How to fix memory failures in Dune: Awakening on ASUS TUF?
Every time I hit launch, the game would just vanish into thin air right at the 80% mark of the loading bar. It was completely random and drove me insane. The XMP 3200MHz profile on my ASUS TUF GAMING B760M-PLUS D4 was clearly unstable with this title, throwing constant 0x124 hardware errors in the system logs. I tried downclocking the RAM to 2666MHz, which stopped the crashes, but my 1% lows dropped from 45 FPS to 32 FPS—a performance hit I just couldn't live with. I went back into the BIOS, nudged the DRAM voltage from 1.35V up to 1.38V, and loosened the tRCD and tRP timings from 16-16 to 18-18. After 4 passes of MemTest86, the error count went from 12 down to zero. I actually triggered a thermal shutdown during the first voltage tweak, but adding some cheap RAM heatsinks fixed that. Memory temps are now 42℃ - 48℃ and VRM temps are 55℃ - 62℃. I saved this stable config to a BIOS profile, and the fans are now humming steadily at 1400-1600 RPM.
