Launcher not working

[Spectre7878]

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Homecoming Launcher doesn't launch the game. I get an error stating "The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME140.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem."

 

Either Windows Update has downloaded an update to Visual C 2015 Runtime that requires a system restart, or a reinstall of the runtime occured with another program that affected the one City of Heroes depended upon.

Note also that the architecture is important: if you are starting from scratch and you install "Visual C 2015 Runtime (x32)" on your system, you cannot use that runtime to play City of Heroes in x64 mode. You can either open the Settings panel on Homecoming Launcher (click the gear in the upper right) and set the Architecture to 32-bit (not recommended for newer systems), or go to the Microsoft website and install the x64 runtime.  You can find it here. (Click Download, then choose "vc_redist.x64.exe".)

If you are on an older system that does not support 64-bit, your only choice in all of the above is 32-bit. "Visual C 2015 Runtime (x64)" will fail to install in the first place, you must choose "vc_redist.x32.exe" in the link above, and in Homecoming Launcher set your profiles to 32-bit mode

 

 

Anyone else have this issue? I am a bit dumb when it comes to this stuff and I have no clue what this means. I hate windows 11 so much. Nothing works with it. I knew getting a new computer was going to be an issue with everything I use. I just didn’t think it would be this bad. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[Spectre7878]

Side note. I reinstalled the homecoming launcher and got on and played a bit. I logged out of the game for lunch. Clicked on the homecoming launcher and the same thing happened again.  So frustrating 

[GM Crumpet]

you should be able to install this and fix it https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe