This game doesn't appear to like Intel Turbo Boost

[Gustuv Wynd]

I was getting random crashes that I though was due to a memory leak in VRAM since VRAM usage creeps up over time. However, when I played with it some more...I found that disabling Turbo Boost made it stop completely. VRAM usage creeps up over time yet, but it doesn't seem to hurt anything. I've played about 40 hours without a crash now.

Sytem doesn't have an issue on any stress test I can throw at the CPU...so I think it is something with this game. I just set an overclock to run on all my cores so it isn't like my system is even "gimped". I might use a couple US dollars more of electricity a year if I leave it like this would be the only bad thing. Note I was already on the lastest BIOS for my motherboard.

The dumb thing is that this game doesn't even utilize the CPU much...I don't think I've caught it over 30% that often. That was how I noticed it actually. The game crashed when utilization tipped just enough to kick the turbo on. I figured I would just share this infomation incase someone is having the same problem.

[Clemento]

oh man you're my hero!!
Thanks for this solution - I disabled the Intel turbo boost in the bios and tadaaa no crash - amazing! I was really frustrated, but now it's working again!!
This should be pinned. Thank you

[RodroG]

Which CPU?

I'm using an i9-12900K with Intel Turbo Boost enabled and haven't had a single game crash in 120+ hours of gameplay.

[Gustuv Wynd]

Originally posted by RodroG:

Which CPU?

I'm using an i9-12900K with Intel Turbo Boost enabled and haven't had a single game crash in 120+ hours of gameplay.

14900K in my case.

Happen to know if you have Turbo Boost Max technology enabled? I know the 12900k supports it, but at much lower clock speed. I am wondering if my 14900k just can't handle getting boosted over 5.8Ghz. I was going to try just disabling that and leaving the normal Turbo Boost enabled and see what happens.

Though as I said, with everything enabled and set to default I don't see an issue any stress tests be them single thread or multithreaded. So I think my CPU is OK with with the turbo max tech. So I inclined to think the game just doesn't like it.

[Clemento]

I disabled both intel turbo boosts (standard + max technology 3.0) and now ZERO crashes
: ))
I don't feel any performance drop when disabling the turbo boost,
I hope it works for you guys, Thanks to Gustav Wynd!
My sys:
RTX 4090 (driver 572.24)
i9-13900k
64gb

[jespelibur]

Originally posted by Gustuv Wynd:

14900K

Originally posted by Clemento:

i9-13900k

Any issues with other game (especially Unreal Engine stuff)? Your issues sound like your CPUs could be affected by the degradation issues that mid/high end 13th/14th gen Intel CPUs had before the microcode patches deployed through BIOS updates last autumn. If you're affected, the damage to the CPU is unfortunately permanent.

[Gustuv Wynd]

Originally posted by jespelibur:

Originally posted by Gustuv Wynd:

14900K

Originally posted by Clemento:

i9-13900k

Any issues with other game (especially Unreal Engine stuff)? Your issues sound like your CPUs could be affected by the degradation issues that mid/high end 13th/14th gen Intel CPUs had before the microcode patches deployed through BIOS updates last autumn. If you're affected, the damage to the CPU is unfortunately permanent.

No other issues that I can find. I updated BIOS with the microcode fix for that as soon as it was available last August and before then I manually set my voltages so I think I should be OK. It is possible of course, but I'd think a stress test would find any instability.

[Yourname942]

Has anyone disabled the intel turbo boosts but still crash? (I haven't tested yet, but just want to verify if it helps or if there are people who it doesn't help)

[The Konrad]

Since the crashes are random it's difficult to pin-point.

But my crashes on launch seem to be gone for now.
And I opened the map 20 times in a row without incident, which I couldn't do before disabling the turbo boost.

So Gustuv Wynd be praised, our lord bugfixer and saviour!

[Santana33]

Originally posted by Yourname942:

Has anyone disabled the intel turbo boosts but still crash? (I haven't tested yet, but just want to verify if it helps or if there are people who it doesn't help)

I did try it but still crashes. Funny enough it did not crash steady for two hours, then just started doing the same. I have a RTX 3090 and a with i9-11900k.

I just loaded optimal setting on Bios and will make another run, in case it does not work I will just stop playing until they release a patch.

[KKND]

Originally posted by Gustuv Wynd:

I was getting random crashes that I though was due to a memory leak in VRAM since VRAM usage creeps up over time. However, when I played with it some more...I found that disabling Turbo Boost made it stop completely. VRAM usage creeps up over time yet, but it doesn't seem to hurt anything. I've played about 40 hours without a crash now.

Sytem doesn't have an issue on any stress test I can throw at the CPU...so I think it is something with this game. I just set an overclock to run on all my cores so it isn't like my system is even "gimped". I might use a couple US dollars more of electricity a year if I leave it like this would be the only bad thing. Note I was already on the lastest BIOS for my motherboard.

The dumb thing is that this game doesn't even utilize the CPU much...I don't think I've caught it over 30% that often. That was how I noticed it actually. The game crashed when utilization tipped just enough to kick the turbo on. I figured I would just share this infomation incase someone is having the same problem.

Unfortunately that solution didn't worked for me... Every time I open the map the game instantly crashes.
Something really weird is that the game was working fine and out of nowhere it started crashing when opening the map.