CloD crashes after loading screen

[Atari2600Gamer]

Hello! I'm new to these forums. After playing IL-2 1946 I figured I'd give Cliffs of Dover a go. I bought and installed it from Steam. First I changed the video and control settings like I do with all of my games. Then I went to do the first training mission and it only loads to 97 percent. After that a pop up says "Launcher has encountered a problem and needs to close." I have tried reinstalling, reinstalling DirectX, .NET, getting Team Fusion, all sorts of stuff, and none of them worked. I thought that after nearly 2 years they would have patched stuff like this. Please help me as I am eager to play the game.