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Rytir
I just ran sli and it loaded just fine. It seems to be better for me than before, card used to be both 98% and would heat up quick, bow they are high 80s like around 88%. The benchmark completed with high of 143 and avg 93 fps at 5120x1440. It gave me the err in the middle of a moonshine mission. I deleted the files and will test again when I get home, had to run to airport. What cards are you running?

I have an EVGA XC2 Ultra and a Zotac Amp Maxx.  The XC2 ultra has an AIO cooler installed and never breaks 50 degrees.  The Zotac uses its stock cooler (no way to install an AIO without custom modding something; It's not a reference board), but the max temp it's reached has been ~70 degrees.
Kind of disparate cards I realize, but again they work fine in every other game that supports SLI.  My CPU is an i9 9900k, 32GB DDR4 3200mhz.  Tried installing first on an NVME SSD from Crucial, now tested on a Sandisk SATA3 SSD.
 
After reinstalling the game to a totally different drive, the game still will not load.  It just closes itself and says it closed unexpectedly.  Weirdly before I launched the game it claimed there were "unexpected files" in the installation directory, which is impossible since I installed it to a different drive and the only files in the directory are the ones Rockstar themselves installed.  I checked the installation folder but I don't see any files that shouldn't be there.

Those are 2080ti I take it? The only thing I did was  set windows not to install driver because they screw things up, like taskbar not ever going away in window mode. So are you using the standard or the DCH version I think its called. DDU clean and shut down then installed second card and the game loaded fine. Ive used mixed cards before and they have worked fine together, this game is just picky as hell. For the unexpected file are you using reshade or tried to use reshade?

I mostly use the settings from Hardware Unboxed optimized settings with the exception of lighting being on ultra. Seems it still only runs a hour or so with SLI and craps out with either ERR or just Unexpected.

Nowawaka

druuzil

Rytir
I just ran sli and it loaded just fine. It seems to be better for me than before, card used to be both 98% and would heat up quick, bow they are high 80s like around 88%. The benchmark completed with high of 143 and avg 93 fps at 5120x1440. It gave me the err in the middle of a moonshine mission. I deleted the files and will test again when I get home, had to run to airport. What cards are you running?

I have an EVGA XC2 Ultra and a Zotac Amp Maxx.  The XC2 ultra has an AIO cooler installed and never breaks 50 degrees.  The Zotac uses its stock cooler (no way to install an AIO without custom modding something; It's not a reference board), but the max temp it's reached has been ~70 degrees.
Kind of disparate cards I realize, but again they work fine in every other game that supports SLI.  My CPU is an i9 9900k, 32GB DDR4 3200mhz.  Tried installing first on an NVME SSD from Crucial, now tested on a Sandisk SATA3 SSD.
 
After reinstalling the game to a totally different drive, the game still will not load.  It just closes itself and says it closed unexpectedly.  Weirdly before I launched the game it claimed there were "unexpected files" in the installation directory, which is impossible since I installed it to a different drive and the only files in the directory are the ones Rockstar themselves installed.  I checked the installation folder but I don't see any files that shouldn't be there.

Those are 2080ti I take it? The only thing I did was  set windows not to install driver because they screw things up, like taskbar not ever going away in window mode. So are you using the standard or the DCH version I think its called. DDU clean and shut down then installed second card and the game loaded fine. Ive used mixed cards before and they have worked fine together, this game is just picky as hell. For the unexpected file are you using reshade or tried to use reshade?

Yes they're 2080 Ti's.  I did a clean driver install using DDU and disabled my network connection on the reboot so Windows wouldn't try to install a driver for me.  Using the Standard driver, not DCH (if you don't disable your internet while you do the clean install it'll force you to use DCH).  
 
I did not install Reshade, it's a clean installation of the game on a totally different SSD, brand new directory.  It's not possible for there to be any unexpected files unless Rockstar themselves put it there.

Honestly without looking really hard it hard to tell a dif. I got about a 15 to 20 fps boost using a single card which made run mostly 45 to 60fps and it was crash free.

Nowawaka

druuzil

Nowawaka

druuzil

Rytir
I just ran sli and it loaded just fine. It seems to be better for me than before, card used to be both 98% and would heat up quick, bow they are high 80s like around 88%. The benchmark completed with high of 143 and avg 93 fps at 5120x1440. It gave me the err in the middle of a moonshine mission. I deleted the files and will test again when I get home, had to run to airport. What cards are you running?

I have an EVGA XC2 Ultra and a Zotac Amp Maxx.  The XC2 ultra has an AIO cooler installed and never breaks 50 degrees.  The Zotac uses its stock cooler (no way to install an AIO without custom modding something; It's not a reference board), but the max temp it's reached has been ~70 degrees.
Kind of disparate cards I realize, but again they work fine in every other game that supports SLI.  My CPU is an i9 9900k, 32GB DDR4 3200mhz.  Tried installing first on an NVME SSD from Crucial, now tested on a Sandisk SATA3 SSD.
 
