Did you run a crack from a steam-only game? They kinda cut the cord on steam .dlls and it only works again if you restart it, which I assume you already did.
GFWL does work in windows 10, although its a little tricky. But DOW2 dont use GFWL anymore so thats not necessary.
Do all other games work fine? Specially games that are steam-only?
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Nope, game ran fine without any issue. How about other relic games, if you own any, are they working fine?
Some things which I highly doubt would fix, but cant hurt to try: Disabling steam overlay, run steam on big picture mode, clearing out most config files of steam and the game.
Another advice (which I believe could help) would be stop all non-crucial processes that windows need to work and only run steam + the game. So any app like fraps or temperature monitoring tools would go just in case.
Edit: How about moving the game directory to another partition? IF you already have more than one steam folder you will have the option to move the game files to another place on the game optios of Local Files
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however Chaos Rising actually started - but no movies (Just sound and the subtitles) and no planet map
Have you updated your graphics drivers recently?
(Or could you have been affected by the Nvidia graphics driver corruption glitch that happened during a somewhat recent Win 10 update?)
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Re-installed 3 times
Did you make sure to clear out lingering files? If it's a config problem, those files aren't necessarily removed during an uninstall.
Run as admin
Steam's executable or the game's own executable? You'll want to make sure both are configured for it (you can toggle the setting by right clicking on the exe's icon, going into properties, and going into the compatibility tab), when testing that element.
Installed older version of DX
Check that the game doesn't need specific .dll files. Those don't necessarily get installed with older versions of DX, and even when they are, they may not be properly utilized by the game unless you drop them in the game's root folder.
Searched for a non existent file
clientregistry.blob, I assume? :P
Well, once you get past the last-ditch option of reinstalling Steam itself, there may not be much to do but wait and hope for a fix to pop up- I've had this issue with a few games on Win 10, and have had to wait for Steam or developer updates to resolve the incompatibility.
That said, googling the issue you mention, several users mention having to load the graphics config for the game before it'll properly load [after fresh install]. [Purportedly this can be directly accessed via GraphicsConfig.exe from the game folder.]
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1) Yes - complete add/remove then a manual delete of remaining files.
2) Both Exe's
3) Yeah I know but I figured it wouldn't hurt to try them.
4) yup - that's the file.
5) GraphicsConfig.exe was the old graphics setup from DoW 1 - It's not in DoW 2:/ I nearly went nuts looking for it last night.
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Could it be this?
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Warhammer_40,000:_Dawn_of_War_II#Pagefile
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I decided last night to go back and play some of my older games again, so I installed DoW2 and tried to run it.
I got an error message "Fatal Error - Steam must be running to play this game" even though I had launched it from steam.
I've spent most of last night and all this morning searching for a fix, and have done the following:
Checked File integrity
Re-installed 3 times
Run as admin
Changed compatibility (98/me/XP/7/8)
Screamed at my kids to shut the hell up and leave me alone
Searched for a non existent file (Steam doesn't use it anymore apparently)
Re-installed Games for windows Live (even though it doesn't work in Windows 10)
Installed older version of DX
Called the UK (There is no Sega/Relic support in AU) and was told to email the problem (No response so far).
Installed Chaos Rising
Apologised to my kids
Scoured the net trying to find a fix
Logged onto 4 different forums and TLS servers to get some help.
Watched about 14 different youtube videos on how to fix it, followed the steps and nothing
So far nothing has worked - Has anyone else had this issue and if so - How did you fix it?
Edit
Got it working - After installing Chaos Rising, and playing a black screen, I reinstalled DX from the folder it installed to and it worked! Thanks for the ideas :)
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