Is there any known fix for Rockstar game launcher?

I have bought Red Dead Redemption 2 from Rockstar using the official game launcher, however the launcher keep on crashing, throwing "Rockstar launcher exited unexpectedly" error and often even throws heap corruption error when trying to load RDR 2.

Is there any known solution for this situation as I do not want to disable my anti virus. My gpu drivers are up to date and so is my Windows.

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Best Answer

As the official Rockstar support page for this error mentions, you can try either of the following:

Update your graphics drivers

NVIDIA owners should update their graphics driver version to 441.12 or above in the GeForce Experience app, or manually using this link.

AMD owners should update their graphics driver version to 19.11.1 or above in the Radeon Software app, or manually using this link.

and

Run RDR2.exe as an administrator

Open the Rockstar Games Launcher

Select Settings

Select Red Dead Redemption 2 under My installed games

Select Open under View Installation Folder

Right-Click on RDR2

Select Properties

Under the Compatibility Tab

Select Run this Program as an Administrator (and disable Full Screen Optimization)

Click OK

Return to the Games Menu in the Rockstar Games Launcher

Launch the game

Update: It seems a lot of people have (had) the same problem with the Rockstar Launcher. There had been several updates since RDR2 was released to fix the problem, but it still didn't work for many up to at least a week ago. So, at this point, your best best is to keep updating the Launcher until it works. The current version is 1.0.14.181.

Update 2: Or you can try a clean Windows install :)