Game Broken After Windows 11 22H2 Update
So I was playing Wild Hearts relatively flawlessly with the Steam version of the game. Today Windows finally made me update to 22H2 and I went from 100+ fps to 10-20 fps, this is even happening on lo...
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Don't know if this will help but I see this in the event viewer when trying to open the game
Faulting application name: WILD HEARTS.exe, version: 1.0.0.5, time stamp: 0x63f8c050
Faulting module name: WILD HEARTS.exe, version: 1.0.0.5, time stamp: 0x63f8c050
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000432fe83
Faulting process id: 0x0x1D20
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1D94E3D2CC80D83
Faulting application path: E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\WILD HEARTS\00_game\target_origin\ex\WILD HEARTS.exe
Faulting module path: E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\WILD HEARTS\00_game\target_origin\ex\WILD HEARTS.exe
Report Id: d860fc33-aa4d-4ddd-9fbe-3b55262bbfc9
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
More error information on whatever is happening here.
I've tried the following to resolve this:
Reinstalled the game
Reinstalled the game on a different drive
Reinstalled the EA App
Tried running both the EA app and Wild Hearts in admin mode
Tried running Wild Hearts with full screen optimization off, tried it in Windows 8 compatibility mode
Ran CHKDSK on all drives.
Cleared EA app cache
Cleared Steam cache
Updated Nvidia drivers
Updated C+++ redistributables
Tried literally every combination of NVidia settings
Tried literally every combination of game settings
Turned off Steam, EA, and Nvidia overlays
Checked Windows 11 for errors (there were none)
Tried the game at different resolutions, tried changing the sound devices, tried using different monitors
10-20 fps persists no matter what I've tried and I keep getting those error messages so I'm at the mercy of a patch to resolve this issue. It's a problem specifically with the EXE and doesn't appear to be happening because of a driver. Because it's happening even during the KT logo and loading screens, it's not on the GPU end.
UPDATE: I gave up and roll back the 22H2 update and sure enough, game works flawlessly. All I can assume is there's some jank happening with Windows security and Denuvo or something. I'll just wait a while before I bother updating to 22H2 so I don't have to deal with this haha
