[2021] Updated to new Nvidia Drivers 496.49 and game won't start anymore

Hi,

Would like to know if this issue has been looked at. I just updated my Nvidia driver to 496.49 and the game just keeps closing with no reason why. I have tried to run it with directx11 and directx12 with the same result. Tried running thru window and fullscreen with the lowest quality and still had the same issues. I even verified the game and find no issues even disabled cloud saving to see if this helped fix it but the same results. Tried other games like watchdogs legion and immortal fenyx and it works flawlessly without any crash. This game crashes far too open only when booting up the game but once it is up, it just works almost full day without crashing.

As you can see in my game time below, I had spent a lot of time playing this game since I first got this gaming laptop last summer. It is a GE76 Intel 11800H with RTX 3070 so you can see that it is not my system requirement. It was working flawlessly before the Nvidia driver update. Trying to re-install the game to see if it help make it work. If not, then probably will end my subs and switch to AOE IV sub... that looks epic and probably won't crash too much.