Edit: This did not work for me. Works on my potato computer, but not my new modern beast of a PC. Solution in next comment.


I was just coming on to say the same thing! I remember I had to download some files, like DLL's that made the game run, on my old rig. Get around the broken startup GFWL check. But that was quite a long time ago and I need to find the solution again.

Edit:

It was in the community guides.
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2915880907

Another edit:

Like everything else these days, the Gamewiki files page is inundated with popup ads. When you click to "Download" a window pops up with lots of download buttons to unrelated things. The one you want is a grey box at the bottom that says, "Agree and Download" On the next popup, the grey "download" button in the middle is the one you want.

The above is did not work on my new rig, but this solution did:

1. Get dinput8.dll and put it in the game folder.
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2365-too-many-cores-crash-fix-lost-planet-2/

2: Download XLiveless and put the DLL in the game folder:
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/576-xliveless/

It should work after this. If not, one last step is to go in the Game Folder, open directx_jun2010, and run the DXSetup.