Hi,
Please notice I am using an old wacom serial tablet with a serial to usb driver ; Intuos GD-0912-R + prolific PL2303 (used driver PL2303_Prolific_DriverInstaller_v1_11_0) + win 8.1
Until now it all works perfectly on 32bit apps.
System Information
Operating system: Windows 8.1
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GT 520
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30Ghz
RAM: 16 GB
Blender Version
Not working: blender-2.80.0-git.69b2f5268114-windows32 (11-02-2019)
Works: 2.79b and the 2.80 beta 64 bits
Short description of error
Blender 2.8 32 bits closes at start-up if no arguments, or when using Grease Pencil or opening files.