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Battlefield 1 not launching
Greetings! I installed Battlefield 1 through Steam (that's where I bought it from) after not playing for many years (last time was about a year ago maybe more when Origin was still used). When I hit "Play" on Steam, the EA App opens, says "preparing game", finishes loading but BF1 doesn't launch, instead it takes me back to the EA app. I've tried troubleshooting steps suggested by EA support but the issue still persists. I get no errors whatsoever. I'd appreciate some help.
Update: I tried to run the game through the .exe in the steamapps\common and I got an activation issue (0xc000007b). I searched the solutions for this and what worked for me was going to my windows search bar, typing "add or remove programs". From there I found all the "Microsoft Visual C++ " stuff, hit left click, modify and repair. (Some of them couldn't be modified but it doesn't matter). After repairing all that could be repaired I launched Battlefield 1 and it worked!
