Now get back to Mother Base. Kaz is waiting.

✅ Move the game folder, apply registry-less fixes (DXVK, renamed movies, exploit patches via PowerShell scripts). ❌ You CANNOT: Avoid writing to Documents\My Games\MGSV . The game hard-codes save locations. ❌ You CANNOT: Bypass Windows Defender’s real-time scanning of steam_api64.dll without adding an exclusion.

Check the %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps folder. If you see mgsvtpp.exe.[numbers].dmp , your issue is 100% the Control Flow Guard (Fix #1). Re-apply it and reboot twice.