Borderlands 2 on Windows 10

[Saris]

Hi there,

 

so I decided to start up Borderlands 2 again, this time under Windows 10. Going through Steam, it would start the Launcher, but after pressing "Play", nothing happened. After a check for game file integrity I tried reinstalling the game but to no avail.

 

Starting the .exe directly as admin lead to an error message, telling me something about xapofx1_5.dll having an error, etc. After downloading the .dll from another page and plugging it in, the error still persists.

 

Does anybody have a solution to this?

[tlink]

try installing it outside of program files, or any windows folder for that matter.

 

[Wrb]

Your not alone with this problem, I know 2 people who have had this. Unfortunately all they did to fix this was to wait a few days and it worked again. So you could try restarting your computer.

[Ryoku]

25 minutes ago, Saris said:

Hi there,

 

so I decided to start up Borderlands 2 again, this time under Windows 10. Going through Steam, it would start the Launcher, but after pressing "Play", nothing happened. After a check for game file integrity I tried reinstalling the game but to no avail.

 

Starting the .exe directly as admin lead to an error message, telling me something about xapofx1_5.dll having an error, etc. After downloading the .dll from another page and plugging it in, the error still persists.

 

Does anybody have a solution to this?

This is a directx error so try installing the directx that comes with BL2 should be in "Borderlands 2\Binaries\Redist"

[Saris]

It is installed outside of the Windows folders and I tried installing the DX files through the .exe that comes with Borderlands 2. Unfortunately that didn't help.

 

When checking for the integrity of the game files, Steam always comes up with 1 faulty file that it redownloads (9,4 MB). Even after that, when checking for the integrity, it still finds an error and downloads a file at exactly the same size...

[Saris]

I solved it!

 

First of all I removed the  xapofx1_5.dll from the System32 and launched the DirectX Update Application. That didn't help. Then I read about  xapofx1_5.dll also being in the SysWow64 folder (the one for the 32 bit programs - I have no idea why Microsoft named the 64 bit folder "System 32" and the 32 bit one "...64").

I then deleted the  xapofx1_5.dll and also the  xapofx1_3.dll file from both directories and restarted the DirectX Update Application. It reinstalled the files and all of a sudden, Borderlands 2 is up and running.