A D3D12 Error has occured

Age of Mythology: Retold Report a Bug
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  • Game Version: Premium / DLC

  • Build Number: Since it won’t open, I cannot know.

  • Platform: Steam

  • Operating System: Windows 10

Issue: On opening the game, just after the loading/title screen, “A D3D12 Error has occurred and the game is forced to terminate. Verify your graphics drivers are up to date. HRESULT: 0x80070057 The parameter is incorrect.”

I did check and update graphics drivers, as well as ensuring that the game was in fact using the graphics card, as opposed to the integrated graphics.
Graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU.

I have already updated Graphics Drivers–the error persists on the drivers i initially had, as well as the most recent Drivers (581.42, 9/30/25), and the one immediately prior to it.

I did a Clean Install of the Drivers, as well as uninstalling/reinstalling the entire game.

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Trigger Event: I was playing AotG: Gauntlet just fine. I just finished one and got a non-Kastor legend (Theris). I closed the game. No more than 5 minutes later, I tried to play a multiplayer skirmish with friend. Game crashed on loading in, and then would crash on subsequent opening, citing the above error.

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Repro Steps: Open→Crash

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