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Looks like I got this....Went into the Steam/steamapps/Common/Gameguru folder and set Gameguru/Gameguru-Lightmapper/Gameguru-MapEditor Applications all to run in compatibility mode for Windows 8! No more crashing …..this make sense since my 5 year old Lenovo y510p came with windows 8!
…..anyhoo thanks all for your input!
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