After reinstalling the game to a totally different drive, the game still will not load.  It just closes itself and says it closed unexpectedly.  Weirdly before I launched the game it claimed there were "unexpected files" in the installation directory, which is impossible since I installed it to a different drive and the only files in the directory are the ones Rockstar themselves installed.  I checked the installation folder but I don't see any files that shouldn't be there.

Those are 2080ti I take it? The only thing I did was  set windows not to install driver because they screw things up, like taskbar not ever going away in window mode. So are you using the standard or the DCH version I think its called. DDU clean and shut down then installed second card and the game loaded fine. Ive used mixed cards before and they have worked fine together, this game is just picky as hell. For the unexpected file are you using reshade or tried to use reshade?

Yes they're 2080 Ti's.  I did a clean driver install using DDU and disabled my network connection on the reboot so Windows wouldn't try to install a driver for me.  Using the Standard driver, not DCH (if you don't disable your internet while you do the clean install it'll force you to use DCH).  
 
I did not install Reshade, it's a clean installation of the game on a totally different SSD, brand new directory.  It's not possible for there to be any unexpected files unless Rockstar themselves put it there.

There is a setting in DDU to block windows from installing driver so you dont have to disable your connection everytime :) Your windows fully updated? I have social on boot drive and have game on another have a M.2 for each of the stupid launchers, such as steam , epic and uplay and origin. Also I would make a copy of the folder in Documents and then just delete it all, even with a fresh install unless you delete the folder it will use the same settings as before.

 
Yeah, Windows is fully updated.  I did completely delete the old installation folder, and I deleted everything out of the RDR2 "Settings" folder (the API files and the XML settings file, and the BIN files) so the folder still existed but it was empty.

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Nowawaka

druuzil

Rytir
I just ran sli and it loaded just fine. It seems to be better for me than before, card used to be both 98% and would heat up quick, bow they are high 80s like around 88%. The benchmark completed with high of 143 and avg 93 fps at 5120x1440. It gave me the err in the middle of a moonshine mission. I deleted the files and will test again when I get home, had to run to airport. What cards are you running?

I have an EVGA XC2 Ultra and a Zotac Amp Maxx.  The XC2 ultra has an AIO cooler installed and never breaks 50 degrees.  The Zotac uses its stock cooler (no way to install an AIO without custom modding something; It's not a reference board), but the max temp it's reached has been ~70 degrees.
Kind of disparate cards I realize, but again they work fine in every other game that supports SLI.  My CPU is an i9 9900k, 32GB DDR4 3200mhz.  Tried installing first on an NVME SSD from Crucial, now tested on a Sandisk SATA3 SSD.
 
After reinstalling the game to a totally different drive, the game still will not load.  It just closes itself and says it closed unexpectedly.  Weirdly before I launched the game it claimed there were "unexpected files" in the installation directory, which is impossible since I installed it to a different drive and the only files in the directory are the ones Rockstar themselves installed.  I checked the installation folder but I don't see any files that shouldn't be there.

Those are 2080ti I take it? The only thing I did was  set windows not to install driver because they screw things up, like taskbar not ever going away in window mode. So are you using the standard or the DCH version I think its called. DDU clean and shut down then installed second card and the game loaded fine. Ive used mixed cards before and they have worked fine together, this game is just picky as hell. For the unexpected file are you using reshade or tried to use reshade?

Yes they're 2080 Ti's.  I did a clean driver install using DDU and disabled my network connection on the reboot so Windows wouldn't try to install a driver for me.  Using the Standard driver, not DCH (if you don't disable your internet while you do the clean install it'll force you to use DCH).  
 
I did not install Reshade, it's a clean installation of the game on a totally different SSD, brand new directory.  It's not possible for there to be any unexpected files unless Rockstar themselves put it there.

Is there a difference between the standard and DCH driver, when all you do is game on the pc?

I havnt had much luck with the DCH driver, it requires you to get he Nvidia control panel from windows store. Its basically a different way of installing versus the standard driver. The one time I used it I got the taskbar always there bug in window mode and it was so annoying lol and the only way I was able to get rid of it was to reinstall windows and DDU the driver soon as windows was done then did the updates.

I have an idea on how to water cool my Amp MAXX which has 16+4 power phases, so I'm going to test that tomorrow and remove my EVGA XC2 Ultra, to see if a single heavily OC'd card is the way to go here.

Nowawaka

druuzil
I have an idea on how to water cool my Amp MAXX which has 16+4 power phases, so I'm going to test that tomorrow and remove my EVGA XC2 Ultra, to see if a single heavily OC'd card is the way to go here.

Well mine are the FE cards and I was running a 120 core oc and 1k mem oc on air and like I said 45-60+ is very playable and not have wonder if it is going or crash or not. Im lvl 126 and 20 on all 3 professions and 4 on moonshiner and most of that has been using a single card.

I haven't tried the online version.  

Why

 do I get this error

Nowawaka

druuzil

Nowawaka

druuzil
I have an idea on how to water cool my Amp MAXX which has 16+4 power phases, so I'm going to test that tomorrow and remove my EVGA XC2 Ultra, to see if a single heavily OC'd card is the way to go here.

