Vortex keeps breaking on update

[NEXB]

Vortex worked perfectly fine last night. I shut my computer down, wake up, and when I go to play today it tells me ffmpeg.dll is missing.

 

I reinstall, and suddenly the exe of the latest version refuses to install. So after about 6 cycles of reinstalling and uninstalling, I download a previous version

 

I finally get it to install on the previous version, but all my mods were missing and it wouldn't attach to the mod folder I had before.

 

I close it, giving up for the day. Decide to try again, and it autoupdated on close, putting me back at the very beginning.

 

Someone please help me before I toss my monitor out a window, im at my f*#@ing limit

[Guest deleted34304850]

ffmpeg is nothing to do with vortex - sounds like your system is messed up.

also - removing vortex and reinstalling an old version is guaranteed to give you a bad day.

 

if i were you, i'd be running any kind of system health checks, including sfc to see if you're missing system files - it certainly sounds like you are.

if your system is compromised then that's where you need to start.

[Tannin42]

ffmpeg.dll ships with Vortex, if it's missing it got deleted on your system post installation, either by an Antivirus or some other malicious software.

[Guest deleted34304850]

i saw it was also part of one of those chat protocol things snapchat/whatsapp or whatever ? - it seems to be used across a variety of applications, hence i thought that there may be something more afoot than vortex alone.

[HeyYou]

 

ffmpeg.dll ships with Vortex, if it's missing it got deleted on your system post installation, either by an Antivirus or some other malicious software.

I love how this implies antivirus software is malicious lol

 

Some of it is....... When it installs a host of different apps, that bog down my machine, and cause more problems than they solve, time for them to go.