So this all started off with me not seeing drop-down menus in Sims 4. I was told to remove old distributables and attempt to install new ones (2010 and 2013), drivers appear to be up-to-date, updating Windows and restarting several times did nothing, resintalling Origin did nothing, and I can't finish reinstalling Sims 4 because of the redistributables. I was getting a 1612 error then got 1603 instead. Mods are all up-to-date, too.
I went to reinstall them manually by going directly through the files then tried reinstalling Sims 4 since I wasn't sure which would work. As it turns out, neither.
I can't install/reinstall a redistributable and that site sadly wasn't able to provide me with a solution that worked.
Are you still getting the same error ?
Do any of the redistributables still show under Install programs ? Like this:
These are what I have.
Edit: And other than that, I still get the 1603.
@WarDragon72345 Seems it's the 2010 that's not installing.
Could you download them from the microsoft site directly (if that's not what you've done already)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555
https://www.microsoft.com/de-DE/download/details.aspx?id=14632
And then right click on them and run as administrator
To be sure, you are on an administrator Windows account ?
For both of them (running as admin), this happens. I can't find 2010 anything.
Try to download the files directly from Microsoft. Both x64 and x86 are needed:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13523
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4032938/update-for-visual-c-2013-redistributable-package
Also run SFC /scannow
It seems like I need to put them in a specific spot but if that's the case, I'm not certain where. Can you help me out with that?
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