MSVCP110.dll missing? Anyone help?

[Sinjin]

So I just redownloaded the game because I wanted to play again, but when I get to the launcher and try to launch a game, nothing appears to happen and it just exits the launcher with this message appearing: The Program can't start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer.

How do I go about to fix this problem so I can start playin again? Any help would be appreciated.

[Sammi79]

Hi there.

Could be several things, obviously something on your computer changed since last you played it. The .dll file itself is part of Microsoft Visual C redistributable packs that are parts of windows that get checked, updated and installed when you install software that has them as dependencies. If you look in your add remove programs list you should see a large bunch of them ranging from 2005-2012.

So, it could mean that you are missing one or another of the packages, which is unlikely. It could mean one or the other packages has a corrupted file which is only slightly more likely.

It is most likely to be a graphic driver issue, typically related to OpenGL3.3 which has these dependencies. Assuming you have a capable GFX card, are you running the latest driver? perhaps it is running a generic Windows driver after a Windows 10 upgrade?

If you do decide to reinstall the graphic driver I would advise to totally erase the old one first, my latest Crimson driver from AMD didn't take properly installing over the old one.

Are you running a laptop or just maybe a desktop with combined GFX (Intel on board + NVidia for gaming) ? In that case you need to make sure the game is not trying to use the Intel by forcing it from your graphic configuration utility.

[Sinjin]

I'm using a laptop with a NVIDIA graphics card with the latest game driver. Never had a problem running the game before hand.

[Sammi79]

If it worked before but doesn't now then something on your system changed. Windows upgrades or updates, graphic driver updates etc. can all change settings inadvertently and leave problems like this.

It sounds like your game is trying to use a backup intel GFX that does not support OpenGL3.3 - can you set up a profile in Nvidia ultility to force the game to use the gaming card?

[Sinjin]

If by that you mean using the NVIDIA control panel to use designate what card or source to use, then that can be done. I'll try that out

[Sinjin]

Its only letting me play the Original Homeworld (1) now instead of number 2 or the remastered versions.

[Sammi79]

Just on the off chance you could try manually installing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2012. Perhaps the .dll got deleted in a windows update or some such.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679#

[Sinjin]

uninstalled and reinstalled, still the same issue. This is a very tricky thing to fix

[Sammi79]

OK, hold on. I will list every single MSVCR package on my computer along with the version numbers, if there is one on the list that differs from yours then you may manually install it. It will take me a little while to type it out.

[Sinjin]

alright thanks

[Sammi79]

2005 Redist. 26/09/2014 - 2.93MB - 8.0.61001
2005 Redist. 10/10/2014 - 2.97MB - 8.0.56336
2005 Redist. 03/10/2014 - 2.89MB - 8.0.59193
2005 Redist. 05/12/2015 - 4.10MB - 8.0.50727.42
2005 Redist. (x64) - 05/12/2015 - 4.90MB - 8.0.50727.42
2005 Redist. (x64) - 07/10/2014 - 3.32MB - 8.0.61000
2008 Redist. - x64 9.0.30729.17 - 05/03/2015 - 9.0.30729
2008 Redist. - x64 9.0.30729.4148 - 07/10/2014 - 9.0.30729.4148
2008 Redist. - x64 9.0.30729.6161 - 25/09/2014 - 9.0.30729.6161
2008 Redist. - x86 9.0.21022 - 26/09/2014 - 1.14MB - 9.0.21022
2008 Redist. - x86 9.0.30729.17 - 25/09/2014 - 1.14MB - 9.0.30729
2008 Redist. - x86 9.0.30729.4148 - 07/10/2014 - 1.13MB - 9.0.30729.4148
2008 Redist. - x86 9.0.30729.6161 - 25/09/2014 - 517KB - 9.0.30729.6161
2010 x64 Redist. - 10.0.40219 - 14/10/2015 - 17.9MB - 10.0.40219
2010 x86 Redist. - 10.0.40219 - 14/10/2015 - 14.6MB - 10.0.40219
2012 Redist. (x64) - 11.0.61030 - 11/12/2015 - 20.5MB - 11.0.61030.0
2012 Redist. (x86) - 11.0.60610 - 11/12/2015 - ___ - 11.0.60610.1
2012 Redist. (x86) - 11.0.61030 - 11/12/2015 - 17.3MB - 11.0.61030.0
2013 Redist. (x64) - 12.0.30501 - 11/12/2015 - 20.5MB - 12.30501.0
2013 Redist. (x86) - 12.0.30501 - 11/12/2015 - 17.1MB - 12.30501.0

Note there are both x64 and x86 components to most things and both are needed as far as I know/

[Sinjin]

I was able to point out the error from my list and issue a repair. Thanks for the help! I greatly appreciate it!

[Sammi79]

No problem, hope that solved it for you.

[Sun-Soaked]

so i'm having the same issue, where do you find the list of vcredists?

[Yiryi-Sa]

Originally posted by Memed Hams:

so i'm having the same issue, where do you find the list of vcredists?

You don't have to go anywhere but the game directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2012

Run both installers and do a "Repair" when prompted.

[Time Nomad]

Hello, I had the same error. The thing is I instaled the HW with Russian language set as active one, but there weren't any russian .big files downloaded so I just copied and renamed english.big and englishspeech.big fles and it worked.