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How to fix Payday 2 Crashes
By Zagadek
As we all know very well, Payday 2 crashes very often, and most often during heist. Crashes most often occur in Safe House Raid or in newer DLCs, in this Tutorial I will show you how to fix this problem once and for all.
   
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Zagadek
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Category: Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs, Weapons
Languages: English
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16 Sep @ 3:03pm
6 Oct @ 8:28am
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Overview
1.Lower your Graphic settings to Low.
 
2.Set Payday 2 memory usage as primary in Task Manager.
 
3.Download these mods and add it to your mod folder (just remember to have installed Super BLT).
 
4.Akimbos.
 
5.New DLC Weapons.
 
6.Modding.
 
Video Tutorial 
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1.Lower your Graphic settings to Low.
->Main Menu
->Options
->Video
->Advanced
->Change "Texture Quality" to Medium or Low
->Change "Shadow Quality" to Low
->Change "Corpse Limit" to Low
2.Set Payday 2 memory usage as primary in Task Manager.
->Open Payday 2
->Open Task Manager
->Go to Details
->Look for payday2_win32_release.exe
->Right Click It
->Set Priority to High
->Just Remember to change it to High everytime you open Payday 2, because it gets reseted everytime
3.Download these mods and add it to your mod folder (just remember to have installed Super BLT).
Clear Texture Cache:
https://pdmods-arc.berigora.net/paydaymods.com/mods/662/CTC.html

Prevent Akimbo Weapon Freeze:
https://modworkshop.net/mod/51255

Prevent Crimenet Crashes:
https://modworkshop.net/mod/51121
4.Akimbos.
If you have downloaded "Prevent Akimbo Weapon Freeze" you can skip this part.
Playing with Akimbo Weapons may cause game crash, so avoid playing with them or players who also use akimbos, they can also cause game crash to you.
5.New DLC Weapons.
As I noticed, playing with Campbell 74, may result in crashing for people who will join when game already started.
If you did steps 1, 2 and 3 of the guide, you should be fine without crashes.
I still have to test it for other DLC weapons.
6.Modding.
->Some of the outdated mods may crash your game on launch, or mid heist.
->If host have different mods then you, there is a chance they will collide with each other and can cause a crash.

Video Tutorial
16 Comments
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FeelsBadMan 5 Oct @ 6:07am 
Amazing work, you are the best Zagadek
Zagadek  [author] 2 Oct @ 5:49pm 
I will look into it, thanks.
TurboAntOne 2 Oct @ 10:33am 
your chance of encountering the crash scales exponentially with players actively shooting. If you haven't encountered the crash it means you haven't spent enough time firing your weapon. In conclusion, if you haven't caused a crash then you suck at the game
TurboAntOne 2 Oct @ 10:33am 
Look up on youtube Testing Akimbo freeze stuff (Twitch multi-stream) by Kevkild
if 6 hours VOD of testing it live on stream is not enough proof for ya idk what will be.
it's a freeze and there is no crash log.
In the kevkild's announcment that the fix was found you can see the bit of code supposedly responsible for the crash found by rockymoto.
Zagadek  [author] 2 Oct @ 7:47am 
Few of my frends, who play with akimbos, haven't reported a single crash to me, after I showed them how to deal with crashes, so show me one proof that isn't a youtube video or reddit post.
TurboAntOne 2 Oct @ 7:06am 
I also love the fact your guide is all still in the "Basic guide information"
and not in "guide contents"
TurboAntOne 2 Oct @ 6:58am 
It's not specific akimbo or a myth
It's desync'd weapon sounds.
Any weapon can do it randomly
akimbos have high RoF and double the sound so they do it the most often.
Zagadek  [author] 1 Oct @ 5:46pm 
Another expert great, for what I seen mod that fixes akimbo freeze not always work, setting priority to high via task manager actually does it's job and support modern cpu 2021+ does nothing.
The only thing that I will agree with you is that some nasty people will try to crash your game via crime net.
im zerking my shit off 1 Oct @ 11:36am 
I would prefer setting textures on very low, instaling celer mod, prevent akimbo freeze fix and also anticrash from the same site you downloaded celer to avoid inviduals that wanna crash anyone who isnt a metaslave. Setting priority to high via task manager doesnt do anything. Just pick "support modern cpu 2021+" branch
Zagadek  [author] 24 Sep @ 1:20pm 
I would disagree