Opening DDS fails with error about gimp-dds

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Same issue:
Windows 7 SP1 64bit
gimp-dds-win64-3.0.1.zip

I either get:

DDS Image message:
Unexpected EOF.

GIMP Message
Opening 'C:\...file.dds' failed:
DDS image plug-In could not open image

or 
dds.exe has stopped working

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name: dds.exe
  Application Version:  0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:    529db211
  Fault Module Name:    ntdll.dll
  Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17725
  Fault Module Timestamp:   4ec4aa8e
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset: 0000000000028359
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:    1033
  Additional Information 1: 3d91
  Additional Information 2: 3d91291b50f54067293ae091af22bbc8
  Additional Information 3: 38a5
  Additional Information 4: 38a5c1155c58c6b61fe9973dcb39c6c3

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Original comment by [email protected] on 4 Dec 2014 at 6:18