It took 14 years for Rockstar to releaseRed Dead Redemptionon PC, but here we are. Thanks to the excellent work from Double Eleven, PC players can finally enjoy the classic Western open-world action title that introduced us to John Marston. The PC version is fairly competent, with tons of settings to tweak, and it runs great on a variety of hardware as well. There are some issues players can run into, and if you’re getting the “Access Violation c0000005” error in Red Dead Redemption, here are a few things you can do to fix that.
Fixing the Red Dead Redemption PC Access Violation c0000005 Error
Multiple users have reported running into the “PC Access Violation c0000005” in Red Dead Redemption at launch or after the intro. It seems to be tied to performance monitoring and tuning tools, and disabling those should fix that for now.
Disable Performance Monitoring Tool
If you’re using a tool like Rivatuner Statistics Server, ASUS GPU Tweak, or NVIDIA overlay to monitor performance, temporarily disable those and run Red Dead Redemption without them. A crash can possibly occur while you’re changing graphics settings with the utility enabled.This has been acknowledged by Rockstaras well. Simply close MSI Afterburner, and RTSS will shut down with it.
For most users, this should fix the problem, and you’re able to enable these after you’ve made it past the main menu and intro. We couldn’t recreate this issue, but we also noted that RivaTuner only kicks in after the initial logos. However, multiple users on Steam users have confirmed that RivaTuner and the ASUS GPU Tweak utility were causing the conflict.
Verify Game Files
Additionally, we recommend verifying the game files just in case. It’s possible something went wrong during the download or installation process, which is leading to a crash.
Steam will scan through the game files and download anything missing or broken.
Generic Troubleshooting
Apart from that, you may try the following generic troubleshooting suggestions.
Once you’re in the game, you canunlock the 144fps limit in Red Dead Redemptionusing a handy patch and addsupport for ultrawide cutscenesas well.
Ali Hashmi
Ali has been writing about video games for the past six years and is always on the lookout for the next indie game to obsess over and recommend to everyone in sight. When he isn’t spending an unhealthy amount of time in Slay the Spire, he’s probably trying out yet another retro-shooter or playing Dark Souls for the 50th time.
