I have a friend @Reetous who has the same problem. He has a 12700K and can't run the game launcher. Same problem as you. Link to the forum: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-Technical/Launcher-crashes-with-exit-code-2-after-2-seconds/m-p/10945906/highlight/false#M81739 https://answers.ea.com/t5/STAR-WARS-The-Old-Republic/Le-Launcher-crash-directement-a-son-lancement-2021/td-p/10939536 Apparently, the DXDIAG indicates a problem with the windows file dataexchange.dll located in the windows / system32 Do you have the same / something else?