I have identified the problem as Corsair Utility Engine, a program that comes with all Corsair keyboards. I'm not sure what interaction it has with the joystick drivers, but if you own a Corsair keyboard try turning it off, It may fix your problem. Thanks again to all who helped. Now, back to game m...

Ok, after extensive testing I have discovered that one of the items in windows startup was causing a conflict with Love, I'm not sure which yet as I disabled them all. I will go through and report what is causing the conflict in case anyone else ever has the same issue. As of right now Love works pe...

It appears to be the joystick module. I had a joystick plugged in so I removed it from the usb, but doesn't help, only disabling it in Love works. Update: I have discovered that something maybe wrong with the controller drivers on windows. The controller appears to work fine, but if I open the windo...

Hmm. The no-game screen also disables several other modules besides audio. Maybe try having this conf.lua, and if it fixes it then incrementally enable the disabled modules (probably starting with joystick) until you figure out which one is causing the hang? function love.conf(t) t.modules.joystick...

OK, I guess the only thing left for me to try is the 9.2 version. Will have to wait until tomorrow before have time to try it...

Thanks again to everyone who's trying to help. I really appreciate it.

Also, does love have any dependencies that perhaps updating would help? Such as, do I need Lua installed. Currently I only have love installed.

@slime I tried disabling audio but it didn't seem to help. Also, I don't know if it helps, but I forgot to mention once the game window starts it works for about 1-2 seconds then hangs and is unresponsive for another 10 seconds. After that it works fine though. @pgimeno I tried disabling the shader ...

Ok, Thanks for the help.

It's a known issue - some configuration of drivers causes LÖVE to take very long to start, because it tries to create a window with different graphics modes until it finds one that works. It doesn't take more than a split second on a normal system, but some very specific configurations cause such i...

My PC:

Windows 8.1
Intel I7 4790k
16gb ram

OpenGL
4.5.0 NVIDIA 372.54
NVIDIA Corparation
GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2

Edit:
I have also disabled my antivirus to no avail. I'm using the 64bit version perhaps I should try the 32bit?