Stuck loading "local game is starting"

Quote from gatsu66

maybe try extracting using 7zip? also, have you tried redownloading the patcher? in case it was corrupted, you can also try downloading from the other mirror

Well that didnt help. Same problem, same errors from the server and client...

Quote from kikirio

One thing does spring to mind. Have you tried installing outside of your desktop? (For example, if official tarkov is installed on drive C:, then C:\aki or some such.)

This was it. I moved the folder to C: then started loading in and left. I came back to a death screen with a raid timer of almost 40 mins