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The original was posted on /r/browsers by /u/LiteratureNo6885 on 2023-09-06 16:38:30.

I am experiencing an extraordinary problem. Whenever I run the new game Starfield, it appears to corrupt my Firefox installation. I have been using Firefox since June 2022 when my Chromium based browsers started throwing Status_Access_Violation errors. I have reinstalled windows 3 times since starfield early access launch. Once was a repair, the other 2 were fresh installs to new hard drives. Each time I experience the same problem, chrome and edge don’t work, but Firefox runs excellent until I run Starfield. When I run system restore Firefox is fixed, but as soon as I run starfield it breaks again. I can run any other game I want without issue including Fallout 4, Stellaris, Skyrim & Red Dead Redemption 2. Starfield itself runs flawlessly in Ultra detail. I run Windows 10 with a Core i7 7700k, RTX 2080 Super, 16gb of Gskill DDR4 ram on a Gigabyte Ultra Durable GA-X170-SLI-CF motherboard. I DO NOT overclock my hardware. I have tried a 128gig Intel SSD & Western Digital 1TB SSD. They experienced the same failures whether I repaired windows or did a reformat and reinstall fresh. I also tried a 256gb intel M.2 SSD I borrowed which strangely seemed to work fine without the Status_Access_Violation errors, but maybe I didn’t run it long enough or didn’t have a specific problematic windows update? Either way it wasn’t large enough for both Windows 10 and Starfield together which is why I bought the 1TB WD M.2 drive. I am at my whit’s end here and starting to consider replacing the motherboard and/or CPU, but they are both $200+ components with a week or wait time for delivery. I don’t have a spare processor because I sold it to a friend who wanted a better system. Does anyone have any ideas on what Starfield could be changing and how I could correct this? I have a support tickets out to Bethesda and post to the Firefox forum by I am not confident they will reply, thanks.