Game not responding for ~40sec after launching
After clicking play on the game launcher, my screen turns black and I get the windows spinning circle mouse cursor for around 40 seconds, sometimes more. If I click or alt tab during this period, the game almost always crashes completely, but if left alone it will eventually launch.
I had this issue on windows 10, upon upgrading to windows 11 it seemed to disappear for a couple of weeks but now it has returned.
In response, I've updated my .net framework, and tried disabling all non-microsoft launch processes under system config all without luck. I reinstalled my graphics drivers and it launched properly once, then went back to the same issue. I uninstalled gshade and it launched properly once, and then went back to having the same issue again.