So this is more of a rant because I was able to finally fix it after 2-3 hours.
A month ago I took the plunge and moved over to Windows 11. Haven’t had any issues really until I tried to play Diablo 4 for the first time today with it. After updating, I tried to play, it got to the grey screen, then gave an error saying files corrupt, scan and fix or whatever. I tried to do that, but it kept giving me multiple errors linked to being unable to contact the update servers. When I click the actual update, I got the same error. I closed bnet, reopened, kept getting same errors, couldn’t even launch the game. I uninstalled the launcher, put it back, same issue. I uninstalled the game and launcher…showed successful, but when I looked into the drive (Which it let me do, so you see why it was weird), I was getting errors on opening files, saying either I had no access or it wasn’t there. Restart the PC, everything is working fine. I can access everything again. Reinstall bnet and the game, launch it…corrupt files. All the above stuff happened again. I again can access the drive, but certain files giving the errors again. I go to check the m2 drive health…missing from disk listings. No bueno.
I restart my computer, then go straight to the drive status, show it’s at 100% health, all shows fine. Run some crystaldisk magic on it anyways to make sure, all 100%. I then spend a long while googling this issue, see nothing. I finally find this one small snippet.
Looks like this game may hate 24h2, and with it it also hates direct storage. I put in -disableds to the additional launch commands, restart, now game works perfectly,
Why is this a thing? I literally lost the desire to even log in and play now that I got it working because of this stupid run about.