How to fix the black screen when entering towns in KCD 2?
Everything went pitch black when entering Rattay, with only the background audio looping—it was a complete immersion killer. I realized my motherboard's auto-overclock was causing the Crucial DDR4 3200MHz 16GB to bounce wildly between 3180MHz - 3220MHz, which triggered a memory checksum error in the engine. I tried restarting and dropping the graphics settings, but it just crashed at the exact same spot, which was incredibly frustrating. I went into the BIOS, disabled the flaky XMP profile, and hard-locked the frequency at 3200MHz while bumping the voltage from 1.35V to 1.38V. AIDA64 showed my latency stabilize from 88-95ns down to 82-85ns, and the scenes started loading instantly. I actually failed the first POST after locking the frequency, and I only got back into Windows after loosening the tRCD timings. Now, RAM temps sit at 44℃ - 49℃ and VRM voltage fluctuations are within +/- 0.01V. Three rounds of MemTest86 confirmed zero errors, and it's finally playable.
