Aliens: Dark Descent How to Reduce Crash & Increase Performance

Hey all

Just wanted to share a couple things that seemed to make my game run more stable. This being an UE4 game, there are a number of launch options that can be used in the properties tab. For me, the biggest ones were:

-USEALLAVAILABLECORES -WINDOWED

Especially the first one. Right clicking the game and going to properties (or the gear icon on the game’s main page) then pasting the above arguments in to the launch options bar. Make sure you include a space between the two commands

Alternatively, you can set the game to windowed mode in game; for both of those you will have to hit alt + enter when you launch the game to get it to fullscreen.

I still have the occasional crash after doing this, but it is much more stable (and runs smoother) since doing both.

**I’ve also noticed that this game doesn’t seem to like when you overclock your video card. I’ve played dozens of games with a mild and stable GPU OC and this one crashed like crazy; i could tell it was the GPU as it crashed differently than when it was the fault of the game engine. (ie. my AMD software bit the bullet and reported its own errors vs the UE4 errors)**