My friend and I both bought the Dead Island game. I set up my copy and it works flawlessly but for my friend it responds with this message "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail". I searched the net exhaustively to find a solution but none of the answers has worked! I would really appreciate any help by you guys!,
We both run 32-bit Windows 7.
Best Answer
Looking in Dead Islands manifest I can see a dependency for Microsoft.VC90.CRT.dll version 9.0.21022.8.
Is that located in your Windows\winsxs folder? If it is check the version number, you probably have the wrong one.
If it's not that, to determine the dll responsible for the side by side error you could download and use this tool. But that gets a bit complicated and would be a better questions for superuser.com,