Happened between 08:30 and 09:00 CET, I reckon. This happened to me after a power-out, after I had been playing the game for like 20 minutes. Of course, I won't be back with my precious desktop until tomorrow morning (I am in fact getting up at 6 am just to go home and fix the damn thing), so for me it is still just a faint light of hope at the end of the tunnel. Going by the link posted above, it's apparently working again (the time stamp of the post is 3:31pm today, I have no idea what time zone). I just frigging want to play for Gods sake. Screw this I could give a rats butt about updating the frigging steam client and the game on a daily basis. It shouldn't take 5 days to play a frigging game every time you want to play it.

And what do I get? A Steam error saying Im using cheats or pirating the game.

Quickly do my morning chores and sit down to play, relishing the upcoming castle battle that is about to occur when I logged off last night. Sunday morning same thing, till I finally stumble across the solution to get Shogun 2 working! YES! I got to play yesterday afternoon. So I spend hours and hours of my free time saturday fixing up the computer to no avail. I come back last week and find Darthmod is 100% and go to play shogun only to have it not work! I then spent a day and half downloading the game only to find it still crashing on splash screen. I was getting bored with other games and since DarthMod was not in full funcionality a few months ago I was waiting for it all to get fixed.

Shogun 2 steam problems