After a lot of complaints concerning the stalling issue for Red Dead Redemption 2 on PCs powered by Nvidia Geforce GPUs, Nvidia has finally responded by releasing a hotfix to address the problem. The hotfix is also supposed to help with a bug that causes crashes when playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Just last week, Nvidia released Game Ready driver version 441.34 that was supposed to fix a list of bugs in Red Dead Redemption 2. However, there seems to have been a few more bugs that require fixing. The patch notes released for the hotfix 441.34 states the following:
- Vulkan: fixes stalling on some systems with 4-core and 6-core CPUs when playing Red Dead Redemption 2
- Fixes crashes in Shadow of the Tomb Raider when playing in DX12 mode
Rockstar Games has also mentioned the hotfix in its 1.14 update patch notes for RDR2, and recommends that players who have paired their Nvidia GPUs with a 4-core or 6-core CPU to install the hotfix.
The official 1.14 update patch for Red Dead Redemption 2 fixes the following issues:
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in stalls on 4-core and 6-core CPUs
- Players with NVIDIA graphics cards and 4-core or 6-core CPUs should install the GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 441.34 from NVIDIA and remove any launch arguments to resolve this issue: For more information, please see this support page: https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/360038940333
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a permanent mouse cursor being displayed at all times when launching the game via the Epic Games Store
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in the player’s cores draining at a faster rate than intended in Story Mode when running at high frame rates
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in player weight decreasing at a faster rate than intended in Red Dead Online when running at high frame rates
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in players not being able to place Waypoints on the Pause Menu Map in the correct location
- Improvements to address an issue with matchmaking in Red Dead Online that resulted in players with incompatible control settings joining the same session. We recommend that players using mouse and keyboard controls should switch to ‘Free Aim’ targeting mode before entering Red Dead Online.
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in all custom graphical settings reverting to a low preset when the game was updated
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in an ‘Activation Required’ error when loading the game after system hardware or device changes were made
- Improvements to address issues that resulted in a crash and displayed the ‘Failed to initialize graphics device’ or ‘Unable to initialize graphics driver ’errors when launching the game. If this issue still occurs, please make sure you have the latest graphics card drivers installed for your system.
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when launching the game in Fullscreen display mode while using Vulkan
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash when launching the game with some graphics-related launch arguments active
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash during loading screens when entering Story Mode or Red Dead Online
- Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash while modifying weapons at the Gunsmith in Red Dead Online
- Improvements to address issues that resulted in random crashes and the error “Red Dead Redemption 2 exited unexpectedly” during gameplay
