WARDOGS won’t launch – Elytra crash 0xC0000005 / runtime.dll + 0x1 / E0670205

Hi everyone,

I’m hoping the developers can take a look at this, especially u/Brammflakes, because I’ve spent hours troubleshooting and I’m still unable to play.

WARDOGS was working normally for me yesterday, but today it suddenly stopped launching.

Every crash dump I checked shows the exact same signature:

• Exception: 0xC0000005
• Execute Access Violation
• runtime.dll + 0x1
• Elytra security code: 0xE0670205

Most of the time the game crashes before Unreal Engine fully starts, so the Saved\Logs folder remains empty.

I have already tried:

• Steam Verify Integrity
• Elytra Repair
• Full Elytra reinstall
• Full clean reinstall of WARDOGS
• Deleted local WARDOGS files/cache
• Different DNS / automatic DNS
• Completely disconnected Ethernet and tested through a mobile hotspot
• Tested without FACEIT Anti-Cheat
• Confirmed DTrace is not installed
• Tested with Windows Hypervisor disabled
• Checked boot flags such as Test Signing, Integrity Checks and Debug
• Tested from a completely new Windows user account
• Checked disabled Windows services
• Confirmed Elytra.Service is running correctly
• Checked currently running kernel drivers

After doing a full clean reinstall, the game actually managed to launch once and reached the shader compilation/loading stage, but then crashed again.

The new dump still showed the exact same crash:

0xC0000005 → runtime.dll + 0x1 → E0670205

So although the clean reinstall allowed the game to get further into the startup process, the actual crash signature did not change.

At this point I’m running out of things to test on my side.

u/Brammflakes, if possible, could you or someone from the WARDOGS/Elytra team please clarify what security code E0670205 means, or what can specifically cause an Execute Access Violation at runtime.dll + 0x1?

I have multiple .dmp files from different attempts and I’m happy to provide all of them if they would help with debugging.

If anyone else is experiencing the same E0670205 / runtime.dll + 0x1 crash, please comment below as well so the developers can see whether this is affecting multiple systems.

Thank you.