Game not starting and closing to Desktop possible fix

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To verify if this maybe your trouble run the DX Diag and at the bottom of the report look for the ERROR list and look for ucrtbase.dll and MSVCP140.dll .   If these are in the error report, then perform the following.

 

Try running the X86 and the X64 downloads from Microsoft

 

Latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Version

The latest version is 14.40.33816.0 Use the following links to download this version for each supported architecture:Expand table

ArchitectureLinkNotes

 

 X86  https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe   Permalink for latest supported x86 version

X64 https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe Permalink for latest supported x64 version. The X64 Redistributable package contains both ARM64 and X64 binaries. This package makes it easy to install required Visual C++ ARM64 binaries when the X64 Redistributable is installed on an ARM64 device.

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