If crashes occur midgame or unable to load game go on STEAM to check for errors.

1. Go to "Library"
2. Select "World War 3"
3. Right-click on "Properties"
4. Select "Local Files"
5. Select "Verify Intergrity of Game Files"

1. On the search field type: %appdata%
2. Go to the GameUserSettings file
(Local/WW3/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor/GameUserSettings)
3. Verify bUseVSync = False
4. Verify bUseDynamicResolution = False
5. Verify bUseHDRDisplayOutput = False
6. To keep changes to your usersettings, file may need to be set to read-only

V-Sync = Disabled

One Frame Thread Lag / Performance Boost = Enabled

Note: Setting everything to "Low" will put stress on the CPU vs GPU.
Some options such as textures and effects need to be on Medium or High for the GPU to manage.

May need to disable GeForce Experience to stop stuttering while in game

World War 3 at this time uses alot of paging file size

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Select "System"
3. Select "Advanced System Settings"
4. Under "Performance" select "Settings"
5. Select "Advanced"
6. Under Virtual Memory select "Change"
7. Ensure "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" is selected or if you prefer
select "Custom Size" and set your own


Computers with 8GB RAM, the page file size can reach 16GB +

Computers with 16GB RAM, the page file size can reach 12GB +

Go to section "HDD - Paging File Size" if computer was never able to get past the loading screen prior to patch 0.3

Go to section "Recognizing The Contributions Of Others" if unable to join a game after patch 0.3

Go to section "Game Crashes" and "Recognizing The Contributions Of Others" if unable to get past "Connecting to WW3 Network".

To know what changed since patch 0.3 and hotfix patch 0.3.3 go to World War 3 News section.

In the interim, note that your crashdump files are contain at: AppData > Local > CrashDumps
If you crash midgame or unable to connect to a server go to the section titled "Game Crashes" and "Recognizing the contributions of others" and follow the advised steps.

Most EA games are not optimized. World War 3 is no different. Run a memory cleaner while gaming to free up RAM. The objective is to prevent RAM from being completely used up.

Go to Nvidia Control Panel

1. Select "Adjust image settings with preview"
2. Select "Use the advanced 3D image settings"
3. Press "Apply"

Next

1. Select Manage 3D Settings
2. Select the preferred graphics processor for this program = High-Performance
3. Anisotropic Filtering = 16x
4. Anisotropic - FXAA = Off
5. Antialiasing - Mode = Application Controlled
6. Antialiasing - Transparancy = Off
7. CUDA - GPUs = All
8. Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames = 2
9. Multi-Display/Mixed-GPU Acceleration = Single
10. Optimize for Compute Performance = On
11. Power Management Mode = Prefer Maximum Performance
12. Shader Cache = On
13. Texture Filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization = On
14. Texture Filtering - Negative LOD bias = Clamp
15. Texture Filtering - Quality = High Performance
16. Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization = On
17. Threaded Optimization = On
18. Triple Buffering = Off
19. Verticle Sync = Off

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Select Power Options
3. Select High Performance

1. Select Library / Games / World War 3
2. Right-click and select "Properties"
3. Disable "Enable the Steam Overlay while in game"
4. Disable "Use Desktop Game Theatre while SteamVR is active"
5. Close "Properties"

Next

6. On the upper left-hand corner click on "Steam"
7. Select "Settings"
8. Select "In-Game"
9. Disable "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game"
10. Turn off "In-game FPS counter"
11. Press "OK"

Next

Fix Stuttering ....

12. Navigate to STEAM / steamapps / common / World War 3
13. Right-click on WW3_Launcher
14. Select "Properties"
15. Select "Compatibility"
16. Check "Override hide DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by: Application"
17. Check "Disable fullscreen optimizations"
18. Press "Apply"

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017

1. Get the Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 x86 and x64 from the official website:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

2. Uninstall Microsoft Visual C++ 2015. Leave all others intact.
3. Restart the computer
4. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2017
5. Restart the computer

Windows is not freeing up the cache like it should. Empty Standby List is a program that will free up the cache. Only download the program from the official website before proceeding.

1. Download EmptyStandbyList
2. Create a folder
3. Place EmptyStandbyList inside the new created folder
4. Right-click on EmptyStandbyList
5. Click on "Properties"
6. Go to "Compatibility"
7. Select "Run this program as an administrator"
8. Press "Apply"
9. Press "OK"

Next, we will create a task so the EmptyStandbyList program will run automatically

Windows Task Scheduler

10. At search field type "Task Scheduler"
11. At the Action field select "Create Task"
12. Create a name for the task
13. Select "Run with highest privileges"
14. Select "Hidden" (Optional)
15. Select "Change User or Group"
16. Select "Advanced"
17. Select "Find Now"
18. Scroll down and Select "System"
19. Press "OK"
20. Press "Ok"
21. Select "Triggers"
22. Select "New"
23. At "Begin the task", select your preference.
24. Select "Repeat task every". Select your time preference
25. Press "Ok"
26. Select "Actions"
27. Select "New"
28. Select "Browse"
29. Navigate to where EmptyStandbyList is located
30. Select "EmptyStandbyList"
31. Press "Open"
32. Press "Ok"
33. May need to close and reopen Task Scheduler to see the created task inside the Task Library


Note: Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to bring up Task Manager. Select "Performance" to view cache.

Source: clipartmagdotcom


Watch both videos and create a system restore point and backup the registry before editing


https://youtu.be/vUxus6g_YwQ

https://youtu.be/Q_MSOntiC1I

Windows Settings

There are a plethora of apps running by default. Choose which apps can run in the background.


Service that can be disabled while gaming

1. On the search field type: "services"
2. Locate and disable "Connected User Experiences and Telemetry"


Create a system restore point and backup the registry before editing

1. On the search field type: regedit
2. Right-click, select "Run as Administrator"
3. Double-click "HKEY_CURRENT_USER"
4. Double-click "System"
5. Left-click on the folder "GameConfigStore"
6. On the right panel, right-click on "GameDVR_Enabled" and select "Modify"
7. Change the Value data from 1 to 0
8. Press "OK"

Next

9. Double-click "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
10. Double-click "SOFTWARE"
11. Double-click "Microsoft"
12. Double-click "PolicyManager"
13. Double-click "default"
14. Double-click "ApplicationManagement"
15. Left-click on "AllowGameDVR"
16. On the right panel, right-click on "value" and select "Modify"
17. Change the Value data from 1 to 0
18. Press "OK"
19. Restart computer

Note: Windows Updates may revert the Value data on Step 7 and/or Step 17 back to "1".

Oct 23 @ 12:59pm
FIX! ** Can't connect to EU ? ** FIX !
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Dec 21 @ 11:48am
[PSA] DELETE %APPDATA% LOCAL GAME FOLDER IF PLAYED BEFORE 0.3
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Dec 27 @ 3:57am
Can't join any server/game
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