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I made exclusions for the whole Steam folder and also for uoc2 folder within it. Made no difference. I installed Bitdefender free version to disable Microsoft Defender and made the same exclusions. No difference. Then I uninstalled the game, deleted the whole .uoc2 folder under user data, reinstalle...

I only have Microsoft Defender AV and Windows Firewall. The game is allowed through firewall and Microsoft Defender gives no indication that it has disrupted or intercepted the game in any way, nothing shown in protection history.

Crash at launch.

Included log files and the error message.

Video card (GTX 1060) driver freshly updated.

Currently no .yml file is in the folder where the log files are. Previously when I deleted it, didn't make a difference.