12th/13th/14th Gen Intel crash fix

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Paste the following in the launch options in the game properties:

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c start "" /affinity FFFF %command%

Change the FFFF according to your number of cores:
For 2 P-cores set it to F
For 4 P-cores set it to FF
For 6 P-cores set it to FFF
For 8 P-cores set it to FFFF

This will force the process affinity to that particular number of cores.

You may see a command prompt window briefly appear, this is normal.

WARNING: If you have a 13th or 14th Gen Intel (Raptor Lake/Raptor Lake Refresh) make sure you have the latest BIOS installed on your system to mitigate stability flaws in these processors.

NOTE: Arrow Lake uses a new core topology, so please confirm the topology of P-cores before setting. In addition, Arrow Lake now has 1 virtual CPU per core (no HT).

Achievements are confirmed to work.

[Aquless]

After months of not being able to play this game on a gen 12, this fixed it!
The specific location is r-click the game title in your library > properties > general > launch options box.

Thank you for posting!

[RPG Gamer Man]

Give this guy a award for fixing the issue for people. Also somebody should sticky this post.

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As a follow-up, achievements should continue to work.

[A-Pex]

A patch for this would still be nice though

[SpicyMonkey]

Not gonna lie I just built a 13700k system and I wish I had gone AMD since I'm constantly having to bugfix almost every game I've tried to play since the switch. I keep finding that Intel's new P-Core setup is garbage. Many games just don't work properly now.

[Cheesecake]

Changed my affinity and set to 12 cores. Little jittery but atleast no more 3 second pauses. ANd no more crashes altogether

[lefiath]

Seems like it's working for me as well, no crashes in few hours. The performance tanked, sometimes the game gets a bit jittery, but I'll take it over the random crashes.

// Edit: Well, it doesn't crash, but it still freezes. ♥♥♥♥ it. This would be a great game, if the technical state wasn't so trash.

[Hiten]

Ecores are nothing but problems if you're mostly just a gamer. Best to just turn them off entirely in the BIOS imo. I have generally better performance in games with them turned off - less stutters, NO weird crashes, and FPS lows are noticeably higher in almost all games.

YMMV. i7 12700k here.

[Khoth]

Doesn't help i9-12900

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[R3dAlert93]

Wont this mess up windows?

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Originally posted by Bring3rOfPain495:

Wont this mess up windows?

This just adds a command line for starting the game. It doesn't change any OS settings. It just uses the Start command to start the game with its process affinity set to P-cores only when done correctly.

[R3dAlert93]

Originally posted by Crashed:

Originally posted by Bring3rOfPain495:

Wont this mess up windows?

This just adds a command line for starting the game. It doesn't change any OS settings. It just uses the Start command to start the game with its process affinity set to P-cores only when done correctly.

Doesn't work for me since I'm on W11

[Hiten]

Originally posted by Bring3rOfPain495:

Doesn't work for me since I'm on W11

use your bios

[LiMbO]

This fixed mine!

I couldn't get the game to launch on my 12th Gen desktop, but my deck was able to handle the game easily. So strange!

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Originally posted by LiMbO:

This fixed mine!

I couldn't get the game to launch on my 12th Gen desktop, but my deck was able to handle the game easily. So strange!

Steam Deck doesn't have a hybrid-core CPU.