Everything was working great, I went home for the holidays, and when I came back I saw that my computer had auto updated some Windows 10 patch or other. I launched ff14, logged in, and hit the play button.
As usual, the black screen popped up, but it never gets to the next portion. It just stays black for 2-5 seconds and then quits, no error messages, no hints or clues. I've disabled my firewalls, launched as administrator, updated DirectX, updated data packets, reinstalled multiple times.. I'm at a loss. I do kind of suck with computers (past gaming) so I'm sure there's something that would be an easy fix but... can't find it.
Here's what I believe to be the event log (although I suck so badly with computers I'm not even 100% on this):
Fault bucket 116072019681, type 5
Event Name: BEX
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: ffxiv.exe
P2: 1.0.0.0
P3: 566b0e6e
P4: ffxiv.exe
P5: 1.0.0.0
P6: 566b0e6e
P7: 00be089b
P8: c0000409
P9: 00000015
P10: