"There are various other devices utilising wifi connectivity however, I play late at night and as such, all other devices are in an unused state."
You play late at night which is when it crash's ?. ..Perhaps someone has left a connection on to download a movie, game etc ???
Make sure all these devices are inactive.
Have you allowed all the relevant programs for the game through your anti virus ?
This is a new machine I am supposing.....This is the time when a lot of windows updates will be downloaded...something else to check on.
What is the message you get when the pc crash's ?....... windows will tell you why it crashed.
Nope, all other devices are dormant after around 11pm. My sons laptop is completely shut down, he uses that only for graphic and motion design. No gaming but as mentioned, it's shut down completely.
His XBOX, he hasn't used in a few weeks anyway and is fully powered down (not just in sleep state). Our Android based TV is switched off. The only other devices would be mobile phones. At most they are receiving the odd notification from social media / email etc. No intensive apps running.
I do actually work in an incident management and network analysys role. As such, my network runs very efficiently and I have already monitored it for any additional activity and there is none that would interfere. Certainly nothing that would spike a network so significantly that it would cause an entire crash to desktop scenario. If there were data spikes on my LAN, I would expect a significant period of "lag" or a disconnection from the round and drop back to game menu. Not a outright crash to desktop. This is literally, like someone has closed a window down or ALT+F4'd an app. No warning, no stuttering, just simply closes right down to desktop. Oh, it's probably also worth noting that I physically disconnected my second screen to make sure that wasn't an issue. Didn't fix anything.
AV is configured correctly, Firewall on the Router is configured correctly. As previously mentioned I have opened ports to no avail.
The thing to note is that it's somewhat inconsistent. I can play for days, sometimes a couple of weeks. Whilst this may sound like I'm a no lifer haha, it's more case that I jump on for an hour perhaps at the end of the evening, maybe a couple of hours if I'm not working early the next day (and of course not every night). BUT, it can be days or a week or two without issue. Then I'll suddenly just get hammered with crash to desktop almost every round. In fact, there is often a time when the game will start up, get the main splash screen and simply shut right back down to desktop.
Whilst the PC is relatively new, it's actually over a year old. Windows is fully up to-date. I do however only allow Windows updates to occurr when I specifically start them. They are not permitted to run automatically. I act upon them when notifications appear in the system tray so it's not something that can be ocurring in the background.
When the game crashes, there is absolutely NO error on screen. I will have to query the Event viewer and see if there is anything I can view from there. I will also have to get a viewer for the crashdump files to see if there's anything in there that gives an idea as to the problem.
This, I feel is purely something very poor in the game code somewhere that either doesn't like the hardware configuration I have. Again, Other apps and games are fine.
I do a lot of photo and 4K video editing, the latter very resource intensive. The computer has no problems. No memory buffer issues, no bottle necking of data on my M.2 drives so it's not like there's a resource issue for the game.
