Hi, both stream itself and the game updated today. I was playing the opt-in (but I backed out of that, more below);

THE GAME WILL NOW NOT RUN AT ALL.

Mods are turned off.

Symptom. If I start the game from Steam, I get the launcher, click Play, and then after a bit the launcher pops up again. In an attempt to fix, I have:

1. Edited settings, and turned mods off.

2. Verified game cache.

3. Uninstalled game, reinstalled.

4. Opted out of opt-in.

All steps result in the same looping behavior.

During no step is the debug.err file actually generated in my docs/GC3Crusade directory (I deleted it, to be sure I had a new file; it's never created, almost as if GC3 isn't even getting to the start stage).

Another debugging step I took was an attempt to run GC3Crusade, GC3Base, GalCiv3, and StardockLaucher all from the command line. Each of these commands runs for a bit, and then I get the launcher, and from there the same loop.

I am running a stable release of Windows 8.

I did recently updated my AMD driver to the most current (non optional) driver.

I'm happy to provide some diagnostic info, but I can't tell what that would be. Because no debug.err file is being generated, I'm without any ability to further diagnose this problem

Please help.