Game will not launch

After 3+ hours of updating driveres that were working fine for every other application/game, I still cant even get this thing to launch.  Read through all the forum posts, dont have some wierd firewall, or quickcam driver etc.  Still 100% fail.

I cannot express how disapointed I am that Stardock, and GPG have released this in its current state.  I should have read these forums 1st, cause it seems that getting the game to run is just the 1st of many battles to get any value from the software.