Your message is unclear. Did you install the game from DVD, or download it using Stardock Central or Impulse?

-HM

It's not SINS_Launcher.exe. This is the one that appears by going through the Start menu. and says it's "Sins of a Solar Empire". It's not, though, it's linked to SINS_Launcher, which appears to do nothing but create a taskbar button and that's it (game doesn't launch). To run the game I too had to eject then reinsert the DVD.

Finally I used Windows Explorer instead. In "Program Files/Stardock Games/Sins of a Solar Empire" its correctly listed as "Sins of a Solar Empire.exe". Once found you can use Send to Desktop to create a shortcut (or just create one in that same directory and then drag it to the desktop).

A little confusing to get setup correctly at first. The installation never created nor prompted me about a shortcut, and, again, trying to launch the game via Start won't work.

If you're running Windows Vista, most games don't install a normal icon anymore (its a Games for Windows thing in Vista). If you go to Start > Games, you'll see it in there.

I'm really not sure what it would put in startup though, I don't have anything like that in my installation.

The start menu shortcut is supposed to point to the launcher; if the launcher is not working, chances are you've got an antivirus that's blocking it.



The disc isn't required to play.