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Okay, so it looks like there was a fix (maybe much wailing by affected users forced Gabe to backtrack?), but the only two games I've ever encountered on Steam that had the DX9/DX11 launch options were TPA and Civ5. Granted my Steam library is not exactly huge and is mostly populated with AAA titles (read: Skyrim, GTA, et al) so maybe this is more of a "thing" than I'm aware of.