This symptom is usually due to the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable not being installed. Steam is supposed to install it automatically as a pre-requisite but for some reason, it fails on occasion. (I've seen it happen when Windows is way out of date and needs to run some updates).
This symptom is usually due to the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable not being installed. Steam is supposed to install it automatically as a pre-requisite but for some reason, it fails on occasion. (I've seen it happen when Windows is way out of date and needs to run some updates).
Try downloading and installing the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio. Here's the direct link to the latest one: https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe