[FIX] How to Solve Crash every 15 minutes!

After doing research of this crash, I've come across a guaranteed fix for it.



Before I get to the fix, I'd like to go into detail of the crash itself and why it occurs (as well as other games it occurs in)



If one is view the crash in Windows Event Viewer, you will notice that the crash calls for a file named " XAudio2_7.dll." From my understanding, this is a file that is a part of a legacy DirectX audio driver, DirectX9 to be precise. Despite the game requiring DX11 to run, it still relies on legacy drivers to process it's audio.



Now if one were to remove this file altogether, they would be able to play the game without it crashing every 15 minutes, however this results in no audio and cutscenes will result in a crash, but this is mitigated by skipping the scenes.



I observed that a very similar crash occured during the Street Fighter V beta, so similar... It's the exact same crash. At 15 minutes on the dot, the title would crash calling for the same file. Both games are developed by Capcom, so it's not entirely farfetched for the games to share some issues.



Now, the moment you've been waiting for: THE FIX.



If you are victim of this crash, this fix is guaranteed to work for you. A Reddit user by the name of "rickyshea" found that the file XAudio2_7.dll has incompatibilities with something called "TabTip.exe". TabTip is a process that allows the use of an onscreen keyboard with Windows Tablet PCs and Wacom Tablets. He found that by killing the process, he was able to play the Street Fighter V beta without any crashes.



So this got me to thinking. The crashes in both games are the same, so why not try this fix for Dead Rising 3?



Here's how to to it:



1) Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open up Windows Task Manager

2) Scroll down and search for a process called "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel" or "TabTip.exe"

3) Right click on the process and click "End Task"

4) Launch Dead Rising 3 and enjoy the game without any crashes!



Thanks for rickyshea from Reddit for finding a fix for SFV, and in turn, DR3!