Who is crashing at loading screen or at loading to the towns with GREAT PC

Hello everyone! I've been struggling to play the game with my decent setup:
I9-13900k
RTX 4080 Super
Asus z790 Maximus Hero
DDR 5 6000hz 16x2

I was crashing each time at:
Loading video with gears;
Login menu;
Character selection;
Loading to the town;
Loading to the hideout;
Loading to the map;
etc.

And nothing helped me (no dx11-12, vulcan, settings, volume off, quality of graphics)

I found how to solve the issue:

The problem into the CPU and BIOS settings.

What you should do - setup power limits to the processor.
Because => Intel uses turboboost mechanic to speedup the loadings and putting a lot of W to the processor. And it crushes the game (instead of your computer.

What you have to do:
In the BIOS:

Disabled Multi-Core Enhancement in the BIOS.


In XTU (Intel Extreme Tuning Utility)

Set core voltage to 1.200v

Core Voltage Offset to -0.070 (tried -0.1, crashed in one of the stress test)

Set 253 Watt for BOTH Turbo Boost Power and Turbo Boost Short Power

Turn off Turbo Boost Short Power Max

Set Turbo Boost Power Time Window to 56.00 sec.

Make sure the rest are set as default. Sometimes XTU changed other options you don't intend to change.

PS. Make sure you set Processor Power Limit to 100% in Windows Power Plan. 90% capped my CPU at 3.6 Ghz whenever I turn off E-Cores.
Last bumped on Aug 2, 2024, 1:43:25 PM
XTU is specific program for K version of Intel 13th and 14th gen.
you can find it on Intel's official websites
Thank you for sharing both the reason, and the solution for this issue.

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