I am having the same problem. I start it with administrator and it says, buddywing has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
I have windows 10 and everything downloaded from the beginners guide. I tried restarting no luck :/
also i disabled UAC, running as admin, disabled antivirus.
Works fine for me, but with every new release I have to make sure Norton AV ignores all files before running it the first time otherwise I get the same errors.