Side-by-side configuration error

I am receiving this when I launch the game.. I can't seem to find a posting anywhere including the 2K website on what could be causing this or how to fix it?

Yes I've re-installed both steam and the game.. same error.

I found a link that said to update something, as soon as I did this the game loaded. BTW I run Vista.


here is the link for the 32-bit version :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en

and for the 64-bit version :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en