SharePoint Designer 2013 crashes when creating a custom workflow...

I have never had this problem with SPD2010 and the default workflow 2013 templates do not provide the features that I need so creating this workflow using the online UI is not an option.
I have uninstalled SPD2013 two times now and I have tried creating a new list and I still have the problem. It's critical for my project that we are able to create custom workflows so this is a HUGE blocker for me so any help would be appreciated.
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Event ID 1001
Fault bucket , type 0
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P3: 52b0b061
P4: Microsoft.Web.Authoring.ni.dll
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P7: c0000005
P8: 0012f4b8
P9:
P10:
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Faulting module name: Microsoft.Web.Authoring.ni.dll, version: 15.0.4531.1000, time stamp: 0x51cb6bd8
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Fault offset: 0x0012f4b8
Faulting process id: 0xc3c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf69f7dfc05fc8
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