So I have been playing Java Edition pretty frequently for a very long time, except recently whenever I tried to launch the game it will close the launcher, as it does normally, and then never opens the game. If I try and launch the game again it says it's already running, if I press the "Start Anyway" button it does the same thing and never opens. I discovered that 1.12 launches fine, its exclusively 1.13 and 1.14 thats doing this and it's really weird cause I haven't had problems like this before. If anybody has any ideas I would appreciate it very much.
Open Task Manager and see if the Java program is still running in the background. Do a manual close.
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