City of Heroes on Steam

Personally I feel my computing failures don't deem the title of a "Technical Issue", so I thought I would poke about here...
Anyways I have been attempting to add CoH to my list of Steam games and the little blighter is refusing to co-operate. This isn't the Architect Edition or anything, just bog-standard spandex; so I was just wondering if I was being dim and missing something obvious.
I added it in the usual route and made sure the link was going to the EU updater, but I just get a Steam popup with "City of Heroes has failed to launch."
Any ideas?

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Strange, I can launch the CoH/V client fine on Steam. I'm use the GvE edition. Don't have a clue what might be wrong.

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'fraid not, It launches fine for me...though like The_Phantoms I use GvE edition.Though I doubt that has any bearing on the matter.

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'fraid not, It launches fine for me...though like The_Phantoms I use GvE edition.Though I doubt that has any bearing on the matter.

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It has none, since everyone uses the same version client.

Copy-paste the shortcut's full path, OP, there might be something missing there. Highly unlikely, but it's worth checking nonetheless.

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'fraid not, It launches fine for me...though like The_Phantoms I use GvE edition.Though I doubt that has any bearing on the matter.

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It has none, since everyone uses the same version client.

Copy-paste the shortcut's full path, OP, there might be something missing there. Highly unlikely, but it's worth checking nonetheless.

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Also, might be worth double-clicking the actual updater EXE - should make it clear whether it's a shortcut problem or a "won't run at all" problem.

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The file path is listed as "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.EU.exe". When running via a new shortcut to that path it works fine- just when I make the shortcut through Steam it fails to launch.

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Non Steam purchased CoX installation info...

Load: Steam

Select Tab: My Games

Click Button: 'Add non-Steam game...'

Highlight (by clicking on the line showing): City of Heroes C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\

Click the check box for: City of Heroes C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\

Click Button: 'Add selected programs'

Steam should now list CoX with a message: Shortcut - Ready

Highlight your new CoX listing and then either right-click and select Properties or just click the Properties button

In the target box showing: "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe"

Adjust this to: "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.EU.exe"

Add any additional options if required such as: -compatiblecursors 1

"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.EU.exe" -compatiblecursors 1

Click Button: 'Close'

Your game is now runnable via the Steam Launcher...

If it fails to run...

Go into your C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\ directory...

Rename the CohUpdater.exe executeable to CohUpdater.EU.exe!

This little fix can also help adjust botched US/EU Install's
US CoX: CohUpdater.exe
EU CoX: CohUpdater.EU.exe

Note: I copied and renamed this file so I could run either version of CoX.

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