Rockstar has apologised for Red Dead Redemption 2’s wobbly launch on PC last week, and is releasing a new update featuring a range of fixes today. It’s also giving PC players a free Red Dead Online poncho too “as a show of gratitude”.
Red Dead Redemption 2 finally arrived on PC last week, but what should have been a time to toss Stetsons skyward in celebration proved to be less than stellar for many. Initial problems preventing some players from opening Rockstar’s launcher – let alone the game itself – were quickly addressed, but reports of performance issues have continued to dog the game.
Now, in a statement posted to its website, Rockstar has addressed the problems Red Dead Redemption 2 owners have been grappling with on PC since launch day.
“Over the past week,” it wrote, “we have been working as quickly as possible to address issues that have impacted the launch of the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2…However, we are aware that a small number of Red Dead Redemption 2 PC players are still experiencing some ongoing problems with the game stuttering.”
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Rockstar attributes these latter issues to “specific combinations of Nvidia graphics drivers, Nvidia GPU cards and certain CPUs”, and is hoping to remedy stuttering “alongside a host of other fixes” in today’s update. However, it will continue to work with Nvidia on a fix to “completely resolve the stuttering issue” – something that will likely take “up to a few days to properly test everything and ensure the next update completely solves the problem.”