Moving Battletech off of your operating system drive will help, especially if it is moved to a SSD. It only needs to be on one drive, preferably a HDD not a SSD, a HDD doesn't have a limited number of read/writes that it can go through, whereas an SSD wears out faster if used for paging files.

Doing this well help with the unity memory leak and some CTD's that happen when you run out of memory.

It helps to make sure you set a custom size that is 1.5x your PC's RAM e.g 16gb RAM would be 24000mb min and max for the paging file. This link will tell you how to change the paging file size, but what size does it need to be? Now add -popupwindow to the Battletech launch options, and if you're getting it on the wrong monitor, add -adapter N where N = your monitor number - 1, so monitor 1 is 0, 2 is 1, etc. To play in full screen borderless window mode, set your in game video options to WINDOWED, and resolution to your desktop resolution. Set priorities to high (i/o and priority class). Select Battletech, remove CPU affinity 0 and 1 (for always). Get process lasso: (you only need the free version). Manually OC'ing your GPU will cause problems with Battletech. Do not manually overclock your GPU beyond its factory settings. Add the battletech.exe process to exclusion list for windows defender.Ĥ. Add the Battletech folder to exclusion list for windows defender.ģ. Turn off VSync in Battletech settings and turn on 'fast' VSync in Nvidia control panel.Ģ.

This can vary depending on the capability of your system, but running the game for more than six hours has been known to cause very bad things to happen.Īdvice from a 9700k + 64Gb + RTX2080 user who was still getting performance drops:ġ. To mitigate this we suggest the game be restarted every few hours or every few missions.

Thanks to the poorly optimised Unity engine, vanilla code and other memory related unpleasantness, even large amounts of RAM will be quickly filled. 4.1 Slowdowns or crashes in Urban Biomes (City Maps).2.4 Change The Size Of Your Paging File.

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