For those of you who have sporadic Crashes to Desktop

Leofev

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After suffering them for a while, disabling Hyperthreading specifically for Star Citizen seems to have alleviated the issue. I had initially tried it system-wide through the BIOS, but this led to some problems when trying to multitask with something CPU heavy like Star Citizen running.

You can disable HT on a per use basis in the task manager by changing processor affinity for the RSI launcher before launching the game.

You can do it on a more permanent basis by using Process Lasso, or if you don't want to use a third-party program, buy editing the launch command in the RSI launcher shortcut.

If you want to use the shortcut method, the video will show how to do it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GZX4dY1Hw8


On a side note, disabling hyperthreading has reportedly given some people an FPS boost.
 

Leofev

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Intel CPUs only.
Hyperthreading is Intel's trademarked name for Simultaneous Multi-Threading, a technology used by several other manufacturers on their higher-end chips. The technology itself is not unique to Intel, just the name.

Process Lasso also supports manipulating SMT alongside HT and I am fairly sure the other methods should work as well although my AMD machine is currently using Fedora instead of Windows so I can't double check.
 

FZD

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Is this something related to E-cores?

Anyhow, another fix for crashing (if this didn't solve it) is to ensure the any disk that you've assigned virtual memory space on, actually has enough space.
Well, there certainly are a lot of causes for crashing, and as such various fixes.
 
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Leofev

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Is this something related to E-cores?

Anyhow, another fix for crashing (if this didn't solve it) is to ensure the any disk that you've assigned virtual memory space on, actually has enough space.
Well, there certainly are a lot of causes for crashing, and as such various fixes.
Very short/simplified explanation of Hyperthreading: It can take a single core and make it act like two cores, allowing for more to be accomplished at once.

E-cores: In order to lower the power eaten by CPUs, instead of having all the same powerful cores, the CPU has a selection of P-cores ( high power-eating performance cores) and E-cores (low power consuming economy cores). In theory a game like Star Citizen should be utilizing the P-cores but due to lack of optimization its workload tends to shift to the e-cores. This is why it is often recommended to disable e-cores on CPUs with them to improve stability and performance.

TL/DR: disabling e-cores is another good way to improve performance, but is a bit different from SMT/HT.
TL/DR for the TLDR: No
 
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FZD

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Very short/simplified explanation of Hyperthreading: It can take a single core and make it act like two cores, allowing for more to be accomplished at once.

E-cores: In order to lower the power eaten by CPUs, instead of having all the same powerful cores, the CPU has a selection of P-cores ( high power-eating performance cores) and E-cores (low power consuming economy cores). In theory a game like Star Citizen should be utilizing the P-cores but due to lack of optimization its workload tends to shift to the e-cores. This is why it is often recommended to disable e-cores on CPUs with them to improve stability and performance.

TL/DR: disabling e-cores is another good way to improve performance, but is a bit different from SMT/HT.
Why not just explain what computers are while you're at it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was actually just asking if the bug was related to E-cores.
 
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Leofev

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Why not just explain what computers are while you're at it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was actually just asking if the bug was related to E-cores.
I've edited my post to include a TL/DR for my TL/DR.

....

On a side note, I could really go on about explaining what a computer is. There are some fascinating aspects to the definition and the origin of the field of Computer Science, as the field predates what today we think of to be a computer.
 
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BUTUZ

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Real geeks prefer one core
 
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