Crash prevention guide for games with BIG maps or heavy resources; 'AAA gems', GTA V, IV, Elden Ring, Forza,

This is best practiced religiously on each new PC you touch;

Methods of setting up PC's after fresh windows 7,8,10,11 installation, for gaming, and Software-suites, Ensure you are administrator of your PC, your account must be created by you, and signed in to Windows for the sake of legitimacy,
You need to be able to open CMD as an administrator to complete the two commands

For the sake of your / our investigation, let us know what your CPU, GPU, RAM is for crashes that persist,

3RD party software, ie., Razer Synapse, Logitech Gaming software, REWASD< whatever you have you are responsible for this on your device, and turning it off / Stopping ALL external services, is critical to ensuring what the problem is,

Event logs > not going to ask for this, but regedit can be our last resort, to overriding things that are perhaps not available in windows GUI's etc.

Furthermore, let us know if this did help you, as it's quick short steps, and future performance can be further guaranteed by always adding Root folders of Games to your antivirus Exceptions/Exclusions/ There are varieties of words each 3rd Party AV/AM etc uses to be unique, CC Cleaner services during gaming can also affect ___ unstable systems,

You also should be at the level that you can last -last -last resort check your MOBO System BIOS is up to date, check the manufacturer's boards for the latest BIOS, and load it, usually it's incredibly better performance,

The other bigger under-mentioned hardware-software thing is the PCI-E - Gaming - Resize bar, which is meant to deal with bigger GPU-slots, does hinder the game engines that try to use this technology, and it may need to be tested OFF; to be most compatible with system-to-game-engine performance, - Turning this on again, is best after ensuring it works well for 4+ hours without crashing,

When resizable bar is enabled, you get higher top FPS, but lower lows. Which makes stuttering more noticeable, worse frame time. When disabled, your top end FPS isn't as high, but your low end FPS isn't a low, therefore it makes the game feel more stable.

Introduction

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Greetings gamers, I bring forth advice after being enriched by youtube and combination of non-stop life learning and PC practice for 28 years, it's a really simple fix, but you need to do it for each time the system is set-up for the first time after a format/new hard drive,
and the MSI utils after each new Driver update,
and the Bcdedit's if you ever update your CPU's; :)



The system paging file works with your RAM, and the fastest drive you have set the paging file on; to ensure stability of the volatile random access memory's DDR5-type speeds these days;
You need to choose the fastest drive you have to put this on, and preferably it's the same drive as your windows installation; then ensure you always have this set amount of space available,

I think people with even more than 32GB< should set even a minimum paging file of 1/2 their total RAM, to ensure windows never lets their defaults go to 16MB> this is a default setting that is incredibly poor on performance of devices.
ALONGSIDE< Power options - Performance Mode of windows, Ensure you check /customize this, regulate your own device out of performance mode, if you don't play high-performance games/ for a long duration,

There is also some thing called MSI Mode, ensuring it's running - with each nvidia driver update you get, to reduce lag between CPU and GPU- >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRnZ9dNDI6Q&ab_channel=CyberCPUTech

newer generations of Intel CPU's See; https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/is-your-intel-core-i9-13900k-crashing-in-games-your-motherboard-bios-settings-may-be-to-blame-other-high-end-intel-cpus-also-affected

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What to do:

The first critical thing to all gaming of Windows, is VCREDIST REDISTRIBUTABLES;
This is for the entire pack- especially if you play olders Games-
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/visual-c-redistributable-runtime-package-all-in-one/ -
OR if you want it straight from Microsoft:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

If you play older games, you should also enable DirectPlay, Open Control Panel - Go to Programs and Features

Ensure you have .NET frameworks, 3,5 which includes NET 2 and 3, and 4.8
Open Legacy Components- and Enable DirectPlay


Don't restart yet,

Okay, next let's get a paging file out of default windows settings:

Type sysdm.cpl in your start menu, or in CMD, or Run window,
Press enter
Go to advanced,
Click performance,
Go To Advanced,
Click Change,
Turn off the automatically configure,...

Set custom size on your solid state drive, [windows drive preferably, and make sure you have space available for this!]
For 8 GB RAM<
Minimum 8192MB
Max 12378MB
For 16GB RAM<
Min: 12894MB
Max 16894MB
For 32GB RAM<
Min: 16894MB
Max; 22000 MB
Click ok.
Apply.

It will ask to restart, but we have more things to do, so let's hold on that,

MSI Utility V3, [{LINK REMOVED}http://www.mediafire.com/file/ewpy1p0rr132thk/MSI_util_v3.zip/file]
Read, and download, https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/windows-line-based-vs-message-signaled-based-interrupts-msi-tool.378044/
Extract, Run as Admin,



ensure MSI is ticked on your GPU - after each new driver installation
Undefined is best, and leave whatever is on High as is, or you can try all on high, but it can create latency issues; rather than resolving ultra low latency



Apply and lastly;

RUN CMD AS ADMINISTRATOR

bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes
and
bcdedit /set useplatformclock true


the last bit, to remove 0.1 second latency from your entire system:
Open Device manager - from start menu - type that and open it,
Expand System Devices -
Right click on High precision Timer, and Disable it,


I watched a video showing Minor FPS improvements- but honestly, the feeling of this off, is like less windows impact on your gaming mode, it should really not be on for anyone, it's a waste of resources, considering ultra low latency from nvidia control panel doesn't even disable this; :? They claimed it's not worth turning off for FPS gain, but the real gain is from playing online games with this off, , I get 1-2MS less on local server than before, playing in Europe from South Africa, or USA, Middle east doesn't even feel like it affects gaming, it takes 0.1 Seconds 1/10th of a second off your PC's and makes games feel brilliant.
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We are done,
Restart PC after all the above and test again , you should feel the difference, especially in online games- where you click, you get results -> Tested in CS2, Fortnite, Rocket League, Dota2, a few more,
even local games feel better than before- it feels like a new PC again :?

Lastly

Thanks for reading, if you got this far, this is always open to expansion , and further troubleshooting, if you're still having issues, and want help, let us know what's happening, Test Vulkan, vs DX11 via the Steam Library- Game Launch properties; Right click the game and go to properties and add -vulkan -vconsole on it if you use the console; :) -dx11
you can also try -high :) -novid

Let us all know if this helped you, what games you play, if it did/didn't help, where you're still stuck; etc. :)

All the best regards,
Love from South africa,