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xMrBabybelx's avatar
xMrBabybelx
6 years ago

Re: Need for speed heat crashing and high cpu usage

I found out while searching for news on google I found a thread that describes the issue about high cpu usage and how to solve this.

Try this: create a "user.cfg" file in your installation path of the game for example "E:\Games\Need For Speed Heat"

and add these commands from below BUT edit it to your actual CPU Core and Thread for an I7 8700k it will be 6 cores and 12 Threads

the commands are currently for a quad core cpu with 4 cores 8 threads

Thread.ProcessorCount 4
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 4
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
GstRender.Thread.MaxProcessorCount 8

Create a "user.cfg" file inside the main folder of Need for Speed Heat were you've installed the game,

add these commands above edit it to match your actual CPU Cores and Thread, save it and start the game.

This should help to balance the high cpu usage for some people. 

I hope this will work for you too.

4 Replies

  • Prism_Heav's avatar
    Prism_Heav
    6 years ago

    Didn’t know what any of that meant but saw a comment on a video apparently some guy deleted all his weapons and that worked. Tried it and the crashing stopped XD 

  • AkamalAhmed's avatar
    AkamalAhmed
    5 years ago

    thanks man, it  helped a lot.

    my processor is I7-9700K

    i used this configuration

    Thread.ProcessorCount 8
    Thread.MaxProcessorCount 8
    Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
    Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
    GstRender.Thread.MaxProcessorCount 8

  • wroznn's avatar
    wroznn
    4 years ago
    @AkamalAhmed hello my friend first of all i am using amd ryzen 5 3500x threads seems to be 6 core 6 what should i do can you help me please help

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