Created missing folders, tiles version still don`t want to start. I`m not sure I understand, are you reffering to db and des folder? It worked for me and your problem seems to be the same. The game starts up and without loading screen appearing closes again, right? I had to create Documents and Set...

I registered to seek help about the same problem but I managed to fix it in the meantime. If you try to launch console version you will see that crawl has problem with creating some folders (saves, morgue). Just go to the path it specifies and create them manually and it works. Note that you have to...