Do you multibox by chance?
No i'm not multiboxing.
Play without windower see if it occurs.
Then if it does, do a file check, in Pol before you login is the button. Then try without windower again.
If it still happens it's a windows issue.
Do you have legacy checked in you add/remove advanced part of windows?
It's worth a try to figure out the issue.
I left the game runing over night in non-windower mode, and it didnt crash. Its definately related to windower. i did a full reinstall last weekend to try and fix it, but it didnt work.
It most commonly happens when Running any kind of console command to windower - E.g. //gs reload or //timers c triezak 7200 d.
I also get a second kind of crash, but its not as bad as i can usually warp away from it.
When this bug happens- i cant move from the spot i warp in at. it most commonly happens in miseraux coast- last night it happened in bastok mines for the first time.
If you play without windower and it still happens it is possibly a driver issue (are you on a desktop or laptop?). I used to have slowdown issues around glow semi transparent textures like the lights near the mog house in windy for instance.
Hardware wise i'm using a fairly good PC; Currently I can run MHW on max settings 3k 60fps with virtually zero issues.
it feels completely random as to when it will happen. ive had it happen in sandy when someone cruises by with their bot army, ive seeni t happen when im alone out in dynamis, ive seen it happen in just about every area/instance.
i never experience any kind of visual/graphics lag/slowdown/stutter before it happens. Once it happens my FPS Tanks down to 5 FPS, all of my menus go invisible, my text logs go invisible (but they still show the auto trans brackets)
If i wait a few mins, it sometimes stops, and everything goes back to normal.
This is an extremely frustrating issue because it loves to happen when ive gotten my *** into danger lol.
My guess is its some kind of undocumented windows 10 Windower bug.