So, Sega updated the Dawn of War games.. and Dark Crusade doesn't launch anymore

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Surprised by the support for the support they just gave the games, they switched them to Steamworks due to GameSpy shutting down. However, the original Dawn of War is the only one that runs properly. Winter Assault instantly crashes, and Dark Crusade, typically the one which I play, doesn't even launch at all. Steam just throws "Failed to start game (unknown error)" at me and no matter what I tried, from verifying game cache and steam://flushconfig to outright reinstalling. All three games worked without ever having any issues for over a year, does anyone have any idea/can check if this is an issue from the patch or am I the only one who got screwed over or if there's anything I missed over how it can be fixed?

Edit: Nevermind, I'm an idiot. Updated Visual C++ 2005 to SP1 and it works now

10 years ago*

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PomstaZLesa

well it looks like winter assault have only 7MB

10 years ago

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NSnake

Yeah, that's about the size they all were... ergh.. looks like they broke replays too, all replays I had saved don't show up in the replay menu anymore

10 years ago

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Grrkek

I reinstalled to check. It works fine for me. I just miss the THQ intro (silly, I know).

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Zukas

(Game Developer)

Not silly, but manly as hell. Salutes

10 years ago