2026 Steam DDDA first time launching error : 0x0000142
I have bought Dragon Dogma Dark Arisen directly from Steam a few days ago and finally got time to play it today, but when I launched it, I received this 0000142 error and can't play it at all. I have looked up ways to fix it, like setting the launcher to administrator, but it didn't work, then I downloaded .dll libraries onto Windows system folders and even directly onto the executable game file and it still fails. I tried getting the steam file .dll directly from steam directory like older posts suggested, verified integrity, and it still failed me. I double checked all those and restarted the laptop after too. My laptop is an ASUS TUF 16 and it has not even been a year since I bought it if that info helps.. I was super excited to try this game so I am trying my best to solve this, and this post is probably my last hope to find a solution. If anyone has faced a similar issue, or maybe it's just a new update issue, or maybe someone knows more about computers than me and figure what that error means, I would seriously appreciate any help or info🙏 My suspicions are either that the game is old so I need to do some shenanigans for compatibility or that maybe my windows firewall deleted some stuff it suspected when I downloaded the game.. (P.S. at-launch errors never happened to any other Steam game before Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen, aside from Bayonetta)