Game wont start at all

[pizzamanager846]

everytime i try to open this game it starts up saying that im playing then out of no where it just stops and goes back to the play now button i tried opening the game from the manually from the game files instead of steam and found out a file is missing called MSVCP100.dll is missing i have verified files and re downloaded the game does anyone know how to fix this?

[Swedishtrekkie]

I encountered a similar "missing msvcp100.dll error" and "0xc000007b error" on this and another game and managed to find this video that solved the problem in both of these cases.

https://youtu.be/O1CkyEogN3c?si=eOI0H0HcpNpBZrDP

What I essentially did was this:

1. Use "Process Monitor" as described in the youtube video.
I discovered that the "msvcp100.dll"-files were the culprit.

2. I manually removed the "msvcp100.dll"-files from both System32 and SysWOW64 in my C:\Windows-folder (I'm on a 64-bit system).

3. I resinstalled "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010" using downloads I found on this page:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/microsoft-visual-c-2008-and-2010/1e858d63-4c4b-46dc-86d3-03f7e8152c87

New "msvcp100.dll"-files were added by the installation to the System32 and SysWOW64-folders and after that my games with the "0xc000007b error" worked again.

Note: The most important part of this process was to manually remove the corrupt "msvcp100.dll"-files before the reinstall!

[Silurean]

Check if the msvcp100.dll and msvcr100.dll files are located in the system32 and SysWOW64 folders, if not you will need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable.

Check if the game can now launch, if not copy the msvcp100.dll and msvcr100.dll files from the system32 folder directly into the Valiant Hearts directory. I actually had to use the ones from my Steamvr common files in order for it to work. They are the win32 version.

Here are the two file specs that I got to work.

msvcp100.dll - version: 10.00.40219.325 size: 411 KB
msvcr100.dll - version: 10.00.40219.325 size: 755 KB

Both are from the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010