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bakeryavenger
Seasoned Newcomer
1 month ago
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Sudden crashes to desktop, no error, no warning

Hi there, I've been having this issue for several months now--I can start up and run the game, load a save, and play from anywhere between 5 minutes to an hour before the game will suddenly crash to ...
  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    1 month ago

    bakeryavenger​  Thanks for the dxdiag, which shows the kind of error that's common on high-end Intel processors that the motherboard may overclock by default.  So please look for an update for your board's BIOS.  I can't tell from the version in your dxdiag whether you're up to date, but if not, that's first.

    If that doesn't help, or you already have the newest BIOS version, boot into BIOS and disable CPU Turbo Boost.  It's sometimes called something slightly different, but it should have Turbo in the name and be under Advanced settings.