Steam was running, it is always running actually. But, for some reason or another, this last try, it worked. I uninstalled fences again, waited a day, reinstalled and ran it and worked like it did the first time I bought it on my main PC.
There is no indication on the steam store page or in my steam library that the installation is limited. I do have friends that have purchased the steam version and it works on several computers for them.
I continue to get the failed to authenticate fences with steam error when running Fences from steam. I purchased it in steam, and it works on my desktop PC, but will not activate on my laptop. I have uninstalled via steam as is recommended, and re-installed, Ran as admin, and used the sasSteam.exe as admin as well. Any help would be appreciated.