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I followed Mercy’s advice and added ‘-w’ to end of Target on shortcut and the game did get to the loading screen. Unfortunately, it got to about 60% loaded and then crashed.
Any suggestions?
If you do find a solution, let me know, but I’m just going to ignore them for now.