Not the best for a game as intensive as this apparently, but it should at least start, so I'm not looking for comments on my bad specs. I've read people say try to start it straight from the Shootergame.exe, but all I get is an 0xc000007b error when doing this.Īnyone else got any more ideas, because I have no idea what else to do except get a refund at this point, but I'd much rather play the game. Others have you reinstalling Microsoft Visual, Directx, etc but also no luck.

Some programs using this file Goat Simulator. example: C:Program Files (x86)'Game name'x3daudio17.dll. In response to a 32-bit prefix, I tried this. Most fixes relate to installing SP1, but I guess that's a win 7 fix only. x3daudio17.dll is commonly found in Windows system directories, but can also be located in the same folder as the program using it. I've also downloaded the X3DAudio17.dll and saved it under the system32/ directory. I've tried googling and i've read most of the links relating to this that I can find, but even after trying everything, I still haven't got any closer. The services seem to show up for a few seconds in task manager before disappearing after a few seconds but that's as far as it gets. Download and install X3DAudio17.dll to fix missing or corrupted dll errors. For others who have similar issues, download Dependancy Walker (32-bit for 32-bit windows, 64-bit for 64-bit windows) and open the game youre looking to play. When I go to play the game, it just starts the battleye service, tries to launch the game and then nothing. The X3DAUDIO17.DLL I had installed in my system32 folder was for 32-bit Windows.

Hey, I bought Ark a couple of days ago, but I can't for the life of me get it to start.

X3daudio1 7 dll 32 bit