Last week I finally had enough time to install Impulse, the digital delivery solution from Stardock, and buy their newest space RTS game: "Sins of a Solar Empire".
I had already tried the former digital delivery client by Stardock, Stardock Central, to get "Galactic Civilizations II" and knew about their wonderful no-DRM, no copy protection, constant updates and great quality policy.
Well, Impulse delivers the same experience. The old login I used with Stardock Central still worked and gave me access to the games I had already bought. In fact, a couple of minutes after installing Impulse, it was already updating my copy of GalCiv2.
While the updating and installing interface is pretty nice, the actual shop browsing happens through a wrapped browser interface. Anyway, after placing the order via web interface, Impulse reloads your user stats and displays the newly bought game in the "My Games" tab.

Downloading the game is very fast and installing takes only a couple of minutes (remember to set Impulse's preferences to "ask for prompt" before installing, or it will put the game in the standard C:\Program Files folder).



