Can't start minetest on Windows 8?

[tiskan]

Hi everyone,

So i would really like to try minetest. No problem, i thought. Downloaded the Windows zip file, extract it. Then i try to run the minetest.exe file and get immediatly "minetest.exe has stopped working"

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: minetest.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 51b1c1f9
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.2.9200.16578
Fault Module Timestamp: 515fac6e
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00023ea0
OS Version: 6.2.9200.2.0.0.256.4
Locale ID: 1053
Additional Information 1: 5861
Additional Information 2: 5861822e1919d7c014bbb064c64908b2
Additional Information 3: f3d5
Additional Information 4: f3d5be0cad2787556264647dc02181c3

So, tried searching on the forums a little bit, but really could not find anything. I have the MVC++ 2010 redist. installed. Tried running in administrator mode too.
Running on Windows 8 Enterprise 64bit.
I have tried this on 2 different machines. Same OS on both, and same problem.
What am i missing?

Thank you.

[PilzAdam]

Found this after a quick web search: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/a/ntdlldll.htm

[Josh]

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