IF YOU HAVE 13th GEN INTEL and GAMES ARE CRASHING

I have been having issues with game crashing since I installed my 13th gen 13700K. Every single game was crashing. ESPECIALLY games made in UNREAL 5. I had spent MONTHS trouble shooting and reinstalling Windows. Even bought replacements for my motherboard AND memory. Swapping them in and out. Buying different kinds of memory. And nothing was working. I scoured the internet for support forums and a lot of them said to underclock the processor. I normally dont like going into the BIOS to tweak settings but I found a fix that has fixed my issues.

The FIX:

Download and install the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility.
After that you must turn off Visualization-based security (VBS) to use the Utility.

In the app, turn the offset down a few levels. For me, I turned it down from 53x to 52x or 51x and it fixed every single game. If you have an i9, you can turn it down from 55x to 53x. No more crashing. No more Unreal errors.

I’ve pasted a URL below for instructions:

tomshardware dot com slash how-to/disable-vbs-windows-11

This may not be the only solution but it was for me after months and months. Good luck to you all. Hope this helps.

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