I am still trying to figure out what it was that I did to get this to work. It was either
A) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=40784
B) I disabled Kaspersky.

I installed the C++ redist and tried launching and got the error. So I disabled Kaspersky and it loaded. But then when I un paused Kaspersky, the launcher loaded again... So I am not sure which it was that fixed it. I will reply again if it doesn't load again.