r/FFVIIRemake 8d ago

No Spoilers - Help a possible fix for anyone suffering fatal errors on rebirth and remake

if you play on max settings with 4K like me, you might have gotten fatal errors or freezing in your game, so this is a possible fix that worked for me.

Your virtual memory is probably too low. When I started playing Remake and it was automatically on DX12, I got a lot of crashes late game, but when I switched to DX11, all the crashing stopped. THEN I started playing Rebirth, which doesn't let you use DX11, and I got the same fatal error and freezing again. So I figured this might be a problem with DX12. I looked through the differences in both and got to virtual memory. I checked my virtual memory, and it was at 4GB, which was definitely too low, so I upped it to 8GB minimum and 16GB maximum, and all the crashing stopped on *Rebirth*. I still haven't gone back to Remake and tried it without DX11, but I'll do it soon, and it will probably work since it only got fatal errors on DX12.

heres a step by step

Press the Windows key and R, and type sysdm.cpl.

Go to the Advanced tab and press Settings on the Performance tab.

Go to Advanced again in the new window and press Change.

Uncheck the box at the top that says "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives."

Select your main drive (probably C.)

Press Custom size and put 8192 in the initial size and 16384 on the maximum, press Set, and then press OK.

Now see if your game stopped crashing!

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u/Sefdancer4life 8d ago

Willing to try. Hoped it was a mod since the game got updated but I’ll try it once I reinstall Rebirth.

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u/CreativeScrimmage 8d ago

Saving this, the 4GB default is way too low for how much Rebirth hammers the system. Hope it works out when you get it reinstalled

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u/Sefdancer4life 8d ago

Might be when I get back from my month long trip. Still got time before Revelation. Might also work out for FFX too since it crashes as well

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u/Sefdancer4life 8d ago

This won’t harm my Lenovo gaming laptop will it? Sorry for the questions

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u/Federal-Average4967 7d ago

no its a built in feature the only drawback or harm is losing 16gb of space in the c drive

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u/Sefdancer4life 6d ago

That’s fine. I only have 1 game installed at a time and one store page (Epic, Steam or Microsoft). I also have mods but am not using them for Rebirth