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title: Firmament crashes during play or closes before the menu, sometimes shows an error message
description: "***Firmament*** launches, sometimes plays ok for a while, sometimes just gets through the opening logo animation, sometimes just closes, and sometimes this Error message appears: *\"Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering resource. Make sure your video card…"
url: "https://cyan.com/docs/firmament-crashes-during-play-or-closes-before-the-menu-sometimes-shows-an-error-message/"
updated: "2024-11-06"
category: Firmament (2023)
---

# Firmament crashes during play or closes before the menu, sometimes shows an error message

***Firmament*** launches, sometimes plays ok for a while, sometimes just gets through the opening logo animation, sometimes just closes, and sometimes this Error message appears:

*"Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering resource. Make sure your video card has the minimum required memory, try lowering the resolution and/or closing other applications that are running. Exiting…"*

We've found some newer Intel CPUs have the problem detailed here (**source article**: [**https://www.radgametools.com/oodleintel.htm**](https://www.radgametools.com/oodleintel.htm)).

*"RAD has become aware of a problem that can cause Oodle Data decompression failures, or crashes in games built with Unreal. We believe that this is a hardware problem which affects primarily Intel 13900K and 14900K processors, less likely 13700, 14700 and other related processors as well. Only a small fraction of those processors will exhibit this behavior. The problem seems to be caused by a combination of BIOS settings and the high clock rates and power usage of these processors, leading to system instability and unpredictable behavior under heavy load."*

Online forum posts about this say the problem exhibits itself as the behavior and/or error message above.

Until an in-engine fix for the issue is found, please try the workarounds detailed [in the RAD article linked here](https://www.radgametools.com/oodleintel.htm).

**UPDATE:** Intel has released a statement regarding the issue. Here's the link to the statement: [https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/July-2024-Update-on-Instability-Reports-on-Intel-Core-13th-and/m-p/1617113#M74792](https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/July-2024-Update-on-Instability-Reports-on-Intel-Core-13th-and/m-p/1617113#M74792)