Help I Can’t play any of my Paradox Games

[heath.oliver]

Ever since the beginning of monarchs journey my Crusader Kings has crashed before the launcher. Now, after trying every online fix I can find ti no avail I’ve reset my computer and now after redownloading steam and crusader kings I can’t even start the launcher. I’m getting “the procedure entry point strncpy could not be located in the dynamic link library... tbb.dll”. When I revert to an older Beta which allows me to start the program but CK2 stops responding before the launcher even loads.
After several days trying fixes I’ve re downloaded Hoi4 and I get the same error.
Please if anyone has any suggestions I’d be very appreciative as I have spent a lot of money on DLC across several games and now I can’t access any of them.

 

[AndrewT]

You get the tbb.dll error on both games? Because they have separate launchers.

When you say you've reset your computer, do you mean a full Windows Reset - which would mean a complete reinstall of Steam and all games? Or a reboot or something?

 

[heath.oliver]

You get the tbb.dll error on both games? Because they have separate launchers.

When you say you've reset your computer, do you mean a full Windows Reset - which would mean a complete reinstall of Steam and all games? Or a reboot or something?

When I run directly from steam the launchers don’t even come up but when I run from the .exe file I’m the steam/steamapps/common folders I get a tbb.dll error on both. Before hand I was getting a different error but I reinstalled Microsoft C++ redistributable’s and it resolved to this.

I did a system Refresh so it Reset the computer but kept my login profile and a few other things.
Should I try a full factory reset?

 

[AndrewT]

If you are okay with that, it would be great! I always hesitate to suggest that so I'm glad you mentioned it first

Obviously make sure you have all valued documents and photos backed up first.