Launcher just randomly stopped working

[Aipomdude]

first time my launchers thrown an error up since installing the game years ago, and even during the big downtime we just had, im not software minded enough to know whats going on, was fine yesterday, was fine earlier today, now i get this

Any Ideas?

[Aipomdude]

Actually found this thread as someone else bumped it up recently

And this fixed it for me! learn something new every day!