Fix For the Game “Peak” Crashing Computer
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I recently decided to try out “Peak” with some friends for some friendly co-op entertainment. Peak is a co-op climbing game which has the players working together to survive and climb a mountain on an island in order to survive.
Between managing stamina, food, and health from injuries, it’s quite an entertaining survival exploration challenge.
Last night, however, was a lesson in frustration. We loaded up just fine, but I kept mysteriously crashing so hard that my computer was rebooting. There were no logs in the system section of Event Viewer.
Quickly I ran through the standard troubleshooting steps:
- Monitored CPU and GPU temperatures
- Opened command prompt as admin and ran
sfc /scannowto look for corrupt Windows files. (the only thing “corrupt” was a deleted One Drive.lnk shortcut that I did not want anyway) - Updated NVIDIA graphics drivers
- Switched the game from Vulkan to DirectX
- Disabled overlays for Steam and Discord
After each change I tested, with the same result. 2 seconds after loading back into my friend’s game I was crashing without warning.
I had noticed in the settings an interesting setting in the graphics section. A slider for max frame-rate. The default was something like 600fps, more than my monitor could bear. I had originally set it to 145, just above my monitor’s max refresh rate of 144hz.
Dropping the slider below to 60, I didn’t like the granularity of the slider with its decimal values, so I cautiously clicked on the FPS box. Turns out is a text box that I can enter the exact value I wanted. I set it to 60 just to be safe for now.
That seemed to do the trick! No more crashing, other than when I ran out of stamina and plummeted to my death. At least I was the last to fall…this time..
If you want to check out the game, it’s available on Steam at https://store.steampowered.com/app/3527290/PEAK/
