I used to play games easily on my laptop, I bought a new laptop (a Lenovo E540) and I installed Windows 8.1, which is the same operating system as I had on the old one, and I ran through all of the system updates for drivers and DirectX.
I installed the same games on my new laptop (ex: Assassin's Creed IV – Black Flag) but a strange weird error displayed "Application Was Unable To Start Correctly (0xc00007b)" as follows:
How can I resolve this issue?
Best Answer
The only solution that worked for me was to reinstall Windows 8.1.
After deep investigation, I found that one of the DLLs for DirectX was corrupted.
I tried to update DirectX but it keep informing me that I had the latest version with no errors.