MTA:SA fix

MSVCR, VCRUNTIME or core.dll cannot load

If the error names a missing Microsoft runtime file, install the matching official Microsoft redistributable package.

Codes on this page: CL24, CL26

Steps

1. Check which DLL the error names

   If the error names MSVCR120/MSVCP120 or VCRUNTIME140/MSVCP140, open the official MTA runtime guide and follow its links to the Microsoft Visual C++ package. If core.dll failed to load and the error names none of these, the cause may be something else.

   Source: MTA help

2. Install or repair the Microsoft package

   Run the Microsoft installer that the guide links to, choose Install or Repair and let it finish. Restart if the installer asks you to, then try MTA again.

   Careful: Do not download single runtime DLLs from DLL download sites.

   Source: MTA help

3. Turn off a graphics mod in the GTA folder

   Only if you installed a graphics mod that adds d3d9.dll next to GTA’s program file in your GTA installation.

   Back up that mod, then turn it off by following its own removal instructions. Then try again. Leave Windows system DLLs alone.

   Source: MTA help

Still not fixed? Copy the whole message, not only the code, and check your log in the Fix tool. It is read on your own computer.

Other problems like this

• D3DX9 DLL is missing
• CC50: Direct3D9 could not initialize
• CL02: MTA cannot copy update files
• CL22: MTA could not start GTA:SA
• GTA executable or a required GTA file is missing
• CL15: semicolon in the installation path

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