Launcher shows black screen instead of the login page

Greetings!

I am experiencing a problem that makes it impossible to launch the game. When I start the game launcher it opens up with the black screen. The normal login page that would request a login with a password does not show up at all.

Surprisingly the launcher actually responds. There is an upper bar that lists the game version and has -, X buttons. When I click -, it minimizes the launcher as expected. When I click X, it prompts the exit window.

I am using a steam version of the client and about 4 days ago the launcher was working without problems.

I've had frequent launcher issues since the last patch. It'll either freeze when loading, or it'll try to load and the username/password fields never show up. I'd say about 20% of the time it actually loads correctly lately.

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So the problem I reported earlier fixed itself after some time. I think it had to do something with Windwos updates or Edge browser updates.

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