RDR2 ntdll.dll error?

Baasha · May 3, 2024

So I've been playing a lot of RDR2 lately with a ton of mods and having a blast, mostly.

However, I just started getting random crashes-to-desktop with no error message and when checking Event Viewer, I noticed that RDR2.exe is crashing with an 'ntdll.dll' error!

This is odd since the ntdll.dll file is associated with the OS and not any game in particular.

I ran SFC /SCANNOW and DISM commands to 'clean up' any potential corrupted OS files but no integrity violations were found.

I tried removing several of the recently added mods for RDR2 and I still get the error. I can replicate the error by going to the same location in the game - Mercer Station and riding north (away from it) - game freezes for about a second and then CTD.

When researching this error, I found a link that says this means it's a "heap corruption." huh? So it's related to memory/RAM somehow? Is this an issue with the mods in the game, or the game itself, or the actual OS?

No other game causes these issues so I'm pretty sure it's not my system/OS.

This is the error in Event Viewer:

Code:

Faulting application name: RDR2.exe, version: 1.0.1491.50, time stamp: 0x65eec92e
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.22621.3527, time stamp: 0x92b2df34
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x000000000010c769
Faulting process id: 0x0x353C
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DA9D8194D554CA
Faulting application path: F:\Games\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\RDR2.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: f2a97a6e-5ec2-4873-9d98-e7b3f000cbb0
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Would really appreciate any help with this. My RDR2 if fine-tuned with a lot of mods and it plays (played) really well until yesterday when I started having this ntdll.dll error.

Thanks in advance.

viki_zaiko · May 3, 2024

What was the last mod you put ? This game is so unstable even without mods, i need to use 192khz sound quality instead of my 320khz to work properly, are you oc?

Baasha · May 4, 2024

viki_zaiko said:
What was the last mod you put ? This game is so unstable even without mods, i need to use 192khz sound quality instead of my 320khz to work properly, are you oc?

The last mod was the "Upscaled Items" mega-pack which has like 20GB of upscaled textures. I removed most of them and have about 7GB of upscaled textures.

That's strange because the game was mostly stable for me. I do get crashes on occasion but nothing like this error and not so frequently.

Here is my modlist as of now:

Code:

