EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION crash since season 18

Could you please address this bug and crash since you updated the game for the season 18 ?

Plenty of people are complaining about this issue for weeks now. I want to play competitive but can’t due to those random crashes.

I have absolutely zero issue with other games and my PC is running perfectly fine, it just Overwatch.

My setup:

ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming
2TB Sabrent NVMe
Ryzen 7 5700X
64 GB DDR4 3600MHz
Sapphire 7900XTX 24GB

Overwatch ErrorLog:

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                                ERROR                              
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<BlizzardError.Summary:>
Overwatch - 2.18.0.0: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading from 0x000002025895c980
<:BlizzardError.Summary>

<BlizzardError.Assertion:>
EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading from 0x000002025895c980

**Crashing Thread** (ID: 9376)
DBG-ADDR<00007FF67DF7CBF7>()
DBG-ADDR<00007FF67DF7EA79>()
DBG-ADDR<00007FF67D517E52>()
DBG-ADDR<00007FF67D516782>()
DBG-ADDR<00007FF67D39BFB8>()
DBG-ADDR<00007FF67D0DE612>()
DBG-ADDR<00007FF67D0DFD8D>()
DBG-ADDR<00007FF67D134AA4>()
DBG-ADDR<00007FF67D019032>()

<:BlizzardError.Assertion>

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                             SYSTEM INFO                           
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Application:               C:\Games\Overwatch\_retail_/Overwatch.exe
Build:                     Overwatch_141395_Retailx64
Is Elevated:               0
Created:                   17:03:31 Aug 14 2025
Game Server IP:            137.221.78.103
Bnet Account ID:           1166563304
Game Account ID:           1074912382
Is Remote Session:         0
Telemetry Session ID:      5aab6289-4e54-40eb-aaf2-78287c45023c
Telemetry Host ID:         af6115f0-73e3-4900-b50d-7e97c269dd03
Operating System:          Windows 11 Professionnel
Operating System Version:  23H2 (OS Build 22631)
Operating System Platform: 64-bit
Application Platform:      64-bit
Is WINE:                   0
System Model:              System Product Name
System Manufacturer:       ASUS
Boot Time:                 2025-09-03T19:12:38Z
GPU Type:                  AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
GPU Driver:                32.0.21025.1024 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\u0417878.inf_amd64_cf56f0cbce08e931\B417693\atidx9loader64.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\u0417878.inf_amd64_cf56f0cbce08e931\B417693\amdxx64.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileReposi
GPU Driver Date:           20250724000000.000000-000
GPU Core Delta Freq:       0
GPU Memory Delta Freq:     0
GPU Voltage Delta Freq:    0
Graphics API:              Dx11
Physical Resolution:       1920x1080
Effective Resolution:      1920x1080
Display Mode:              Full Screen
Number of physical cores:  16
Logical core:              0  - physical mapping: 0  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              1  - physical mapping: 0  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              2  - physical mapping: 1  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              3  - physical mapping: 1  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              4  - physical mapping: 2  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              5  - physical mapping: 2  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              6  - physical mapping: 3  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              7  - physical mapping: 3  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              8  - physical mapping: 4  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              9  - physical mapping: 4  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              10 - physical mapping: 5  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              11 - physical mapping: 5  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              12 - physical mapping: 6  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              13 - physical mapping: 6  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              14 - physical mapping: 7  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Logical core:              15 - physical mapping: 7  (group 0) - efficiency class: 0
Total Memory:              65427 MBs
Available Memory:          56770 MBs
Total Page File:           114579 MBs
Avail Page File:           102862 MBs
GPU Memory:                24560 MBs
GPU Allocated Memory:      1851 MBs
GPU Peak Memory:           1882 MBs
GPU Temp:                  64 C
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                          APPLICATION STATE                        
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Command Line:           C:\Games\Overwatch\_retail_\Overwatch.exe -uid prometheus
Tank State:             Loop Running
Video Device State:     Active
Device Ext Refs Count:  0
Last OS Error:          0x0
Resource Errors:        false
Running Time:           0:05:22  (H:M:S)
Most Recent Logs:
[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:53.873Z]: #=[VC] MemberAdded 2000001696 77359aa0 402f958c@4a95b6d2 08ca7695 false

