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Lump the Enlightened has Dead by Daylight

Sep 8, 2020 @ 9:10am

Error - entry point not found error

The procedure entry point CreateDXGIFactory2 could not be located in the dynamic link library dxgi.dll.

Been getting this error since the update. Worked fine before updating. Tried rebooting and verifying game files. Anyone else? Thanks for any advice

EDIT: *SEEMS TO BE WINDOWS 7 RELATED*

EDIT2: *WORKS with the 9th September UPDATE*

Last edited by Lump the Enlightened; Sep 9, 2020 @ 11:46am

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Originally posted by Juzi the Shark:

They deployed a small hotfix earlier to fix this issue: https://twitter.com/DeadByBHVR/status/1303767274369830912

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TripleSteal- has Dead by Daylight

Sep 8, 2020 @ 9:11am

Same

I've sent a bug report on dbd forum.

Last edited by TripleSteal-; Sep 8, 2020 @ 9:24am

Shifterplay has Dead by Daylight

Sep 8, 2020 @ 9:12am

Same here, it happened during PTB and apparetnly it wasn't fixed

Originally posted by That guy with the Spoon:
okay guys.

I found a workaround to make the ptb launch on windows 7!

first of all a disclaimer:
i'm not sure whether this could trigger a ban or not, as we're making use of a 3rd party dll file, which maybe could trigger eac. the creator of said tool of which we extract said .dll file claims that it is white listed by eac, but we can't know for sure! so I guarantee for nothing!

what i did is:
go into your hdd/windows/system32 and there locate the file xinput1_3.dll.

i copied this file to my desktop and renamed it to our missing xinput1_4.dll.

copy the renamed file back into system32 so you now should have xinput1_1, xinput1_2, xinput1_3 and xinput1_4, which is a renamed copy of xinput1_3.

we repeat this process for hdd/windows/SysWOW64. i copied the xinput1_3 file again but this time from the SysWOW64 directory. the files are different in size so i wouldn't risk copying the same file from System32 again, they might be different because different bit version.

i think many people already did this step. it takes care of the missing xinput1_4.dll file error message, but it now gives us a new error message:

createdxgifactory2 cannot be located within dxgi.dll or something along those lines.

i looked this error up and found a working solution that was given when people had trouble launching postal4.

the solution was to download reshade[www.reshade.me]. it's a .exe file but it can be opened with winrar or winzip and possibly other packing tools.

if you open said .exe with winrar you find there 2 .dll files. ReShade32.dll and ReShade64.dll.

grab the 64 bit version and rename it to our new dll file that apparently makes trouble dxgi.dll and move it to Steam\steamapps\common\Dead by Daylight\DeadByDaylight\Binaries\Win64.

and that's it. this made dbd on the ptb launch for me. it leaves me some reshade log window on the top though. maybe someone has experience with reshade and give more info?