Well mine are the FE cards and I was running a 120 core oc and 1k mem oc on air and like I said 45-60+ is very playable and not have wonder if it is going or crash or not. Im lvl 126 and 20 on all 3 professions and 4 on moonshiner and most of that has been using a single card.

I haven't tried the online version.  

Don't know what your missing :) Still a little lost on how you cant get it to load with SLi. I would try maybe setting it to borderless mode and setting vulkan and accepting the change then exit and reload it yourself. I would also turn off Gsync and HDR if your using either, HDR is pretty much a instant crash with SLI.

Hrm, I didn't try shutting off HDR.  I did disable GSYNC however.  I tried multiple ways of getting Vulkan to work and it never did with SLI enabled for more than a few minutes, and once they released the Moonshiners update it ceased to work at all.
 
I successfully installed my Corsair H60 onto my Zotac AMP MAXX, which is now idling @ 25 and capping out at 45 degrees.  Going to try running the game with just that and maybe OC it to the hilt to see how close I can get to 60 FPS on 1 card.

Nowawaka

druuzil

Nowawaka

druuzil

Nowawaka

druuzil
I have an idea on how to water cool my Amp MAXX which has 16+4 power phases, so I'm going to test that tomorrow and remove my EVGA XC2 Ultra, to see if a single heavily OC'd card is the way to go here.

Well mine are the FE cards and I was running a 120 core oc and 1k mem oc on air and like I said 45-60+ is very playable and not have wonder if it is going or crash or not. Im lvl 126 and 20 on all 3 professions and 4 on moonshiner and most of that has been using a single card.

I haven't tried the online version.  

Don't know what your missing :) Still a little lost on how you cant get it to load with SLi. I would try maybe setting it to borderless mode and setting vulkan and accepting the change then exit and reload it yourself. I would also turn off Gsync and HDR if your using either, HDR is pretty much a instant crash with SLI.

Hrm, I didn't try shutting off HDR.  I did disable GSYNC however.  I tried multiple ways of getting Vulkan to work and it never did with SLI enabled for more than a few minutes, and once they released the Moonshiners update it ceased to work at all.
 
I successfully installed my Corsair H60 onto my Zotac AMP MAXX, which is now idling @ 25 and capping out at 45 degrees.  Going to try running the game with just that and maybe OC it to the hilt to see how close I can get to 60 FPS on 1 card.

Cool good luck. I would probably say it was the HDR that was causing it to crash. I had a H55 install on one of mine using the NZXT mount. Oh also you can edit the system file in Documents and enable <asyncComputeEnabled value="true"/> default it is set to off but since you run 2080s think should help you get 3-4 fps

Yeah I tried the asyncCompute thing but the game was crashing so much I never got to see if it was really making any difference.

hi guys,
 
I followed the thread till the beginning being as you all trying to make my RDR2 rox with max graphics ;)
few days i try to find some tricks to make my SLI work or find a workaround to up my framerate/graphics settings... without any success and 
waiting for last update to see if something happen...
 
Today i wanna have a affirmance on what i find. Here is my rig : 6950X; 32 gig 3200 DDR4, GTX 1080Ti SLI; target framerate 60fps @2160p (hard stuff sometimes...)
 
what i did is to link RDR2.exe to strange brigade profil (foolish deseperate test i know...but nothing to loose in fact) by nvidia inspector and i see my cards breath more closely on load (80%++) than using out of the box Vulkan mgpu profil for RDR2.
no clipping no glitched snow nothing i can see except my monitoring soft overlay clipping a bit over the game.
 
possibly a new field of experimentation with help of more experienced users than me, game is more smooth for sure but something need to be optimize on textures streaming.
 
Could someone confirm this pls and put a cent to improve ? thanks !
 
 

I am trying this now
 
https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/360040482073/Red-Dead-Redemption-2-on-PC-crashing-with-ERR-GFX-STATE-error
 

1. Start the Rockstar Games Launcher
2. Select Settings
3. Under My installed Games Select Red Dead Redemption 2
4. Scroll down to Launch arguments
5. In the Launch Options box, add -ignorepipelinecache
6. Select Games
7. Launch Red Dead Redemption 2

 

Nowawaka
Update:
Well didn't fix it for me still got the ERR error after about 1hr.

Yeah me too. I am going back to DX12 single GPU. I don't think it'll ever be addressed

Well I tested changing the game to another profile, first I did GTA V which seemed to last longer without ERR than RDR profile, so then I tried Strange Bigrade and it didn't crash all night. This was also using the -ignorepipelinecache which BaDBoy_uK posted and was also in the latest patch notes. Fps is good, GPU usage is good and framerate is close to RDR. I know you said the profile was the same but something has to be different for it not to crash and I'm using the latest 441.66 drivers.  I even tried this profile way back when trying to get SLI working in the first place, so not sure what has changed. I also went all over the place because I was doing collector stuff. I will say this though respawn flicker is pretty bad, but other than that I didn't notice any.