try verifying your files, it could be that one of those .exe are looking for something that didn't get downloaded.

Try turning off cloud sync, or offline mode, worth a shot.

Not yet, but I have been in contact with Stardock support, and they have been troubleshooting with me.  So far, Stardock support has been very responsive, about every two days, and they are trying to help me.  I really appreciate their customer support so far.  Many other companies just send you the standard company line which is almost never helpful.

I am able to run the game successfully by launching from the legendaryheroes.exe located in the game folder, located at 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FE Legendary Heroes

Here is the latest e-mail that I received from Stardock support this morning.  I will try these things when I get home from work today.

Try going to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FE Legendary Heroes\' and then deleting the 'lh_remove_prefs.exe' and 'lh_screens_cache.exe' files. Once that has been done, try to run the game again.
If that does not change anything, with the files deleted, try verifying the game's cache files.
Open up Steam and right click on the game and select properties, then choose the option 'Verify Integrity of Game Cache' like so: http://screencast.com/t/QwZ9xVyT
After the game files are read/repaired attempt to run the game again in Steam and see if that fixes the issue.
Thanks,

 Good luck, and let me know if you find a solution.  I will do the same.

Hi Nakor, I tried your link but it 404's

http://sd.stardock.com/lh_remove_prefs.exe

It added a . at the end.

Kris

I will try it when I get home from work, and let you all know.

I'll assume I'm supposed to advance it.
If that is the case it will complete properly.

However, If I drop it in and then try and launch my game from steam I don't get a popup which would tell me the steam launcher isn't looking for the file in the proper location possibly.

I'll put this out there now, my steam library is in an alternate location (sort of) joined by a symbolic link to the natural steam location if that makes any difference. Does anyone use the standard steam library position who gets this error?

XP Service pack 3 compatibility only left one instead of 2 processes open.

If the debug doesn't open one and I still have the cache renamed, it must have applied to the settings to the first of the next two files and worked. maybe.

Put the old files in place and set them all to this mode, no luck the statdock descape (32) processes remain stuck open.

Has anyone besides r007kit relocated the location of their Steam library of games on disk? I'll look into reproducing with that as a factor.

Kris

McAfee sucks, too, maybe not quite as bad as Norton.  But I can't criticize you, since I use McAfee because it's free from my Cox subscription. 

Please download/extract http://sd.stardock.com/lh_update_exe_remove.zip to the FE: LH directory and overwrite the existing 2 files. Go ahead and launch the game by hitting Play in Steam. This will be in the beta update today.

This should sort the Norton and McAfee issues for anyone not running Windows XP Home (in that case, ignore those 2 files and launch FE: LH from the LegendaryHeroes.exe directly). 

If you are still having problems, please post back with the exact OS, AV, installed folder location, and anything else that might seem relevant.

Kris

Nakor, your patch worked!  Thanks so much for sticking with this issue.  I REALLY appreciate it.