Red Dead Crashed on Start Up (Parse Error line 1) Went to reinstall now getting a new error

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RDR2 version? NEWEST
Up to date? YES
Legit or Pirate copy? LEGIT
Steam/Epic Games/Social Club? STEAM
Windows version? 10
Did you try to delete caches.xml and try again? YES
Error screenshot (if any)


System specifications
What did you do to get this issue? I DONT KNOW
What server did you get this issue on? REDM CLIENT
Latest CitizenFX_log file CitizenFX_log_2020-08-26T184937.log (1.4 KB)
.dmp files/report IDs
e2adbd2f-469d-4160-bffd-6be3135e4060.dmp (528.7 KB)

If an issue with starting:
RDR2 folder screenshot


RDR2/x64/dlcpacks screenshot NONE
Filepath to RedM folder INCLUDED WITH RDR2 FOLDER SCREENSHOT
RedM client folder screenshot 1st location, then 2nd location when i press open file location.
RedM folder

Did you try to disable/uninstall your Anti-virus? YES
Did you start Rockstar Games Launcher not as admin? LAUNCHED AS ADMIN

Also add what you already tried so far.

I reintalled Steam, Rockstar Game Launcher, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Red M.
I uninstalled my antivirus software. I deleted my cache, i cleaned my regristry out using ccleaner,
I deleted the rockstar game folder. When I try to download it again and update the cache process when red M tries to do the cache thing. I get the the Download Error (Steam Error?) Its posted up in my first screenshots. Thanks in advance…

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Same error here

exact same error i am having as well

the problem maybe is the steam location different to rockstar launcher directory ?

i have the same problem but my game is through epic gaming but mi still have steam open when trying to load game

I’m getting the same issue. I think it may be a issue with steam/epic not working with it, because everybody else I know that plays RedM bought it through Rockstar games and don’t have issues.

i have the same error

I was getting the same “Parse Error Line1” upon updating the cache and when trying to launch RedM. I went in to task manager and killed everything that Steam was running. Then logged in to Rockstar and launched RedM again, and I got in without any errors.

This was after hours of searching online to find a single Reddit comment that said to try this. Hopefully it helps some people

Edit: I’m able to get RedM up to the menu, but can’t connect to a server and play the game because ‘steam’ isn’t found. So I’m back to square one…

I’m getting the same error just installed RedM

I have been getting this error past couple days and tried clearing out all files related to RedM. Reinstalled RedM and still same error. I have used RedM before but was a few months ago and it was working fine then. Something has changed with an update that broke it.

I’m still looking for a fix.

Found a temporary work around here in another thread that does work but it is a pain to do every time you want to play RedM.

  1. Close Steam
  2. Start Rockstar Launcher
  3. Start RedM - Don’t click “start” once loaded
  4. Start Steam
  5. Click start In RedM

We need a better fix then this but it does work for now.

thanks for this solution,
it helped

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