As many of you laptop owners out there might've noticed, you havn't been able to play ESO because of some obscure DirectX problem.
Most laptops have a worthless integrated graphics, and a not as worthless dedicated graphics. The dedicated graphics kicks in when it's needed, and it's not needed for opening the ESO launcher, the launcher won't see that there actually is a dedicated graphics and only look at the one that's currently running and say "nope, your computer sucks balls don't play our game!" and not much more happens.
I have a Nvidia card, so I can launch the Nvidia control panel and choose which adapter will run on what application, so I basically forced my dedicated graphics to always run when opening ESO. This fixed it for me.
If you have an AMD card then I'd guess you're doomed. No idea if they have such a control panel but probably not #fanboyRant
You're welcome.