Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Bugs & Technical Problems Game will not start with steam

I'm hoping someone here will be able to help since i've exhausted all other options.

Whenever I try to start DOS:2 through steam the game refuses to play, as soon as I press the play button steam tells me that the game is running (green border around my profile picture and a my status in my friends list saying "Playing Divinity Orignal Sin 2). This goes on for a few seconds but the game does not start. Then it will close and steam will say its no longer runinng (Does not show the green border or the message anymore).

If I try to start the game directly from the '..\SteamApps\common\Divinity - Original Sin\Shipping\EoCApp.exe' the game starts no problem and can be played. However I cannot access the features that steam provides this way.

The biggest thing that has changed is that I have installed an SSD and have put windows and steam onto that and then placed my games, including DOS:2 onto my HDD.

I have tried all the common solutions that are given and none seem to work...

Also to note, this is only a problem with DOS:2. I have gotten all my other games to run through the current setup I have (PUBG, Sonic Mania & CSGO to give examples).

Hoping to get a solution to this problem quick!

When you fire it up trying waiting a couple of minutes. I've been running into a problem where the support tool can't connect to ithe devs servers eventually this function will time out and you'll get an error notice. When you close the box if you don't get the no disk inserted message (if you do just hit cancel or continue) and the game should finally launch. It takes around 2-3 minutes to launch the game for me and I've posted un a other thread about the problem. Hopefully this gets you in game and online for now until the devs fix the problem

Thanks for helping :D
I'm afraid that isn't the problem though, the game doesn't even come up in task manager so waiting around for it to start is something you can't do.