Possible fix for Intel 12-14th gen crashes

Possible fix/workaround for crashes on intel 12,13 and 14 gen (intel CPU's with P&E cores)

Possible fix/work-around for intel 12,13,14 Gen CPUs

Head to the installation folder of Call of Cthulhu; it should be the same folder where the .exe is located. Keep in mind the paths in these pictures are the path to my installed game, and this differs from yours.


Once you are here, we need to create a .bat (batch) file that we make Steam call every time we launch the game in order to disable OpenSSL which newer intel CPUs apparently don't like.

So to create the .bat file, right click in the folder and create a new text document. You can name this file whatever you want but for this purpose, I will name it "Call of Cthulhu.bat" 


Now an important step for this is to make sure the file ends in .bat and not .txt. so make sure when you create this text file that you remove the .txt and replace it with .bat before or after you are done editing it.

With this empty file created, we need to edit it to add a few lines in it. So open it up in Notepad. And add the following lines:.

set OPENSSL_ia32cap=:~0x20000000
CallOfCthulhu.exe


Save the file and close it.

Now we head into the Steam library, locate the game, right click on it and select properties, and in the general tab, locate launch options at the bottom.


Here you add the full path to the .bat file we just created. In my instance, that would be

"F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Call of Cthulhu\Call of Cthulhu.bat" %command%

Make sure to start your path with

"

And close your path with

"

Follow by a space and

%command%

And that should be it. Now, when you launch the game, a command prompt should open up every time disabeling OpenSSL

[Laenthor]

This fixed it. What a weird bug.

[† Shepard †]

Sadly it doesn't work for me. I did exactly like the instruction but then I got an error message when I try to launch the game

[Meier]

Happy it worked for you too.

[Miss Zi Bunney]

You are a genius! It works! Thanks you!

[Meier]

@Zubera07

Happy that it helped.

[Zubera07]

It worked for me too. Thx !!!

[Meier]

Great!.

[Robyt96]

Worked for me, thanks!