No matter if launching from Steam or the Standalone version, neither of them get past the window just popping up and freezing instantly. Using the Knight Launcher from https://github.com/lucasluqui/KnightLauncher doesn't do anything, it keeps freezing and crashing with either version of the game, my specs are:
CPU: i5-3550
GPU: Nvidia GTX 970
RAM: 16Gb
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H
The projectx.log file shows this:
2022/11/12 14:36:27:892 INFO K$a.b: Logging to 'E:\Spiral Knights\.\projectx.log'.
2022/11/12 14:36:30:532 INFO K$a.b: Resetting video due to like issue with startup count.

Launcher.log shows this instead:

2022/11/12 14:36:26:994 INFO m.a: ------------------ VM Info ------------------
2022/11/12 14:36:26:997 INFO m.a: -- OS Name: Windows 10
2022/11/12 14:36:26:998 INFO m.a: -- OS Arch: x86
2022/11/12 14:36:26:998 INFO m.a: -- OS Vers: 10.0
2022/11/12 14:36:26:998 INFO m.a: -- Java Vers: 1.8.0_261
2022/11/12 14:36:26:998 INFO m.a: -- Java Home: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_261
2022/11/12 14:36:26:998 INFO m.a: -- User Name: Pinga
2022/11/12 14:36:26:998 INFO m.a: -- User Home: C:\Users\User
2022/11/12 14:36:26:998 INFO m.a: -- Cur dir: E:\Spiral Knights
2022/11/12 14:36:26:998 INFO m.a: ---------------------------------------------
2022/11/12 14:36:27:121 INFO m.a: Detected no proxy settings in the registry.
2022/11/12 14:36:27:123 INFO m.a: ---------------- Proxy Info -----------------
2022/11/12 14:36:27:123 INFO m.a: -- Proxy Host: null
2022/11/12 14:36:27:123 INFO m.a: -- Proxy Port: null
2022/11/12 14:36:27:123 INFO m.a: ---------------------------------------------
2022/11/12 14:36:27:124 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/liblwjgl64.so]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:124 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/liblwjgl.so]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:124 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libjinput-linux.so]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:124 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libjinput-linux64.so]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:124 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libopenal64.so]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:124 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libopenal.so]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:124 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libkeybd.so]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:124 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libfroth.so]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:124 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=mac os x, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[mac os x] native/liblwjgl.dylib]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:124 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=mac os x, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[mac os x] native/libjinput-osx.jnilib]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:125 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=mac os x, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[mac os x] native/openal.dylib]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:125 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=mac os x, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[mac os x] native/libfroth.dylib]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:125 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=java_location, value=[linux] /spiral/client/java_linux.jar]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:125 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=mac os x, osname=windows 10, osarch=x86, key=jvmarg, value=[mac os x] -Xdock:name="Spiral Knights"]
2022/11/12 14:36:27:142 INFO m.a: Able to lock for updates: true
2022/11/12 14:36:27:168 INFO m.a: Verifying application: http://gamemedia2.spiralknights.com/spiral/20201019172329/
2022/11/12 14:36:27:168 INFO m.a: Version: 20201019172329
2022/11/12 14:36:27:168 INFO m.a: Class: com.threerings.projectx.client.ProjectXApp
2022/11/12 14:36:27:169 INFO m.a: Dropping status 'm.validating'.
2022/11/12 14:36:27:188 INFO m.a: Unable to read version file: .\version.txt (The system cannot find the file specified)
2022/11/12 14:36:27:675 INFO m.a: Dropping status 'm.validating'.
2022/11/12 14:36:27:677 INFO m.a: Resources verified.
2022/11/12 14:36:27:678 INFO m.a: Dropping status 'm.launching'.
2022/11/12 14:36:27:681 INFO m.a: Didn't find any custom environment variables, not setting any.
2022/11/12 14:36:27:682 INFO m.a: Running C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_261\bin\java.exe
-classpath
E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\config.jar;E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\projectx-config.jar;E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\projectx-pcode.jar;E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\lwjgl.jar;E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\lwjgl_util.jar;E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\jinput.jar;E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\jutils.jar;E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\jshortcut.jar;E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\commons-beanutils.jar;E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\commons-digester.jar;E:\Spiral Knights\.\code\commons-logging.jar
-Dcom.threerings.getdown=true
-Xmx256M
-XX:+AggressiveOpts
-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=10
-Djava.library.path=E:\Spiral Knights\./native
-Dorg.lwjgl.util.NoChecks=true
-Dsun.java2d.d3d=false
-Dappdir=E:\Spiral Knights\.
-Dresource_dir=E:\Spiral Knights\./rsrc
-Xmx512M
com.threerings.projectx.client.ProjectXApp

Any help will be greatly appreaciated, have a nice day