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[PC] [Crash Fix] If you use SteelSeries GG READ THIS - DirectX 11 Overlay Crash
I have been struggling for 2 days with trying to play BO3, and it turns out that SteelSeries GG was making my BO3 crash. As it would be, DirectX 11 cannot have like 10 programs hooking into it simultaneously. Discord, Steam, Steelseries, NVIDIA app, and other programs compete for who gets to attach to these processes.
When I would launch BO3, I would get to the title screen, and no matter what I did, 25-30 seconds later the game just crashed. I could open gums, supply drops, enable a mod, start a map, etc. It would always throw a Windows dialog saying "Black Ops 3 has stopped working." There were ZERO crash messages, all of the crash dump files were empty, and the console log wasn't printing to save the life of me.
I even tried feeding as much info to Copilot as I could, and it was insistent on this being a DX11 issue, despite me turning off every overlay (or so I thought).
Here's how to fix it.
- Disable this "moments" garbage on SteelseriesGG.
- Disable overlays under Settings-Engine-Overlays and Notifications
- Disable gameplay capture under Settings-Moments-Capture and Sound
- Disable game overlays in Settings-moments-overlays and notifications
- Disable overlays under settings-sonar-overlays.
That fixed it for me! Now I can actually get back to modding and playing customs again. What an annoying issue, hopefully this helps someone!