227: The launcher thing is a problem that popped up randomly and probably has something to do with the launcher connecting to the internet (which it does to check for updates and that kind of thing). For now, disconnecting from the internet seems to solve the problem for non-Steam versions, though if you can't disconnect for whatever reason you should be able to run from the witcher2.exe in the /bin folder of the game's installation without any problems.
Thank you for the help.
I can't believe the whole time it was just a server issue. I kept getting the windows program won't start message, force close program message..
If it was a server issue, I would think I'd get a message regarding that from the game.
I unplugged my internet and it worked.
Unbelievable, such a stupid problem and the whole time it had nothing to do with my PC and I uninstalled / reinstalled which took alot of time.
thanks alot though!