Red Dead Redemption 2 PC update fixes crashes, save corruption
Rockstar has released yet another update for the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 ahead of its arrival on Steam later this week.
The update fixes an issue that could cause save corruption and loss of progress, as well as fixing a number of crashing issues. There are also improvements to hair/fur lighting when using the resolution scale and artifacts caused by Screen Space Ambient Occlusion.
Read the full patch notes below:
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in a crash when running out of memory
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in potential save corruption and permanent loss of progress if the player was signed out of their Social Club account while in Story Mode
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in partial lighting of hair/fur when the Resolution Scale graphical setting was set to higher than the native resolution
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in a crash when entering the Landing Page during game startup
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in a crash during initial startup for some specific hardware configurations
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in random crashes during gameplay on systems using a Nvidia GTX 970 graphics card
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in a crash when starting the Benchmark Tool on low-end systems
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in instability on some systems running Windows 10 Version 1090 (November 2019 Update)
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in audio stuttering/stalling when the game is running at high framerates
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in pixelated/blocky rendering artifacts on shadows during some cutscenes
- Improvements to fix an issue that resulted in rendering and lighting artifacts when the Screen Space Ambient Occlusion graphical option was set to Ultra
- Improvements to fix several issues that resulted in rendering and lighting artifacts on some systems during gameplay
- Improvements to fix several issues that resulted in random crashes during gameplay in Story Mode and Red Dead Online
Red Dead Redemption 2 is available now on PC via the Rockstar Games Launcher, Epic Games Store, and several other digital storefronts, with a Steam release set for December 5th.
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