# Any advice on getting the launcher to work?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/any-advice-on-getting-the-launcher-to-work/20026>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [May 11, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/any-advice-on-getting-the-launcher-to-work/20026 "2019-05-11T04:24:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rose/32/1963_2.png) [@Rose](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rose)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/any-advice-on-getting-the-launcher-to-work/20026/1 "2019-05-11T04:24:54Z")

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So, here’s the deal. At some point the CDDA Launcher has stopped working. There has been some reason at first that I can’t recall, but now it’s asking for a specific .dll file that is supposedly supposed to come with the Visual C++ 2015 package. Problem is, I’m not getting that file from any of the Visual C++ packages and the launcher just won’t, well… launch.  
I’ve posted about this to this GitHub thread:

> <https://github.com/remyroy/CDDA-Game-Launcher/issues/224>

But so far I have not been able to fix that thing.  
I do understand that downloading that file manually and shoving it into the needed folder will work, but I can think of only one trusted resourse to get that file - and that is Microsoft website, that, as mentioned, supplies a package that does not install this file.  
Getting the file from some shady site does not look like the brightest idea ever, I guess…  
Does anyone have any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Zhilkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zhilkin/32/3749_2.png) [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/any-advice-on-getting-the-launcher-to-work/20026/2 "2019-05-11T06:04:26Z")

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Just to make sure: you tried latest version of launcher, right?

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**Author:** ![Rose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rose/32/1963_2.png) [@Rose](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rose)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/any-advice-on-getting-the-launcher-to-work/20026/3 "2019-05-11T06:07:43Z")

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Uhm, well… I have 1.3.21, which was the latest at the time. There’s a new one released since, but there’s nothing in the change log about visual c++. I’ll try it now, anyway.

Instant edit: it doesn’t work.

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 12:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/any-advice-on-getting-the-launcher-to-work/20026/4 "2019-05-11T12:09:02Z")

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You might be able to just drop the dll file in the launcher folder. No need to put anything “shady” in a system folder. Never had any issues with dll archive sites so I’d try that.