Clear your local Rockstar Games Launcher profile details To ensure you've got the most recent build, exit RDR2 (and any other Rockstar games you may be playing), fully exit the launcher, and then restart it-the update should apply automatically. An update released earlier today will hopefully address at least some of the crash problems. Players have been getting various messages from the launcher telling them that activation is required, even after purchase, that it's failed to initialise or that it's closed unexpectedly. Rockstar's new launcher is causing a few problems of its own. But if you're struggling with stuttering, it's worth a shot until a proper patch rolls out. As with switching from Vulkan to DX12, it's not a guaranteed fix, and it may take some dicking around to get it to kick over. Some commenters say the workaround hasn't helped them but others report success one claimed that disabling two cores and then switching which ones were in use (from cores 0 and 1 to cores 2 and 3) had the desired effect. Right-click the RDR2.exe listing, then select 'Set Affinity' from the pop-up menu, and uncheck two of your CPU cores. To do so, start RDR2, switch to the Task Manager, and select the Details tab. Redditor serhangelgor reports that problems with stuttering and freezing can sometimes be remedied by turning off two cores on quad-core CPUs through the Task Manager.

There have also been complaints of audio performance problems, but a solution has yet to be uncovered. It's not a one size fits all solution, unfortunately, and some players are still reporting low performance even after the change.

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