As you’re using a Ryzen 5 CPU, I recommend to try the following:
Lowering your Worker Thread count. This may require some experimenting to find the setting that is optimal for your system
Check that your BIOS is up-to-date. We’ve seen before in Vermintide 2 that Ryzen 5+ series CPU’s can be prone to regular Access Violation crashes, and stability is often much improved after updating the BIOS.
Oooh good point to bring up, that’s a bad one, I bet many people don’t update their BIOS, and they contain important security fixes too along with stability improvements, there was an important BIOS/FW AGESA update in the spring AMD AGESA V2 1.2.0.E Update: Security Fix for Zen 2, Zen 3, and Zen 4 Processors. I remember those old USB issues mentioned in the article that the updates fixes.
Edit: and very recent MSI AM5 Security Patch and New CPU Support from MSI via AGESA 1.2.0.3f BIOS
I’d like to add:, update your chipset drivers straight from AMD, e.g. X570 Drivers Motherboard vendors are always out of date for drivers, they’re basically only there for BIOS.
P.P.S. For reference, I have a 5900x on x570 on Win11, no issues other than the recent nVidia ones that were fixed by experimental branch then nVidia’s updated drivers.
@gpkgpk thanks! I primarily handle Vermintide 2, so when I saw consistent Access Violation crashes paired with a Ryzen 5 reported it’s where my mind jumped to. If the BIOS update helps in this instance, then we’ll mirror or update the article for both games.