What Version of Dolphin Did Not Require VCOMP.dll (NOTE: not typical vcomp100 thread)

03-15-2012, 02:28 PM #1

This is not one of those threads where I am asking about how to fix the vcomp.dll problem. I have solved that and dolphin works great on my computer. However, I want to bring dolphin to the computers in my video editing class.

Since we are doing the CAHSEE and other testing this week, I am going to be stuck in the class for four hours with nothing to do (I already passed the CAHSEE). So I have decided to bring in dolphin and get my smash bros on Cool

The thing is, the school installed a program on the computer that makes it wipe the drive each night. Any unauthorized programs will get erased and windows is just basically restored to what it was the first day installed.

The only way to keep an installed program on the computer is to log into the computer with an Admin account and put in some special settings so the computer does not erase it. However, in my class, we all have our own folders to store our class work that do not get erased. So I put Dolphin on there one day, got the tech kid in our class who had access to the admin account to let install the C++ stuff and I got to play. But since the computers get wiped each time they are shut down, the next day it did not work. Dolphin is still on the computer but I am getting the vcomp.dll error message. So here is my question...

Question/tl;dr - Which dolphin version did not require vcomp.dll? As I said before it is a pain in the butt to install the C++ packages each day I want to play as the computers wipe themselves each night. Thanks guys.

**neobrain** · 03-15-2012, 02:33 PM #2

Just take the vcomp.dll inside your system folder and put it at your school computers in your Dolphin folder? :/

03-15-2012, 02:35 PM #3

(03-15-2012, 02:33 PM)neobrain Wrote: Just take the vcomp.dll inside your system folder and put it at your school computers in your Dolphin folder? :/

I thought the vcomp100.dll file is in windows 32? If that is so, then I can't do that because I don't have access to the windows 32 folder as a student. Even if I went on the admin account it would still get erased as any changes or erased unless they are OK'd in the program the school installed.

lamedude · 03-15-2012, 06:41 PM #4

System32 folder for 64bit and SysWOW64 for 32bit or if you're using 32bit Win than the System32 folder. Copy that dll from any Windows with VC redist installed into your Dolphin folder.

**ExtremeDude2** · 03-15-2012, 10:58 PM #5

(03-15-2012, 06:41 PM)lamedude Wrote: System32 folder for 64bit and SysWOW64 for 32bit or if you're using 32bit Win than the System32 folder. Copy that dll from any Windows with VC redist installed into your Dolphin folder.

Yeah, normally we wouldn't recommend just dumping .dll's in your folders, but that seems like the best thing to do in your case.

**AnyOldName3** · 03-16-2012, 06:12 AM #6

Another thing which may work, but is just as likely not to, or at least to be a bit on the slow side would be to create a mobile version. Basically you get a piece of software, such as cameyo, which scans your registry and hard drive. You then install dolphin and the C++ Redistributable package etc, and then click a button in cameyo to tell it that everything is done, so it can scan again. It then dumps all the data to a single file executable, so you can store this wherever you want, and as long as it isn't deleted it should work. Don't use the online version, as that won't work for this type of virtualisation.

Some tips:

Do it on either a fresh install of the OS, or on a virtual machine, but definitely not during a virus scan/disk defragment/while moving iso files, or on a computer which already has the stuff installed.

Don't leave it on your school network, just keep it on a pendrive. You can fix it when at home if it breaks, and can also run it anywhere you can find a computer.

Try to use the same OS as your school while making the portable version.

HawaiianPunch · (This post was last modified: 03-16-2012, 09:28 AM by HawaiianPunch.)

I swear I saw someone post a portable version of Dolphin here. However, it was over 90 MB and Xtreme took it down. It may be still up somewhere, I will start searching for it.
EDIT: Here it is, but obviously it has been taken down: http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread.php?tid=18286

**AnyOldName3** · 03-17-2012, 02:34 AM #8

90MB seems small for a portable program of this kind from my experience. I may make a portable version on a virtual machine, although I won't be able to upload it, so will just have to post the instructions.

**neobrain** · 03-17-2012, 02:57 AM #9

Yeah, the guy who posted that build either had malicious intentions or just had no clue what he was doing (probably the latter).

AnyOldName3: using cameyo boils down to the same as just copying the dll file from the system directory, just that copying the dll file is a lot simpler and cleaner (and more likely to work Tongue

) in this case.

**AnyOldName3** · 03-17-2012, 03:17 AM **#10**

OK, I wasn't certain, but I've also had to use that for actually installed files too, ones which use the registry, and that was the best way to do it. I thought I'd throw it into the mix, as at least for other programs it can be really useful. At least I've let the op know it exists, and even if it doesn't help him with this, he can do stuff that he couldn't earlier now if he so wishes.