Why does my MSI A520M-A PRO keep freezing in Avowed?
The moment I hit the main city, the screen just froze with this nasty buzzing sound in my headset—reminded me of those old-school hardware conflicts. I noticed the default memory voltage on the MSI A520M-A PRO was bouncing around 1.2V, but during heavy instruction sets, the memory controller hit abnormal delays of 12-18ms. I tried the easy route by enabling XMP, but that just led to a BSOD on the loading screen. Total nightmare. I ended up diving into the BIOS, disabled auto-voltage, and locked the DRAM voltage at 1.35V while loosening the primary timings from 16-18-18-36 to 18-20-20-38. In AIDA64, the read speeds finally leveled out between 3150-3250MB/s. Weirdly, the game took 2 seconds longer to boot after the timing change until I killed the Fast Boot option. VRM temps stayed chill between 52-58℃. Ran three full passes of MemTest86 with zero errors, so the config is finally saved.
