Game flickers on but then immediately closes without any error notification.

The game starts for a split second then instantly closes with no error message or anything. thanks in advance for any help.

how do you mean

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Check your antivirus, it may have deleted important SPT files

should I reinstall with my antivirus disabled? I am using windows defender.

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Draxy do not uninstall, there's currently not a working version of spt where we got a eft update yesterday. this might be ur issue.

ok thanks, I'm new to spt and saw someone mention this, should I use the downgrade patcher thingy?

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sadly ive heard the downgrade patch isnt working at the moment ether, i jus tried to install it for the first time today and found out it was down. i was told that the best thing for us to do is be patent and wait for a update.

i tried the patcher today as apparently there was an update and it keeps saying failed to decode escapefromtarkov.exe, any ideas?