Hiya. Just got the game, had to troubleshoot my own issue because I wasn't finding anything like it on the steam or this forum. I was crashing on start up without any error messages, the screen would either just stay black or the program would run in the background without doing anything. In my case, Online Armor was interfering with it. If you set the program to trust mode (not just allow) the game works fine. This would probably prove a similar fix for other antivirus/spyware/firewall programs you might have running in the background.