As it turns out, the vast majority of cases that will trigger fatal application crashes with the 0xc00000fd error is an inconsistency in how your system is able to maintain hardware acceleration. If you’re encountering this issue on with an older game, try forcing the executable to run in compatibility mode. Additionally, you can try to force the game executable to run without any sort of hardware acceleration – either by modifying the shortcut parameters directly or by modifying the Launch Options in Steam.
Method 1: Running the program in compatibility mode
In case you’re encountering this issue with a game or application, there’s a very high chance that the issue is occurring due to inconsistency with how the program is built to handle hardware acceleration on Windows 10. In this case, you might be able to fix the issue by modifying the launch executable so that it runs in Compatibility mode with an older Windows version – if the game is over 5 years old, we recommend forcing the game to run incompatibility with Windows 7. If this scenario is applicable to your current situation, follow the instructions below to force the application executable to run in compatibility mode:
Method 2: Forcing the game to run without hardware acceleration
If you’re encountering the 0xc00000fd error with a game that you attempt to launch a game from Steam or via their dedicated executable, it’s very likely that you’re seeing the error due to a fatal crash when it comes to sustaining hardware acceleration. This is typically reported to occur on rigs with newer GPUs. Some users that were also encountering this issue have confirmed that they finally been able to fix the issue after reconfiguring the game options in order to launch without hardware acceleration. Here are two separate guides that will allow you to do this – The first guide will show you how to do this directly from Steam while the second will walk you through the steps of modifying the launching shortcut.
Option 1: Modifying the Launch Options on Steam
Option 2: Modifying the Launch Options on Steam
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