Access violation 041A3E6C, TOAD shuts down

Oh, ok.

Do you have any more info on how it happens?

I know you said connection is likely lost. What did you do or click immediately before the error?

I have been working on lost-connection-type problems in the beta, you might want to give that a try (keeping your current version installed also). You can get beta version here: Toad for Oracle 15.0 Beta