Can't get game to launch.

[Chronos]

As title says I can't launch the game, tried all the recommended troubleshoots I could find including replacing EA with origin, reinstalling all the redistributables, making exceptions in firewall and antivirus and trying to run it without either running, run the game as admin, run the game in win vista/7/8 compatibility mode, tried both steam and non-steam versions and ran a cleanboot.

I'm on win11 with a 3080ti. Open for any ideas by this point. No mods btw.

[Rabbit]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1222690/discussions/0/3598968030054348669/

[Chronos]

Originally posted by Rabbit:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1222690/discussions/0/3598968030054348669/

Tried origin, didn't help. Don't have the game modded so Frosty is irrelevant. Thanks anyway.

[ShadowHunter]

Hi I had the issue as well. Found that it would not launch via Steam then Origin. I installed EA new windows app and now when I Iaunch the game via steam it works while having EA open at the same time. See if that works.

[Zudeus]

This is for fixing the following error:
Invalid license. Reason code = Missing DLL [MSVCP110.dll] Error: 0xC1

Here's the solution step by step.

Click on the cog wheel.

Properties.

Local files.

Browse.

go into the core directory.

Copy the following files.

msvcp100.dll
msvcp110.dll
msvcr100.dll
msvcr110.dll

click the back button to return to the Dragon Age Inquisition main directory.

Paste the copied *.dll files.

And you should be able to launch it.

[Sanquiz]

one year ago i buy it and play it without problem, now i have 2 months trying to make it work, origin or ea app do the same, when i click on "play" ea/origin open and then close and that's it, i try all kind of stuff i read on this forum and reddit but nothing work. not sure why steam offer a game that not work (check the review section of the store)

[JC]

I couldn't a few days ago.. It seams to have fixed itself. Maybe there was something up with the launcher on their side causing a check error. It was saying i didn't have the game installed.

Perhaps try again.

[Ogami]

Just tried it for the first time since i bought the game two years ago or so.
Everything works fine? Even with the EA APP.
It takes about a minute or so after you press PLAY before it loads into the EA APP and then starts the game but Dragon Age 2 does the same thing so i just waited.
And so far everything works fine.

[LittleLight - Pipiniaris]

Originally posted by Zudeus:

This is for fixing the following error:
Invalid license. Reason code = Missing DLL [MSVCP110.dll] Error: 0xC1

Here's the solution step by step.

Click on the cog wheel.

Properties.

Local files.

Browse.

go into the core directory.

Copy the following files.

msvcp100.dll
msvcp110.dll
msvcr100.dll
msvcr110.dll

click the back button to return to the Dragon Age Inquisition main directory.

Paste the copied *.dll files.

And you should be able to launch it.

sadly it didnt work for me.... :(

[c1r5b06]

Originally posted by Zudeus:

This is for fixing the following error:
Invalid license. Reason code = Missing DLL [MSVCP110.dll] Error: 0xC1

Here's the solution step by step.

Click on the cog wheel.

Properties.

Local files.

Browse.

go into the core directory.

Copy the following files.

msvcp100.dll
msvcp110.dll
msvcr100.dll
msvcr110.dll

click the back button to return to the Dragon Age Inquisition main directory.

Paste the copied *.dll files.

And you should be able to launch it.

As a traveller from the future, confirming this process just fixed my similar issue in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

[Lightning McQueef]

Originally posted by Zudeus:

This is for fixing the following error:
Invalid license. Reason code = Missing DLL [MSVCP110.dll] Error: 0xC1

Here's the solution step by step.

Click on the cog wheel.

Properties.

Local files.

Browse.

go into the core directory.

Copy the following files.

msvcp100.dll
msvcp110.dll
msvcr100.dll
msvcr110.dll

click the back button to return to the Dragon Age Inquisition main directory.

Paste the copied *.dll files.

And you should be able to launch it.

Wanted to update that this also worked for me! I purchased the game today and did these steps today to get it working. 11/3/2024

[Halabec]

The game wouldn't launch for me today either and it seems it can happen if the EA client wasn't installed. The fix in this thread also worked for me and prompted me to install the EA client again.

[Wift]

Originally posted by Chronos:

Originally posted by Rabbit:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1222690/discussions/0/3598968030054348669/

Tried origin, didn't help. Don't have the game modded so Frosty is irrelevant. Thanks anyway.

If you ever used Frosty Mod Manager for another game, it will also prevent Dragon Age Inquisition from launching. I was having the same problem with the game not booting on either steam or EAplay. But it turns out that having used FrostModManager on SWBattlefront2 was the problem.

So if you ever used Frost Mod Manager before on whatever game, make sure to delete the Environmental Variable file as shown in this youtube vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp7GbpCCE0U

[moomei]

Ive tried everything nothing works
went to download the link but link doesnt exist anymore from 2022

[Phil]

Hmm. OK, so MSCVP110.dll is a file that is absent in my System32 Folder, though I have other (older and newer) versions of the VC Redist present.
Microsoft don't even support this version the game seems to require any more, but it won't launch without it.

As others have commented, the DLL File is Present in the \steamapps\common\Dragon Age Inquisition\Core\ Directory, but not in the Directory above,

So this is an issue with Windows not knowing where to find the Correct DLL.

We could

a) Copy it to System32 from the Core directory
b) Install (or Repair Install) the Visual Studio 2012 (VC++ 11.0) Update 4 (no longer supported) version from Microsoft
c) Copy the DLL from the Core Directory to the level above that (since that's where it's supposedly looking for the DLL file)

I went with Option (b) and it worked. The absent DLL in System32 is now present. The Game Runs.

I don't really like any of this though, it all looks like the thing is vulnerable to DLL Search Order Hijacking, and the Game Depends of a Version of VC++ That went out of Support in January 2023

[barzai]

Originally posted by Phil:

the Game Depends of a Version of VC++ That went out of Support in January 2023

No argument from me but the game was published in 2014, so...what's to be done?