Error 0xc000007b

[Lunaren]

Good evening,mortals. I can't solve this problem for month, practically. When i try to open TQ from steam nothing happens,it's just doesn't open. From the folder - this error. I've reinstalled all DLLs, DirectX (few times) and NOTHING,still have this error. Maybe somebody here had this problem. Please help :c (sorry for English btw)

[Malgardian]

Did you try to verify the game files via Steam?

[Lunaren]

Originally posted by Malgardian:

Did you try to verify the game files via Steam?

Yes

[Sir Random]

Hi, i myself do not own the game, but had a similar problem with another game.
In my search to solve this problem i came across this post and remembered you still didn't have a solution to the problem.

I've just found a solution, it has to do with the visual c++ 2005 x86... it probably doesn't install propperly on your system like it did on mine, the fix to that can be found here.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/visual_c_runtime_installer.html
download the program, and run it. (they recommend you to reboot your pc before running it, i didn't do that and it still worked fine)

what it does is first uninstalls all your visual c++ versions and then reinstalls them all through the command console. It may take a little time, so be patient, i hope this solves it for you too

[Lunaren]

Originally posted by Don Calisto:

Hi, i myself do not own the game, but had a similar problem with another game.
In my search to solve this problem i came across this post and remembered you still didn't have a solution to the problem.

I've just found a solution, it has to do with the visual c++ 2005 x86... it probably doesn't install propperly on your system like it did on mine, the fix to that can be found here.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/visual_c_runtime_installer.html
download the program, and run it. (they recommend you to reboot your pc before running it, i didn't do that and it still worked fine)

what it does is first uninstalls all your visual c++ versions and then reinstalls them all through the command console. It may take a little time, so be patient, i hope this solves it for you too

Hey, thanks dude!

[BraZzo]

Originally posted by Stampeding Fox:

Hi, i myself do not own the game, but had a similar problem with another game.
In my search to solve this problem i came across this post and remembered you still didn't have a solution to the problem.

I've just found a solution, it has to do with the visual c++ 2005 x86... it probably doesn't install propperly on your system like it did on mine, the fix to that can be found here.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/visual_c_runtime_installer.html
download the program, and run it. (they recommend you to reboot your pc before running it, i didn't do that and it still worked fine)

what it does is first uninstalls all your visual c++ versions and then reinstalls them all through the command console. It may take a little time, so be patient, i hope this solves it for you too

thank you very much

[Dont Shoot]

Still did not work for me, anyone know some other fixes? Literally tried everything I could find online to fix the issue, downloading bunch of dlls, reinstalling .NET, reinstalling and getting all possible visual c++ redistributables, fixing windows registry, validating local files, ... Nothing works. 12 hours later still 0xc000007b. DIss on Windows for such vaque errors.

[ParaPaPa]

Originally posted by Sir Random:

Hi, i myself do not own the game, but had a similar problem with another game.
In my search to solve this problem i came across this post and remembered you still didn't have a solution to the problem.

I've just found a solution, it has to do with the visual c++ 2005 x86... it probably doesn't install propperly on your system like it did on mine, the fix to that can be found here.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/visual_c_runtime_installer.html
download the program, and run it. (they recommend you to reboot your pc before running it, i didn't do that and it still worked fine)

what it does is first uninstalls all your visual c++ versions and then reinstalls them all through the command console. It may take a little time, so be patient, i hope this solves it for you too

I spent about 6 hours solving this problem, and all in vain. Then they sent me a link to you, thank you very much!

[SecretlyOP]

Sorry for bringing this discussion back to live, but I've tried everything mentioned here, I've compared all installed Redistributables with a friend of mine, who has no problem with starting the game.
I've compared all components from the TQ installation folder with the files from my friend (all similar, no dll missing or smtg)
I've uninstalled all of them, just to install the versions from the majorgeeks forum.
I've verified the game files via steam multible times.
I've turned off and on the cloud save option.
Ofc I've started steam and the exe as administrator.

Both the system where the game is working and mine are identical and I really have no clue what to do now in order to fix it.

Any suggestions after this long time?

[Sticky]

Not sure if this will help, but turn off Cloud Saves on Steam. And make sure that Titian Quest Cloud saves are off. Let us know if it worked.

[Sir Random]

Originally posted by SecretlyOP:

Sorry for bringing this discussion back to live, but I've tried everything mentioned here, I've compared all installed Redistributables with a friend of mine, who has no problem with starting the game.
I've compared all components from the TQ installation folder with the files from my friend (all similar, no dll missing or smtg)
I've uninstalled all of them, just to install the versions from the majorgeeks forum.
I've verified the game files via steam multible times.
I've turned off and on the cloud save option.
Ofc I've started steam and the exe as administrator.

Both the system where the game is working and mine are identical and I really have no clue what to do now in order to fix it.

Any suggestions after this long time?

You really tried a lot, something stupid, that probably won't help, but i don't see in the list, did you disable steam overlay?
Another thing I haven't seen listed is compatibility modes, maybe setting compatibility mode to win 7 or something might miraculously help for once.

Other than that, I'm sad to say that I am at a loss and would go as far as to say "try running it on linux".
I hear recent windows 11 update has kind of borked quite a few games, so maybe reverting to an earlier build might help. (not too sure about that as an option though)