Esentially what the title says. Only thing to add is that the application shows me my desktop as if it had minimized (but it didn't), mouse cursor remains stylized as if in the game, can move the cursor around and press buttons blindly, and sound starts. This phenomena starts as soon as a game finishes loading, from the faction video all the way to the actual start.

My graphics card is an Gforce GTX 660, latest drivers are on, followed advice on the sticky, it didn't work.

Furthermore, by adding -d10 to launch options, the game was able to work normally for a second before it returned, but the output file showed no mentions of the option, and the shader its trying (and failing) to create is still dx11.

 Output file:

 output_log.txt

Update: Managed to get the game running by pure chance for a few turns, then it generated a crash report:

error.log

crash.dmp

output_log.txt

Two more things that might help; I have the most recent drivers for my video card, yet they still crash somehow;

This image shows the driver I have, and the error message I get when the game fails to show video (not a crash)

Here's my DxDiag;

DxDiag.txt

Also, I have done every step in the FAQ, furthermore, I am not on a laptop and my card is enabled through the GeForce config for the game.

I will lastly add that, while I had setted up trying endless space 2 until this free weekend, I have ran, played (and mostly loved) all other Amplitude games I have played. It honestly saddens me that there is this issue that makes it impossible for me to play the game precisly now where I could try it and buy it.

Try to install k-lite (mega) codec pack. Could fix it.