Here is my DxDiag. How do I try to run the game from an admin account? As for anti-virus, I uninstalled mine earlier having read that it could interfere.

it doesn't say anything other "dwu has stopped working and needs to close" about 3 seconds after starting it.

kind of pissed i dropped $60 on a game and it looks like i practically need to be an IT professional to get it to run.

literally just bought DWU on Steam. Install it, press play, annnnd it says "Distant Worlds has stopped working and needs to close". That's all it says. Tried reinstalling it same problem.