Wow, including the wish that Stardock employees will get cancer will definitely raise your chance of getting help here, thumbs up! And who knows, posting this in the technical forum might've been some help as well. But well, that's just me, and as soon as you read this I'll be a victim of the cancer-curse as well I guess. By the way, Mr. "my comuter is freakin fine, it runs everything", did you try to actually allow Sins to access the internet before starting Sins? Just a wild guess, won't put any effort into this until you improve your attitude. Show some manners and the community will show you some help. That's the way it goes.

It's not a firewall problem, I promise. It wouldn't give a black screen. Did you try...IDK uninstalling and reinstalling it?

And, asshole (i say that as nicely as possible), there is no "piracy protection."

You can install the game on as as many computers as you like. There is no Digital Rights Management.

Impulse, if that's what your referring to, just allows you to get updates easier, and allows for the developers to give you updates more often.

Judging from your attitude, I would assume that you've not reached 15 years, but then that might be an insult to people of that age.

Your insolence, if decidedly more widespread, would drive me to condemn humanity. Your ignorance is what i've grown to expect.

/rant

Personally I think you should check the installation of the game because it usually mean that there is a minidump

As it turns out it was my graphics tablet causing a confict with the game

i uninstalled it with device manager and the game works fine now. odd - damm german gfx pad!