The Elder Scrolls Online: Critical Error, Game Crash - Installation Folder Missing After… (Workarounds)

The problem

Critical error and game crash. Repair attempt with the launcher completely removed the installation folder instead. That has been a while such a wipeout happened. Just sharing fyi. I don't expect support here. And putting in a ticket will generally result in the default first line abc anyway (remove addons or reinstall - yeah). Details: - After loading a different character and doing research on…

What players suggest

Update: reinstalling through Steam blue 'Start' button, now repeatingly results in a failed download and blue 'Resume' button I'll do my own abc now, but interested if this is an isolated case, or affectting more players recently

Game has reincarnated (still carnage if you ask me, if not critical). Another system restart and repeated Windows cleaning (which is a habit). Let the desktop settle for another while, next opened Steam and taadaaaa, the green launch button was magacally back. No manual reinstall, no download. Did another repair check with the launcher to be sure and game starts again, same character loads ok…

there was a recent win 11 26H2 release. then a few days later, my windows file explorer crashed. the windows repair tools sfc and dism would NOT fix the system files issue. and there was a recent new nvidia graphics driver release. and there was a recent steam client update. perhaps steam and/or windows and/or your graphics card driver are NOT 100% bug free. ((and recall, windows Sep monthly…