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It won't start for me, I'm getting an error that api-ms-win-downlevel-kernal32-l2-1-0.dll is missing.

I follwe steps to reinstall the missing file and it still wont work.

I found an article which offers a couple of potential fixes to the problem : https://www.pcerror-fix.com/epic-games-launcher-api-ms-win-downlevel-kernel32

Do you use windows 7 ?

Ye

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I have the very same error, and my friend too. We are both on windows 7. I download kernel.dll but another error pop up, something error 0xc000007b

sorry for that, I will look into it

Do you have a 64 bit or 32 bit Windows version ? The current tool version only supports 64 bit

One thing you could try is : Check if you have these Windows 7 security upgrades : https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4507456

I found it after discovering this blog post : https://www.georgenischal.com/blog/api-ms-win-downlevel-kernel32-l2-1-0-dll-erro... You can check Option 1 there for more details and an alternative solution

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64. I don't have kernel error anymore. Now it's error 0xc000007b

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you can try to install the visual C++ runtime versions from this page : (all versions that are still supported) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio-2015-2017-2019-and-2022

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Already have all of this. By the way Epics fix this kernel problem long ago.

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Since I don't have a machine where it doesn't work it's hard to track down the cause of it. If you want to help me you could download and execute Microsofts Dependency Walker : http://www.dependencywalker.com/ (Launch it, then click on "Open" in the main menu and choose RpgTools.exe and wait until it is done, afterwards start profiling via main menu until the application has started. This should hopefully output information about the DLL(s) that cause problems)

Here it is: