The Blue Sun Mod

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After getting fed-up with vanilla because of the Mafioso brother shoot-out I decided to install the BFX mod. Great, right?

Sadly, wrong.

I do a clean install of the game and then try to install the 1.06 patch. Instead I immediately get a message that the MSVCR71.dll is missing. But I HAVE the latest vcredist installed...

Ignoring that problem I then install the mod and run the game.

After I set-up my character the game then crashes after a few seconds of showing the splash screen, with the usual "the game did something bad..." window, but with no explanation for the crash.

And if I try to mark the entire folder as not read only the game CTDs even before going into main menu...

HELP!!!!

EDIT: I have the newest vcredist (2010) and the newest .NET (3.5 SP1) installed. I'm THIS close to deleting the Blue Suns rar file permanently off my computer and just playing the vanilla version.

EDIT EDIT: my vanilla game's version is 1.11 build 286

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Okay, fixed it!

All I had to do was google MSVCR71.dll, download it off the first site I found and then install it into C:/Windows/System32.

Then I just ran patchme.bat, installed the mod and the game runs!

Thanks R@S for amazing work on this mod!