SeaGtGruff
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I have several DAWs installed on my computer. Most of them are either freeware DAWs or free versions of commercial DAWs, but I also have Acoustica Mixcraft, which I bought about a year or two ago.
Anyhow, I decided to download and install the free trial version of FL Studio, because I'm trying to help someone on another forum try to figure out how to use it, and he knows zip about DAW software in general.
So I installed FL Studio, and as soon as it was done it asked if I wanted to install Deckadance-- or maybe I had selected it as one of the features in FL Studio to install, I don't remember. So I installed Deckadance.
Unfortunately, now whenever I start up Mixcraft I get three error messages about missing DLLs-- xerces-c_3_0.dll, avutil-50.dll, and avcodec-52.dll. Mixcraft does come up after I close the three messages, and it does appear to still work okay, but I'm not sure if some functionality might be affected.
I searched for "xerces-c_3_0.dll missing" on the web but got nothing helpful. So I decided to search the C drive of my computer to see if the files were anywhere on it, and guess what? Yes indeed, they're on my computer-- in the Deckadance2 folder! I suppose that means that, wherever they used to be, the Deckadance installation process apparently removed them from their old locations when it installed them in the Deckadance2 folder.
Huh? Now I'm sorely tempted to uninstall the stupid Deckadance program, since I doubt I'll ever use it-- especially now that I know it doesn't "play well" with others, especially since it's just a trial version anyway-- except I don't know whether uninstalling it will fix this issue, or where those files used to be located before I installed Deckadance (assuming they were in fact on my computer at all).
Does anyone have any helpful experience or words of wisdom regarding Deckadance and/or these three DLL files?
Anyhow, I decided to download and install the free trial version of FL Studio, because I'm trying to help someone on another forum try to figure out how to use it, and he knows zip about DAW software in general.
So I installed FL Studio, and as soon as it was done it asked if I wanted to install Deckadance-- or maybe I had selected it as one of the features in FL Studio to install, I don't remember. So I installed Deckadance.
Unfortunately, now whenever I start up Mixcraft I get three error messages about missing DLLs-- xerces-c_3_0.dll, avutil-50.dll, and avcodec-52.dll. Mixcraft does come up after I close the three messages, and it does appear to still work okay, but I'm not sure if some functionality might be affected.
I searched for "xerces-c_3_0.dll missing" on the web but got nothing helpful. So I decided to search the C drive of my computer to see if the files were anywhere on it, and guess what? Yes indeed, they're on my computer-- in the Deckadance2 folder! I suppose that means that, wherever they used to be, the Deckadance installation process apparently removed them from their old locations when it installed them in the Deckadance2 folder.
Huh? Now I'm sorely tempted to uninstall the stupid Deckadance program, since I doubt I'll ever use it-- especially now that I know it doesn't "play well" with others, especially since it's just a trial version anyway-- except I don't know whether uninstalling it will fix this issue, or where those files used to be located before I installed Deckadance (assuming they were in fact on my computer at all).
Does anyone have any helpful experience or words of wisdom regarding Deckadance and/or these three DLL files?