Nov 05, 2019 Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC is the ultimate way to experience one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time, winner of over 175 Game of the Year Awards and recipient of over 250 perfect scores. Red Dead Redemption 2.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 finally released on PC this week, and things have not gone well for Rockstar. Yesterday, reported on various technical issues PC players are experiencing, and I can confirm that I’ve seen some of them for myself over the past week.While I didn’t have any trouble getting the game up and running at first, the biggest issue by far for me — and one that appears to be very commonplace — is that the game frequently hitches for upward of three seconds at a time.
It’s jarring during gameplay, and causes you to miss crucial dialogue during story sequences when the game has to catch up with itself.This is a particularly strange problem because Red Dead Redemption 2 itself is otherwise looking great and running pretty well on my PC, which isn’t super high-end but was when I put it together three and a half years ago. It happens regardless of graphical settings, as far as I can tell.
My rig has a GTX 1080 GPU, an i5 6600K processor, and 16GB of RAM, and I’m hovering between 40 and 60 frames a second at 1440p with mostly high settings. (I use a G-Sync monitor, so the frame rate dips are noticeable but not all that annoying.). Read next:To be clear, that isn’t exactly evidence of a well-optimized port, considering how good Red Dead Redemption 2 looks on vastly less powerful console hardware. I usually have no trouble running games at faster frame rates and higher settings, and I wouldn’t call this a great port even if it didn’t have the hitching issue. But it does have the hitching issue: no matter what I do with the settings, it locks up for several seconds every couple of minutes.That’s enough to make it unplayable right now, which is a shame, because I was otherwise really looking forward to replaying Red Dead Redemption 2. I loved the game on my PS4 Pro last year, but I don’t know that I played it the right way — I bombed through it as quickly as I could to see the ending without spoilers and hear what other people were saying about it.
I’m not sure that was the wrong decision, but I would very much like to give it another, more thorough playthrough over a longer stretch of time. It wouldn’t hurt to do so with better visuals and performance, either.As Samit noted, Rockstar’s response so far has been to recommend players turn off antivirus software, which seems like an unsatisfactory fix. Updates for the company’s launcher and the game itself seem to have done little at best, or even made the situation worse.Until Rockstar fixes Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC, or at least gives some indication of what’s going on, we really can’t recommend that you buy it. Since the hitching problems are out of step with the game’s general performance, it feels like they should be addressable. But without any confirmation that a fix is on the horizon, this version of the game is a hard pass.
We had to wait an entire year for, but apparently the wait was too long, as the game's sales are not doing so great.In the first month of its launch, Red Dead Redemption 2 was exclusive to the Epic Games Store and Rockstar's own storefront. And while we have no idea how many people bought it directly from Rockstar, a report from states that the game only sold 408,000 units via Epic – an extremely low number. Here are the.
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Check out ourBut Red Dead Redemption 2 is no longer exclusive to Epic, though, right? Well, even though it, it seems to be faring even worse on Valve's platform.There aren't any exact sales numbers available right now, but the all-time peak concurrent player count is only 51,403 players, according to. To put that number into perspective, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V's peak concurrent – that's seven times the players.When compared to the game's landmark console launch, where it sold over 17 million copies over its first 12 days, according to a report from, this PC launch seems a little underwhelming. Ok, but why?Grand Theft Auto V had an amazing launch on PC, along with a PC port that basically showed other developers how it's done. However, between the Epic Games Store exclusivity and the rough state that Red Dead Redemption 2 launched in , the cards weren't exactly in Rockstar's favor.Even after Rockstar patched the game to make it playable, many users experienced, so the game has had a rocky reputation.
Luckily, all of that and Red Dead Redemption 2 is genuinely a good port now, it just took a month to get there.We have seen the game get price cuts across both the Epic Games Launcher and Steam, where it's currently on sale, something that we never saw for Grand Theft Auto V so soon after its PC launch. Who knows, though? Maybe the draw of the constantly-updated Red Dead Online will slowly grow the PC playerbase over time – but right now it's not looking so hot.
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