running Unreal Engine 4.26 on a Windows 7 machine. Recently updated from 4.25 to this version. Now getting this error..
"The program can't start because api-ms-win-downlevel-kernel32-l2-1-0.dll is missing"
Anyone able to assist to advise please?
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are you sure the DLL name is correct? I only find this topic while searching for the DLL and on my Win10 I also miss this DLL where VS2019 is installed – magicandre1981 Jan 24 '21 at 16:55
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ok, the name is wrong. this dll is part of Windows Debugging tools from Windows 10 SDK – magicandre1981 Jan 25 '21 at 20:15
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I found the solution, after a bit of digging and searching put it in this post and video: https://www.georgenischal.com/blog/api-ms-win-downlevel-kernel32-l2-1-0-dll-error-unreal-4-26-2021.html
UE4 forum talking about the issue: https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/1850218-prgram-cant-start-cause-api-ms-win-downlevel-kernal32-blah-blah-dll-is-missing/page2
Msdownload page for DLL: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4507456
Seems its related to a windows security update. Please avoid downloading the DLL from dodgy search results on google or youtube which I almost did..
If you want to download a dLL, look on the links on my blogpost.. Google search is clearly broken, had to go down a few pages to find the result, all other links were spammy DLL download pages..
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