I do in fact have bitdefender, but the entire harddrive is excluded from scans and such
It seems that the "advanced threat defence" might have been the issue, after shutting everything off (except the advanced threat option) it still wouldnt launch, but after turning that off it seemed to work.
in fact, just turning the advanced threat defence off seems to do the trick, i started all other options again and tried launching and it still works!
Thanks for letting me know! keep up the amazing work!