Okay so here is a screenshot of the error, but choosing force quit on the ESO launcher doesn't stop that message coming up when I try opening it again. I made sure to quit Epic Games entirely as well as the eso launcher that was showing up, before trying to open ESO the normal way, but it still gave the same error. I have found that if I quit the game, then relaunch from Epic, and then instead of clicking play simply select quit host from the drop down menu, THEN the epic version of the ESO launcher will truly quit and allow the regular Bethesda ESO launcher to open up. It's a hassle but I guess it's workable. Still seems wierd though.


Additionally, when my external hard drive got disconnected accidentally mid game, my computer then seemed to be continuing to run ESO invisibly, as in no game windows, no icon in the doc, nothing in the task manager, but the computer's fan whirring sounded like it does Only when the game is running, and the Epic launcher showed it as 'running'. I had to restart my computer to fix that one. So I've just been ignoring the epic acount for the last few days. I tried again today and with the trick mentioned above I was able to switch between all my accounts. I can only assume if the game should quit unexpectely again while running the epic account it will have the same invisible running problem and I'll have to restart to fix that again. I really wonder how it would be running it still, so very strange.