Fixing Nioh 2 memory access violations on ASRock A320M
There is nothing like the feeling of that snappy combat returning after a long struggle with crashes. But man, after the latest patch, I kept getting memory access violations that just killed the mood. I tried running the game in compatibility mode, but that just bloated the load times by 10 seconds and didn't stop the crashes—it was just surface-level nonsense. I went to the AMD site, grabbed the latest chipset drivers, and disabled CSM in the BIOS. I ran MemTest86 and watched the error rate drop from 3 per hour to zero; now it boots 100% of the time. I did run into a wall where the drive wouldn't boot after disabling CSM, but I fixed that by converting my partition table from MBR to GPT. CPU temps are staying between 65-72℃. The transition to UEFI boot was a pain, but the stability is finally where it needs to be for a soulslike game.
