api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll

I've tried EVERYTHING here. Absolutely everything. And nothing works. I tried a legacy version of Origin, worked until I restarted my computer. I reinstalled Origin. I repaired the VC++ runtime. I tried to use Windows Update, using the commands, it didn't work (I might've used the wrong version, e.g. x86 instead of maybe x64, though.) This isn't the first problem I've had with Origin.

If there was some way I could play my EA games w/o using Origin, I'm all for it, since I have the discs for all my titles.\

Anywho, thanks in advance. -FullWeebTV

EDIT: System specs: Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1, 64-bit OS, 3.80 GB usable RAM, Intel Core i5 CPU @ 2.40 GHz

EDIT 2: After trying to fix all of this, I installed the latest version of Origin and got Error 9:0. I tried again and it updated but did NOT start up Origin after it finished.

I still just want to play my EA games, and it bugs me that we have to go through all this to do so.

I'll try Windows Update Troubleshooter and try one last time to see if it works.

Brilliant Solved for me too ! 

Hi Tom,

I did like you said to try and repair the VC++, but unfortunately I still can't get it to work. It's still giving me the same error like before. Is there any other way to repair this problem or is there going to be an Origin update which is going to solve this error, because I'm seeing other people having the same issue. They are saying it appeared after an recent update, so I'm wondering if maybe the update is the cause of the error and if there is going to be another one solving this problem. 

Hi,

This solution sounds like it works, but when I tried it out, I got an error message. 

Not sure what's wrong.

Resetted laptop to factory settings as a last ditch attempt to fix this origin problem. Problem still persists >__<||

PLS HELP. 

I Want My Money Back!

This is ludicrous. The Sims 4 game and the Origin platform break each other. Saves get corrupted. Installed game data goes missing. With NO CHANGES WHATSOEVER to any files, adding/removing custom content, or anything OTHER than just PLAYING THE GAME.

It has now become necessary, if you let Origin update itself OR The Sims 4, that the resultant updates to either or both with make one or the other inoperable.

Origin demands an update.

If no update is installed, only the option to use offline is available.

You cannot repair game files Origin has broken, without being online.

You cannot go online, if Origin starts in offline mode.

If you update Origin, repair redistributables, or uninstall, clean out your registry, and reinstall - and you succeed in starting The Sims 4, it will work. ONCE.

Next session, Origin will demand an update, and here we go again.

I have done this again, and again, and again, until I am SICK of it. Fix this problem. Permanently.

Repairing the redistributables, uninstalling/reinstalling Origin, or anything like either one, just to play the game SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY. Nor, should it be an everyday gotta do, if you just want to play. And that's what it has become. Picking up where you left off is out of the question. NO, you have to FIX the game, first.

I have played this franchise since The Sims 2. I stopped playing The Sims 3 for just the same reasons as above: I spent nearly as much time FIXING the game, as I did playing it.

One gets a sense that this is either deliberate, or the result of RANK INCOMPETENCE. To say nothing of the historic expansion and stuff packs that BREAK everything that came before, especially for The Sims 3, including THOUSANDS of mods made by extraordinarily creative people, without whom this franchise would have died long ago.

Find a solution, EA. Put it in an update, and make it go away, once and for all.

I've tried everything. It doesn't work!

Can't install the windows update kb2999226. No updates necesary for my computer. So I think it's already installed? Repairing doesn't work.

Tried the step by step from @miczu34 but I can't install the Microsoft visual C++ versions: 0x80240017

What else can I try? Is there a way to forget about the origini update and just play offline? Because it was working fine before I updated Origin.

a few months ago my sister restarted my laptop and when I tried to download origin it said c:\program files (x86)\origin was missing. then when my sister tried to fix it then it said api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll I haven't been able to play sims 4 in months and its really annoyin cause i only had it a few months. please help.

This is not working for me. I have tried this multiple times, running as administrator. I cannot open up Origin at all, therefor have no access to my games I paid for..