Game crashes to desktop without error: July 27-2022 patch

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@Argument_NULL wrote:

Hello all,

I'm experiencing weird random crashes while playing - the game freezes for 1 second and then boom - straight to the desktop. It never happens during loading screens or when I'm sitting in the lobby, it happens only on the battlefield and it's completely random. The crash itself doesn't show any error codes, it does not create log files too and that's pretty annoying. 

ATTENTION! This is happening since season 4 (that's when I discovered the game) and it's never been fixed.

It's not PC performance I'm way above the recommended requirements,

It's not slow internet or falsy connection,

I haven't done any overclocking on my PC,

my Windows 10 is being updated every time Microsoft launches a new update (with none of them Apex worked fine - again, since season 4)

my GPU drivers are always at the latest available version (no version fixed the crashes),

I've literally read the whole internet and watched every single video marked as a guide how to fix the problem.

So, things I've tried so far are:

1. Playing the game tru Origin and then Steam (Steam is updated to the latest possible version too)

2. Changing game video settings from the lowest possible to the highest, tested with different resolutions and full screen/windowed modes - no difference

3. Capping my FPS to 144, 120, 100, 80, 60, 30, 20 even 10 once (it was pain) - still crashing

4. Performing a "Clean boot" - no difference

5. Lowering the priority of the EasyAntiCheat in the Task Manager - still crashing

6. Reinstalling and downgrading my GPU drivers - it's not that

7. Allowing the game in Firewall - no difference

8. C++ Redistributable updated to the latest version - it's not that

9. Playing the game with different account - still crashing

10. Disabling all over-lay software like Steam Over-lay and GeForce Experience Over-lay - still crashing

11. Adding a missing registry "TdrDelay" set to Hex:8 - still crashing

12. Repairing EasyAntiCheat - no difference

13. Verified integrity of the game multiple times after some tries to fix the problem - made no difference

14. Reinstalling the game + tried all the above again - still crashing

15. Ran multiple cleaning and fixing softwares (drivers, malware, errors, viruses and so on) - nothing worked

16. REINSTALLED MY WINDOWS FOR APEX AND IT STILL CRASHES.

All this made me quit for about 3 - 4 seasons duration then I decided to give it a second chance (hoping Apex is fixed) BUT NO!

If i'm missing something or someone knows how to fix the game, please tell me! I'm losing hope ☹️ 

Thanks in advance!

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I'm going through similar issues. Difference is that I did not crash a SINGLE time during the entirety of Season 13. The moment Season 14 launched, I've been CONSTANTLY crashing to the desktop with no error. Once every couple games, sometimes twice a game.

This is the information from the most recent crash dump I have.

SYMBOL_NAME: r5apex+221213

MODULE_NAME: r5apex

IMAGE_NAME: r5apex.exe

STACK_COMMAND: ~18s; .ecxr ; kb

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: SOFTWARE_NX_FAULT_AVRF_c0000005_r5apex.exe!Unknown

OS_VERSION: 10.0.19041.1

BUILDLAB_STR: vb_release

OSPLATFORM_TYPE: x64

OSNAME: Windows 10

IMAGE_VERSION: 1.0.0.0

FAILURE_ID_HASH: {65a0863e-9f39-f1b8-ae76-8a8c41275454}

Followup: MachineOwner

Now, I'm going to list every single thing I've done:

1) Reinstalled Apex Legends through Steam, and verified integrity of game files.

2) Deleted the Saved Data folder for Apex, and rebuilt it by launching the game again.

3) Tweaked pretty much every video setting possible both in Apex and AMD settings.

4) Rolled back AMD video drivers, as well as updating to new optional build, neither worked (per recommendation on forums).

5) Ran a complete CCleaner scan.

6) Updated Intel chipset drivers (per recommendation on forums).

7) Updated and flashed MSI BIOS (per recommendation on forums).

8) Tried different framerate caps with +fps_max 80, +fps_max 160, +fps_max unlimited, etc.

9) Made an entirely different Windows local account and attempted to play on that (per recommendation on forums).

10) Tested current RAM using Windows Memory Diagnostic tool.

11) THINKING IT COULD HAVE BEEN MY PROCESSOR OVERHEATING, REAPPLIED THERMAL PASTE AND PURCHASE A TOP OF THE LINE AFTERMARKET CPU FAN

12) PURCHASED AN INSTALLED AN ENTIRELY NEW GRAPHICS CARD FROM AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MANUFACTURER (NVIDIA RTX 3070), AND INSTALLED THOSE LATEST DRIVERS
13) COMPLETELY FORMATTED MY CURRENT SSD, AND REINSTALLED WINDOWS FROM SCRATCH, INSTALLING ONLY APEX LEGENDS ON THE NEW INSTALL

I don't ever know right away because it will seem fine for a couple of games, but then bam, RANDOM crash with seemingly NO consistency, always in a different situation.

I have spent over $1,000 trying to fix TRY TO PLAY ONE (YES, LITERALLY ONLY ONE) GAME. Every thing else I've played on this PC has worked smooth as butter, EVEN APEX LEGENDS BEFORE SEASON 14.

I don't know what the everlasting **** Respawn did this patch, but this is seriously becoming an unfixable problem, even after all of my desperate measures. Please, for the love of god, can I get somebody from Respawn to even acknowledge this?