Recently I have purchased and downloaded the game. When starting it, it gives me a white window that immediately shuts itself down. I tried installing it with and without the update.

Going through the crash logs, it gives me the following:

Version = 1.03.1

Stack Trace:

1 - 0x6903b2b2 DrvSwapBuffers
2 - 0x6c6fb0f3 wglSwapMultipleBuffers
3 - 0x6c6fb1a9 wglSwapMultipleBuffers
4 - 0x6c6fc6a4 wglGetProcAddress
5 - 0x6c705658 wglGetPixelFormat
6 - 0x6c705dd4 wglDescribePixelFormat
7 - 0x6c706559 wglChoosePixelFormat
8 - 0x757358b7 ChoosePixelFormat
9 - 0x68132e25 SDL_RegisterApp
10 - 0x68135b5b SDL_RegisterApp
11 - 0x6812bbb5 SDL_SetVideoMode
12 - 0x004055ff
13 - 0x00405cc0
14 - 0x00406170
15 - 0x00407379
16 - 0x005d5ceb

The logs saying 1.03.1, but I'm aware of the thread that states that 2.0.0.9 = 1.03.1.

Both Stderr and Stdout are in the clear.

What video card do you have? Do you have up to date drivers? Does your screen support FTL's minimum resolution of 1280x720?

EAH5450. I've got the up to drivers from Asus's site (2011 build at least), and I don't think I can go for 1280x720.

Newer video card drivers may be available from ATI's site. You could also try editing the game's settings.ini file and try setting stretched=1 and perhaps manual=1.

Last time I tried upgrading to an ATI thing, it ended up telling my card that it no longer existsed, and I had to put my head into repairing it for a weekend. I will try the settings however.

It did not work!

At first I had a similar problem (but there seemed to be an error message or something), in the end it was resolved by setting the windows compatibility to windows vista or xp, I think. Have you tried this yet?

I did just now, and I got the same effect.