I first updated WOT and everything worked fine. I then downloaded the modpack and tried it. The game crashed immediately at start, like when trying to play a replay now. Very quickly the screen went white and then disappeared.
I removed the modpack and opened WOT without a problem.
I am having the exact same issue. I also deselected the panel options. I will try to manually minimize it as described above. Otherwise, I will just install the mods I want with no XVM. It would be nice if it were fixed though.