I cant turn off safe mode. Its driving me crazy.

[night acorn]

I am on day 2 of trying to turn off safe mode (lowered graphics) for RDR2. I have done everything I can think of. I am desperate for help

[severe sonnet]

Check if you added -safemode as a launch option/command line argument in Steam/Epic/RockstarGamesLauncher.

[night acorn]

Any idea on how I could get there? I know jack shit on computers lol

[severe sonnet]

Where do you own the game? Which client?

[night acorn]

On steam

[severe sonnet]

Steam -> Library -> Right Click on Red Dead -> Properties -> Launch Options.

[night acorn]

Ok ok

Thanks man

[severe sonnet]

Np.

[night acorn]

It's not there

[severe sonnet]

It's blank? Then do you run the game from some shortcut from desktop?

[night acorn]

Shortcut yes

[severe sonnet]

Right click on that shortcut -> Properties -> Target. See if there is -safemode at the end.

[night acorn]

Alright, I'll try it

Damn I can't even find a thing that says target

[severe sonnet]

If it's a Steam shortcut then it might be different.

What do you see?

URL, Shortcut Key and something?

[night acorn]

When I click properties, I see general, web document, security, details, and previous versions.

[severe sonnet]

Oh okay, then it's a Steam shortcut. Try another thing. Go to /Documents/Rockstar Games/Red Dead Redemption 2/Settings/system.xml. Delete this xml.

[night acorn]

alrighty

Sorry if I'm being a bother, I know nothing on stuff like this 😅

[severe sonnet]

It's np.

[night acorn]

so delete the thing that says system.xml?

[severe sonnet]

Yes.

And if you see any files named sga_, delete those as well.

Then start the game from Steam, not the shortcut.

Btw, you don't have OneDrive synchronizing files from Documents, right?

[night acorn]

so things like sga_vulcan... etc?

[severe sonnet]

Yes.

[night acorn]

Not sure

[severe sonnet]

Is there like a green tick on the folders?

That signifies that it's synced.

[night acorn]

There is on the shortcuts, yeah.

[severe sonnet]

Shortcuts?

Can you send a screenshot of just the Settings folder from before?

[night acorn]

On the desktop

[severe sonnet]

Oh.

So nothing in Documents have that green tick, right?

Then you should be good.

You can launch the game then if you have deleted the files.

[night acorn]

Square Enix does but thats for JC2

Thats the only thing

[severe sonnet]

Oh okay, you just need to ensure that the Rockstar Games folder doesn't get synchronized.

[night acorn]

Ah ok

so Im good now?

[severe sonnet]

Yes.

[night acorn]

Alrighty

[severe sonnet]

Try the game.

[night acorn]

Will do

I'll update you.

[severe sonnet]

Sure.

[night acorn]

It worked.

Thank you so much man, this has been bothering me for days.

Means a lot :))

[severe sonnet]

You're welcome!

[night acorn]

damn now I'm getting FFFFFF errors when Im in the game for a few minutes

probably the snow though.

[severe sonnet]

You can refer the FAQ: #1061890407048429638 message

Quickest solution is playing in a solo lobby using some or the other method.

[night acorn]

How would I open a solo lobby? Does RDO just use traditional matchmaking?

[severe sonnet]

You can look up on Google, there's a video on it in 60 seconds. You can use that method but you won't be able to play with randoms. If you want other folks to join your solo session, they need to perform the same activities you did to get into solo.

[night acorn]

oh cool

thanks