ToW: Korea Inert Start-up/CTD Issue

[Commissar1032]

Well I have tried the steam forums and have gotten help and guidance but I have run out of ideas of how to fix this situation. Here is my issue:

When I go to launch the game it shows that steam is preparing to launch ToW: Korea. So my avatar glows green showing I am playing the game well after a second it goes back to blue and I never even see the application launch.

I have all of the .EXE's on the exceptions list for AVG.

The Event Finder didn't even log the game's exe launching and crashing.

The games logs do not even record this issue ( That I can find )

I have reinstalled it 3 times thinking that the Steam sales might be interfering with the D/L Manager system.

I am sure though that it is not a steam problem. I have a laptop (win7 64-bit) that I do not use much (not bad or anything just don't use it a lot) and installed Korea on it and it runs fine.

I am thinking it is either some how:
-Windows Admin Mode
-Direct X Issue ( On the laptop when I launched it for the first time it showed that it was doing an installation )
-dotnetfx20 issue

So that is the end of my post I would be grateful if anyone has insight to this issue.