Re: PvZ Garden Warfare 2 Won't Launch PC

Your PC is probably missing a dll file.

I am running Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare and Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2 on Windows 11 with an AMD processor.

I installed both games by downloading the EA client for PC (no longer the older Origin client).

After installing the required C++ libraries, no problems running either game on a modern x64 PC with Windows 11.

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Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare needs Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package.

Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2 needs Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable package.

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You can check error logs on your PC here:

C:\ProgramData\Origin

If either PVZ game is throwing an error, you will see the error in the log file.

For me, the log referenced a missing dll file. The missing dll was different for the original PVZ GW and PVZ GW2.

When I searched the missing dll file name on the web, the link led to the C++ package which can be downloaded from Microsoft and installed on your PC.

I haven't had any conflicts on my PC with those older C++ packages installed.