Nvidia drivers access violation

Issue Type (Required):

Crash - During Play

Issue Description (Required):

at least once a game the game crashes with this error. not sure its game related but tried verifying files and updating drivers. any help diagnosing or advice would be appreciated.

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

GUID: ff475f32-88c1-48f5-a445-36e09ab08775

Log File:
Info Type:

GUID: ff475f32-88c1-48f5-a445-36e09ab08775 Log File: Info Type:

----------------------------------------------- [Engine Error]: Access violation (0xc0000005) in build 1af2e5ab9c382d24ce916ce40e726626fec9a15f accessing address 0000000000000001 from 00007FFC84847691

The crash occurred in module ‘nvwgf2umx’. This module is related to Nvidia drivers. If this is a recurring issue please try clean install drivers.

---------------------------------------------- [Crash Link]: crashify://ff475f32-88c1-48f5-a445-36e09ab08775


[PC] Upload Console Log & darktide_launcher.log (Optional):

console-2025-12-16-04.14.15-3824f941-11f7-40ca-bffe-1e7b91d7068b.log (85.6 KB)

Hi! I think this is due a recent issue with the NVIDIA Overlay - could you see if the crashes persist with it disabled?

worked great, thanks. merry christmas!