Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II

What works

Installation through Steam.

What does not

Launching of the game.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything beyond attempting to launch the game.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

A BugSplat Error Report box immediately appears offering to send a report to the developers. As is the case for Dawn of War 2: Retribution, this can be bypassed by using native msasn1 and wintrust dlls, as well as restoring content.cat from a backup on every launch attempt. However, doing all of this still does not get the game to run. Instead, what you get is "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Dawn of War 2\dow2.exe -logs" hogging 100% CPU, and no window appears. The "drive_c/users/username/My\ Documents/My\ Games/Dawn\ of\ War\ 2/Logfiles/warnings.txt" log file will always show "NetworkManager::Create - creating network manager" as the last line, and you'll need to kill the dow2.exe process. Since the log was networking-related, I even tried running Steam in offline mode and disconnecting the network, to no avail. I also tried various parameters, such as -nomovies and -nosound, but there was no improvement. I think it's failing on rsaenh.dll (the last thing it loads): Sadly, using a native version prevents of the rsaenh DLL prevents Steam from loading. If I replace it once Steam has loaded, I get a Steam pop-up warning me that the application is already running (which it isn't). In short, there is no easy work-around that I can see.