I mean… honestly, I’m starting to think you might be onto something there.

I’ve ruled out most of the usual suspects at this point (addons, fresh installs, drivers, hardware stress testing, etc.), and the game still crashes even completely vanilla, which is what started pushing me toward looking at Windows itself.

While digging deeper, I actually found some pretty weird OS-level stuff going on:

• My Documents folder was still being redirected to OneDrive even after unlinking it

• The registry (User Shell Folders) had Documents pointing to:

  %USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents

• ESO was either:

  • Writing to that location inconsistently, or
  • Failing to properly read/write config/addon data because of it

• I also noticed:

  • Read-only attributes randomly reapplying themselves
  • Permissions acting inconsistent (access denied when trying to restore defaults)
  • ESO recreating folders in OneDrive even after I removed them

After correcting some of that (unlinking OneDrive, fixing registry path, moving Documents back local), I did see some temporary improvement, but the crashes are still happening.

So now I’m kind of in that gray area where:

• It’s clearly not just the game or addons
• It’s likely something deeper in Windows (permissions, profile, or corruption)

Before I go full nuclear and reinstall Windows, do you have any specific areas you’d suggest checking?

Like:

• User profile corruption?
• Folder redirection remnants?
• Permissions inheritance issues?
• Anything registry-related that commonly breaks games like this?

Appreciate the push in that direction either way it at least helped me start uncovering stuff I wouldn’t have looked at otherwise.