DoW Dark Crusade patching issues (Retail version)

HunkHogan

Been trying to fire this back up and while the base game works fine (once I figured out a workaround for the game to recognize my GPU and actually start), the game gives me errors when I try to manually patch the game. I looked online and most places said you need the 1.10 to 1.11 patch but when I try to use that patch, it gives me an error and said I don't need that patch. So I go to the 1.11 - 1.2 patch and it gives me another error saying there are core files that have been altered or are missing and refuses to patch.

The game still plays fine straight out of the box, but not being able to play it without the bugs, weird lag, pathing issues, etc. is a bit annoying and is honestly killing the enjoyment. I did find the Steam thread that says I'm eligible for a free Steam key and I've already e-mailed them about it, so I'm just waiting for a response to see if I can play it through Steam without buying it again.

Does anyone know how to update the retail version properly?