Red Dead Redemption 2 is now just a few days away from its big Steam debut, and the good news for dedicated storefront devotees isn't just that the game will finally be available through their reseller of choice, but that it should also be in better shape than it was when it first appeared on the Epic Games Store. Rockstar dropped another patch today that promises improvements to overall performance and stability, and also addresses some very specific problems, such as issues with partial lighting of fur and hair when the resolution scale is set higher than your PC's native resolution.

Rockstar says that it has made improvements to fix an issue that “resulted in instability” on some PCs running the latest version of Windows 10. While the majority of major bugbears may have been solved in a major patch a couple of weeks back, there are evidently a few nasty bugs still remaining, which have been cured in this latest round of fixes.

Red Dead Redemption 2 December 2nd – Patch Notes

•    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

Those who are playing Red Dead Redemption 2 with a GeForce GTX 970 graphics card will no doubt be pleased to hear that a gremlin which caused random crashes with this GPU has also been banished. Other fixes include addressing memory-related crashes, along with various other random crashes, and a problem with audio stuttering which occurred when running the game at high frame rates.

For the full list of fixes, check out Rockstar’s patch notes. As you might be aware, Red Dead Redemption 2 launches on Steam on December 5, and the running joke for those intending to buy on Valve’s platform is that everyone else has been beta testing the PC version for them. At any rate, the majority of big issues on PC now seem to have been fixed, and a number of minor ones as well. Also note that you shouldn’t have to reapply all your graphics settings after a patch now, as that particular bug was squashed in a previous round of fixing. Moreover, 5mmo.com provides Cheap RDR2 Gold Bars for players. As an online in-game currency store for many years, we’ve received great reputation for our reliable service.