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KapitenTerror
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5 days ago

Apex Legends PC crashes mid-game – Event Viewer error 0xC0000022

Hi everyone, I’m having a persistent issue with Apex Legends on PC, and I’m running out of ideas.
After playing for some time (usually mid game), my PC suddenly crashes. There’s no gradual FPS drop or overheating warning, it just crashes unexpectedly. What’s confusing is that my PC handles much heavier games that use a lot of GPU power and VRAM without any issues. Outside of Apex, my system works perfectly fine.
I checked Event Viewer and I consistently get this error when the crash happens:
Session "dc3a3596-71e1-45a3-b2ea-39ad5322fe51" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000022
No crashes in other demanding games. Temperatures and performance seem normal. The issue happens only with Apex Legends

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  • mattiaspil's avatar
    mattiaspil
    Rising Newcomer
    1 day ago

    I have the same problem and I have tried Apex through steam and EA, reinstalling the game, the launchers and windows. Uninstalling and installing all drivers via DDU, and tried to shut down all other services on my computer. I have upgraded, downgraded and maybe even sidegraded everything possible. I have disabled all overlays and run evertything as administrator, and not.

    I have tried allmost every combination of the things above.

    When I get the Kernel-EventTracing error: "Session "dc3a3596-71e1-45a3-b2ea-39ad5322fe51" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000022", It can happen between one and ten times before the crash, and when mulitple Errors, it happens with exactly one minute interval, like: 18:09:01, 18:08:01, 18:07:01, 18:06:01, so it seems that there is some service that is trying to do something, and trying again after a minute.

    Easy AntiCheat is my main suspect, or perhaps Windows.

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