Problem Description
The specific crash you have experienced appears to be related to some (sub)system not being able to initialise at startup. The message box that appeared describes in more detail which particular issue you have encountered.
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Error Code 14: Steam client is required, please start the Steam client and try again.
This error implies that your Steam client isn't running and for some reason failed to start. We'd like to know whether this was the case for you or whether you have another idea what might have caused the problem. We'd also like to know whether your Steam client was really not running when you got this error. Please let us know by mailing crash@egosoft.com with subject "Startup error 14".