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Visual Studio 2015 help

Mar 3, 2018 2:22AM PST

so i have an Asus ROG Laptop with an Nvidia GTX 670MX in it. i want to use this for gaming however im having trouble downloading Visual studio 2015. when i download it and run it x64 (my system is x64 however i also tried 86) i get a weird error. when i run a game through steam it downloads visual studio for me. however when i try to run the game i get a missing dll error. "the program cant start because api-ms-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing" i had to replace the hard drive recently and have windows 8.1 on this laptop. any advice on why i cant get visual studio to run properly?

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Clarification Request
I'm a little confused.
Mar 3, 2018 10:45AM PST

I never needed to install VS2015 to play games. There are RUN TIME PACKAGES and I'm guessing you are trying to miss an old missing DLL error this way.

There are thousands of priors on that error on google, so I won't offer much besides asking what is not stock? I often find the machines with malware or a security suite that blocks installs.

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fresh
Mar 3, 2018 10:47AM PST

the hardrive was recently replaced with a new copy of windows 8.1 theres hardly anything on the laptop at all i can assure you there is no malware its hardly been used at all since the harddrive was replaced

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steam
Mar 3, 2018 10:50AM PST

most games i wanna play on steam require MS 2015. heres the log error code im gettinf ro anyone who might be interested when i try to install it

[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i001: Burn v3.7.3813.0, Windows v6.3 (Build 9600: Service Pack 0), path: C:\Users\Bell\Downloads\vc_redist.x64 (1).exe, cmdline: '-burn.unelevated BurnPipe.{9C64666B-61FE-463C-9ED4-62C36E59FFB8} {A18ED540-6A22-45DE-AE9C-74EDEE3DACF0} 6080'
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleLog' to value 'C:\Users\Bell\AppData\Local\Temp\dd_vcredist_amd64_20180303124906.log'
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleOriginalSource' to value 'C:\Users\Bell\Downloads\vc_redist.x64 (1).exe'
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleOriginalSourceFolder' to value 'C:\Users\Bell\Downloads\'
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleName' to value 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64) - 14.0.24123'
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i100: Detect begin, 10 packages
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i000: File search: windows_uCRT_DetectKey, did not find path: C:\Windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i000: File search: windows_uCRT_DetectKeyExists, did not find path: C:\Windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i000: Setting numeric variable 'windows_uCRT_DetectKeyExists' to value 0
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i052: Condition '(VersionNT = v6.3 AND NOT VersionNT64) AND (windows_uCRT_DetectKeyExists AND windows_uCRT_DetectKey >= v10.0.10240.0)' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i052: Condition '(VersionNT = v6.3 AND VersionNT64) AND (windows_uCRT_DetectKeyExists AND windows_uCRT_DetectKey >= v10.0.10240.0)' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i052: Condition '(VersionNT = v6.2 AND NOT VersionNT64) AND (windows_uCRT_DetectKeyExists AND windows_uCRT_DetectKey >= v10.0.10240.0)' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i052: Condition '(VersionNT = v6.2 AND VersionNT64) AND (windows_uCRT_DetectKeyExists AND windows_uCRT_DetectKey >= v10.0.10240.0)' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i052: Condition '(VersionNT = v6.1 AND NOT VersionNT64) AND (windows_uCRT_DetectKeyExists AND windows_uCRT_DetectKey >= v10.0.10240.0)' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i052: Condition '(VersionNT = v6.1 AND VersionNT64) AND (windows_uCRT_DetectKeyExists AND windows_uCRT_DetectKey >= v10.0.10240.0)' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i052: Condition '(VersionNT = v6.0 AND NOT VersionNT64) AND (windows_uCRT_DetectKeyExists AND windows_uCRT_DetectKey >= v10.0.10240.0)' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i052: Condition '(VersionNT = v6.0 AND VersionNT64) AND (windows_uCRT_DetectKeyExists AND windows_uCRT_DetectKey >= v10.0.10240.0)' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i101: Detected package: vcRuntimeMinimum_x64, state: Absent, cached: None
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i101: Detected package: vcRuntimeAdditional_x64, state: Absent, cached: None
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i101: Detected package: Windows81_x86, state: Absent, cached: None
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i101: Detected package: Windows81_x64, state: Absent, cached: None
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i101: Detected package: Windows8_x86, state: Absent, cached: None
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i101: Detected package: Windows8_x64, state: Absent, cached: None
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i101: Detected package: Windows7_MSU_x86, state: Absent, cached: None
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i101: Detected package: Windows7_MSU_x64, state: Absent, cached: None
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i101: Detected package: WindowsVista_MSU_x86, state: Absent, cached: None
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i101: Detected package: WindowsVista_MSU_x64, state: Absent, cached: None
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i052: Condition 'VersionNT64 >= v6.0 OR (VersionNT64 = v5.2 AND ServicePackLevel >= 1)' evaluates to true.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:06]i199: Detect complete, result: 0x0
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i200: Plan begin, 10 packages, action: Install
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i052: Condition '(VersionNT64)' evaluates to true.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleRollbackLog_vcRuntimeMinimum_x64' to value 'C:\Users\Bell\AppData\Local\Temp\dd_vcredist_amd64_20180303124906_000_vcRuntimeMinimum_x64_rollback.log'
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleLog_vcRuntimeMinimum_x64' to value 'C:\Users\Bell\AppData\Local\Temp\dd_vcredist_amd64_20180303124906_000_vcRuntimeMinimum_x64.log'
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i052: Condition '(VersionNT64)' evaluates to true.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleRollbackLog_vcRuntimeAdditional_x64' to value 'C:\Users\Bell\AppData\Local\Temp\dd_vcredist_amd64_20180303124906_001_vcRuntimeAdditional_x64_rollback.log'
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleLog_vcRuntimeAdditional_x64' to value 'C:\Users\Bell\AppData\Local\Temp\dd_vcredist_amd64_20180303124906_001_vcRuntimeAdditional_x64.log'
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i052: Condition 'VersionNT = v6.3 AND NOT VersionNT64' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]w321: Skipping dependency registration on package with no dependency providers: Windows81_x86
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i052: Condition 'VersionNT = v6.3 AND VersionNT64' evaluates to true.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]w321: Skipping dependency registration on package with no dependency providers: Windows81_x64
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i052: Condition 'VersionNT = v6.2 AND NOT VersionNT64' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]w321: Skipping dependency registration on package with no dependency providers: Windows8_x86
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i052: Condition 'VersionNT = v6.2 AND VersionNT64' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]w321: Skipping dependency registration on package with no dependency providers: Windows8_x64
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i052: Condition 'VersionNT = v6.1 AND NOT VersionNT64' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]w321: Skipping dependency registration on package with no dependency providers: Windows7_MSU_x86
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i052: Condition 'VersionNT = v6.1 AND VersionNT64' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]w321: Skipping dependency registration on package with no dependency providers: Windows7_MSU_x64
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i052: Condition 'VersionNT = v6.0 AND NOT VersionNT64' evaluates to false.
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]w321: Skipping dependency registration on package with no dependency providers: WindowsVista_MSU_x86
[13F8:1498][2018-03-03T12:49:08]i052: Condition 'VersionNT = v6.0 AND VersionNT64' evaluates to false.

