Launcher Only Displays Black Screen

[Larry-Man]

EDIT: solved!

The game worked fine for me until exactly 11 pm a few nights ago. I was booted from the server and now I am greeted by a black screen on the launcher and no way to login or play. I've tried some of the scenarios online and we even took it in to a technical support centre where a problem with the graphics card was detected but solved and the game is still not launching anymore.

I'm running the game on Windows 7

ffxiv.com is added to the trusted sites list and I have already tried to reinstall the game, but it's still not working

Windows is entirely up to date and IE has been restored to default settings

Also, unlike the problem many people are having I am NOT getting the SE logo, it just goes straight to black.

I click on the desktop icon, I get this:


And then this: