Borderlands 1 pc Error messages/optimize

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You'd me more than forgiven to skipping this banal thread o mine:p

As above I'm looking to optimize the original Borderlands, I know I'm more than a late starter on this one, but more pressing a matter is although the game runs fine it's begun to display the following error message just before launching it from Steam:
Program can't start because physxcudart_20.dll is missing from your computer. Please try reinstalling the game and try again.
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I simply ignored it and clicked close and the game starts as normal.
Initially when I first installed the game windows 8 told me that this game needs windows framework [blank] in order to work, I cant remember the name of it :D I just went ahead and let win 8 do it's thing and install it, hopefully I haven't mucked things up?
I also enabled V-sync in my Nvidia control panel to remove the choppy performance I was having.

Please find in sig my newly built rig, could any of the above be indicative of system problems?, any and all advice is welcome.

Silverstone SST-FT02B-W/ Asus Maximus V Gene/ Intel core i5-3570k, Corsair Memory Vengeance LP 8GB, Dark rock pro 2/ EVGA GTX 670 FTW, Antec high current pro 750w/ Samsung SSD 830 256gb, Win 8 pro.
 
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That's a physX dll. You probably allowed windows 8 to install a runtime - don't panic about that :) A couple of options:

1) Re-install the game after a full un-install (and delete the installation folder manually). This will almost certainly fix it. I'd highly recommend doing this, game is only a few gig.
2) download a copy from someone else and put it in the folder the execute for boarderlands is in. This might fix it.
 
Thanks for responding Myshra, you may need to dumb it down for me (:

Does this mean I need to re-download Borderlands?
Which might pose a problem for me as it took a week and a half on my "broadband" connection of less than 91kb, I'm in Wales near a business center but it's kind of a twilight zone of low internet connection speed here.

Might just have to bite the bullet on this one, the location of the borderlands instillation folder will still be in the following path steam-steamapps-common-borderland after I've done a full un-install, I'll just need to delete the install.vdf files and I'm home free right?
 
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Alright, Let's try the quick vs the slow first.

Let's try manual injection (slightly risky but eh, should be OK).
Download this: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?physxcudart_20
Put it in the same folder that the borderlands execute is in. You'll need to find this - I'm at work and can't help. If it doesn't work, delete it.

If that fails, lets try this - Install this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.12.1031-driver.html
It's the physX drivers. PhysX is a set of physics simulations that your computer can use in games so for example, you shotgun someone in borderlands, physX tells borderlands how far they got thrown.

The reason the first should work is DirectX is basically a mini program that allows games to talk to the graphics card in a common language. Think of it as an interpreter. The dictionary it uses for interpreting is called a DLL, a dynamic link library. Now usually directX will use it's own DLLs (that microsoft gave it) but! if it sees a DLL in the same folder as the execute you're using, and it's called the same as one of it's own reference DLLs, it will use that instead. First option is doing this, the second option is giving directX another reference dll.

Nifty eh? This is why windows can work with any graphics card, DirectX saved us all. Microsoft in 1998 was truely the saviour of PC gaming :) Shame we can't say that now.
 
You're a diamond geezer Myshra!

It's just too advanced for me, I cant even find the execute folder I always assumed that it'd look like EXE. something but searching and typing it into search bar in steam-steamapps-common-borderland nothing turns up.
It might be a pain but I'll stick with method one:
1) Re-install the game after a full un-install (and delete the installation folder manually). This will almost certainly fix it. I'd highly recommend doing this, game is only a few gig.
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But from what you suggest there will still be an install folder left on my Pc after un-installing in steamapps-common-borderland which I'll delete.

I'd never dream of disturbing you during work for something so trivial :)
Thanks again.
 
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No need to reply, just out of curiosity's sake you may find it interesting that it's simply borderlands no exe. in Binaries clicking this confirmed it as it lunched the game.

Despite the windows error message the game works fine. but the suggested website dll-files.com is known for sneaking on ad-wear that actively promotes it's full paid for program fixer, I'm not suggesting that you meant to mislead me but it's not a lottery I'd want to gamble on, as it may or may not install something on your PC.

Thanks for all your time.
 
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