Wings 3D doesn't start up in Win10 [solved]

[mbartelsm]

When I run Wings 3D it simply doesn't open. When checking what's up with the task manager I can see the erl.exe process there, inactive with no changes in memory and no CPU usage. If I try to open it multiple times, then multiple erl.exe instances will show up in the task manager, all idle and using roughly the same memory (32-38 Mb). Running with --debug opens an empty erlang emulator instance.

Reinstalling Wings 3D changes nothing. Reinstalling microsoft's DLLs changes nothing. Running as admin changes nothing. Running from command prompt displays no errors and changes nothing.

This is something not specific to the latest version, as I first noticed this with an older one (2.1.5 I think) and then updated to 2.2.5 to see if that was the issue.