Well I have tried freshly re-installing windows and got all updates, installed directx updates, and tried again. Still I am having the same problem: launch .exe and the grey window pops up, before it even changes to loading screen the game screen crashes. I have seen other topics about the game crashing randomly. I have wine bottler and the latest release of wine on my mac osx and I can get to the sign in screen and sign in, but have noticed that there are random crashes while i'm playing for some unknown reason, could this be the same glitch that is causing others to crash too? I would really like to be able to open the game on my virtual windows7, because in wine on mac OSX I can't get the FallCraft mod to work. Anyone who can help, either find a solution to the crash, or tell me a way that FallCraft, the mod that highlights crafting materials, can work in wine, would be greatly appreciated.