Someone on discord that I have been talking to is having issues with running the game. The launcher keeps on crashing (popping up as a black square for a split second and then Windows says that java is not responding) and we have tried several things. What is weird though is that his log is say that he is running Windows 8 and it has never been Windows 8
Legacy Launcher (which got slightly further where the launcher stays up but as soon as he clicks run, it goes black screen and crashes)
It seems that as soon as it chooses the refresh rate, it "crashes" but there is no popup afterwards...
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0 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Starting Starsector 0.8a-RC17 launcher
1 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Running in F:\Program Files (x86)\Fractal Softworks\Starsector\starsector-core
1 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - OS: Windows 8 6.2
1 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Java version: 1.7.0_45 (32-bit)
7 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.settings.StarfarerSettings - Loading settings
10 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.loading.LoadingUtils - Loading JSON from [ABSOLUTE_AND_CWD: null (data/config/settings.json)]
2365 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 640x480, 60Hz, 16bpp
2365 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 640x480, 59Hz, 16bpp
2365 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 640x480, 60Hz, 32bpp
2365 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 640x480, 59Hz, 32bpp
2365 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 640x480, 75Hz, 32bpp
2365 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 640x480, 75Hz, 16bpp
2365 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 720x576, 50Hz, 16bpp
2365 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 720x576, 50Hz, 32bpp
2365 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 720x480, 59Hz, 16bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 720x480, 60Hz, 16bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 720x480, 59Hz, 32bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 720x480, 60Hz, 32bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 800x600, 60Hz, 32bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 800x600, 60Hz, 16bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 800x600, 75Hz, 16bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 800x600, 75Hz, 32bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1024x768, 60Hz, 32bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1024x768, 60Hz, 16bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1024x768, 75Hz, 16bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1024x768, 75Hz, 32bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1152x864, 75Hz, 32bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1152x864, 75Hz, 16bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1152x864, 60Hz, 16bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1152x864, 60Hz, 32bpp
2366 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1176x664, 50Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1176x664, 59Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1176x664, 60Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1176x664, 50Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1176x664, 59Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1176x664, 60Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x960, 75Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x960, 75Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x720, 60Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x960, 60Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x720, 59Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x720, 50Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x960, 60Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x720, 60Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x720, 59Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x720, 50Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x1024, 75Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x768, 60Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x800, 60Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x800, 60Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x1024, 75Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x768, 60Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x1024, 60Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1280x1024, 60Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1360x768, 60Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1360x768, 60Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1366x768, 60Hz, 32bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1366x768, 60Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1440x900, 60Hz, 16bpp
2367 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1440x900, 60Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1600x900, 60Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1600x900, 60Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1600x1024, 60Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1600x1024, 59Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1600x1024, 60Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1600x1024, 59Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1680x1050, 59Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1680x1050, 60Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1680x1050, 59Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1680x1050, 60Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1768x992, 30Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1768x992, 29Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1768x992, 25Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1768x992, 29Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1768x992, 30Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1768x992, 25Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 25Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 29Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 30Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 59Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 60Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 50Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 59Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 60Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 50Hz, 32bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 25Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 30Hz, 16bpp
2368 [main] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Found display mode: 1920x1080, 29Hz, 16bpp
85684 [Thread-5] INFO com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher - Running vanilla game with no mods.
85684 [Thread-5] INFO com.fs.starfarer.settings.StarfarerSettings - Loading settings
85685 [Thread-5] INFO com.fs.starfarer.loading.LoadingUtils - Loading JSON from [ABSOLUTE_AND_CWD: null (data/config/settings.json)]
87573 [Thread-5] INFO com.fs.graphics.OO0O - Using refresh rate:60