That's terrible I really wish I could swing a magic wand and fix problems like these... all I can do now is write in here to keep this at the top

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

I've been having this problem as well, it started right after I had to reinstall windows.  I've been trying to track down the issue (hoping it was something screwed up in windows), the error is coming from the MS Visual C++ 2008 distrib:

ERROR: Cannot resolve reference Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.6195".

ERROR: Activation Context generation failed.

Full pastebin available here:  http://pastebin.com/a4Mm28SJ

I tried completely re-installing the game, the 2005 and 2008 VC distribs, and .NET.  None of those work...

So, I was messing around in the FE install folder for steam (trying out some missing VC DLLs) when I noticed they have a redist folder with VC in there.

SOLUTION:

Go to your steam install folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elemental Fallen Enchantress\redist) and install the two vcredist packages there.

I really suspect that it is a steam problem. But its good that you point this out here for stardock to see, and I'm glad it is now working for you.

I am having a similar problem, but I get no error message I try and run the game it pops up in my processes and then just disappears... I have tried re-installing 3 times now twice on steam and once through the Stardock launcher.

If you continue trying to eat digital products you will surely starve!

Please open your debug.err file in notepad, and link the contents into a post here. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.

The file can be found in My Documents\My Games\FallenEnchantress

Be sure to copy the debug immediately after the error occurs; if you start the game again, the debug log will be erased and recreated for the new session.

If that's all you've got then it's not any known common issue. Please mail support@stardock.com.