Since Installing windows 8 on my Laptop i have noticed that i have had a few issues loading my games via steam and also standalone ones,
The error that i have come accross is Direct X related and is 2 different DLL files that are missing D3DCompiler_43.dll and also D3DCompiler_42.dll, as per image below.
To Fix this simply go to microsofts website and downlaod the latest Direct X installer and run it, once it has finished restart your computer and then try the game again, this has happened
to me twice in the last 2 days the first time being the 42 dll and the second being the 43 dll.
