I also had this error. I've had it in the past before I did a fresh install, but I figured it was one of the pigg files.
This time by process of elimination, I took only one file out at a time and tried loading it, I figured it to be the sound.pigg file. Once I took that out of the directory, the launcher verified without crashing and is now going through the fixing process for it.
Hopefully this does the trick...
Update: Now it works fine, no issues at all...