I play through Steam, and when I last played earlier in the year had no problems at all. Now, however, when I launch the game it immediately crashes to the desktop - regardless of whether I log into the game or stay on the character selection screen, after a few seconds it CTDs. I immediately launch the game again and it logs in just fine and stays ok. Both the initial launch CTD and the subsequent successful relaunch are 100% consistent, this is not an intermittent problem. Any suggestions please as to how to get round this? I've validated the game assets, but is there perhaps a file or folder I need to delete and allow to be rebuilt?
I have the exact same problem! Does anyone know what causes this? The weird part is, if I log off for a while, then log back on... I get the same problem again!
Is it better to play through Steam? I actually am not sure what Steam is. Sorry ... it peaked my interest when I saw the original post.