Simulator just won't start on Windows

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I've tried every Playdate SDK since the original release and the simulator still doesn't work for me. The window just opens with a frame and blank contents, and then closes a few seconds later. No error messages or anything.

Event Viewer just shows the following

Faulting application name: PlaydateSimulator.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x62351ba5
Faulting module name: PlaydateSimulator.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x62351ba5
Exception code: 0xc000041d
Fault offset: 0x000000000000d2a2
Faulting process ID: 0x8a4
Faulting application start time: 0x01d8486aee1a87a7
Faulting application path: C:\Users\[me]\Documents\PlaydateSDK\bin\PlaydateSimulator.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Users\[me]\Documents\PlaydateSDK\bin\PlaydateSimulator.exe
Report ID: a2c9e033-9f63-4901-9e3a-c62d978a016b
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID:

So that's exception code 0xc000041d which is apparently "An unhandled exception was encountered during a user callback." according to what I can find on Google.

Seems like a bug in the simulator. Hopefully there's enough info here for you to fix it.

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How are you opening it? Are you just double clicking the executable or trying to run it from commandline?

Also what version of Windows are you using?

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Have you installed the C++ redistributable runtime listed the README? If not, please try that and report back.

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I already have that installed, also it seems weird that there's no mention of that on the SDK documentation site and is instead in a README file that I didn't even know was there!

I just installed the latest version though, 1.10.0 and it now works. So all is good.