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:53.873Z]: #=[VC] MemberAdded 2000001696 77359aa0 9480202c@4a95b6d2 2b486975 false

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:53.873Z]: #=[VC] ChannelConnection 00 0(0:811c9dc5) 2000001696 77359aa0 Connecting

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.090Z]: #=[VC] ResponseMuteMember 0d 5(20000:2de0a63e) 

[ERR] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.090Z]: ==[VC] MuteMember failed 77359aa0 402f958c@4a95b6d2 5(20000:2de0a63e)

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.090Z]: #=[VC] ResponseMuteMember 0e 5(20000:2de0a63e) 

[ERR] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.090Z]: ==[VC] MuteMember failed 77359aa0 9480202c@4a95b6d2 5(20000:2de0a63e)

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.107Z]: #=[VC] MemberIDUpdate 2000001696 08ca7695 4ca88d13

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.107Z]: #=[VC] MemberIDUpdate 2000001696 2b486975 c9056447

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.107Z]: ==[VC] Member identity updated 08ca7695 4ca88d13 86a8b3f4

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.107Z]: ==[VC] Member identity updated 2b486975 c9056447 86a8b3f4

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.475Z]: #=[VC] ChannelConnection 00 0(0:811c9dc5) 2000001696 77359aa0 Connected

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.475Z]: #=[VC] MemberAdded 2000001696 77359aa0 26571f5e@4a95b6d2 9ad1e209 true

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.491Z]: ==[VC] Join channel complete 2000001696

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.508Z]: ==[VC] Channel transmit requested 2000001696 (true)

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.525Z]: #=[VC] ResponseStartTransmit 0a 0(0:811c9dc5) 2000001696

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.525Z]: ==[VC] OnJoinChannel NONE -> TEAM


[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.542Z]: ==[VC] Notified Lobby of Active channel NONE -> TEAM


[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.542Z]: ==[VC] Channel transmit set 2000001696 (true)

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.708Z]: #=[VC] MemberIDUpdate 2000001696 9ad1e209 d508c470

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:54.708Z]: ==[VC] Member identity updated 9ad1e209 d508c470 86a8b3f4

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:56.375Z]: #=[VC] MemberAdded 2000001696 77359aa0 d8370f27@4a95b6d2 b361cb54 false

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:56.624Z]: #=[VC] ResponseMuteMember 0f 0(0:811c9dc5) 

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:56.690Z]: #=[VC] MemberIDUpdate 2000001696 b361cb54 8fd956f3

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:56.690Z]: ==[VC] Member identity updated b361cb54 8fd956f3 86a8b3f4

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:00:56.840Z]: #=[VC] ResponseMuteMember 10 0(0:811c9dc5) 

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:01:15.841Z]: #=[VC] ResponseMuteMember 11 0(0:811c9dc5) 

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:01:15.941Z]: #=[VC] ResponseMuteMember 12 0(0:811c9dc5) 

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:01:15.941Z]: #=[VC] ResponseMuteMember 13 0(0:811c9dc5) 

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:01:18.823Z]: #=[VC] ResponseMuteMember 14 0(0:811c9dc5) 

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:01:19.042Z]: #=[VC] ResponseMuteMember 15 0(0:811c9dc5) 

[NRM] [VoiceChat] [External(0)] [External()] [2025-09-05T12:01:19.042Z]: #=[VC] ResponseMuteMember 16 0(0:811c9dc5) 


i am having same exact issue i have even tried Reinstalling windows 11 and still have it

WE NEED SOME WAY TO DISABLE VIVOX. THATS WHATS CAUSING THESE FREAKING
EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. This is crazy I’ve seen multiple reports on this and nothing like!?