Hey all,
Not sure if anyone has pointed this out, but it seems .net security updates are causing Windower4 to crash as soon as it starts up. It looks like one or both of the following are the culprit:
kb2979578
kb2972107
I determined this by going through troubleshooting steps listed in other posts on the topic of the issue I was having (which I mentioned above) and none of them worked. I then started uninstalling updates, starting with the two most recent, both published 10/14, as the program and game were both working fine prior to that time. Once those were removed, I could then start Windower without any issues. Still trying to get the game itself to actually launch, but that's a story for a different day...
FYI, my system runs Win7 x64.
Hopefully this is helpful to people experiencing this crash or devs trying to figure it out/fix it.