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Waam Dec 23, 2022 @ 4:14pm
Unable to launch the game through steam.
If I launch the game manually by running the witcher.exe, the game will run. If I attempt to open the game through steam by double clicking the library, or clicking Play, the game will not open.

Any suggestions? I'd like to play through steam to obtain achievements.
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Originally posted by cheshirm:
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Originally posted by Sollys:
Go here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio-2015-2017-2019-and-2022 and install X86 and X64, if you can't update them uninstall them from the control panel first then reinstall. Try then and see if the game works?
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charly4711 Dec 23, 2022 @ 4:18pm 
When you start through Steam, the redlauncher should come up, first. Are you sure that's not somewhere in the background? Can you start the REDprelauncher.exe from the explorer?
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Waam Dec 23, 2022 @ 4:41pm 
Here we go, that gives an error: 'The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)
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cheshirm Dec 23, 2022 @ 5:51pm 
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Originally posted by Sollys:
Go here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio-2015-2017-2019-and-2022 and install X86 and X64, if you can't update them uninstall them from the control panel first then reinstall. Try then and see if the game works?
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