@puzzlezaddict So I did try to launch the game after every step. It would not work until the last step, reinstalling and getting rid of duplicate Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable programs. I'm not sure if that means it was just that, or if everything else needed to be done lol.
@adrianna456 Thanks, and that might be the entirety of the problem, as these runtimes all have to work together. An older version of one not built to work with the newer versions of the others could easily stop the game from loading. The next time someone shows up with the same issue on Windows 7, I'll ask them to do that first.
