When I click play in the launcher it waits a second flashes the screen and then fails. I found a fix that seems to be helping people although when I get to step 2 the option is greyed out on my pc. Can someone help???? I will attach screen shots.
What was the last thing that the game displayed? Was it the loading screen with a portrait, but without text? That is usually caused by a broken save game.After a test in windowed mode the game loading screen poped up for a second, disappeared and the error continues.
This thread is from 2019/early 2020. The versions of eu4 from that time didn't need vcruntime140_1.dll. And I would not recommend downloading vcruntime140_1.dll from some shady website(AFAIK there is no official download for just that one file), because that file might be broken, contain a virus or stop working if a newer version of eu4 needs a newer version of that DLL. If you have the problem of the missing vcruntime140_1.dll (you can see that by starting eu4.exe directly), I would recommend installing the X64 version of the Visual C++ Redistributable 2015, 2017, 2019,2022 from the official download page at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redistTry downloading vcruntime140_1.dll and extract it to the folder where eu4.exe is (..\Steam\steamapps\common\Europa Universalis IV). This worked just fine with me.