Dead Space 3 Crashes on "Please Wait: Checking for Saved Games" Dialogue Box [ Edited ]

[nm1d538]

I have DS3 on steam. When I open the game, it loads just fine to the "press any key" screen. When I press any key, the dialog box shows "searching for game saves" and the game crashes.

Crash report reads:

Source
Dead Space™ 3

Summary
Stopped working

Date
‎9/‎9/‎2022 5:56 PM

Status
Report sent

Description
Faulting Application Path: E:\Steam Games\steamapps\common\Dead Space 3\deadspace3.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: deadspace3.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.1
Application Timestamp: 511e9327
Fault Module Name: deadspace3.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.1
Fault Module Timestamp: 511e9327
Exception Offset: 007826e4
Exception Code: c0000417
Exception Data: 00000000
OS Version: 10.0.19044.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a08
Additional Information 2: 0a0895a5d5a4ff14cd858f8a6f8f1cba
Additional Information 3: 9d8b
Additional Information 4: 9d8bef988aa06f1e9d0bb43cbfe50937

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 9d9d1c2e0778783ef966387932423be4 (-765510543)

[EA_Illium]

@nm1d538 Would it be possible to get a dxdiag?

[Seefer]

Same here.

Is your CPU a modern one with lots of cores (above 4)? I've heard from various places that all the Dead Space games are crashing due to this. I have an i9 10900K and, despite trying Set Affinity in Task Manager as well as lowering core count using msconfig Advanced Boot options, DS 1, 2 and 3 fail to launch. Some guy from Rockstar Games on a thread on EA support allegedly had a fix for this using some modified DirectX DLL files for Dead Space 2 only but they do not work on my system. I don't know what Visceral Games is doping in its code to throw an unhandled exception on systems with lots of cores but it's all a bit amateurish considering I have plenty of other older games of that era and before that work just fine.

EA should look into this and either stop selling the Dead Space games entirely or at least add a clear and upfront change to the system requirements informing people that the game will not work on modern CPUs.

Beginning to wonder if it's all a Machiavellian attempt to make us all buy the remakes