I just downloaded the game; got the "free for 48 hours" one. I opened up the game and right after I named my character, the game crashed. Every time I try to open it now, it says "This application has requested the RunTime to close in an unusual way." then shuts everything down. Anything to be done to fix this? I went through and updated everything on my laptop, but that didn't help at all.

Try this hotfix.