UE5 Crashing on startup due to an unhandled exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00007ff840001ac0

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I just downloaded UE5, when I ran it, It immediately crashed

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00007ff840001ac0

D3D12Core
D3D12Core
D3D12Core
D3D12Core
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_RHI
UnrealEditor
UnrealEditor
UnrealEditor
UnrealEditor
UnrealEditor
UnrealEditor
kernel32
ntdll

I don’t understand what is wrong. Do I reinstall? Do I go down a version? Is my pc just not capable?

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If you just downloaded, I think you can verify file integrity from Epic Games Launcher (if not downloaded from source). Had the problem once, reinstalled everything and for some reason it worked …