As far as i know that New Steam Version is equally the same from the in-game view. Though I cannot state that 100%. You should post your problem with as Max issue clarification as possible in COH official forum's support section: http://community.companyofheroes.com/forums/pc-technical-help
Probably there you could get faster attention from support team...
Disable steam community ingame from properties menu in general tab.
This is very serious issue and should be addressed to devs. Steam-ingame for COH either works on BEAST PCs actually making the minimal requirements at a current state bigger then most of TOP PC games in a market at all, or it is just un-playable.
I have tried launching non-steam ver. of COH before with Steam-community ingame enabled and the issue was the same, which means that no compatibility between those platforms were developed in New Steam COH version...
BTW..., they say that ALPHA testers can't play beta:
ALPHA STRESS TEST MEMBERS
The Closed Beta phase is limited to certain players. The codes used for the Alpha Stress Test are no longer active. Thank for your help in the previous test. There will be more beta phases coming up that you will be able to participate in.
But that's totally wrong. So far everyone I know who played ALPHA has also BETA download available just bellow the disabled Alpha automatically without any key inputs.
I had vCoH on steam already. And they automatically added the new version to my library, I can only pick vanilla factions. Guess I'll have to add a ToV key aswell somehow
If you used this key for COH 2.602 beta patch, you wont be able to activate it. If not so - you are one lucky guy
I failed to activate my OP and TOV key, but the vCOH got activated and i got to download the "Company of Heroes (New Steam Version)". Tho no DLC was pinned with it and opening it only Invasion in Normandy and USA/Wher factions are available.
Personally I used OP key 1st, then for some reason had to reinstall Windows (don't remember why anymore), but the 2.602 beta patch didn't appeared so I used the TOV key to get it again...
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The Question is following: Isn't for those who had a non-Steam version of COH, but they used any of those keys to download the BETA PATCH of 2.602 for vCOH which was on Steam, now are unable to activate those keys due to "key duplicated" error?
Purlictor: Friendlist is there and it is way better then in vcoh!
Where to find that friend-list? How to invite someone to join you in AT?
I've to note to disable Steam-ingame-community for me to ensure performance at playable level