Crash on Startup (0xC0000005 (Access Violation))

[MattyBoy]

Installed for the very first time, never ran before, and I'm getting crashes every single time I try to start the game. It's always the same error:

ExpCode:          0xC0000005 (Access Violation)
ExpFlags:         0         
ExpAddress:       0x00007FF7793C7BE5

I see suggested fixes like turning down game settings, but I've never been able to even get to any kind of settings menu in the first place! I've validated the files and my drivers are all up to date.

Running Windows 10 Professional 64-bit, Intel i5 7600K, GTX 1060 6 GB.

[Samael]

Access violation error meaning :

"If you have been getting the access violation at address error, it means that the software on your system tried to access a protected memory address. The memory address which is protected should not be accessed by the program you are trying to run, except for the program that is currently using it"

Solution :

http://www.tomsguide.com/faq/id-2119014/fix-access-violation-address-error.html

An Access Violation can be caused by a lot of stuff and isnt a problem easy to fix for people who cannot be infront of your PC.

This is like a car not starting and trying to fix that on the phone for a car mechanic. It's one of these problem where you have to look at a couple of place to find the problem and isnt something you go "Oh yeah it's there" directly.

i suggest you google "Access Violation error" and read the couple first pages and try their solutions. Start by that tomsguide link.

My recommendations :

- Desinstall your GPU drivers with DDU and reinstall the latest drivers.
- Install the redist inside your Doom's / redist folder.
- Verify the integrity of the game cache on steam
- Turn off steam overlay
- Turn off Geforce Experience optimization if you have it

Good luck !

[MattyBoy]

Samael, thank you for your help! I followed your steps and everything is working fine now.

EDIT: Nevermind, I wrote too soon. It ran once and worked fine. I changed a few graphics settings, but didn't put anything too high. Never jumped into a game either. I exited back out to desktop, and when I tried starting again, it's back to crashing as usual.

I've seen changing renderer_api to 0 in the local config file as a solution to problems, but mine was already set to 0.

EDIT 2: Aaaand now it's working again. Weird. Oh well. renderer_api is 1, and I'll need to use Vulkan (crashing with OpenGL).

[crew11]

in my case works with r_renderAPI "0" otherwhise i got crash 0xC0000005 (Access Violation)
it start from update nvidia drivers to v497.29

[Non Nobis]

Originally posted by crew11:

in my case works with r_renderAPI "0" otherwhise i got crash 0xC0000005 (Access Violation)
it start from update nvidia drivers to v497.29

not working with older drivers either
tried 436.48 now to no avail (gtx950 card)

jesus christ, what a mess of a game, especially if you think that they removed the possibility to change vars making the game anti-mods so they don't upset no life guys who care about "achievements"