How to stop Hollow Knight: Silksong from crashing on MSI PRO B760M?
There is nothing more tilting than being kicked back to the desktop the second you enter a new zone, and Silksong's fast loading just makes it happen more often. Looking at the logs, the MSI PRO B760M-A WIFI DDR4 II was struggling with 3200MHz RAM; the power delivery was fluctuating between 70-78℃, causing momentary voltage drops that triggered memory checksum failures. My first instinct was to downclock the RAM to 2666MHz. It stopped the crashes, but my 1% lows plummeted from 144 FPS to 110 FPS, which was a dealbreaker for me. I went back into the BIOS and manually pushed the memory voltage from 1.35V to 1.38V, while tweaking the VDDQ to 1.32V. After running five consecutive passes of MemTest86, the error rate dropped from 2 per hour to absolute zero. I did notice the RAM hitting 52℃ under load, so I rigged up a small dedicated fan to bring it down to 44-48℃. CPU temps stayed chill at 62-68℃. Multiple reboots later, the crashes are gone, though the voltage bump makes the sticks run a bit warmer.