Game closes upon launch (Steam)

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Hello, my game keeps crashing after I log in and hit "Play" through the Steam client. The game window pops up with a black screen, then immediately goes unresponsive and closes. This is the crash log I have for it:

Faulting application name: ffxiv_dx11.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x68ebdaf1
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.26100.7019, time stamp: 0x9c8f8241
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000001d63c
Faulting process id: 0xDD4
Faulting application start time: 0x1DC5049CD518614
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XIV Online\game\ffxiv_dx11.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: be435836-2c08-4bbb-ab2b-e198978d0777
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

I've tried updating all my drivers (Window 11), have purged OneDrive from my PC, reinstalled the game twice, turned my computer off and on again. Any help would be appreciated.

[promptlygoing]

Update, since it looked like it wasn't a file corruption issue (uninstall and reinstall did not help) I ended up backing up my files and reinstalling my entire Windows OS in the hopes it would fix whatever file pathway error was happening. It worked!

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