After shutting down my PC last night, this morning it actually launched once... letting me turn up the gfx settings to desktop resolution and I naively quit the game again... and low and behold, while typing this I thought to relaunch it, "just to be safe"... and it just stopped launching again.
I double-checked for any automatic downloads Steam might have performed... nothing... so the game has not been updated.
Cannot test the trainer for obvious reasons.
So for anyone who wants to play the game, and if it launches, I would recommend you do not quit it, just keep it running... oh boy.
I am still not sure what extra DLC we are actually getting in the Complete Editing?... noticed nothing so far.
i gave it the 20 minutes to try and run it and then moved on again today. still can't get it to run.
game trainer is on hold while people get refunds for not being able to play it.
btw, every single other game i launched today from steam seems to run. so any excuses you get about this dog not launching should be taken with a big screw you to codemasters..
thanks for the "completely f'd up edition" codemasters..
best,
Cal