EU3 / HttT Steam problems

[unmerged(184064)]

Howdy, just bought both of these on Steam and am having a few issues, was wondering if someone could shed some light on this.

1. Opening the Steam overlay crashes the game every time without fail
2. The steam version is 4.0b, while my mate who has a retail version is 4.0c, so we can't play multiplayer together. Is there somewhere I can get the patch?

Windows 7 Ultimate / 64-bit
4870x2 / Catalyst 9.11

Edit:

Ok, No.1 has been fixed, I verified my game cache and while it destroyed my user config files with screen res etc, the overlay now works.

3. Pressing tab instantly crashes the game.

Edit 2:

After re-setting up my video settings the overlay broke, until I turned off multisampling. Hope this helps someone.

Edit 3:

It appears that opening the overlay while there is a notification window open in the game, crashes it still

 

[scottrossi]

i am waiting for my version to dl. i'll report back if i experience the same issues.

 

[scottrossi]

any problems we experience should also be reported to steam though. they won't have any idea there's a problem if we don't report it.

 

[scottrossi]

ok, to be on the safe side, i decided on a complete uninstall and reinstall. i deleted all the local content, reinstalled the game, httt installed all by itself and everything worked ok for me. i played on high speed, kinda like a handsoff game, for 5 years and nothing happened. perhaps that did the trick?

 

[unmerged(184064)]

Well, the overlay is working fine for me now.

But that multiplayer thing is kind of game breaking for me

 

[Kallocain]

We will try to fix this asap. We need to patch multiplayer a little bit as well, so then you will all have the same version.