Windows 10: FAR CRY 3 CRASHING TO DESKTOP SOMETIMES WITH NO APPARENT REASON

Hey guys so i've been playing far cry and sometimes it crashes to desktop without any error or whatever. So i decided to play today and it crashed. I went to event viewer and found some info about it.


Faulting application name: farcry3.exe, version: 0.1.0.1, time stamp: 0x5ae993a5

Faulting module name: MSVCR100.dll, version: 10.0.40219.325, time stamp: 0x4df2be1e

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x00001f68

Faulting process id: 0xeb4

Faulting application start time: 0x01d6bed8a18baffd

Faulting application path: C:\Far Cry 3 - Duology\Far Cry 3\bin\farcry3.exe

Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSVCR100.dll

Report Id: d6022e9b-dfe2-404e-87ee-697d29ffe4e6

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:


Can anyone decipher what this means and help me understand better what might be causing the game to crash?

Thank you.

:)

 

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I have posted this question before and after one answer that worked for a while but eventually made my game crash even more. I have left the link to the other copy of the question and check it out but it might work for you or it might not. I posted this
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I will be playing normally and the game just hangs up and crashes and I have done many of the suggested hot fixes but it keeps happening and that is the only way I stop playing is when it crashes. I also cannot seem to find a crash log....if there is one.

Hot fixes:

Turn off microphone access

Exit Steam

Exit Origin

Windows app troubleshooter

etc.etc.

Some of these fixes seem to work for other people so anyone and everyone needs to give them a shot. They seem to limit the amount of crashes to one every couple of hours or so.

I have searched extensively to find some answer on the Forza Fourms, Xbox Fourms, and the interwebs and no result has come up as handy, only complaints and a general atmosphere of regret for spending hard money on something that seems to be unfinished in
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As always,



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I'll say up front that I'm a retired PC / Systems Consultant (over 40 years), so, I've done my fair share of troubleshooting. This issue has got me stumped!

I purchased a new HP Envy 700-406 desktop PC. I've had it for about 3 years. It came with a free upgrade to Windows 10 Home, so I upgraded it. Within a few months, the system began randomly crashing.

I went through all the troubleshooting steps I could think of or find online, including System Restore, verifying and updating all hardware drivers, hardware diagnostics, etc. The system would sometimes go for months without crashing. Other times (like the
last several days), it would crash multiple times each day. There was no pattern, i.e. sometimes it would just be sitting with no apps open and when I'd come back to it, it was frozen. Other times, I'd be in Outlook or browsing the web and it would crash.
I could be browsing in Chrome, Edge, even IE and might crash. Usually, the crash would result in the system freezing and had to be cold booted. Occasionally (rarely), the crash would result in a BSOD. When there was a BSOD, the error code was not always the
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I've also gone through 3 hard drives during this time. They would become corrupted and I'd replace them... usually keeping the corrupt drive as a data drive. Each time, I would either do a clean install of Windows 10 Home or I'd use the recovery USB that
I'd created early on to restore the system to the factory default, then upgrade to Windows 10 again. Each time, within a few months, the crashing would begin again!

The only reason I haven't done a refresh is that I have so many applications installed that I dread having to reinstall and reconfigure them again. I've used Macrium Reflect to create backup images... but, I'm afraid to use them to restore the system for
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Clem