Red Dread Redemption PC Woes
Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally out on PC! Finally, PC gamers can rejoice and play the original vision we all knew Rockstar wanted us to have. But first configuration time!
Many PC gamers who waited patiently for R-Star’s latest masterpiece were sorely dissapointed.
As with most console to PC ports, instead of jumping right into a beautifully detailed world of cowboys, weather effects and horse stealing, gamers were left staring at their launcher with BSOD equivalent message that read: “The Rockstar Games Launcher exited unexpectedly.” Yee-haww!
For those of us who played the console game for 10 hours, and then immediately started waiting for the real/superior version, we had already encountered a bevy of frustration that might parallel PC gamers frustration. Not limited to: Losing your weapons….just because, failing a mission because you thought there was a secret behind you and getting killed because you didn’t realize you weapons had disappeared and hour ago. Remember when games couldn’t be updated?
A list of fixes are as follows:
[November 5, 2019] General / Miscellaneous
- Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “The Rockstar Games Launcher failed to initialize” on startup
- Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher preload decryption getting stuck and not completing
- Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “The Rockstar Games Launcher exited unexpectedly” when launching Red Dead Redemption 2
- Fixed an issue that resulted in crashes when starting the Rockstar Games Launcher from the Epic Games Launcher
- Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “Unable to launch game, please verify your game data” when launching Red Dead Redemption 2 from the Epic Games Launcher
Now I may be late to the party but I haven’t had any issues whatsoever with RDR. It could be due to the fact that I’ve sworn off preloading. Luckily, my 1GB connection is snappy and it seems like when downloading after release, games don’t go through a decrypting phase. I decided long ago I’d rather just download the game after release then spend the CPU cycles decrypting. I’ve come to think preloading then decrypting takes longer then just waiting to download after relelease. Let me know if you think so too.
Alternatively you can get the console version bug free-ish:
