 5, 2023 by jasonridesabike

[jasonridesabike 0]

I believe I've fixed it 🙂

Disabling Resizeable BAR in my BIOS, and Nvidia Boost seems to have completely fixed the issue. I'm not sure which, I did them both at once, but one of the two or both has allowed me to play 2 hours and counting without a single crash.

For Resizable BAR, I recalled reading that uninstalling GeForce Experience fixed the issue for some people, and I also recalled that Resizable BAR is triggered by a whitelist in Geforce Experience, and thirdly, that RDR2 is one of the few games that uses it.

So I suspect that's the one that fixed it.