Back in May when Gamespy was on its way out and the developers scrambling to give their older library some way to continue with multiplayer support beyond that, Relic the makers of Dawn of War began their work to allow their games to escape the shackles of that other platform supposedly destined for the chop, Games for Windows Live. They managed to untangle the first Dawn of War game back then, placing it into the support of Steamworks instead.

Now they’ve managed to release the patch that frees Dawn of War 2 with a patch today. Relic have had to remove a number of things from the game though to enable support to continue. Players of the game have lost access to the LAN multiplayer, Referee mode, and the option to pause during multiplayer but at least the multiplayer still works.

Meanwhile Games for Windows Live is still alive. The time when Microsoft will elect to finally terminate it is currently not known, as supposedly the platform was supposed to cease existing a few months back.