Windows 10: Games crashing because of error 0xc0000005

Hey Guys.

Recently all of my games started crashing after some time or sometimes instantly.



Forza Horizon 4 always crashed after loading in or a few seconds after starting to drive avg 150 FPS before

Microsoft Flight SImulator 2020 either crashes on startup, when loading an airport or shortly after departure. probably around 60 FPS avg

Rainbow Six Siege crashes after some time or on startup avg 200 FPS, sometimes my screen gets all glitchy post crash

Astroneer a >1G game crashed once on startup but has been working since.



I never got any kind of error message, Im resorted to Windows Events Viewer. I noticed that it always noted the error code 0xc0000005. I also noticed a Warning saying "The Displaydriver "amdkmdap" wasnt responding and was rstored" or something along the lines of that that came up before a game crashed.



Heat wasnt really a problem. Most of the time it was around 60° on my GPU.

I did one pass of MemTest86 + just before writing this and it found 0 errors.

I had the newest reccomended driver, then installed the newest optional Drivers from AMD, then installed the reccomended drivers from Gigabyte with reset settings, nothing changed.



Can anyone please help me?

Thanks



Specs: Ryzen R5 3600

MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon WIFI

Corsair RGB Vengeance Pro RAM 2x8GB

Gigabyte RX 5700 OC

Corsair RM650x




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Random apps and games crashes with error 0xc0000005 and blue screens

Since the end of July 2019 my apps and games (including windows services) have been crashing randomly, the windows event log lists these crashes with error 0xc0000005, here's an example for the game Verdun (other apps and games crash with the same error):

Faulting application name: Verdun.exe, version: 2019.2.4.15146, time stamp: 0x5d65bc48

Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x00003ffca4ea3081

Faulting process ID: 0x1760

Faulting application start time: 0x01d5859441ddbe1a

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\WW1GameSeries\Verdun\Verdun.exe

Faulting module path: unknown

Report ID: 47476bd7-22fa-4760-b22b-07598c183ba1

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

I have also been having random blue screens with the errors PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA and CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED.

I have used windows Driver Verifier and I managed to get some blue screens that point to the clipsp.sys driver but I don't think the content of the blue screen contains everything meaningful.

The crashes do not seem to happen in Safe Mode.

In the past months I have tried almost everything:

• Clean boot
• Updated windows to latest version
• Used all tools to check integrity or corruption like sfc, chkdsk, ecc.
• Clean reinstalled windows multiple times
• Replaced RAM modules
• Replaced motherboard

The crashes still happen. Since I have no idea what is causing these crashes my next step will be replacing the CPU...

 

PC Crashes While Gaming, error 0xC0000005


As of lately, my computer will crash randomly while playing mostly graphically intensive games. I can do normal things on my PC all day long and play low end games with pretty much no problem. As soon as I play GTA 5, BF4, or something of that graphic capability the application will crash. Sometimes within a few minutes, but mostly within a 15-30 min period.

Quite frequently, the Runescape Client (queue jokes) window will randomly close too. I kind of feel like this is the same issue going on. However, with this being much less graphically intense, it happens less frequently or takes longer for a crash to occur.

99% of the time I get the same 0xC0000005 error (means the program has attempted to access memory that it shouldn't. ), on rare occasions it will BSOD with a 1A MEMORY_MANAGEMENT error or a 4E PFN_LIST_CORRUPT.

This has become extremely annoying and I don't quite know where to pinpoint the problem, and all of these seem to be memory related issues. Due to the fact that it mostly happens with graphically intense games, I want to point my finger at my video card.

I was wondering what ideas you guys might have? I thought about stress testing my video card to see if it will crash again. I don't really know how to strictly test the memory of a video card, but that was my best guess. Below are the troubleshooting tips I have tried, as well as links to pictures from Event Viewer, Bluescreenview, and debug reports from WinDBG for the 1A and 4E errors are attached.

Troubleshooting steps I have done are:

• Tried reverting back to the last "most stable" driver for my GPU (Clean Install)
• Updated video drivers to the latest version (Clean install)
• Checked my SSD for errors using software from the vendor (Don't believe this is an issue because two games are on different disks, and the same thing happens)
• Checked my RAM with memtest86 for 24 hours (Did this twice now)
• Scanned for malware, no threats found
• Used CCleaner to clean crap off of my computer
• Ensured Windows was fully up-to-date with the latest critical and optional patches

Pictures:
Imgur: The magic of the Internet

 

Various applications crashing, mostly from error 0xc0000005


KScorp, did you ever find any solution to this? I've been having the same problem for a while now. I too have the issue mostly when gaming (GTA5, BF4) I should try other games too. The crashing is pretty random as well. I thought I had it fixed today because I played GTA and BF4 for about 3 hours total with no crash. Then it suddenly crashed while I was in GTA5.

Things I have tried:

• Run Memtest86, for over 24 hours. (Did this twice, no errors)
• Microsoft Memory Diagnostic (No erros)
• Tested all HDD's for bad sectors (all were good)
• Uninstalled/reinstalled Nvidia drivers with DDU (still crashes)
• Uninstalled Nvidia drivers again and moved GPU, a GTX 680, to different PCIe slot (still crashes)
• Ran OCCT PSU test for 3 hours (nothing crashed)
• Ran Driver Verifier to ensure driver integrity (ran for 16+ hours, no BSOD from misbehaving driver)

Things to try still:

• Flash BIOS to updated version
• Reinstall Windows 10 (this was happening with Windows 7 before fresh install/update to Win 10 so I don't think that was the issue)
• Any other suggestions
• Smash with hammer