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Requires MS 2015?
Mar 3, 2018 10:58AM PST

I think you meant the usual runtimes and not Visual Studio itself.

The log as provided looks fine. I bet there's more to the log but this part looks fine to me.

Other issues? Could this account be a regular account? Not Administrator?
I can't really tell you much at this point because I don't see an error in that log yet.

Remember I am purposely not duplicating the top 20 answers at https://www.google.com/search?q=the+program+cant+start+because+api-ms-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll+is+missing as I think you would have done all that.

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Re: visual studio
Mar 3, 2018 3:10AM PST

On my PC (Windows 10) I don't have that file, but I find copies (different versions even) of a file called api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll in different folders in Program Files and Program Files (x86), the folders for Firefox, Paint.net, Thunderbird, Avast and in a Onedrive folder in my Appdata>Local.
Apparently, it came with that programs.

See if it's somewhere on your hard disk and copy it to the same folder as the exe you run is located in.

Or you can download Visual Studio 2015 from https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/older-downloads/ (try the free version) and see if that version runs.

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problem
Mar 3, 2018 10:20AM PST

the problem is the laptop isnt properly installing visual studio 2015. ive tried downloading both versions off of the website i get an error code with a huge log file when i try to instal visual studio 2015 and ive uninstalled visual studio 2015 and gotten errored trying to reinstall it. when i try to run a game on steam it installs it for me somehow goes through but then i still get the missing file error i can uninstall it try to reinstall and show you the error i get when i try to run it