Every game created with Unity engine crashing my PC

[bobdihi]

All games created with Unity are crashing. No problem with games from UE4. Cant find solution anywhere.
My specs
Windows 10
Radeon R9 270x
I5 4960
16gb Ram

"-force-d3d9" trick doesnt work

Games crash randomly, sometimes 2 min into gameplay sometimes 1hour into gameplay.
When game crashes my screen locks up with a pattern on the screen and a continuous buzzing sound.

That does not happen with Unreal engine games.

Ctrl-Alt-Del doesnt work. PC needs to be rebooted. Its been going like this for a very long time now.
Its driving me crazy. So many good Unity games I cant play.

[crunchyfrog]

Sorry just to be clear here - did you try starting windows in safe mode with netowrking already and did it do anything?

[Hypernova]

Originally posted by vorski:

@ Hypernova I'm not using Hypervisor or any other kind of emulation/VM.

Even if you don't explicitly use Hyper-V, the Hypervisor can still be running as it is the basis for a lot of features. I suggest you check that

[vorski]

@ Hypernova It's disabled, and has never been enabled on this computer AFAIK. Sorry for any confusion.

@ crunchyfrog I'm pretty sure that Windows Safe Mode is not a valid testing environment, since it isn't going to load all the drivers and services required for gaming.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by vorski:

@ Hypernova It's disabled, and has never been enabled on this computer AFAIK. Sorry for any confusion.

@ crunchyfrog I'm pretty sure that Windows Safe Mode is not a valid testing environment, since it isn't going to load all the drivers and services required for gaming.

You're right it doesnt, but it can be a good thing for one clear reason.

If you have an issue where some software on your system is confliting, safe mode can find out if it is or isn't. Simply put, if you try it and things work OK then you can rest assured it IS something on your system.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by vorski:

@ crunchyfrog I'm pretty sure that Windows Safe Mode is not a valid testing environment, since it isn't going to load all the drivers and services required for gaming.

It's still a good step for process of elimination, if it runs in safe mode and doesn't run outside safe mode then it tells you its not your system itself, but something else running in the background that is interfering.

[vorski]

Unfortunately, testing in safe mode doesn't really help because the video drivers aren't running. Audio services are also disabled in safe mode. Interference with either is not being tested. Testing a 3D game in safe mode is like testing a car in park. It starts, it runs, but we still don't know if it drives.

[roymathieu]

Very interesting thread... i have a cute little unity game (Graveyard Keeper) that started crashing all the time on my high end gaming PC (Overclocked Ryzen 9 3900x + RTX 3080). When I check the game logs, the last thing is always "Setting up 12 worker threads for Enlighten". Enligthen appears to be an obsolete library that was phased out by Unity Link to Unity Forums[nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com]. I did file a bug to the game developers, we'll see what happens...

I do use Hyper-V (have a very ram intensive Linux VM consuming 32gb), overlay softwares (GeForce experience and Steam) and MSI Afterburner on my system so they could be creating interference. Havent tested other Unity games so far... will report if I find anything.

[Silvir]

I have managed one solution to fix the issue.
The Unity games tend to utilize RAM a lot and changing out the RAM to new ones did solve the issue. There was something wrong with them and now it all works fine. Still no idea what actually caused it but just that Unity caused such a crash from bad RAM but everything else was just optimised enough to not trigger it.. XD

[Coolice]

Originally posted by pelmichr:

OMG I know this is old, but I've been trying to fix this for MONTHS on multiple PCs. After some rooting around, it seems that pretty much anything that provides an overlay can cause this. Doesn't affect all people but is consistent with people it does affect - and almost impossible to reproduce on another computer.

For me, the conflicting overlay was the default Windows Xbox game bar! Since turning that off, all my unity games are working fine again. I'm sure it's different things for different people, but I've not seen that particular one recommended as a fix anywhere. Other people have mentioned Geforce Experience, or MSI Afterburner as culprits.

I really hope this gets seen by anyone getting this issue - and try turning off the Xbox Game Bar as your first step!

I too have been trying to figure this out for awhile never thought Xbox Bar was the problem but it was Thanks.

[Wolle]

Since the beginning of the year my unity games crash too. This is the first thread I found wich describes my problems. At random times, the game freezes and other programs stutter and get stuck. Resetting the PC is the only solution.

I checked my drivers, my hardware, my software and narrowed it down to the game I play. It's Idling to Rule the Gods. Yesterday I had 10 crashes. The problem multiplies when multiple unity games are running. Yesterday it was Idle Spiral.

Best of luck for all affected.

[Moroder]

Hi, I had this issue with unity games, and lately other engine games. in the events visor I had this:

Error 14/07/2022 14:45:15 Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

No se pudo iniciar la sesión "Cloud Files Diagnostic Event Listener" por el siguiente error: 0xC0000022

Made my pc crash while playing. Try also uninstalling Onedrive

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-disable-or-uninstall-onedrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0

It looks like the issue is gone.

[Neco Arc 🖌]

have you guys tried force the games to run it in windowed, 300x200 resolution? because that solving my issues on several games like ULTRA KILL

[Moroder]

In case anyone is having issues, see if your gpu is OC by default, then try to underclock it.

Example for amd gpus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgvKA_ZXqMc

I Had troubles in any game, not only unity games, that now are fixed

[radmanace]

open gl ?

[POPETTE]

Originally posted by no154370:

kindly got to here

1) open system settings

2) go click the apps

3) scroll down all the way and check each and every single microsoft visual C++ there

if you see the word "modify" not gray out, kindly click modify and then click repair.

most games on Steam requires non-corrupted Microsoft Visual C++ to run and play.

I tried this as the very first solution and it worked, thank you!