Game Crashes Before it even starts!

[elsondwarf]

Well I just got Crusader Kings II and I tried downloading it and that works perfectly fine. I've noticed it said it needed 1 gigabyte to download but it only used 500-ish megabytes but I only passed that as " it's going to download when I start the game". when I start up it's fine, when I hit "Start CKII" it suddenly stop working as if it has never been opened in the first place.

Please Help

P.S.
I'm using Windows 8 on steam and the system requirements should be all fine.

 

[AndrewT]

Please try installing:

First: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555

After that: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8328

Then: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35
(If that doesn't do anything then http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 )

Then: visit the Windows Update site and allow it to apply all .NET updates/patches it wants to, for all .NET versions.