Dark Souls 1 Will Not Launch

[Jokey365]

The process opens but hangs around 3,000k memory usage in the task manager.
Steam says I'm playing it, but the game never actually opens.
I've tried;
Reinstalling, twice.
Uninstalling GFWL related things.
Turned the new steamworks beta on and off.
Removed all mods and then reinstalled.
Verifying about seven times so far.
I'm on a quad core with an ATI Radeon HD graphics card. I've been able to launch the game fine before steamworks was integrated.
Assist, please.

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[Nal]

theres a specific version of gfwl you need to install, its from the site directly

[Jonathant1]

So uninstall it and install it again, log into your gfwl and and open a save file/new game. Exit the game after that and then close dks1. Go to properties in your game library and change dks1 to the steamworks beta and now it should be fine.

Currently, steamworks is being a bitch by being strictly region locked and I cant find anyone else near the download region US-Seattle

[Jokey365]

So uninstall it and install it again, log into your gfwl and and open a save file/new game. Exit the game after that and then close dks1.

But I can't even get that far because the game itself doesn't even open.

[Jokey365]

theres a specific version of gfwl you need to install, its from the site directly

Attempting to work with GFWL ends up causing Disk Read Errors and I'm forced to completely reinstall.
It's not even a disk game.