Game crashes, crashpad_handler.exe comes in and keeps using the CPU indefinitely.

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This executable called "crashpad_handler.exe" keeps eating CPU cycles after the game crashes. It's located at "Horizon Zero Dawn\Tools\bin\x64\crashpad_handler.exe".

There were two instances of this program using 9.8% of my Ryzen 5 2600, and I noticed it when I opened the Radeon Software and the "games" tab was showing that I was still playing Horizon Zero Dawn, even though I stopped playing it two hours ago.


If your game crashes, go to the Task Manager and check if the crashpad_handler is there. If it came up, close it.