Soooo, i've been getting this error for about a month now, regularly, but not ALWAYS. Yesterday i tried every single suggested option that the official support lists here:
https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6486
None of those worked. I even uninstalled, killed everything i could find for the game, and did a fresh install and i STILL get this crap about 7/10 times i launch. Even a few times trying to run as admin. I have tried shutting down my firewalls and making sure no AVs are running in the background as well.
I've pretty much given up hope that this will be "fixed" by Zeni any time soon, and i can see that the problem isn't just happening to me, and most people with it are having the same sporadic results with the "fixes".
Is there a way to play the game without having to use the launcher?
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