Game Crashes on startup: Fatal Process crashed with exit code -1073741819

Issue

Minecraft crashes on startup on a newly installed copy of Minecraft on a new computer. Nvidia drivers are updated (471.11) and launcher has been uninstalled/reinstalled to no avail.

From the launcher_log: "Fatal Process crashed with exit code -1073741819." The game crashes with the error code: "An unexpected issue occured and the game has crashed. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Exit Code: 0."

The game does not crash when previous versions (1.16.5 and lower).

 

Launcher Log

the relevant parts of the launcher_log appear to be:

"[Warning: 2021-06-29 07:06:22.7759002: Xal.lib(0)] XAL: [06B31558] Failed to read Dtoken with error 0x89235107: Client operation failed"

"[Warning: 2021-06-29 07:06:22.8995610: Xal.lib(0)] XAL: [06B31558] Failed to read Ttoken with error 0x89235107: Client operation failed"

"[Info: 2021-06-29 07:07:07.5412237: GameCallbacks.cpp(162)] Launcher/monitor (Process Monitor) Fatal Process crashed with exit code -1073741819"

 

full launcher_log text is attached.