BOB Error: "Timed out. Couldn't locate launcher and game processes" for Rome 2

Would anyone know how to fix this BOB error for Rome 2? It randomly started doing this to me today after it's worked for about a month. I have not messed with any vanilla files, only copy and pasted some to other locations then renamed them to back them up. I saw an old post from a developer (here: https://forums.totalwar.com/discussi...game-processes) that basically said this happens when AK is moved, but I have not moved AK.

Here's what I've tried:

• I re-installed AK but nothing changed, same error. I've not touched the launcher location itself either.
• I've also disabled all my mods, didn't work
• I've tried reverting to the old launcher (even though I never used it before), but that didn't work anyways.

The vanilla game itself loads up fine, it doesn't even crash so I don't really think it's an issue with the launcher.
Any ideas would be helpful. I've poured many hours into this and to no avail :(

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