Oh, admin mode, good idea. Might be worth a shot, though I doubt it'll be a workaround.

No recent changes to my system, this is actually the first "proper" bug/crash I've encountered in this game.

In my case the bug was encountered in pre-creator Win10 Home. I got the creator update a little while ago and I haven't tried Lakshmi after that.

DxDiag to be added (if I remember or CBA), currently at work.

No special bg tasks usually running unless Steam counts.

I don't think that the game will even install without the DirectX redistributable, at least in my case the game installer wouldn't run before the redist was installed.

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Looking at the bugs forum & browsing other threads, this might be a game audio engine related issue. Some people have been able to make the game crash in a very similar way by simply switching their headsets to other jacks etc.