Thanks for the reply, I’m not going to lie, I’m new to this and don’t know what a lot of that means, I did try disconnecting the internet and running them but it didn’t change - it didn’t have a readme but I followed a video step by step and it was pretty clear so I don’t think I could’ve missed anything installation-wise, I’ll try to find out if they are pre-patched or clean once I figure out what that means, also it did come as an ISO file and I did mount it correctly so I don’t think that was the issue - also tried disabling defender and still nothing, I’ll keep trying though!

Thanks for the reply, I ran the Creative Cloud Cleaner and completely reinstalled everything from the m0nkrus website and ran everything again, same result except this time Media Encoder also didn’t work along with Premiere Pro and After Effects, ran them all as administrator for fun - didn’t change anything though, I’ll keep trying some random things and see if anything happens