I'm not 100% sure that it is because of the server being down. I was in last weekend's beta and the exact same thing was happening to me while the servers were definitely up and running (I installed the game on my laptop and could play with no trouble). It crashes the instant 'log in' is pressed, before it even checks whether the username/password is correct (I checked by leaving both empty). I'm up to date with all drivers etc. My system is way beyond the minimum and recommended specs for the game.
If anyone has had and solved this issue I'd love to hear what you did.
Even with the servers down, you should not be crashing when you attempt to log in.
Make sure Teamviewer is closed and any voice overlay's you have, that interact with the game window, are disabled before attempting to log in. I had the same problem originally and Teamviewer was the culprit. Just right click on the icon in your taskbar and select, 'Exit Teamviewer'.
Thanks for the advice Sjiro. I don't appear to have Teamviewer running at the moment (or installed for that matter) so that may not be the issue, but I will start shutting things down and see if any of the background tasks are interfering with the client.
Okay...it appears that there is an issue with some background tasks. I went through a bunch and shut them down one at a time and tried to log in. After I shut down Display Fusion (I use it to modify the behaviour of my two monitors) the insta-crash problem went away.
So, if you are having this problem, check what's running in the back ground first.
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If anyone has had and solved this issue I'd love to hear what you did.
Thanks.
Make sure Teamviewer is closed and any voice overlay's you have, that interact with the game window, are disabled before attempting to log in. I had the same problem originally and Teamviewer was the culprit. Just right click on the icon in your taskbar and select, 'Exit Teamviewer'.
So, if you are having this problem, check what's running in the back ground first.