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F1 2017 Executable doesn't work

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Hello everyone,

a few days ago I purchased F1 2017 on Steam (thus I'm playing on PC) and I've already spent around 20 hours playing this game. However, I cannot launch the game since yesterday. At first it was like this:
I double clicked the F1 2017 icon and the typical Steam window that says "Preparing to launch F1 2017" popped up yet nothing happens after that. Furthermore, when I looked into the task manager I saw that the process kinda kills itself, it simply closes. I reinstalled the game and I verified game data beforehand and afterwards but the result is always the same - no issues found. 
When I'm trying to launch the game now, it is launching for around 2 seconds until I get a notification that the executable doesn't work anymore. This happens all the time and I've been looking for any kind of solution on the internet, whether it was in the Codemasters forums or in Steam discussions but neither did I get a proper answer nor did I get any advice that helped. I just created a dxdiag text file which I am going to send to the official F1 Support account so that we can save some time and hopefully find a solution for my problem.

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Hello @PnALynx, did you change anything with your PC between the time when the game worked and then it stopped working? Graphics driver, another driver, a new anti virus or anything like that? It sounds to me like either something the game is dependent on is no longer installed or the game files have become corrupt. A verify of game data and reinstall should have fixed that though.

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Yesterday I deleted the hardware_settings_config and info documents. As a result it was like the first times F1 wouldn't wanna launch anymore. Steam prepares to launch F1 2017, I see the process in the task manager but it simply closes again. 
A Windows update could cause all the trouble. I remember that there was an update queued a few days ago and although I'm not 100 per cent sure it is likely that I installed the Windows update by the time the game used to work. My Graphics driver has been updated after the game did not wanna start anymore, I've been using the same anti virus (Avast) for ages and as said, I tried verifying game data and reinstalling the game not even once. I also reset my Windows but F1 still won't work.
I thought I solved the problem when I optimized the game via GeForce Experience because F1 indeed worked after that. But when I closed the game after one hour I tried to launch it once again to make sure everything would be fine now..and it eventually turned out to be as predicted: The game would start one single time out of 30 tries and after that it takes another 30-40 tries until it would work again. I literally was able to play the game two or three times since the problem appeared on thursday or friday. That's very odd. I guess I can't do anything about it but reinstalling Windows entirely.

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