Hello, I recently pre-ordered Dead Island (about a week before release), but when the game did release I could not play it. steam would give me a "preparing to luach dead island" for about a second, then it disappears as if nothing happened. Now I have looked over the steam support page and found this related topic.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_art ... -USFX-5568
Of course I have checked off each possible cause (I have updated windows, have the current driver, Verified the steam cache, re-installed the game (3 times) and I am 95% sure my virus software isn't blocking it. As for installers I didn't find any in the steam/steamapps/common/dead island folder (it did have application, but if I click on it I get an error saying the program is missing d3dx9_43.dll) I have even defragmented the files and tried creating and restoring a backup (course at this point It seems like trying to fix a car by emptying the ashtray.)) It appears that I am the only one encountering this problem with this particular game (despite the whole fiasco involving the game being an outdated debug version) So I am almost certain it has to do with something on my end.
I am probably missing something blatant, which is why I do apologize if the answer is something elementary. But I am out of ideas.