How to train your PC - Tales from PC engineer

Post » Wed Dec 16, 2015 9:14 am

Hello everyone,

First i'm not Bethesda boss or employee.

This forum full of F4 crashed my PC, F4 freezing, crashing, detonating. F4 is not perfect, it's true.

I playing F4 since November 10. without a single crash. Have I a different copy? Not really. Can I setup properly my PC. Yes I can.

So if the game is crashes it's a hardware of software faliure!

When I playing F4 it begins to produce lots of heat.

I'm almost sure the main problem for the most PC crashes is the overheating, then the wrong setup of the PC for example:

- Illegal OS, softwares

- Old hardware

- Cross installed drivers, AV programs, codecs, addons etc

- Lack of security softwares (AV, firewall)

- Infected PC ( virus, adware, spyware, part of botnet, rootkit etc)

- Malfunctioning hardware part ( it su.ks and sometimes hard to isolate)

First of all. Know your PC. If your not ( if you can install a windows, does not mean you are PC expert) call an expert and not goog.e, or your buddy.

A few tips:

- lead the heat from the PC. Use extra fans or open the case.

- always install the latest drivers, softwares, apps, but don't forget to uninstall the old one first.

- use only the original drivers (for example: if you bought a MSI vga download the driver from the Nvidia or AMD site, and keep the CD in the box)

- if you have more than 16GB RAM disable the pagefile.

- turn off superfetch

- keep the OS up to date

- use user profile and not an administrator! Use secondary logon to setup or install new programs

- never disable your AV or firewall even if the program asks for it. Or someone tells you it's safe.

- if your AV find a virus, it is!

- use genuie AV and firewall programs(combined AV+FW better than two different from different developers), and turn off the windows firewall and windows defender services

- use UPS if your home is suffering a lof of backout (one in month means a lot), because the power fluctuates can freeze up your PC

- use drive "C" for OS and necessary programs only ( Office, AV, FW, Java, flash, file manager, browser, mail manager...)

- use a different drive for programs, games, music, videos.

- if you using a ssd for OS be sure to move the tmp, and temp folders to your HDD (your ssd will hug you)

Avoid cheap and noname hardwares.

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