Question Access violation hangs application every few minutes

[Beennn]

I'm having some trouble with the Unity game engine, where after a couple hours of use (almost completely random when this happens), it starts to hang from anywhere between a few seconds, up to 10-15 seconds, every few minutes.

Debugging unity's process, I can see it throws out a access violation exception whenever it hangs, such as: Exception thrown at 0x0000000058879B95 in Unity.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x000000000000005C.

I have only found one way to stop this from happening temporarily, and that is restarting my computer. I have tried with a fresh install of windows, which seemingly fixed the issue, however it very quickly reappeared.



Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this? Or what tests I can perform to narrow down the issue?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ben

 

[Colif]

what unity build is it?

access violations seem to be common errors on unity.

I would have asked on here - Unity support forums

 

[Beennn]

I've been getting it across 2018.2 - 2018.3 - I have already tried on their forums but unfortunately the best response I got was to reinstall my OS.

 

[Colif]

is it in any game or a particular one?

clearly fresh install isn't the answer.

 

[Beennn]

It happens across all projects, even fresh ones - driving me nuts lol