<LoadOrder>
    <Mod>Upscaled_Textures/Upscaled Animals AIO</Mod>
    <Mod>Upscaled_Textures/Upscaled Bottles</Mod>
    <Mod>Upscaled_Textures/Upscaled Cigarette Cards</Mod>
    <Mod>Upscaled_Textures/Upscaled Cigarettes</Mod>
    <Mod>Upscaled_Textures/Upscaled Cigars</Mod>
    <Mod>Upscaled_Textures/Upscaled Dynamite</Mod>
    <Mod>Upscaled_Textures/Upscaled Vegetation</Mod>
    <Mod>WickedHorseMan/Textures/EQUUS</Mod>
    <Mod>WickedHorseMan/Textures/HD.TEX</Mod>
    <Mod>Terrain_Textures_Overhaul</Mod>
    <Mod>4kCharacters</Mod>
    <Mod>A.E.M</Mod>
    <Mod>LLRO_V7.4</Mod>
    <Mod>Ambient_Gang</Mod>
    <Mod>KKK</Mod>
    <Mod>Desert_Eagle</Mod>
    <Mod>Hawken_Rifle</Mod>
    <Mod>WickedHorseMan/Textures/ColoredLoading</Mod>
    <Mod>ColoredPhotos</Mod>
    <Mod>Colorful_Weapon_Icons</Mod>
    <Mod>WickedHorseMan/UI/Map.Dark</Mod>
    <Mod>WickedHorseMan/Gameplay/Flo</Mod>
    <Mod>RemoveScreenEffects</Mod>
    <Mod>WickedHorseMan/Gameplay/LocomotivePower</Mod>
    <Mod>HeadBleed_only</Mod>
    <Mod>ImprovementsInBlood</Mod>
    <Mod>JustFuckingBleed</Mod>
    <Mod>WhyEm_BloodBath</Mod>
    <Mod>Dismember_Everyone</Mod>
    <Mod>PDO_v2.0_Extended_Features</Mod>
    <Mod>Realistic_Explosions</Mod>
    <Mod>Immersive_Scenarios</Mod>
    <Mod>Contracts</Mod>
    <Mod>Corpse_Spawn_Distance</Mod>
    <Mod>Ped_Accuracy_Fix</Mod>
    <Mod>Gun_Belt_Fix</Mod>
    <Mod>WickedHorseMan/VFX/GunFX</Mod>
    <Mod>WhyEm_Particles</Mod>
    <Mod>Maize_Sack_Fix</Mod>
    <Mod>BankRobberyRequirements</Mod>
    <Mod>No_Kill_Cam_Filter</Mod>
    <Mod>JMFAO</Mod>
    <Mod>JMAO_RDR1_Walk</Mod>
    <Mod>JMRP_V3.57</Mod>
    <Mod>Black_Leather_Gunslinger_Jacket_V.10</Mod>
    <Mod>Hand_of_God_Grip</Mod>
    <Mod>Legendary_Grip</Mod>
    <Mod>Lennys_Grip</Mod>
    <Mod>Serpent_Skull_Grip</Mod>
    <Mod>Grip_Carvings</Mod>
    <Mod>grips_and_stocks</Mod>
    <Mod>WickedHorseMan/Textures/FirearmCosmetics</Mod>
    <Mod>Holstering_Animation</Mod>
    <Mod>Armed_Executions_in_Non-Combat_Stance</Mod>
    <Mod>Cowgirls_Revisioned</Mod>
    <Mod>NIPBOOBs</Mod>
    <Mod>BandolierNameReplacement</Mod>
    <Mod>crime_law</Mod>
    <Mod>NPC_Weapons_Overhaul</Mod>
    <Mod>Lenny_s_ Gunslinger_Jacket</Mod>
    <Mod>Dark_Leather_Ram</Mod>
    <Mod>Gun_Metal_Rework</Mod>
    <Mod>Improved_Wildlife</Mod>
    <Mod>RWS</Mod>
    <Mod>CollyriumRedone</Mod>
    <Mod>Graphical_Issue_Fixes</Mod>
    <Mod>lodscale_1.25-1.5</Mod>
    <Mod>KaptainsGameConfig</Mod>
    <Mod>red_dead_offline</Mod>
    <Mod>WhyEm_DLC</Mod>
    <Mod>Online_Content_Unlocker</Mod>
    <Mod>NoReticleSpreadorSwayandNoForcedScope</Mod>
    <Mod>Maverick_Weapons</Mod>
  </LoadOrder>

PrimordialBlackhole · May 7, 2024

From my experience it's overclock issue, any oc can crash that game pretty easy.

Baasha · May 7, 2024

PrimordialBlackhole said:
From my experience it's overclock issue, any oc can crash that game pretty easy.

No that can't be - I have 3 different rigs and this happens on ALL of them. They all have the same mods installed so it is 99% related to some mod incompatibility or some such thing. These are the types of errors that made me quit Skyrim back in the day. I used to play the hell out of that game for years with so many mods but the script mods on top of everything else caused so much bloat in the save files that corruption of those files was inevitable.

RDR2 is fun ONLY because of mods IMO (after the story is complete, the game is positively boring). RDO is absolute trash so I only play free roam with mods and it's amazingly fun but these random crashes without being able to properly diagnose & fix the issues are bogging the whole experience down. Sigh... the ntdll.dll and Unknown Error: FFFFF are basically indications that the game is borked.

PrimordialBlackhole · May 8, 2024

Baasha said:
No that can't be - I have 3 different rigs and this happens on ALL of them. They all have the same mods installed so it is 99% related to some mod incompatibility or some such thing. These are the types of errors that made me quit Skyrim back in the day. I used to play the hell out of that game for years with so many mods but the script mods on top of everything else caused so much bloat in the save files that corruption of those files was inevitable.

RDR2 is fun ONLY because of mods IMO (after the story is complete, the game is positively boring). RDO is absolute trash so I only play free roam with mods and it's amazingly fun but these random crashes without being able to properly diagnose & fix the issues are bogging the whole experience down. Sigh... the ntdll.dll and Unknown Error: FFFFF are basically indications that the game is borked.

Than thats the average rockstar experience..

Baasha · May 18, 2024

So finally nailed down the issue - it was a script mod that was causing this error. I guess it was outdated and was throwing up errors and the game/system threw up its hands and errored out with "ntdll.dll" which is weird but once I got rid of the mod, the error hasn't occurred again (fingers crossed).

As someone said many years ago when Sykrim modding was all the rage: "script mods are of the devil."

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