Missing file MSVCP100.dll

[philstanbridge]

I'm trying to run a game which I've got from steam and I keep coming up with this error. Missing file - as above. I've done a lot of research and have tried several things to no avail. Does anyone know what this actually refers to? I don't understand it.

 

[asim18]

Tried installing the VC redistributable?

x64 - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13523

x86 - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8328

 

[philstanbridge]

I have mate Hasn't made any difference.

 

[topdog@OC]

I'm not sure what precisely it's function is (asides from being a part of the vc redist), but here's where I found copies of it on my machine:

C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Client\MSVCP100.DLL
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\redist\ia64\Microsoft.VC100.CRT\msvcp100.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\redist\x64\Microsoft.VC100.CRT\msvcp100.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC100.CRT\msvcp100.dll
C:\Windows\System32\msvcp100.dll
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcp100.dll

Subversion client is freeware (source control client), so you could install that, leech the file, then uninstall it again. It may also be among the Visual Studio 2010 express edition products, which are also free, but rather overkill for this task.

 

[philstanbridge]

Thanks /\ but the plot thickens!

I've got the game running on a desktop computer no probs at all. Yet I don't have that file in the system32 directory??

Hmmmm.. I just thought about it logically. If it was working on my desktop then it *should* work on my laptop. So I manually copied 4 files over that it said were missing and hey presto! Interestingly ALL the files were missing from the system32 directory even though I had installed that VC redistributable. So I'm not entirely sure what happened. It *seems* to be loading up but it is taking forever.