Very wise indeed - that turned out to be the issue, did not notice the installer added another folder to the installation path. Thank you!

Dawn of War Elite is currently installed in my Retribution folder, so that's not the issue; but that folder is not on the same drive where I installed Steam (Steam is on C:, which is my SSD, and Retribution on D:, which is my HDD). When I try starting Elite all I get is a crash report, whereas Vanil...

To be honest I already knew this issue existed last time I installed Elite (more or less six months ago) but I was hoping it would be resolved meanwhile. Well, turns out it isn't; is there any workaround, aside from the obvious "just install Retribution in the same folder as Steam", which ...