Restarted, launched the game - and for nearly 30 minutes no crashes occurred. So I went to my PC, and uninstalled Duet Display. It's a program that lets you use an iPad as a second (or third, fourth, etc) display when you connect it via USB. Just weeks ago, I had installed Duet Display on my Windows PC. Googling OSBASE, I find out that they make a product called iDisplay which lets Windows-based PCs transmit video to displays over USB. You can find this out simply by right-clicking on the file, choosing Properties, then checking whose signed the file. After a bit more digging, it turns out ddumd.dll is signed by a company called OSBASE. The question is, how did it get on my PC in the first place? Huh? Sure enough - ddumd.dll is nowhere to be found on my secondary PC. To test my theory out, I installed the game on my secondary PC which has an nvidia GTX 680 (my primary machine has a 980). So, after spending minimal time Googling what the hell that DLL is, I came to believe it was somehow related to nvidia's drivers. Although I was logged in with the only user account (and therefore admin) on the computer, I simply got an 'Access denied' error. How am I going to delete a file without having Windows Explorer open? Command prompt! I ran Command Prompt as an administrator, and tried deleting it that way - no dice. This time, Windows Explorer was using it. So, I closed that process through Task Manager and tried again - no luck. ![]() First, I was warned that wdm.exe used it - that's Windows Desktop Manager. ![]() It showed that when mgsvtpp.exe (the game's process) was crashing, it was due to the failed module ddumd.dll.īeing the genius I am, I first tried to delete the DLL. ![]() I knew there must be SOME kind of log related to the crash, and Windows Event Viewer was my savior. Always, it would crash with the generic Windows error message: 'MGS has stopped working,' blah blah blah (if you want the exact text of the message, let me know). MGS5 would crash after only a few minutes of gameplay if that - sometimes it would crash on the title screen before I could play the game. Today, I finally discovered the source of my frustration.įirst, let me explain what was happening in case it's happening to you too. Hi! I've posted about this in a few threads because MGS5 started crashing for me recently.
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