Can't start the game through SDC in Vista

By this do you mean you are able to run the launcher outside SDC, or are you running the game directly?

If by launcher you mean the window with buttons "Play Game", "Manual", "Update Game" and so on, then yes, I can click on the shortcut, which I placed into GameExplorer, and it runs the launcher without problems. Then I click on the "Play Game" and play the game itself.

Bump. Just making sure that stardock read this. Please acknowledge.

I also have this issue. Here is the error I see:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: gc2launch.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 45804a84
Fault Module Name: DXAxHost.dll
Fault Module Version: 2.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 44a44547
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000208e8
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 94c1
Additional Information 2: 9e091b99e653185ec1dd1ced110e2362
Additional Information 3: fd7c
Additional Information 4: e9602886d209ba1385d0aefd28dd5770

where do you see this error? and can you run the gc2launch outside of the SDCentral?

I checked on this and it seems that it has to do with Vista's permissions system. Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about it at the moment.

That's OK. We still can run the games. As long as you know the issue, we are fine.