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OpOnihc
11 years ago

I cant launch PvZ Garden Warfare

My game doesn't launch, it shows this error:

PVZ.Main_Win64_Retail launch error

As soon as i launch the game from Origin this message pops up:

"The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the program."

I copied the game from my laptop to my desktop so I thought that was the problem, but then I re downloaded again and the same thing happened.

I can't contact EA suppport, that's kind of sad actually.

I reintalled the thinks that are in the Launcher_ folder, dirext and other thing that I don't remember right now.

My OS is W7 64bits.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    This error happens before the game ever opens?

    This user had a similar problem:

    http://answers.ea.com/t5/PvZ-Garden-Warfare-PC/Plants-Vs-Zombies-Garden-Warfare-Application-Error/td-p/4493483/page/2

    He used Dependency Walker

    http://www.dependencywalker.com/

    Found that his VC++ redist had a wrong DLL file in System32.

    On a 64bit system, system32 = 64bit files    syswow64=32bit files

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    You may try just running this as admin:

    Origin Games\Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare\__Installer\vc\vc2012Update3\redist\vcredist_x64.exe

    If you have a similar issue like the OP of that thread... it would be best to Cut the bad DLL out, put it on desktop or somewhere else.. then run the VC setup again..  Finding rogue DLLs on websites (even trusted ones).. isn't good practice.  I sometimes do this at work... copy a DLL from a known good computer... but even this is bad practice.  This is likely how a 32bit dll found it's way in system32 to begin with is my guess (?)

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