GFWL has to be the worst program I've ever used. I think MS's busisness model should just be aborting the whole program. I use to play DoW2 all the time, but I became so aggravated with GFWL I ditched the game... which sucks because DoW2 was fun. Half the time it would not patch correctly, the other slight half GFWL would conflict with the game resulting in waiting for a new patch, and the remainder of the pie chart is dedicated to a small sliver of me actually playing the game online.
I know a lot of that could be on my end, but when I contacted support... well, let's just say they would force me to change my opinion on the idea of death panels.