RDR2 PC Patch - 1232.30 (1.17) | 20/02/2020

[Spider-Vice]

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February 20, 2020] General / Miscellaneous (PC)

• Improvements to reduce issues with ambient wildlife populations in certain Red Dead Online sessions
• Improvements made to performance optimizations that should prevent some stuttering/hitching issues that occurred when using Vulkan on systems with NVIDIA graphics cards
• Fixed an issue that caused the “Rockstar Games Launcher exited unexpectedly” error when launching the game on some systems with specific types of audio hardware
• Fixed several crashes that occurred on systems with multiple monitor/adapter configurations when launching the game or entering fullscreen mode
• Fixed several crashes that occurred during loading screens when launching the game or switching between Story Mode and Red Dead Online
• Fixed several crashes that occurred when using Vulkan drivers on systems with NVIDIA graphics cards
• Fixed several crashes that occurred when using Vulkan drivers on systems with Intel integrated graphics processors
• Fixed issues with lighting quality and benchmarking tool accuracy on some systems using multiple graphics cards
• Fixed several random crashes that occurred during gameplay in Story Mode and Red Dead Online
• Fixed an issue that caused a crash and prevented the game from launching when switching between different Graphics API options on some hardware configurations
• Fixed a crash that occurred when changing resolution via Windows’ display settings while the game was running
• Added a warning that informs the player of outdated graphics cards drivers when launching the game
• Added ‘-noDPIAdjust’ launch argument - Users encountering aspect ratio issues when using an AOC AG241QX monitor through DisplayPort should manually add this argument through Rockstar Games Launcher / Epic Games Store / Steam

[mas0764]

I'm getting an error:

 

Minimum Recommended Hardware Check Failure

Please update your driver. Game requires version 442.29 or newer. Please visit nvidia.com .... etc....

 

But I have the Geforce experience installed and it's telling me no new driver available.

WTF

 

 

[WanteD1]

3 minutes ago, mas0764 said:

I'm getting an error:

 

Minimum Recommended Hardware Check Failure

Please update your driver. Game requires version 442.29 or newer. Please visit nvidia.com .... etc....

 

But I have the Geforce experience installed and it's telling me no new driver available.

WTF

 

 

442.29 is not released yet! maybe finally a good driver for RDR2 is coming by nvidia! 
at the momment latest driver is : 442.19 WHQL

[Gforce]

You can grab a Hot fix driver here -----> https://international.download.nvidia.com/Windows/442.37hf/442.37-desktop-notebook-win10-64bit-international.hf.exe

Discussion topic https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4994

 

This Hotfix driver resolves the following issues:

 

• [Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Vulkan]: Game may display flicker when in game HDR is enabled
• [Red Dead Redemption 2][Vulkan]: Random crash during gameplay on Pascal and older GPUs
• [Battleye][Low-Latency Mode]: Launching Battleye with NVIDIA Low Latency Mode set to Ultra may cause DWM to reset
• Twitch Studio shows corruption when Image Sharpening is enabled globally from the NVIDIA Control Panel
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed crashes when playing in a water level

 

Edited February 20, 2020 by Gforce

[Spider-Vice]

GeForce Experience sucks for hotfix drivers, it never tells you when one is available. You need to follow the actual instructions in the warning message and download it from the site. It released today along with the patch.

[md_rayan]

So, any performance improvements for Pascal/Maxwell GPUs with new drivers + latest patch?

[Babymoore]

11 minutes ago, md_rayan said:

So, any performance improvements for Pascal/Maxwell GPUs with new drivers + latest patch?

Press X to Doubt

[Gforce]

On a pair of Maxwell 980ti's my first run the game ran with some micro-stutter, exited the game and restarted and the game runs butter smooth 60fps (59.9) for me, however I'm using the 442.37 hotfix driver as I can't find the 442.29 on Nvidia's page yet

might be the reason I'm still having the water bug issue.

[trulex47]

Players from Social Club received 3gb patch, and we from Steam got 405,1mb. Wondering why? How much epic got?

[Spider-Vice]

Just now, Gforce said:

I'm using the 442.37 hotfix driver as I can't find the 442.29 on Nvidia's page yet

Logic would say your hotfix driver is the correct one as it's more recent.  I think the R* message is referring to a developer driver that they thought would keep the version number after it released to the public.

[Gforce]

3 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

Logic would say your hotfix driver is the correct one as it's more recent.  I think the R* message is referring to a developer driver that they thought would keep the version number after it released to the public.

I wouldn't put money on that, Nvidia has done number swapping in the past, even since RDR2 got released so there's no guarantee, the 442.37 HF is dated 14/02/20 afaik, maybe there's a newer one coming for the main driver page.

I never actually saw the R* message for the driver update

overall the game is running smoother for me atm

[Hanzema]

Is it still crashing? 

