0xC0000005 error code pops up whenever i launch smite, how do i fix it?

[george]

I don't really know when this started but eveytime i launch up smite then press the green play button on the launcher it just automatically comes up with smite.exe has stopped working and the error code is 0xC0000005. I have searched it up and but I dont really understand computers so I didn't understand anything they were saying in the forums. So does anyone here know how to fix it???.

[Solomon Guthris]

Cheers for the necro, same issue different year.

SHA protocols errors, the anticheat program has issues with windows 7 since october of 2020

[WarHistorian]

Just this past Wednesday I started encountering this problem. I had never encountered it before in the 1 and 1/2 years since I’ve been playing Smite. I got Smite through Steam, and my PC has Windows 10, and I’ve tried many different solutions I’ve seen on forums/discussions just like this one but none have worked so far. I asked a Smite streamer about this and she said that specific error code means I have either a missing driver or a bad/outdated driver, or possibly both. Anyone have any suggestions on what steps I need to take to determine if any of my drivers are bad, outdated, and/or missing, as well as what I need to do to fix this problem?