2793

Every topic on this I’ve seen, the anti-virus was the culprit (so far).

2794

Or the rootkit-level of invasiveness of copy protection and/or anti-cheat these days is to blame.

2795

Funny, I did not even buy it on PC yet (waiting for steam version) but all the Avast reports made me uninstall Avast after 15 years of using it. I just read few weeks back that integrated Windows Defender is slightly better anyway, so no loss I guess. At least I got some 3GB of space on my system SSD.

From what I am reading the game is more demanding than expected. For stable 60fps in 1080p and high preset, at least RTX2060 is recommended.

2796

I’ve been using Defender for a long time now. I gave up the antivirus tax probably around the time I went to Win 7. That combined with Malwarebytes and judgment has served me well thus far.

I thought they said there was no crazy DRM on this, so I am not sure why the antivirus programs, Avast and AVG right?, are having issues with it.

2797

Story wise this game is a huge downer right?

2798

This is me as well - haven’t used anything but built-in Defender for such a long time, and I don’t miss any of that junk anti-virus at all.

2799

I don’t know if that’s quite the right phrase, really. There are some really fun moments as well. It’s like any good story - it has elements of comedy and drama.

2800

Yeah I really don’t find the story to be a huge downer. But I could see how someone might.

2801

Had to create exceptions in AVG for all of the Rockstar and RDR2 directories to get it to even run. It looks good, and the action is fluid enough, but the game freezes for a few seconds every twenty seconds or so. Stops, then starts up again. No stuttering or lack of framerate during actual play, but it just keeps stopping like that, as if it’s caching or something. 1070ti, latest GeForce drivers. My CPU admittedly is kind of old, an i5 3570K, though. I’ve fiddled a bit with the graphics settings, but nothing seems to help much.

2802

All the new game engines benefit from CPUs with more than 4 cores newer than 2013. I noticed a huge frame rate bump with same GPU (1080ti) in AC Odyssey when I went from i5-4760 to Ryzen 7 2700.

2803

I totally uninstalled my antivirus, latest Nvidia drivers, updated launcher, rebooted several times, verified game, uninstalled/reinstalled game. It will simply not launch. “The Rockstar Game Launcher exited unexpectedly”. What a drag. Should have bought from Epic…

EDIT: Of all things, a BIOS update fixed it. Saw someone else had success on a Reddit thread. My BIOS was only 6 weeks old, but a newer release came out 2 days ago. Asus Prime X570-Pro. Sheesh.

2804

I know I know, this game is “slow”. But man do I want to quit right now at the beginning of Chapter 2. The world has opened up and there are all these mission icons, but boy do I not give a flying eff where it is going. Maybe because western isn’t my kind of thing? Or no character is really interesting at this point, least of all Arthur? Keyboard+mouse control on PC is so counter-intuitive, so many different keys for so many different things, I feel like it would be more streamlined if I use a gamepad. Which would defeat a lot of reasons for playing it on PC. This is a console port all right.

Production value is sky high, sure. The game never crashed, no stuttering or anything, it just works, I guess I’m lucky that way. But I feel like it is good money wasted.

2805

STICK WITH IT, the game has quite a few amazing memorable characters (good and bad) by the end.

2806

What did you think this game would be?

2807

Ok will try. Witcher 3 was a bit slow to start as well but git gud in the end.

er… it would be good not boring?

2808

It honestly sounds like you should have done a little home work which could have saved you some disappointment. It’s checking all the wrong boxes for you, before you even really dive in. It’s not like the game tricked you by suddenly being a Western (which isn’t really your thing). And why on earth are you trying to play this with a mouse and keyboard? I love me some M&K but some games are just not good with them, and this is for sure one of them.

EDIT: I also would strongly advise against playing The Witcher 3 w/M&K for the same reasons. Third person action games seem to lend themselves to better experiences with controllers.

2809

It is on effing PC, of course I play with k+m by default!

2810

Are not most people playing RDR2 with M/KB on PC?

That is what most are using… right? I mean that’s what I am expecting if my group jumps on this.

2811

These are totally fair observations, Soma. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a laconic arthouse Western focused mostly on white male mid-life crises, almost as an analog to the US entering the 20th century. There’s plenty of gunplay and horseriding and open-world adventure to be had eventually, but it starts slow and, as you might be sensing, the emotional core of the story is pretty specific and won’t mean much to a lot of people.

That said, the game doesn’t really reveal itself until a bit further than where you are. No one would think less of you for bailing at this point to play something you actually like, but Rockstar plays it pretty close to the vest until about the 10 hour mark or so. It’s almost like a JRPG in that regard.

-Tom

2812

I played the bejesus out of The witcher 3 (AND 1+2) with mouse and keyboard justfinethankyouverymuch. I’ll be all redemptioning when it’s out over steam in time for christmas break.