Sad...
I find it weird, RME are amongst the best audio card and driver developers, and it seems now that there are at least two people who can't run VE with RME - even on completely clean systems. I once sent in the crash log and was told that it might have to do with the number of audio channels. Which I found very weird. An RME HDSP 9652 does not have THAT much channels...? (3 x Adat). An update would fix that problem, well, it didn't, and I have spent more than enought time trying to get my Appasionata Strings to work. I still haven't been able to use them.
I still prefer to buy samples libs for a solid third party engine (like GigaStudio 3) than this locked, combined samples+player approach. I bought samples, but I simply can't use them. I find that pretty weird.
My 2 cents