Company of Heroes 3 – Pre-Alpha Preview COH3 Pre-Alpha – Game Launch Error & Fps Drop Fix – BETA Guide

Note: (PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY)

 
Please provide your feedback at community.companyofheroes.com – https://community.companyofheroes.com/coh-franchise/company-of-heroes-3/forums as it’s a more convenient place for the developers to collect feedback and respond to them as soon as possible. Furthermore, any new info or artwork regarding the game will be posted there. 
 
A quote from a Relic community management member: 

Leanne_RE:

Please Visit The Official CoH Forums For Support

Hi folks!

 

We won’t be actively providing support on the Steam forums. If you need support, want to share your feedback, want to raise a bug or just hang out, you can find us here:

 

Company of Heroes Forums: http://community.companyofheroes.com

 

Thanks!

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1634500/discussions/0/3060742937274013241/ 
 
Part of the Relic entertainment note for the public testers: 

Important! Due to the nature of game development at the pre-alpha stage, the following minimum specification has been identified to elltUre acceptable game performance.

Please note: This pre-alpha preview is not indicative of final performance, optimisation or stability of the finished game.

Pre-Alpha Preview Minimum PC Specification

• Intel i5 4 core processor, 8th Generation 
• 8GB RAM 
• Nvidia 1060 or equivalent 
• 4GB VRAM

Key Reminders:

• You are hereby granted full permission to play, stream and upload gameplay footage during the pre-alpha preview play window and beyond. 
   
• This Pre-Alpha Preview will be playable from July 13th 11:00 PDT / 14:00 EDT/ 20:00 CEST to August 3rd 19:00 PDT / 22:00 EDT, August 4th 03:00 BST.

 
 
Maximum resolution limit: 

Currently, for test purposes, the maximum offered resolution is 1920 x 1080. Higher resolutions are not available at the moment.

1. Preparations:

— I. Acquire the latest updates:

• i. Operating System 
  Windows 10: Open Windows “Settings.” Click on “Update & Security.” The first tab from the list on the left side is “Windows Update.”
• ii. CPU / Chipset drivers 
  www.amd.com – https://www.amd.com/en/support 
  downloadcenter.intel.com – https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/53/Chipsets 
• iii. GPU drivers 
  www.amd.com – https://www.amd.com/en/support 
  www.nvidia.com – https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

— II. Requirements:

Go to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Steamworks Common Redistributables\_CommonRedist

Then make sure to have these installed on your computer:

• DirectX Jun2010 
• vcredist 2019 (x86 – x64 / Both of them must be installed)

• If you don’t have any of them, verify the “Steamworks Common Redistributables” files. You can find it on the Steam client library list. 
   
• If you cannot find the “Steamworks Common Redistributables” folder, check other Steam library directories as well. It may happen if you have more than “one” game installation directory. There should be a “Steamworks Common Redistributables” folder in one of them under this directory in the Steam client library folder: 
  

  Steam\steamapps\common\Steamworks Common Redistributables\

   

• After all you download them from the Microsoft website: 
  www.microsoft.com – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 
  aka.ms – https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x86.exe 
  aka.ms – https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

A – Primary GPU detection issue solution

— Cause

 
Computer devices benefiting “Integrated Graphics Processing Unit” (IGPU) as the secondary graphics besides the primary GPU may encounter various conditions regarding game launch or performance drops during gameplay. This has been observed on numerous platforms causing by the operating system failing to dedicate the primary GPU to the target software. 
 
Duo to this fact, the user may encounter various situations such as: 

• Not enough VRAM available error on launch even though 4GB of VRAM is available on the primary GPU. 
• Crashing on launch 
• Game refuses to start 
• Extremely low FPS

— Solution

 
Windows 10: 

• Open Windows “Settings” and click on “System.” 
• Click and open “Display.” 
• Scroll down to the bottom and click on “Graphics settings.” 
• Below “Choose an app to set preferences,” open down drop menu and select “Cla*sic app.” 
• Click on browse and specify your game. Then click on OK. 
• Now click on “options” and select “High performance.”

 
Now launch the game. 
 
 

B – Change or remove FPS cap

In the game main menu locate and click on the “Gear” icon next to the “Quite To Desktop” button.

On the new window, switch to the “Graphics” tab, and then change the “Framerate limit” to the desired value.

Available options:

• 30 FPS 
• 60 FP 
• Uncapped FPS

Other COH3 guides:

 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2547981425 
 
 

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