EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000098

[AnthraX]

Any idea I keep getting this in the first village area with the shop, I’ll load into the game and it will crash within 1 to 5 minutes.

4070 super / 78003dx

[Grater]

Okay I was getting the same problem as you. I couldnt sit through the cutscenes at all it would auto fail mo matter what talking to the barkeeper afterwards.

I went back to a previous quick save that was 15 minutes old before I grabbed a stash with a brand new gask mask in it. I dont know why maybe its a reward for a side quest which screws something up. So I skipped it and now its working just fine.

My theory (which is probably totally wrong but whatever) is that if you grab certain stashes that are tied to quests, you might cause the game to bug out when you approach NPCs tied to that stash.

I tested it 3 times and it was always the same. I cant get through a cutscene in the village once I grab the gas mask stash, but if I skip it I dont crash in the village. If you didnt grab the gas mask, it could be tied to another stash somewhere else.

[AnthraX]

Only mission I did was where you go to kill the dogs and grab the collar, I then did the bar cutscene after that went to the shop guy and crashed, now crash everytime I guess I’ll go further back into the game, cause I didn’t crash once until I got the village

[[KFC].Lucky]

Ошибка выходит если остался квестовый предмет, который должен был пропасть, к примеру, в Залесье при охоте на собак в инвентаре остался ошейник. При нахождении у NPC "Хомяка" игра вылетает

[It'sComplicated]

You are the QA tester now!

[AnthraX]

Loading old Save fixed it for now

[bobbyjohn]

Encountered this error when entering Zalissia (Залесье) and talking to a bartender or a mechanic, along with 30-40 fps on ANY settings presets using RTX 4070 super

I tried to:

* load the savefile before entering the village (basically 1hr of gameplay wasted lmao)
* use the -dx12 flag for game exe shortcut
* use the Optimized Tweaks S.2 mod (shaders compiling took twice longer with it installed lol)
* disable autosave
* enable/disable Windows Game Mode, power saving mode etc

Didn’t help since I still always had this error after talking to a bartender or a mechanic at Zalissia (Залесье), no matter what

What seemed to help (at least for mow) was lowering graphics to lowest preset (in addition to mentioned above) and disabling FG and DLSS

Now I could save as much as I can with no errors so far, take all the quests I wanted, then leave Zalissia area and freeroam with all the settings back at their maxes (excepr for hair, they seem to be bugged, but that’s another story)

My guess is that the Zalissia area is bugged and drains out either ram or vram (googling the error code says the same) and using the lowest graphics to lower down gpu and/or ram consumption helps

Dunno if its related to quest items remaining in my inventory while taking quests from Zalissia npcs theory (when I had the error the first time, I completed the dogs collar quest first, dunno if the collar remaind in my bag, then went to a story cutscene at the bar, the second time I went straight to the bar and still had the error until I lowered graphics down)

This game really needs more than 3 quicksaves available
i5-12400f, RTX 4070 super, 16g RAM

[AnthraX]

Originally posted by Turd Cutter:

Hopefully someone figures this problem out because a lot of people are havin gthe same problem. Crappy programming and no response of the dev's

I just played 5 hrs no crash, after I loaded a previous save that was 30mins earlier. I guess my save was corrupted and kept crashing

[[ ] T]

Originally posted by Turd Cutter:

Hopefully someone figures this problem out because a lot of people are havin gthe same problem. Crappy programming and no response of the dev's

Have you tried to restore the Nvidia 3D-settings, if you've messed about with those? If not, try that.

[AnthraX]

okay still broken did the poppy field quest to get the icon, bring it back to village, hand it in and after that crash cant get out the village again, loaded back to poppy field did it all again. same crash at village... gave up playing now

[AnthraX]

Well I guess I hope the patch fixes it.

[Cheezeburger]

I was crashing every 5-10 minutes then I tried closing all other apps and dedicating my computer to stalker 2 and that seemed to fix things for me. also make sure you have latest drivers and maybe if you have multiple monitors unplug one? I don't know if I just got lucky with mine but I went from crashing every 5 minutes to crashing once a day.

[AnthraX]

Originally posted by Cheezeburger:

I was crashing every 5-10 minutes then I tried closing all other apps and dedicating my computer to stalker 2 and that seemed to fix things for me. also make sure you have latest drivers and maybe if you have multiple monitors unplug one? I don't know if I just got lucky with mine but I went from crashing every 5 minutes to crashing once a day.

its game related bug tho, within the village. I dont crash anywhere else apart from when im using shops or talking to quest NPC's in the village. its an item in my inv or something. I just cant figure it out.

always this Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000098

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[oni_666]

I had this a similar exception error and googling it gave me a link to an Unreal forum, the fix for me was to follow the steps in this comment (since doing this. I've not had the exception since).

Firstly, make sure the game is properly allowed through your Windows Firewall.

Then follow these 2 links...

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unhandled-exception-exception-access-violation-reading-address-0x0000000000000000/752651/10

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-5-1-0-preview-crashes-on-startup/672900/10

The folders should then look like this,

https://ibb.co/HgNcTBn

After following these steps, No more exception errors, I still get other crashes, with memory leaks and the game using all my system ram and going over my max virtual memory allocation, but that's a different thing to fix.

https://ibb.co/7r5MnQ0

[AnthraX]

ill try it but error code slightly different to mine.

didnt work :(, as soon as I backed out of trader game closed.

[GhostSrC]

I had this exact same error after completing the side mission "A Light in the End of the Tunnel" given to you by "Quiet", loaded a save from before the mission, never touched it again and the error stoped