Witcher 3 not working possible FIX (VCOMP110.dll missing)

[Lightbearer]

This helped me fix my witcher 3. It wouldnt start no metter what I tried, reinstalling, veryfying cache, deleting dlcs, making it compatible for w7 in the properties-compatibilities, deleting patch files, repairing c++ files (vcredist) in game files, changing all possible settings, messing around in NVIDIA control pannel, nothing worked and then this simple solution that fixed it in 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_wMvqCrh_k

[tramper]

Pox on Windows 10 anyway, i'm still with 7....the best, no matter how much they dress 10 up, but good on you for putting this up, thumbs up for helping others.

[Lightbearer]

BuzzardBee の投稿を引用：

The Witcher 3 installation provides you with the files. There is no need to download them from anywhere else. They're already in your game directory.

Right click on the game title in your Library, then on Properties. Click on the Local Files tab. Then click Browse local files...

Once there, you should see a _CommonRedist folder. Click on it. Inside are two folders: DirectX and vcredist.

vcredist is the folder with the Visual C++ files that you need. Run the x64 files inside both the 2012 and 2013 folders. The game needs both of these. You do not need to run the x86 files. Those are for 32-bt mode Windows. The game will only run in 64-bit mode so you'll only need those versions.

While you're at it, you might as well run the DXSETUP file inside the DirectX/Jun2010 folder.

Then restart your PC for the changes to take effect.

I tried that but in my case this didnt work. I always got the message about a missing file if i clicked on witcher3.exe and in steam the game wouldnt start.

[deidian]

BuzzardBee の投稿を引用：

tramper の投稿を引用：

Pox on Windows 10 anyway, i'm still with 7....the best, no matter how much they dress 10 up, but good on you for putting this up, thumbs up for helping others.

This is not strictly speaking a Windows issue. The W3 devs released the game and still required players to manually install these files as the game is coded to use them.
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Actually it doesn't neccesarily is fault of the developers. Steam games come with a file in the directories where DX and VC redist files for each game are which tells steam client which executables to run in order to perfom installation. The file is easy to find if you want: it's always named "installscript.vdf" and there's one for DX redist and another one for VC redist. It's not executable, is just a plain text file with info for steam client.

That file helps steam client ot perform tasks that require admin privileges in windows: reading/changing registry keys and writing files in C:\Windows. Both of them are highly secured areas of the Windows OS, so a lot of security features(either windows built in or 3rd party) might interfere here blocking installation:

-Any antivirus might block an automated program to perform such modifications depending on the settings and since antivirus are made to be easy to use when it suggest you: "Allow me to do this for better protection" most of the times you really don't know what configurations is doing or what he AV touches in your OS.

-Windows controlled access folder though this usually shows a message in Windows 10 notification center.

-Even User Account Control(UAC) aka that service that shows you popups in windows eveytime a program tries to install something, might block it depending on the settings you have in windows: UAC can be configured from disabled to being fully intrusive blocking actions passing for showing you popups asking explicit consent.

Is too much options and holes to cover and AV programs usually perform high security modifications in WIndows so easy because they run under the SYSTEM account, which has even higher privileges than Administrator accounts in WIndows. But neither Steam nor games should really run under SYSTEM account to skip security checks, so what's left is as easy as: if something interferes in DX and/or VC redist steam automated installation your game is going to crash at startup and you have to fix it manually(installing them yourself).
Another option is throwing security out of the window or at least easing a bit on it: security is annoying and requires a certain understanding on tehcnical things about windows management; the point for you to consider the annoyance of better security reasonable is your personal decision.

As for the video is actually correct: the right place to download any version of DX and/or VC redist is Microsoft's site, since all them are Microsoft's products. DX redist are the DirectX libraries and they are granted for free by Microsoft. Same stands for VC redist(C/C++ libraries) and .NET Framework(since some games require it).

[camshaft]

@TripleTyphoon Thank you! 3 times I reinstalled this for a 2 second FIX! 🙈