The First Descendant out of video memory? How to stop it crashing

Are you having issues with The First Descendant crashing? You then’re not alone. A number of avid gamers are reporting crashes, with The First Descendant telling them their system is out of video reminiscence, regardless of having a robust GPU with no scarcity of VRAM. This downside seems when the sport is compiling shaders, and it’s one we’ve seen earlier than. Reasonably than being an issue along with your GPU, it’s more likely to be right down to you utilizing an Intel CPU.

Launched on July 2, The First Descendant relies on Unreal Engine 5, and this engine has proved to be significantly problematic for a few of Intel’s greatest gaming CPUs, significantly the Core i9 14900K. Sport crashes on Intel CPUs have been reported for numerous video games based mostly on the engine, typically with related errors regarding an absence of video reminiscence when compiling shaders.

Certainly, even Nvidia is blaming Intel for the issue, and pointing avid gamers to the corporate’s tech help. Frustratingly, Intel has additionally lately admitted that it hasn’t but discovered the basis reason behind the issue, however there are a number of steps you may take to scale back your system’s instability in The First Descendant, and different video games based mostly on the Unreal Engine.

Your first step is to replace your motherboard to the very newest BIOS (firmware), which it is possible for you to to seize out of your motherboard producer’s web site. If you happen to’ve by no means achieved this earlier than, take a look at our full information on flash your BIOS. Motherboard makers are at the moment issuing a spherical of updates for boards, which repair an Intel eTVB bug that the corporate lately recognized as a contributing issue within the issues.

When you’ve up to date your BIOS to the most recent model, the next step is to ensure your motherboard is operating your CPU with the Intel baseline energy settings. One other contributing issue to instability was motherboard makers operating Intel CPUs past their really useful energy limits so they’d run at excessive clock speeds for lengthy durations when boosting, inflicting them to run sizzling.

Arguably, Intel has to share a number of the blame right here, because it didn’t appear that anxious about this when these motherboards had been being despatched out with the Intel CPU assessment samples and getting good benchmark outcomes. Both means, Intel has insisted that motherboard makers now run its CPUs on the default baseline energy settings. This ought to be enabled by default along with your new BIOS, but when not, search for an “Intel baseline” setting in your BIOS.

In case your motherboard doesn’t have a brand new BIOS replace to repair any of the issues but, Intel has additionally issued some steerage for varied CPUs to repair these stability points, which you’ll set in your motherboard BIOS your self. We’ve listed all of Intel’s really useful steady settings for video games corresponding to The First Descendant within the tables under.

Intel motherboard settings

These are the really useful Intel default motherboard settings to cease The First Descendant crashing:

Core i5 13600K/KF and 14600K/KF

Core i5 13700K/KF and 14700K/KF

Core i5 13900K/KF and 14900K/KF

Core i5 13900KS and 14600KS

If you happen to make all of the above modifications, your Intel system ought to be way more steady when operating The First Descendant, however that is undoubtedly a irritating time for avid gamers with Intel’s newest CPUs, and lowering your CPU’s energy limits will even make it run slower. Let’s hope Intel finds a repair for the basis trigger quickly.

If you wish to see in case your system is in any other case as much as scratch for operating the sport, take a look at The First Descendant system necessities, and skim our information to the Final Descendants, to search out out why it is best to add one to your roster.