COD: World at War (Steam) refusing to run on Windows 8.1

[Sowkloss]

So a while ago, I installed Call of Duty: World at War on Windows 7 and it worked just fine. But now, on Windows 8.1, I cannot get it to run at all!

Upon trying to run the game normally, my Steam status changes to "In-game - Call of Duty: World at War" and straight back to "Online" again, but the game never actually launches.

When I try to launch the game from its folder as an administrator, I get the error "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b).", and again, the game never actually launches or even appears on-screen.

I've seen a lot of posts about changing the sound format to 24 Bit, 48000Hz, but it looks like that only applies to Windows XP, as nothing changes and I get the same error.

I have re-installed the game twice and nothing has changed.

I ran Dependency Walker over the game's .exe and replaced all the DLLs it reported as missing, but once again - nothing changes!

It can't be a DirectX problem because all of my other games use DirectX versions both older and newer than the version World at War uses and they work just fine (the original Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, which hasn't even been officially confirmed to work at all on Windows Vista, works flawlessly!

So, what should I do now? Would a re-install of Windows fix this? Thanks in advance, by the way.

 

[kimatahi]

So a while ago, I installed Call of Duty: World at War on Windows 7 and it worked just fine. But now, on Windows 8.1, I cannot get it to run at all!

Upon trying to run the game normally, my Steam status changes to "In-game - Call of Duty: World at War" and straight back to "Online" again, but the game never actually launches.

When I try to launch the game from its folder as an administrator, I get the error "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b).", and again, the game never actually launches or even appears on-screen.

I've seen a lot of posts about changing the sound format to 24 Bit, 48000Hz, but it looks like that only applies to Windows XP, as nothing changes and I get the same error.

I have re-installed the game twice and nothing has changed.

I ran Dependency Walker over the game's .exe and replaced all the DLLs it reported as missing, but once again - nothing changes!

It can't be a DirectX problem because all of my other games use DirectX versions both older and newer than the version World at War uses and they work just fine (the original Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, which hasn't even been officially confirmed to work at all on Windows Vista, works flawlessly!

So, what should I do now? Would a re-install of Windows fix this? Thanks in advance, by the way.

As you said it was good on win7,cod5 world at war was made for: xp, vista and win7,but you use win 8.1 try to change comptability.Make a desktop shortcut and right click it then go properties and go under tab comptability and change your comptability mode.

 

[Sowkloss]

So a while ago, I installed Call of Duty: World at War on Windows 7 and it worked just fine. But now, on Windows 8.1, I cannot get it to run at all!

Upon trying to run the game normally, my Steam status changes to "In-game - Call of Duty: World at War" and straight back to "Online" again, but the game never actually launches.

When I try to launch the game from its folder as an administrator, I get the error "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b).", and again, the game never actually launches or even appears on-screen.

I've seen a lot of posts about changing the sound format to 24 Bit, 48000Hz, but it looks like that only applies to Windows XP, as nothing changes and I get the same error.

I have re-installed the game twice and nothing has changed.

I ran Dependency Walker over the game's .exe and replaced all the DLLs it reported as missing, but once again - nothing changes!

It can't be a DirectX problem because all of my other games use DirectX versions both older and newer than the version World at War uses and they work just fine (the original Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, which hasn't even been officially confirmed to work at all on Windows Vista, works flawlessly!

So, what should I do now? Would a re-install of Windows fix this? Thanks in advance, by the way.

As you said it was good on win7,cod5 world at war was made for: xp, vista and win7,but you use win 8.1 try to change comptability.Make a desktop shortcut and right click it then go properties and go under tab comptability and change your comptability mode.

No good. Gives the same error for XP, Vista and 7 compatibility modes, although I ran a troubleshooter and it said "incompatible program", even after running it in compatibility mode?

 

[kimatahi]

Pls tell me you use 32 or 64 bit?

 

[Sowkloss]

Pls tell me you use 32 or 64 bit?

Oh, forgot about that. 64 Bit.

My specs are above the recommended specs.

 

[kimatahi]

This solution is easy (may work may not) make a desktop shortcut and run game as administrator.and try to verify game files trough steam.

 

[Sowkloss]

This solution is easy (may work may not) make a desktop shortcut and run game as administrator.and try to verify game files trough steam.

Tried both of those things and neither of them worked 🙁 (still the same 0xc000007b error)

 

[kimatahi]

Can you please provide me screenshot of error.

 

[kimatahi]

Oh one more solution that helped few ppl with this error.Download this:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632 its a C++

 

[Sowkloss]

http://i.imgur.com/UcW9s1F.png

 

[Sowkloss]

Oh one more solution that helped few ppl with this error.Download this:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632 its a C++

It's saying "a newer version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable has been detected on the machine."

 

[kimatahi]

Okay I dont have any possible solutions left in my head.I tried basic ones.Pls go to this link and try all solutions in order to remove error:http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-1931360/0xc00007b-error-fix.html

 

[Sowkloss]

Okay I dont have any possible solutions left in my head.I tried basic ones.Pls go to this link and try all solutions in order to remove error:http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-1931360/0xc00007b-error-fix.html

Alright, so after a third re-install, the game works fine now! Third time's a charm, I guess 😛

 

[kimatahi]

Glad it worked 😀 have fun gaiming

 

[junkeymonkey]

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