Sunday, February 12, 2012

Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine not loading with a 0xc000007b error

Purchased this game on Steam recently and found the thing not to load.

When running from Steam, Steam brings up the "Preparing to launch ..." window then disappears, and nothing happens.

When loading directly from the exe, it would only come up with the error:

"Attemping to run the SpaceMarine.exe brings the following error;
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK the close the application."

Well following Steams utterly fucking shit support to no resolution, and the forums not even existing with this error, I decided to find out why the fuck it wouldn't load.

Resolution;

Copy the d3dx9_37.dll from the "steam\steamapps\common\warhammer 40,000 space marine\redist\directx\Mar2008_d3dx9_37_x86.cab" cabinet to the space marine root "steam\steamapps\common\warhammer 40,000 space marine" folder.

Space Marine now loads flawlessly.

Had already tried the same file from Windows\system32 & Windows\SysWOW64 into the Space Marine folder but it did not resolve it.