Fixed - Crash on start, and usual fixes were not working

[totherow]

My symptoms:

• Launching game from Steam would silently fail. Launch button on Steam would return to green.
  
• Tried all the usual stuff suggested in other fix threads - verify files, update drivers, uninstall/re-install, etc. Problem remained.

Next step, I manually navigated to [SteamRootDirectory]\steamapps\common\Apollo Justice Ace Attorney Trilogy and attempted to execute the GS456.exe file directly. This let me see a real error, which started with:

C:\windows\system32\CONCRT140.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error.

If this happens to you, here's what I did to solve the problem:

1. I moved the file to a temp folder, this step may not be required.
   
2. Go to the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable[www.microsoft.com] site and download the installers. NOTE: I downloaded both x64 and x86 versions even though only one of these is likely needed. No patience to figure out which :)
   
3. Settings > Apps > Installed Apps, then find "Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable" and uninstalled both the (x64) and (x86) versions.
   
4. Reboot
   
5. Ran the x64 and x86 installer files downloaded in Step 2
   
6. Reboot
   
7. Launch the game....success!
   
8. Now pressing every witness statement in search of truth and lolz.

[Clefairy]

I'm having this exact same issue on Steam Deck, does anyone know an equivalent solution for Linux?

[kiwini]

unfortunately didn't work for me :(