Delta Tau Power PMAC IDE Crashing on startup, possible .NET or dll error?

Question

I've been banging my head against the wall this entire week trying to get OMRON/ Delta Tau's programming IDE (Power PMAC) working on my work laptop. I've installed it, re-installed it using an admin user's login, and even tried it on two different laptops. The installations seem to be fine; no errors, and even installing with verbose logging turned on turned up nothing. So here's the symptoms: I try to run the .exe and it does one of two things...

1. When running with either no compatability settings, or in windows 8 compatability mode, it will show the splash art, load a bit, then a window will open that is blank (dark grey), almost like visual studio with no GUI. Then it will crash
2. In ALL OTHER compatability modes, it will only show the splash art, then nothing. However, in this case, no window pops up, but it continues to run in the background, and I have to force clsoe it via task manager. (No "program not responding errors, either).

FYI, this IDE uses visual studio 2015 (isolated)

I've already tried the usual quick fixes....

• basic cmd's (sfc /scannow, DISM, etc.)
• reinstalled/ verified required .NET runtimes, visual studio redistributables, etc.
• checked logs, came up with nothing (except as seen below)

The only leads I have are the following from windows even viewer:

ERROR - Application Error

Faulting application name: PowerPMACIDE.exe, version: 4.6.3.6, time stamp: 0x6573aed5
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.19041.5486, time stamp: 0x61852034
Exception code: 0xc000041d
Fault offset: 0x001420f2
Faulting process id: 0x3204
Faulting application start time: 0x01db8a147c46763b
Faulting application path: C:\DeltaTau\PowerPMAC\4\IDE\PowerPMACIDE.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: b2d7531e-224c-47b4-bac9-9746fd2ccbec
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

Information - windows error reporting

Fault bucket 1807121515302005936, type 5
Event Name: CLR20r3
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PowerPMACIDE.exe
P2: 4.6.3.6
P3: 6573aed5
P4: ODT.Common.VisualStudio
P5: 4.6.3.6
P6: 6573adae
P7: 30
P8: 3a
P9: System.Exception
P10: 

Attached files:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER8AA8.tmp.dmp
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER9C6B.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER9C8C.tmp.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER9CA5.tmp.csv
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER9D43.tmp.txt

These files may be available here:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_PowerPMACIDE.exe_9592a83da944633de457b1b11247de8176cd9061_4d97c305_9374f5f5-432c-4c7c-8e53-3b63677f6bba

Analysis symbol: 
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 3a0fc651-a413-4ef4-911b-7e65f367b806
Report Status: 268435456
Hashed bucket: c0baf9013f00773609142f71918aacb0
Cab Guid: 0

ERROR - .NET Runtime

Application: PowerPMACIDE.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.Exception
   at ODT.Common.VisualStudio.Injector.VsInjector.CreateTitleBarInjectContainer()
   at ODT.Common.VisualStudio.Injector.VsInjector.InjectMainTitleBar(System.Windows.FrameworkElement)
   at ODT.DeviceNotificationIndicator.Controller.MainWindowOnActivated(System.Object, System.EventArgs)
   at System.EventHandler.Invoke(System.Object, System.EventArgs)
   at System.Windows.Window.OnActivated(System.EventArgs)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.MainWindow.OnActivated(System.EventArgs)
   at System.Windows.Window.HandleActivate(Boolean)
   at System.Windows.Window.WmActivate(IntPtr)
   at System.Windows.Window.WindowFilterMessage(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef)
   at System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource.PublicHooksFilterMessage(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef)
   at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef)
   at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(System.Object)
   at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
   at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(System.Object, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32, System.Delegate)
   at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.LegacyInvokeImpl(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority, System.TimeSpan, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
   at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr)