Mind is a little blown right now... Running a brand new windows server 2009. Brand new mysql, brand new tcadmin install. I have Net framework installed, direct X, java, C++ 2019 you name it. Can't boot the ark server from tcadmin. If I try to manually boot with the command line I will boot sometime (But no one can connect to it) and other times it just instantly crashes. Nothing in the logs.. default command lines.. Completely at a loss here.
Running into the same issue you are with SE and tcadmin. Install SE, try to boot and get a Start error followed with a Zero PID. Would love to know if you fixed it.