Can't launch retail nor Elite

[_soup]

The title says all. I bought Retribution in early September 2014, played a couple of matches in Elite mod and all was working fine. After having to format my laptop (damn you Tzeentch) I reinstalled steam and downloaded Retribution and Elite mod once again. The installation seemed to work, but, as Wise Windu said, I wrongly started Elite without having first launched retail. So I deleted the entire retribution and Elite folders, redownloaded both, updated DirectX and all the drivers on my machine, but still, the game won't launch. I go to my steam library, doubleclick the retail version, the steam notification about the game being launched pops up for a brief second but then nothing. I tried all of these https://support.steampowered.com/kb_art ... -USFX-5568 without success. Any idea? I'm running windows 8.1 btw.

[Indrid]

Do you still have launch options for Elite set in your Steam Library? If so, remove them.

[_soup]

Nope, don't have them

[Spartan717]

Have you tried verifying retribution files on steam?

[_soup]

Yep

[Myrdal]

warnings.txt in Documents\my games\Dawn of War II - Retribution\Logfiles\ might give some hints as to what the problem is. Post the log here if you need help.

[_soup]

I don't even have a "logfiles" folder, just a "playback" one containing temp.rec

[Myrdal]

Oh, windows 8.1. Check this thread viewtopic.php?t=1465

[_soup]

Thank you, it worked. Now I can go back being a noob