AION 2 silently closes with Exit Status 1 (0x00000001)
You reach the region/server/character selection lobby fine and it stays stable indefinitely. But after picking a character and pressing Start Game, the client disappears instantly — no error message, no crash reporter window — either while the world is loading or within about 30 seconds of entering the map.
Also appears as: exit status 1, 0x00000001, closes without error message, crashes on map 110001, silent crash after character select, game disappears with no crash window
This crash happens after character select, not right after the NCSoft logo. One player ran six attempts through Process Monitor: every session ended the same way, with the crash stack containing only the game's own processes and no third-party overlay, hook or driver. NCGuard's logs show no violation, which rules out an anti-cheat false positive.
A separate Global-client report adds the best diagnostic so far: the same PC failed to enter the world through both the Steam and PURPLE Global clients, while the Taiwan client worked on that machine. Extensive local troubleshooting changed nothing. If that pattern holds, it points at the Global build or region rather than the player's side.
If the game closes earlier, during the NCSoft logo, that's a different crash: 0xE0000012. If a dialog says "Failed to reset Steam account linking" first, see error 1138:100134.
What to try
- 01Reported
Try another region's client as a diagnostic, not a fix
If you have access to another region's client, try it. One player found the Taiwan client entered the world on the same PC where both the Steam and PURPLE Global clients failed. That is a diagnostic rather than a fix — most players will not have a second region available — but it is the one test that distinguishes a broken build from a broken machine, and it moves this off your list of things to keep reinstalling.
- 02Unconfirmed
No confirmed fix — extensive local troubleshooting didn't help
There is no confirmed fix. A clean Windows reinstall (via Cloud Download), a clean GPU driver install, the latest chipset drivers, repaired Visual C++ runtimes, disabling all non-Microsoft services and startup apps, testing with a single monitor and basic peripherals, testing on a mobile hotspot instead of home internet, and resetting AION 2's local config, shader cache and AppData were all tried by one player in detail — none of it changed the outcome.
- 03Reported
See error 1138:100134 if a Steam account linking dialog appeared
If the client closed after a "Failed to reset Steam account linking" dialog, that is a different error with its own fix: see error 1138:100134.
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