Should be easy enough to solve this error as follows:
VISUAL C++ REDISTRIBUTABLES
- Please check for updates on your computer. This is a crucial step and MUST be completed before proceeding!
Go to Start/search --> type in 'windows updates' --> Check for updates
- Open Programs and Features and uninstall all items beginning with Microsoft Visual C++...
- Run Disk Cleanup in Windows. Make sure to tick the option to Delete temporary files
- Restart your PC
- Run the installers found here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=5555
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=30679
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=48145
As a final step, please restart your computer once more or if the installers direct you otherwise, please follow their instructions.
.NET FRAMEWORK
If the launcher is still not allowing you to launch the game after this then please quit the launcher and any other non-crucial applications before you proceed!
1. First, turn off .NET in
Windows Features. An easy way to access this is to type
Windows Features in Start > Search. Make sure that all available versions of .NET are disabled.
2. Open
Programs and Features from the Windows Control Panel. An easy way to bring this up is to type '
Programs and Features' into Start > Search.
3. Uninstall everything that starts with '
Microsoft .NET', starting with the highest version numbers first (you may find that no entries exist in
Programs and Features at all, in this case please continue to step 4)
4. Download and install all versions of .NET that apply to your versions of Windows:
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 - Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and 7
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2
- Windows 8.1, 8, and 7:
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 - Windows 8.1, 8, and 7 (
only if 4.5.2 won't install):
If Windows asks you to restart your computer at any of these steps, please do so. Once the whole process is done restart one final time.
