If you’re a gamer who loves playing games with BIG maps or heavy resources like AAA gems, GTA V, IV, Elden Ring, or Forza, then this guide is for you. We all know how frustrating it can be when a game crashes, especially when you’re in the middle of an intense gaming session. But fear not, because with these simple steps, you can prevent crashes and ensure a smooth gaming experience. Just follow the methods for setting up your PC after a fresh Windows installation, make sure you are the administrator, and turn off any third-party software that may interfere with your game. Keeping your PC and game up-to-date is also important, as well as checking your MOBO System BIOS and enabling/disabling the PCI-E – Gaming – Resize bar as needed. And remember, always add your games to your antivirus exceptions for better performance. Share with us if these steps helped you and enjoy uninterrupted gaming!
Introduction
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; 🙂
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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
and comments of course; nͫiͤcͫeͤ
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What to do:
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
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Ensure you have .NET frameworks, 3,5 which includes NET 2 and 3, and 4.8
Open Legacy Components- and Enable DirectPlay
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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}]
Read, and download, https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/windows-line-based-vs-message-signaled-based-interrupts-msi-tool.378044/
Extract, Run as Admin,
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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
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bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes
and
bcdedit /set useplatformclock true
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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,
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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.
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
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,
And that wraps up our share on Counter-Strike 2: Crash prevention guide for games with BIG maps or heavy resources; ‘AAA gems’, GTA V, IV, Elden Ring, Forza,. If you have any additional insights or tips to contribute, don’t hesitate to drop a comment below. For a more in-depth read, you can refer to the original article here by 1MantisPhoenix, who deserves all the credit. Happy gaming!