Game is beginning to crash right after initilization just before launching

[Shogouki]

Just in the last few days the game has started to crash right before it launches. I've looked at the Windows Event Viewer to find two seemingly related errors just a second apart from each other with the following info:

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 6/1/2016 1:13:05 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Melchior
Description:
Faulting application name: DistantWorlds.exe, version: 1.9.5.12, time stamp: 0x5000a574
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.3.9600.18233, time stamp: 0x56bb4e1d
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0001dd93
Faulting process id: 0x11e4
Faulting application start time: 0x01d1bc41e8bdd3b5
Faulting application path: C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Distant Worlds Universe\DistantWorlds.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 3f3f2f9a-2835-11e6-83d1-382c4a714e7d
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-06-01T20:13:05.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>44198</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Melchior</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>DistantWorlds.exe</Data>
<Data>1.9.5.12</Data>
<Data>5000a574</Data>
<Data>ntdll.dll</Data>
<Data>6.3.9600.18233</Data>
<Data>56bb4e1d</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>0001dd93</Data>
<Data>11e4</Data>
<Data>01d1bc41e8bdd3b5</Data>
<Data>C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Distant Worlds Universe\DistantWorlds.exe</Data>
<Data>C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll</Data>
<Data>3f3f2f9a-2835-11e6-83d1-382c4a714e7d</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

And the second one:

Log Name: Application
Source: .NET Runtime
Date: 6/1/2016 1:13:04 PM
Event ID: 1026
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Melchior
Description:
Application: DistantWorlds.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 7704DD93

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name=".NET Runtime" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1026</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-06-01T20:13:04.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>44197</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Melchior</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Application: DistantWorlds.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 7704DD93
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

And my DxDiag info is attached as well.

[rjord2021]

in steam right click on distant worlds go to properties and then local files.

Verify the integrity of the game cache.

This will check if your file is corrupted.

[Shogouki]

Did that a few times already, none of them found any corruption.

[fsansir]

Same problem here with Windows 10

Edit: Solved with this

tm.asp?m=4074229

The problem is with the intro video.

Thank you.