@skycastleshay I'm curious what update this was. If you're willing, please check the Reliability Monitor and let me know. Click Windows key-R and enter "perfmon /rel" without quotes, and you'll see a chart of errors and updates with a column for each day. Today is on the right. Find the update that helped, right-click it and select View technical details, copy that information, and paste it here. Or, if it's easier, you can post a screenshot of those details.
Sure I don't mind sharing at all. It was actually three updates. I'm assuming the antivirus one wasn't the one that helped but I'll include all three...
Windows successfully installed the following update: 2025-01 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8.1 for Windows 11, version 23H2 for x64 (KB5049624)
Windows successfully installed the following update: 2025-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5050021)
Windows successfully installed the following update: Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Version 1.421.1382.0) - Current Channel (Broad)
@skycastleshay You're right, it was probably not the security update, since on the off chance that Defender was the issue, you wouldn't have been able to open the game at all. But either of the other two could have helped. Thanks for the info.
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