I guess we can just use Tweaker now, it's supposed to resolve most of this for us. As for the new crash that happens when you "fix" things, I'm seeing that it happens after the MS Store attempts to probe the app for an update. My game is not installed on my system drive, that may be the issue. It see the game as a legal illegal alien and doesn't know what to do. Good ol' billion dollar companies.

@ruruicu the folders dude, you have to whitelist all the folders, not just the executables.

OK, so I fixed it! You have to make exceptions in your antivirus for multiple folder related to the application and multiple exes. I'm sure the folder would do it, but I just had to take the extra measures.

You need "X:\Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps" and "X:\WindowsApps". Make file level exceptions for every PSO2.exe you can find between those folders, I use a separate drive for games, so it wasn't much there for me. I'm not sure how it looks for people who only have one drive.

I've done this in Avast on one machine and Windows Defender on another. Fixed on both machines.

@hovsep56 I can't even copy the erl files, says "Appx file cannot be accessed because it is not encrypted as expected". Doesn't matter what I try to copy, can't copy anything from these folders, but I can create files in the folder. You were able to just copy?

@ruruicu I noticed that in my crash log there's an nVidia Control Panel crash right before the PSO crash every time. I'm going to test with a GTX machine now.

Edit: Tried it on a GTX laptop and it still did the same thing, the issue this time was RADAR_PRE_LEAK_64 on pso2.exe.

This machine doesn't have AVAST on it and wasn't used for months until today. I did all updates. Maybe there's a problematic update here, idk. Either way, I tried uninstalling nVidia Control Panel, and toggling settings (SLI, GSync, etc.) and using both my desktop and laptops to troubleshoot. 3 diff machines ,same issue, while my brother is on an older DDR3 mobo with no issues.

I have this same issue, I'm thinking it's related to Game Guard, but nothing I do will work. I barely have anything running on my PC and GG doesn't say anything on crash. It does, sometimes, ask me to send a bug report on restarting the game. The games just gets sucked into the abyss with no explanation, nothing in event viewer either. This has happened to me across 2 computers, both with RTX hardware.