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SilentHighway has Life is Strange™

13 Mar, 2016 @ 8:51pm

Not Starting 0xC000007b

I noticed other such threads were closed and it said to make a new one.... Am on Windows10 (x64), with a GT 240 nVidia Geforce graphics card. Starting from steam it just quietly does nothing after the menu to play or safe mode. When running it from the exe in \Binaries\Wn32\ I get "Life IsStrange.exe - Application Error" with "The application was unable to start correctly (0xC000007b). Click OK to close the application. I had just episode 1 installed and had it started up last i think before the last tiny tiny patch. I've tried the thing _CommonRedist stuff for "DXSETUP.exe", "PhysX-9.13.1220-SystemSoftware.msi", "\2012\vcredist_x64.exe", i've also tried deleting the # folder for LiS in "\Steam\userdata\#\" as well as the LiS folder in "\My games\". I've removed all DLC content, i've done verify integrity of game cache.... I'm running out of ideas. Hoping that "0xC000007b" address might explain things to someone else enough to give me an suggestion.

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Palatine Katinka has Life is Strange™

14 Mar, 2016 @ 6:03am

I searched for 0xc000007b on Google and the first result was a PC Advisor page that suggests it's a Windows issue rather than a LiS issue with 7 tips to fix it. Maybe they'll help http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-fix-application-was-unable-start-correctly-0xc000007b-error-message-3613164/

psisko Šájisko has Life is Strange™

14 Mar, 2016 @ 8:31am

I had it as well, i only reinstalled Direct X, which didnt help, then Steam download by itself Microsoft something C++, it made the game run, try to get Microsoft Visual C++ 2005-2015 (years) Redistributable , hope this helps.

Spiritus

14 Mar, 2016 @ 1:33pm

try this https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
but i think GT240 is unable to run this game in playable fps

SilentHighway has Life is Strange™

14 Mar, 2016 @ 1:41pm

it was running it fine last month when i only had ep1, should for the rest with lowest settings.

SilentHighway has Life is Strange™

14 Mar, 2016 @ 1:47pm

just got done doing x64 files for 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 with no luck of it starting yet, stilll the same application error via exe run, or silently not opening via steam. so i went through and also installed x86 versions as well (win10x64). no luck before or after reboot. about to try an uninstall of DotNet and reinstall of that stuff, to see if it'll help at all.

321polorex123 has Life is Strange™

14 Mar, 2016 @ 3:41pm

Originally posted by SilentHighway:
just got done doing x64 files for 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 with no luck of it starting yet, stilll the same application error via exe run, or silently not opening via steam. so i went through and also installed x86 versions as well (win10x64). no luck before or after reboot. about to try an uninstall of DotNet and reinstall of that stuff, to see if it'll help at all.

.NET has nothing to do with this.

Do this:

Originally posted by 321polorex123:
Let the game crash once again, open the event viewer and search for a report related to "LifeIsStrange.exe" in the folder "Windows Logs/Applications".
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/226084-event-viewer-open-use-windows-7-a.html

And post the report here.

SilentHighway has Life is Strange™

14 Mar, 2016 @ 4:21pm

Application popup: LifeIsStrange.exe - Application Error : The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application.

321polorex123 has Life is Strange™

14 Mar, 2016 @ 4:31pm

I don't mean the message box.
There is a program called "event viewer". When a program crashes, Windows makes a report. This report can be viewed with the event viewer (see the link I posted above).

eugenpopovich has Life is Strange™

16 Jul, 2016 @ 2:33pm

Any luck with solving this issue? I have the same problem with some other games - X-COM Enemy Unknown, Magic 2014, LEGO Hobbit. And I also have Windows 10 x64.

321polorex123 has Life is Strange™

16 Jul, 2016 @ 2:52pm

Originally posted by eugenpopovich:
Any luck with solving this issue? I have the same problem with some other games - X-COM Enemy Unknown, Magic 2014, LEGO Hobbit. And I also have Windows 10 x64.

What have you tried so far?

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eugenpopovich has Life is Strange™

16 Jul, 2016 @ 2:56pm

Reinstalling VCRedist of all kinds, DirectX and even .NET Framework. Compatibility options also don't help.

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eugenpopovich has Life is Strange™

16 Jul, 2016 @ 3:39pm

I did it! Another session of googling finally helped. The problem for me was with xinput1_3.dll. I donwloaded a dll package from here: http://freewisdoms.com/download-dll-files-commonly-used-by-games/, replaced just xinput1_3.dll in SysWOW64 - and problems with games I mentioned disappeared!
Don't know whether it will help with Life Is Strange, though.

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Mordorf The Senile 12 Jun, 2020 @ 5:58pm

Originally posted by eugenpopovich:
I did it! Another session of googling finally helped. The problem for me was with xinput1_3.dll. I donwloaded a dll package from here: http://freewisdoms.com/download-dll-files-commonly-used-by-games/, replaced just xinput1_3.dll in SysWOW64 - and problems with games I mentioned disappeared!
Don't know whether it will help with Life Is Strange, though.

I followed the same steps you did. I checked to make sure all of those .dll were on my PC, and sadly they're all there, and two of my games are still affected.

I can't launch Borderlands 2 (Steam) and Life Is Strange (GOG). Borderlands 2 I've been trying to fix for three years....both 2K Support and Microsoft support had no solutions.

Just bought Life Is Strange off of GOG, and it's the same problem. I'm really at a loss here...

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shivam13juna has Life is Strange™

5 Jun, 2021 @ 5:51am

Originally posted by eugenpopovich:
I did it! Another session of googling finally helped. The problem for me was with xinput1_3.dll. I donwloaded a dll package from here: http://freewisdoms.com/download-dll-files-commonly-used-by-games/, replaced just xinput1_3.dll in SysWOW64 - and problems with games I mentioned disappeared!
Don't know whether it will help with Life Is Strange, though.

Thank you it worked!!!!

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