On modern Windows, primarily later versions of Windows 10 and all versions of Windows 11, sometimes XIG may immediately cause a crash to desktop for your game. This blog post will begin to catalog known games where this happens and what to do, and will change over time.

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FIXES FOR:
Empire: Total War
Empire: Total War Demo
Napoleon: Total War
MySims
Garry's Mod 9
Garry's Mod (Legacy)

SOLUTION:
Change compatibility settings for the main executable to match these settings below


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FIXES FOR:
Garry's Mod

SOLUTION:
Change compatibility settings for the main executable to match these settings below


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Again, the most common reason this happens is due to compatibility reasons, and as far as Windows 11 goes, Microsoft is becoming more negligent in regards to preserving compatibility.

You are more than welcome to comment below your own fixes so that they can be investigated and included in this blog post to help others.