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Firefox is incompatible with many d3d full screen games.

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I got a crash when I run Cites:Skylines,Far Cry 5,the Forest while firefox is running.And firefox will crash when I run it while the games are running,

I got a crash when I run Cites:Skylines,Far Cry 5,the Forest while firefox is running.And firefox will crash when I run it while the games are running,

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FredMcD said

Check the game program for updates. If there is still a problem, totally remove the program. Then reinstall it using a fresh full installer from its website. Also, contact its support.

Thanks for your post,but I have found the reason :I set the swap to 0.Perhaps windows' virtual memory manage is imperfect,when I run my games and firefox at the same time,virtual memory gets full before physic memory,this killed the graphic driver.This problem has been solved after I set the swap to "auto".

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Log of game "the forest": Unity Player [version: Unity 5.6.5f1_2cac56bf7bb6]

TheForest.exe caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)

 in module TheForest.exe at 0033:d127979a.

Error occurred at 2018-05-13_084420. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Forest\TheForest.exe, run by mikesmith. 60% memory in use. 8135 MB physical memory [3185 MB free]. 8135 MB paging file [5 MB free]. 134217728 MB user address space [134212594 MB free]. Read from location 00000010 caused an access violation.

Context: RDI: 0xffffffff RSI: 0x0000006f RAX: 0x7ffffffe RBX: 0x00000010 RCX: 0x00000010 RDX: 0x00000007 RIP: 0xd127979a RBP: 0x00fbe160 SegCs: 0x00000033 EFlags: 0x00010202 RSP: 0x00fbe060 SegSs: 0x0000002b R8: 0xd19cefec R9: 0xd0860000 R10: 0x00000000 R11: 0x00000200 R12: 0xffffff73 R13: 0x00000000 R14: 0x00fbe468 R15: 0xffffffff

Bytes at CS:EIP: 44 38 11 74 07 48 ff c1 85 c0 75 f2 2b cb 89 4c

Stack: Program stack,it's too long

Module 1 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\xinput1_3.dll Image Base: 0x00400000 Image Size: 0x0001e000 File Size: 107368 File Time: 2007-04-04_185422 Version:

  Company:    Microsoft Corporation
  Product:    Microsoft? DirectX for Windows?
  FileDesc:   Microsoft Common Controller API
  FileVer:    9.18.944.0
  ProdVer:    9.18.944.0

Module 2 C:\WINDOWS\System32\imagehlp.dll Image Base: 0x06430000 Image Size: 0x0001d000 File Size: 105448 File Time: 2017-09-29_214146 Version:

  Company:    Microsoft Corporation
  Product:    Microsoft? Windows? Operating System
  FileDesc:   Windows NT Image Helper
  FileVer:    10.0.16299.15
  ProdVer:    10.0.16299.15

Module 3 C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Forest\steam_api64.dll Image Base: 0x1b8d0000 Image Size: 0x00038000 File Size: 211368 File Time: 2018-05-11_221238 Version:

  Company:    Valve Corporation
  Product:    Steam Client API
  FileDesc:   Steam Client API
  FileVer:    2.71.29.2
  ProdVer:    1.0.0.1

Module 4 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\xinput1_2.dll Image Base: 0x00400000 Image Size: 0x00018000 File Size: 83736 File Time: 2006-07-28_093108 Version:

  Company:    Microsoft Corporation
  Product:    Microsoft? DirectX for Windows?
  FileDesc:   Microsoft Common Controller API
  FileVer:    9.14.701.0
  ProdVer:    9.14.701.0

Module 5 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\xinput1_1.dll Image Base: 0x00400000 Image Size: 0x00018000 File Size: 83664 File Time: 2006-03-31_123948 Version:

  Company:    Microsoft Corporation
  Product:    Microsoft? DirectX for Windows?
  FileDesc:   Microsoft Common Controller API
  FileVer:    9.12.589.0
  ProdVer:    9.12.589.0

Module 6 C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\vstdlib_s64.dll Image Base: 0x20f60000 Image Size: 0x00077000 File Size: 471840 File Time: 2018-04-03_073426 Version:

  Company:    Valve Corporation
  Product:    Steam
  FileDesc:   vstdlib_ s.dll
  FileVer:    4.44.85.6
  ProdVer:    3.0.0.1

Module 7 C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\tier0_s64.dll Image Base: 0x5b5b0000 Image Size: 0x00173000 File Size: 381216 File Time: 2018-04-03_073426 Version:

  Company:    Valve Corporation
  Product:     tier0_s Dynamic Link Library
  FileDesc:   tier0_s Dynamic Link Library
  FileVer:    4.44.85.6
  ProdVer:    1.0.0.1

Module 8 C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamclient64.dll Image Base: 0x755a0000 Image Size: 0x00e30000 File Size: 14647872 File Time: 2018-04-03_073424 Version:

  Company:    Valve Corporation
  Product:    Steam
  FileDesc:   Steamclient.dll
  FileVer:    4.44.85.6
  ProdVer:    3.0.0.1


[end of error.log]

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Check the game program for updates. If there is still a problem, totally remove the program. Then reinstall it using a fresh full installer from its website.

Also, contact its support.

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FredMcD said

Check the game program for updates. If there is still a problem, totally remove the program. Then reinstall it using a fresh full installer from its website. Also, contact its support.

Thanks for your post,but I have found the reason :I set the swap to 0.Perhaps windows' virtual memory manage is imperfect,when I run my games and firefox at the same time,virtual memory gets full before physic memory,this killed the graphic driver.This problem has been solved after I set the swap to "auto".

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That was very good work. Well done. Please flag your last post as Solved Problem so others will know.