So, none of these solutions worked that anyone mentioned here, or I would not go for vivisectioning my functioning windows... But after hunting for log files, and by a hunch, I started to close any apps that were running, and my culprit was found: "ASUS STRIX WIRELESS HEADSET" running on the tray. Btw, this forums policy on limiting new members ability to post is a mistake.
It does not even create the directory, and when I create it, it does nothing to it, no new file, no anything, no log file.
Similar problem, but only just shows a black window with the "app is not responding" feature My config is more than adequate, Win 10 is up to date, Nvidia drivers are up to date, game was downloaded again, checked two times, folders have the default rights, but even with set to everyone does not work, running in admin mode does not work, default config xml rewritten to not fullscreen/1920x1080 does not work, creating the folder and the ini file does not work. Is there a simple