would you really reinstall Windows for the sake of the game? It's like cutting down the whole forest for one rotten tree... no, radical measures aren't needed...
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yeah... either it's the update that recently landed on the computer, or MSI Afterburner was crashing the game...
it started...
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That's it, the culprit has been found and localized! MSI Afterburner was killing the game when it started... I don't know why...
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