Cannot play single player: CTD 5/5 games in a row

digitalJE5U5 · April 21, 2020, 6:18am

Haven’t played AOE in about 3 months. Decided to give it a go again tonight.

Fired up steam.
Updated game.
Verified game files.

Loaded up a 1v2 AI game. Random map.
Game Crashed to Desktop after ~10 mins.
Reloaded. Changed map.
CTD after ~5 mins.

Updated graphics driver. Restarted windows. Loaded game. Unsubbed all mods except small Trees and Grid mod.

Loaded up a 1v2AI Gold Rush map. CTD after ~10 mins.

Took a look at log files. Noticed all logs from today have same Exception error as the 2nd to last line in log file:
Exception type 0xc0000005 occurred at 00007ff7e932cbc6
Exception type 0xc0000005 occurred at 00007ff7e932cbc6
Exception type 0xc0000005 occurred at 00007ff6c12cfa26
Exception type 0xc0000005 occurred at 00007ff6837dfa26
Exception type 0xc0000005 occurred at 00007ff6837ecbc6

Attaching most recent error log:2020.04.21-01.06.47.txt (5.3 KB)

digitalJE5U5 · April 23, 2020, 3:18am

Uninstalled game.

Re-installed.

Same issue.

Windows event log:

Faulting application name: AoE2DE_s.exe, version: 101.101.36202.0, time stamp: 0x5e7ba162
Faulting module name: AoE2DE_s.exe, version: 101.101.36202.0, time stamp: 0x5e7ba162
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000141d1b8
Faulting process id: 0x4064
Faulting application start time: 0x01d6191c2ba4eb04
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AoE2DE\AoE2DE_s.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AoE2DE\AoE2DE_s.exe
Report Id: 584d45e3-7ffd-4d97-92ca-637f31d00b87
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

digitalJE5U5 · April 23, 2020, 6:43am

Issue:

Crash to desktop - 15x in a row. Occurs at various times during the game but always in less than 15 minutes into the game.

I have over 400 completed multiplayer games. Have had a few crashes, but since I took a break and came back to the game, I can no longer even play 1 single game.

Game Version:

101.101.36202.0 (Steam)

Error Log:

Faulting module name: ucrtbase.dll, version: 10.0.18362.387, time stamp: 0x4361b720
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x000000000006db8e

Faulting module name: AoE2DE_s.exe, version: 101.101.36202.0, time stamp: 0x5e7ba162
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000141d1b8

What I have tried:

I have spent 5 hours troubleshooting this and still cannot finish one single player game.

Verified integrity of game files via steam
Completely uninstalled/re-installed the game via steam
Updated graphics card drivers (nVidia)
Ran System File Checker (no errors)
Uninstalled all mods (only use OG grid and small trees)
Uninstalled / re-installed Enhanced Graphics Pack
Ran Windows Memory Checker
Disabled Anti-virus
I have attempted all official troubleshooting tips

Attaching crash logs:

2020.04.23-00.54.12.txt (4.2 KB)
2020.04.23-00.54.19.txt (6.4 KB)
2020.04.23-00.54.54.txt (4.2 KB)
2020.04.23-00.55.06.txt (5.4 KB)
AOE2_DE_Event_Log_Errors.evtx.txt (68 KB) (Had to rename *.etvx to *.txt to upload)