Anki crashing after opening stats window - Exception code: 0xc0000005

i tried to do some midnight cards. when i closed the card editor, anki crashed just as before.

event log

Faulting application name: anki.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x6279dde1
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000002607dbe7c20
Faulting process ID: 0x36e8
Faulting application start time: 0x01d866ece24b10ff
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Anki\anki.exe
Faulting module path: unknown

note that the Faulting module path is now labelled as “unknown”