DiRT 2 + 3, Codemasters and GFWL -_-

It is playeble,it just wont load or safe.All you can do is start new game every time.

THX, I'll try it when I get back home. But I tried 7 or 8 different versions already and I just had to clean my system of them, because not even one worked.
Basically you have to find that one version which is correct, and I didn't even found what version number is it.
Anyway, this is major fail for Codemasters. Customer should be able to just click "play" and play, not spend hour finding solution on Internet.

just appreciate how smart he is ...

I have no reason not to believe you. I was able to launch those games until I had to reinstall my OS (and it ran just as steam installed it), but now I'm unable to solve "what component is missing" puzzle. That's not how it should be. Of over 600 titles in my library, only 10 or so cause trouble. And all are either GFWL or UPlay titles.

You're lucky. I had Grid working until I had hdd failure and was forced to do clean Win7 install on new hdd. After that I tried 8 different GFWL versions and not single one worked. Every codemasters game (except my old CMR2 :P) just closes upon creating a window handle.

Yeah I might get grid

Thanks for info. Anyways i thought that McRae was the game i used to play so much but nope, it was Colin McRae Rally 2.

Strange, I have non-Steam digital version of Grid and it requires GFWL.

Win 8 users need to uninstall everything GFWL, and d/l the most recent Game for Windows MARKETPLACE from xbox.com

http://steamcommunity.com/app/205350/discussions/0/846943514174506118/

" How to Get GFWL Games Working for Windows 8-64bit
FOLLOW STEPS EXACTLY! Don't you dare skip any steps!

1. Uninstall “Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE Redistributable” AND “Microsoft Games for Windows Marketplace”

2. Reboot Computer (DON'T SKIP THIS)

3. Download GFWL here:http://www.xbox.com/en-US/LIVE/PC/DownloadClient

4. Right click the GFWL installer, go to properties and change its compatibility to “Windows 7”. Save and exit.

5. Right click the installer, and choose “Run as administrator”

6. After it’s installed, run the GFWL game again.

Voila!

This worked for me! Oh and DON'T SKIP ANY OF THESE STEPS!"

GFWL makes things harder yeah, I gave up multiple times playing GTA IV because of this, and on GTA IV also the Social Club can give problems, besides the game itself. I have Windows 8.1, someone said above it doesn't give problems, but it does xd, after installing the games, you need to install manually GFWL, and then it should work properly, but is still gives all kind of problems. It used to work "decent" but since I bought and SSD and reinstalled OS there, it gives more problems now, but you can actually play the games if you install and configure/fix it.

I agree :P