My Fix for Crash to Desktop

[DarkMyth]

I have the following hardware:
ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E
Intel Core i9-14900KF

I have had constant random crashes to desktop since release of the game nothing seemed to fix it and I tried everything I could find. What finally worked was watching this guy and him showing how to sync all processor to the same speed this works and has made my game extremely stable. The game went from using 100% CPU to about 30 to 40%. I don't know if this will fix everyone but I hope this helps for those who struggled to get this game working like me.

Link to Video: https://youtu.be/gARovL8gYn8

Here's the setting I did in my BIOS:
Ai Tweaker -> Performance Preference = ASUS Advanced OC Profile
AI Overclock Tuner = Off
ASUS MultiCore Enhancement = Disabled - enforce all limits
SVID Behavior -> Intel's Fail Safe
Internal CPU Power Management ->Maximum CPU Core Temperature = Threshold 70
Internal CPU Power Management ->Package Temperature Threshold = Threshold 70
Performance Core Ratio = Sync All Cores
All-CORE Ration Limit = 56

Advanced -> Platform Misc Configuration -> PCI Express Native Power Management = Disabled
PCI Subsystem Settings -> Above 4G Decoding = Enabled
Re-Size BAR Support = Enabled

Qfan Control - Q-Fan Tuning
Boot -> CSM (Compatibility Support Module) -> Launch CSM = Disabled

[Micas]

Well, ya. Asus releases their motherboards with a default over-clocked state (really pissing off Intel), which wrecked many CPUs. You've implemented a rather conservative 70 degree limit. If that's all you had changed, you'd get the same result.

[DarkMyth]

Originally posted by Micas:

Well, ya. Asus releases their motherboards with a default over-clocked state (really pissing off Intel), which wrecked many CPUs. You've implemented a rather conservative 70 degree limit. If that's all you had changed, you'd get the same result.

Temperature was never an issue the sole fix that addressed the issue was "Sync all Cores" and ratio limit of 56. That alone fixed the issue.

[BlastThyName]

Originally posted by DarkMyth:

Originally posted by Micas:

Well, ya. Asus releases their motherboards with a default over-clocked state (really pissing off Intel), which wrecked many CPUs. You've implemented a rather conservative 70 degree limit. If that's all you had changed, you'd get the same result.

Temperature was never an issue the sole fix that addressed the issue was "Sync all Cores" and ratio limit of 56. That alone fixed the issue.

That means your chip was running too hot.

[DarkMyth]

Originally posted by BlastThyName:

Originally posted by DarkMyth:

Temperature was never an issue the sole fix that addressed the issue was "Sync all Cores" and ratio limit of 56. That alone fixed the issue.

That means your chip was running too hot.

What you're saying doesn't seem to make sense in my case. All readings said temperature was fine, including when bench marking and diagnostics from Intel. Based on what I was seeing it was using the two high end cores on the 14th gen CPU to do all the work with Indie game maxing out the CPU because it was only using those two high end cores and pushing the other non overclocked cores above their limits causing the game crash and not using them at all. Making it seem the CPU was maxed out when in reality it wasn't.

I made this post as someone who was frustrated not being able to play for a long time. Several people on here kept saying replace your CPU it's degraded. But all diagnostic test I did said it was fine. I'm helping those frustrated like I was to get their game working. Kind of feel like I'm being grilled here for being helpful in a way that helped me.

[BlastThyName]

Originally posted by DarkMyth:

Originally posted by BlastThyName:

That means your chip was running too hot.

What you're saying doesn't seem to make sense in my case. All readings said temperature was fine, including when bench marking and diagnostics from Intel. Based on what I was seeing it was using the two high end cores on the 14th gen CPU to do all the work with Indie game maxing out the CPU because it was only using those two high end cores and pushing the other non overclocked cores above their limits causing the game crash and not using them at all. Making it seem the CPU was maxed out when in reality it wasn't.

I made this post as someone who was frustrated not being able to play for a long time. Several people on here kept saying replace your CPU it's degraded. But all diagnostic test I did said it was fine. I'm helping those frustrated like I was to get their game working. Kind of feel like I'm being grilled here for being helpful in a way that helped me.

Sorry. Did not mean to come accross as snarky.

[DarkMyth]

Originally posted by BlastThyName:

Originally posted by DarkMyth:

What you're saying doesn't seem to make sense in my case. All readings said temperature was fine, including when bench marking and diagnostics from Intel. Based on what I was seeing it was using the two high end cores on the 14th gen CPU to do all the work with Indie game maxing out the CPU because it was only using those two high end cores and pushing the other non overclocked cores above their limits causing the game crash and not using them at all. Making it seem the CPU was maxed out when in reality it wasn't.

I made this post as someone who was frustrated not being able to play for a long time. Several people on here kept saying replace your CPU it's degraded. But all diagnostic test I did said it was fine. I'm helping those frustrated like I was to get their game working. Kind of feel like I'm being grilled here for being helpful in a way that helped me.

Sorry. Did not mean to come accross as snarky.

Appreciate that, I'm open to that as a possibility I would just like a way to test.

[BlastThyName]

Originally posted by DarkMyth:

Originally posted by BlastThyName:

Sorry. Did not mean to come accross as snarky.

Appreciate that, I'm open to that as a possibility I would just like a way to test.

Stress-test your CPU with Cinebench. 30 minutes should be enough to detect stability or cooling issues.

[Seibzehn]

SVID Behavior -> Intel's Fail Safe = IS NOT RECOMMENDED !

Its for very bad quality cpu's it will give too much power to the cpu.
(it gives so much power that near dead cpu's can run..)

BTW: "trained" is the oposite but then the cpu will get to less power and get unstable too.

Better use these settings from this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHh4HZGK3O4&t=332s

At 5:30 min the bios setting starts.

[DarkMyth]

Originally posted by BlastThyName:

Originally posted by DarkMyth:

Appreciate that, I'm open to that as a possibility I would just like a way to test.

Stress-test your CPU with Cinebench. 30 minutes should be enough to detect stability or cooling issues.

I did run this test during the troubleshooting process. I had no issues with Cinbench ran without an issue for over 30 minutes. I also ran Benchmark Heaven 2009.

[BlastThyName]

Originally posted by DarkMyth:

Originally posted by BlastThyName:

Stress-test your CPU with Cinebench. 30 minutes should be enough to detect stability or cooling issues.

I did run this test during the troubleshooting process. I had no issues with Cinbench ran without an issue for over 30 minutes. I also ran Benchmark Heaven 2009.

A 2009 benchmark is not going to stress modern hardware much at all.