1.18.2 My game keeps crashing at startup and I don't know why

[FATMAN95]

Whenever I try to boot up forge-40.2.17 my game crashes and this error message occurs:

*The game crashed whilst rendering overlay

Error:

org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.throwables.MixinTransformerError:

An unexpected critical error was encountered

Exit Code: -1*

I looked at other forums and saw that I needed to delete any forge file in my config folder. But when I went into .minecraft, there was no config folder. I tried creating one myself, hoping that the game would automatically replace it but I kept getting the same error message. Please help I really am clueless. 

[Paint_Ninja]

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