Edit General Solution
If you have multiple CD/DVD drives on your machine, make sure you install from your first CD/DVD drive. This fixes the majority of installation issues with most media-based copy protection systems.
Edit Starforce
Starforce has announced that some protected games will never work with Vista.
You can get help diagnosing which games will have issues at this
Starforce support page.You can get the latest version of the Starforce drivers from
http://www.star-force.com/support/drivers/.
Edit Games with Starforce
Edit TAGES
Older versions of the TAGES copy protection scheme are not compatible with the 64-bit version of Vista, and game installers will terminate when the TAGES setup starts.
Contact the game publisher for an updated installer if you run into this issue.
TAGES Homepage:
http://www.tagesprotection.com/Edit Games with TAGES