Games crashing when running on Processors with high core count

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Games crashing when running on Processors with high core count

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Hello Everyone,

It has been brought to our attention that some PC games might crash or show errors when played on a system with more than 16 cores / 32 threads. So far we have observed this happening with the following PC games:

• Far Cry Primal

• Dirt Rally

Internal investigation has shown that this is a bug with the games code, and other games may show the same symptoms. The work around we recommend at this point is manually disabling extra cores.

To disable CPU cores: go to Start > Run > msconfig > Boot tab > Advanced options > Number of Processors.

Kindest Regards,

Ronald M.

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