Game crashes when clicking on "play" on the launcher, "shader casche builder process"

You’re missing a DLL from the Visual C++ Redistributables. You should be able to resolve this by:

  1. Uninstall the Visual C++ 2019 Redistributables
  2. Reinstall the Visual C++ 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 Redistributables: Latest supported Visual C++ Redistributable downloads | Microsoft Learn
  • You may be prompted with an option to repair, as opposed to install. In which case, you may proceed with the option to repair