UPDATE 2021/02/11: THIS UPDATE FIXED THE ISSUE! https://twitter.com/BungieHelp/status/1359962107760971776 [quote]We will be deploying a Steam-only update at 2 PM PST (2200 UTC) to help resolve issues causing players to be unable to launch Destiny 2 after Update 3.1.0. Players will need to quit and restart Destiny 2 and Steam to take this update.[/quote] ----- OLD ----- [b]BREAKTHROUGH: USER FIX FOUND!!!!! Enable AES-NI in your bios. If your CPU isn't AES-NI capable then you have to wait for Bungie to release an hotfix. https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/258271957?sort=0&page=0&path=1 [/b] UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: - Currently all the CPUs from PC minimum requirements on Bungie website do have AES-NI indeed, but... - Had the game always been requiring AES-NI capable CPUs? It was working correctly before update 3.1.0 even without such instruction set, honestly I can't remember the old minimum requirements - Was this change ever mentioned in any TWAB? Maybe with some time in advance so we could prepare instead of being suddenly gated out from the whole game one day from the next? - Are we really getting a fix or this change in hardware requirements is intended and will then stay? ----- original post ---- I can try to start the game from Steam (or even directly clicking on the executable file from the game folder), then I can see the Destiny2.exe process in the process list, then after running there for 30-40s and without even taking the screen space from the system it terminates without any notice. (i.e. the process terminates before it can load into the GPU) Verified files. Disabled cache in Nvidia Panel. Started as Admin. Started in win 7 compatibility. Started with no full screen optimization. Started with Steam Overlay off. NEW: Clean Installed old Nvidia drivers (after deleteing every temp or shader cache folder in my system, every one) ... no results NEW: chkdsk /f /r (no need for /x for me, the game files are not on the system drive) ... no errors or bad sectors and no results NEW: tried to launch from an alt account on the same machine ... no results EDIT: Forgot I tried deleteing cvars, no results NEW: finally fully updated my windows 10 to v20H2 version from v2004.... no result It all won't change anything, the process always terminates silently. Win 10 Pro 64b - i7 920@Stock - 24GB - GTX 1080 - sata SSD system drive and game drive EDIT: the issue appeared with update 3.1.0, never had this issue before, it seems a common issue: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1085660/discussions/0/3103512736625444507/ UPDATE 2021/02/10: @BNGHelp7 [b][u]Still not launching[/u][/b] even after the mini patch just released on Steam (https://twitter.com/BungieHelp/status/1359358417358319619) UPDATE 2021/02/10: Bungie finally acknowledged the issue, yay! https://twitter.com/BungieHelp/status/1359559966483382274