Certain Games Closing On Launch

I want to make sure that Im following this process correctly.

I completed the batch file.

Installed "Everything Search Engine."
Installed "Unlocker."

Searched for "Norton" in the search engine.
Only 1 file was located.
Right clicked and deleted said file.
Nothing with "Unlocker" popped up however the file seems to be deleted.
Searched for "Symantec" and nothing popped up.

Did I follow the process correctly?


ALSO; Thank you for walking me through this, Instead of blasting it all in one comment. I appreciate it very much.

Malnutrition said:

Can you post the minitoolbox log so I can confirm it worked?

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My bad, if it doesn't attach the file then I'll edit with the link.

I followed all of the steps, and all of the NVIDIA files have been deleted. The Hosts File is reset, however when I attempt to run Startup Lite, I get the attached image.

All of the steps followed, unfortunately the game is still crashing to desktop at almost the same exact time as it did before.

A note before I follow those next two steps. I am starting to believe that this is may be an issue with games that use EasyAntiCheat. I'm not entirely sure yet but I'm gunna download a game I havent had on my computer in awhile that also uses it. Standby for just a moment, and a new Speccy log will follow.
The games that I have been having this issue with;
1: Rust
2: Apex Legends

Okay so I downloaded and launched two other games that use Easy Anti Cheat and they launched without a hitch. So I don't believe thats the issue.


There's the Speccy log. Results for your most recent recommendation to follow.

No change with running the most recent recommended program.
Uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled, one of the games and no change.
These are the only two games I am having this issue with...

With my Speccy Log; do you think that my motherboard is out of date, and could it be causing these issues? I honestly started googling different stuff to see if I could find anything and one solution someone had for Rust specifically, is to update BIOS. I have never done a BIOS update so I'm not sure if mine is out of date. I attached the link to MSI's website for my motherboard.


Another thing I am seeing is clearing CMOS. Not sure what that will do for me but I'm just throwing stuff out there to see what you think.

Okay, so from the top;
@Bruce I did a full wipe last night and started from scratch. After I got the drivers downloaded I downloaded ONLY the game and it did the same thing. A detail that you mentioned that I want to make sure that I'm clear on is; when I launch Apex specifically, no FREEZING takes place. It will start to boot like normal, but 1 second into the intro video, it will immediately close to desktop without an error code or anything. When it comes to Rust it will make it past the launcher, into the full screen part where it says "loading bootstrappers" etc., and when it gets to the "music *something*" it will close to desktop with no error.
@PeterOz I DID undervolt the GPU but reverted back, shortly after that produced no results. At this point everything is set to base settings. MSI Afterburner is only installed to monitor temps and adjust fan speed.
@Bastet I have uninstalled using Windows, 3rd party uninstallers, Manually removing all files related to it. Pretty much every way that I can think of. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the games, well into the double digits at this point.

I really appreciate all of the feedback. Thank you for being such a helpful and supportive community. At this point I think that I am going to pursue replacing hardware. The first issue that I had to deal with was a motherboard that didn't have all of the holes for the CPU socket completely poked out, so it caused the original CPU pins to bend, BADLY. Microcenter replaced the MOBO and CPU, so I'm hoping that I can explain my situation to the staff there and possibly someone there has had the same issue, and will help me get whatever I need replaced. Again thank you all for your time.