Windows 10 Crash at start up

[Drinkmoore]

Fellow DoW 2 players,

I have a fresh install of DoW 2 Retribution and installed the latest elite mod version from this homepage. I checked, it is located in the same folder as the DoW 2 game itself.
When I try to start it via the desktop shortcut it connects to steam and then I get an error message:

Crash Report #2682433

Games for Windows Live has failed to install correctly. Please attempt to install it directly from the web: http://www.gamesforwindows.com/ Also, please install the latest version of DirectX: http://www.microsoft.com/directx

Does Elite mod need Windows live?? Also I have directx 12 and windows 10.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong here?

My original DoW 2 Retribution runs perfect still and of course I could play that but Chaos Terminators....

Maybe somebody has an idea what I could try.

Thanks already
Thomas Drinkmoore

[Shroom]

Neither vanilla Retribution nor Elite require GFWL. Perhaps try reinstalling Elite?

[Drinkmoore]

I did reinstall it several times. always the same nonsensical error message..

[boss]

if Retribution still working then it must be your downloading elite wrong I would get rid of all elite form your pc and start from fresh with elite installed

[Paranoid Kamikaze]

Only Vanilla and Chaos Rising should be giving you that message. Try uninstalling them and only launching Retribution.

[Drinkmoore]

So I uninstalled all dawn of war 2 content via steam and even deleted the dow ii folder in my steam folder. Then I installed only dow 2 retribution. Then I downloaded elite mod again from this website, installed it via the wizard and ... same error message.

[Drinkmoore]

Found the problem. It was my own fault!!

Apparently I have changed the installation folder for my steamlibrary a while ago, but I still have the steamfolder where it's supposed to be aswell.

Once the Elite mod installed in the correct folder everything worked out!

Thanks for the help!