Bannerlord doesnt launch without crash - taleworlds.starter.library.pdb

Hi. Bannerlord doesn't work for me since 2023. I have seen numerous ppl with crashes just as mine since 2020, yet internet and taleworlds still didn't find any solution.
Launching bannerlord.exe/native, taleworlds.launcher.singleplayer/multi or clicking play in launcher.native creates a process utilizing 0.1% of ram and cpu, and it gets suspended after around 1 second. There is no crash log or any trace of what happened.

I Took a look into it with process monitor. The game loads all the necessary system resources aka net dlls, etc. Reads taleworlds.starter.library.dll from win64shipping client and then tries to create taleworlds.starter.library.pdb but fails. Then the same thing happens with managedstarter.pdb, and bannerlord.exe closes itself

I can't get anywhere with this as I don't have any single idea what to do next. I just hope that some of your ideas might lead me to any new trace, tool or general direction.

For me this problem persists on 2 different PCs, so it seems to be connected to my way of personalizing my Windows 10. I tried steam version, ms store version, few pirated version. Cleaned registry with ccleaner, got rid of temp files, updated all my drivers, dx, net, vc and basically tried every usual solution. This makes completely no sense to me as it looks like the game files itself are broken or incompatible, but the game works seamlessly for 99.98% of players

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