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Is It Safe To Just Copy MSVCP140.dll Into The Game Folder? 🤔

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Accepted solution by Paula L. — ok so dont download single DLLs from third party sites. youll get a file that may be the wrong version or architecture, and at worst its…
  1. Yuki Costa
    @ycosta

    ok weird one everything worked fine until on a fresh Windows install. Now a city builder and a couple of other games just throw this at me:

    The code execution cannot proceed cuz MSVCP140.dll was not found. Reinstalling the game did nothing... i feel like Im missing something really basic here.

    I also tried resatrting, running teh game as administrator and checking teh antivirus quarantine :/ nothing was blocked. the error message is exactly teh same every time I try.

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  2. Lars Garcia
    @kernelden

    that DLL is part of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable. install the latest Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable, both teh x64 and the x86 versions, from Microsoft's official site... many games are 64-bit but their launchers or helper tools are 32-bit. fingers crossed 🤞

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  4. Paula L.
    @plopez
    Accepted solution

    ok so dont download single DLLs from third-party sites. youll get a file that may be the wrong version or architecture, and at worst its malware. the redistribtuable installs teh correct, signed version system-wide. hope that helps :)

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  5. Pia Costa
    @pcosta_0

    uhh wait does this also apply to dll? ??

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  6. Lars Garcia
    @kernelden
    in reply to @pcosta_0

    wait what some older games actually need the 2010 or 2013 redistributables instead. if the 2015-2022 package doesnt help, check which version the games redist folder ships. just my 2 cents

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  7. Yuki Costa
    @ycosta
    in reply to @plopez

    @plopez yesss the repair option did it, registry cleaner is uninstalled and never coming back, everything runs again.

    mindblown

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