Downloaded from Stardock, kb.exe causes an unhandled exception

[HeinBloed]

I'll just paste my latest email to the game support (which I also forwarded to Stardock) here:

I have an important information regarding my problem. I was unsure whether I should post this to you, but decided that it's the right thing to do because you should know this. And I also -presume- that it's not illegal anyway since I own a legal licence for the game.

So what I did is to look for a "NoCD" patch, which I found by the form of a modified kb.exe (patched to 1.7 as well). When I put this exe in my installed Stardock Impulse game folder and run the game from it, everything works perfectly - no bugs or errors whatsoever. This seems to prove that in fact the digital download is corrupted (by the way, just to be sure I had downloaded the entire 3 GB a third time before and tested it again - same error). I will forward this information to Stardock, too, since it's probably their job to fix this. And after all, I want to play the game with the correct game files, not getting stuck on an old version when a potential new patch comes out...

I'll wait for Stardock's reply, but for the time being I'm helped insofar as I can now play the game.