I was able to track down the root cause of this issue.


MSI Afterburner (a graphics card monitoring/overclocking utility) v4.3.0, combined with a background service it installs, Rivatuner Statistics Server v6.6.0 causes your program to not launch properly as described above. Once I disabled those, Pingplotter 5.4.3 launches fine.

Not sure with whom the fault lies exactly, but there it is.

On Windows 10 x64 1703 (15063.332)

Edit - Updating Rivatuner Statistics Server to v7.0 Beta 19 resolves the issue permanently, I no longer have to exit it in order for Pingplotter to launch.