I saw in the sticky they linked to a post that could resolve this but that page is restricted and i could not view it. When i put my dvd in the drive a windows vista message said the program failed to run and closed the autoplay. then i opened up my computer and tried from there and the same happened. i finally explored the dvd and ran the setup myself. now when i try to click the game in my program files or shortcut i get the same crash. i havnt patched the game yet because im having trouble finding where to download the patch.