Easy Cheat games cause full system lockup

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Starting about 2 months ago I became unable to play any of the Easy Cheat games I own(Halo: MCC, Rust). The games load fine and crash upon loading into a server or map or very shortly after load in(within a minute). Occasionally the crashes lock the entire system and cause a forced reboot, normally the crash locks the app for a moment before returning to desktop. Halo gives no information about the crashes, Rust gives the same error every time

Exception Code:	0xC0000005
Exception Information:	The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.

 

Initially I thought I was having issues related to Rust(mainly because the Rust devs are notorious for introducing bugs) but changed my thinking after MCC started having similar issues and how after "repairing" easy cheat would change crash behavior. I've been trying to get hold of Epic(maintainers of Easy Cheat) and did contact a support person for Rust(though they have been silent for a week now), posted on steam community to see if anyone might reply and pretty much have come up with no answers or even attempts to solve whatever issues I might be having.

 

I strongly suspect Easy Cheat being the culprit because for Halo MCC the game can be loaded with/without it. Without Easy Cheat Halo runs flawlessly(aside from being unable to play online...). With Easy Cheat Halo crashes on server join like Rust does.

 

That all said, before thinking the issue was with the software I thought it could be hardware related and ran some tests. Ran a windows memory test without issue and Prime 95 Large FFT(recommended by Easy Cheat) test overnight without issue. Furmark and prime 95 running at the same time without issue. Verified the steam files, reinstalled the games, reinstalled steam and the games. Tried every nvidia driver going back to january(I had no issues starting till april). With and without my second monitor. With and without Gsync. DXDIAG reports no issues. BIOS is newest and was updated ~1 year before without issues. Verified windows using "sfc /scannow".

 

I have no issues with other games or software and have had the computer for a couple years now without issue. I'm looking for suggestions at this point because I've run out of tests and am annoyed at the thought of having to spend $1000 on an entirely new system to just be able to play games with my friends again. Thanks in advance.