[Armerius]

2 minutes ago, Hanzema said:

Is it still crashing? 

played for 1 hour and was running smooth AF.  using  driver 442.37 

[boomboom5950]

gtx 1060 6gb improvements? 

[Spider-Vice]

https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/360043158614/Red-Dead-Redemption-2-PC-1-17-updated-NVIDIA-driver

 

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Question: I received an alert to update my NVIDIA driver, but the link points to a previous version. Where can I get the correct version for my game?

Answer: Until the final driver update is available, players can install the GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 442.37 available here: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4994

Honestly not sure if we're gonna get patch notes for this one as it seems like this was a joint fix with NVIDIA.

[OnTheRopes]

Yep, just had the same problem, now I can get in but get disconnected for server error all the time and cant stay in game for more than a minute.

 

[StyxTx]

So I have to have to hotifx to run the game? I wasn't having any crashing problems. Maybe the hotfix will revesrse that for me.

[sorder]

11 minutes ago, StyxTx said:

So I have to have to hotifx to run the game? I wasn't having any crashing problems. Maybe the hotfix will revesrse that for me.

No,you don't need to.I saw an error about this new nonexistent driver and I'm playing rn without any problems.

[OnTheRopes]

Installed the hotfix, entered the game to test it and immediately hog-tied by a griefer so had to exit, great.

[Excalibur Voltaire]

Any new bugs introduced here?

[RedIndianRobin]

5 hours ago, Zerdical said:

gtx 1060 6gb improvements? 

None. This might be animal spawn issue patch for PC although animal spawns weren't really an issue on PC. 

[Koltos]

What about smoke? What about table?

 

Is there a solution to not install the patch if i'm playing only in SP?

 

[T-ru]

I hope I'm not deluded myself but the performance in the towns is much better after a hour of playing in story mode I didn't see freezes, lags and popping textures even there is a much more peds 

And I'm still with 441.66 driver  the dumb thing for now is that Nvidia still doesn't have a new official driver.

[Spider-Vice]

1 hour ago, Koltos said:

What about smoke? What about table?

 

Is there a solution to not install the patch if i'm playing only in SP?

 

Table is not PC specific. It's still broken on consoles, so it's also broken on PC.

 

1 hour ago, T-ru said:

the dumb thing for now is that Nvidia still doesn't have a new official driver.

Yes, just the hotfix released for the patch, you need to get it from NVIDIA's support site. https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4994

 

5 hours ago, RedIndianRobin said:

None. This might be animal spawn issue patch for PC although animal spawns weren't really an issue on PC. 

The patch + driver focuses on Pascal users so if you had crashing there should be improvements.

[Polarized]

Uhm dumb question, but idk, it’s just a matter of time (time quite fast) that the new driver is going to be available on Geforce Experience or I have to manually update it (uninstall the old and install the new one?)

It’s a hotfix but it’s still also a new driver version, no?

[78 lil red express]

3 hours ago, Koltos said:

What about smoke? What about table?

 

Is there a solution to not install the patch if i'm playing only in SP?

 

went to look for train..after a hour of horseback riding on the railroad tracks could not even find a train..smdh

12 hours ago, Zerdical said:

gtx 1060 6gb improvements? 

nope..less fps on mine.

[Andrea_23]

23 minutes ago, 78 lil red express said:

went to look for train..after a hour of horseback riding on the railroad tracks could not even find a train..smdh

nope..less fps on mine.

 

Ahah I had to wait 20 minutes. I confirm that smoke is still absent ...

 

Usually I am patient but I also start to be a little disappointed ... especially if they are bugs introduced by patches ... meh.

Edited February 21, 2020 by Andrea_23

[StyxTx]

4 hours ago, T-ru said:

I hope I'm not deluded myself but the performance in the towns is much better after a hour of playing in story mode I didn't see freezes, lags and popping textures even there is a much more peds 

And I'm still with 441.66 driver  the dumb thing for now is that Nvidia still doesn't have a new official driver.

One thing that can cause the brief freezes is a service that runs on windows PC's that you can disable. Look for the service SettingSyncHost.exe and turn it off. I have not had one freeze since I disabled it.

[TomilovSenya]

15 hours ago, trulex47 said:

Players from Social Club received 3gb patch, and we from Steam got 405,1mb. Wondering why? How much epic got?

Steam only downloads delta.

 

So, I think I found one fix in this patch: you can now place a waypoint using double click even far away from the screen center, while previously it would center the map on the first click and the waypoint would thus be misplaced.

 

However, I might be wrong that was the case before 'cause I haven't played it for quite some time. Also, it still does center the map if you click a blip, so the waypoint is still misplaced if you use double click to set it.

Edited February 21, 2020 by TomilovSenya

[RedIndianRobin]

5 hours ago, Spider-Vice said:

The patch + driver focuses on Pascal users so if you had crashing there should be improvements.

It's funny they said that because I just crashed and came straight here. Online is not savable at this point.