Kontakt 7 Player won't start due to "missing" MFReadWrite.dll and MFPlat.dll

TLnative

Hello. I've recently purchased the Definitive Piano Collection and Kontakt 7 Player won't start up due to the aforementioned error pop-ups. Kontakt 6 Player does work so I'm using that one for now, but I want to understand this issue. Someone in an older thread also mentioned this error prevented Maschine 2 from running. The issue isn't mentioned elsewhere so I'm not sure what is this.

My PC runs the latest Windows 10 update. Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB DDR4, Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD.

EDIT: I rechecked that older thread, which I thought hadn't arrived at a solution because there was one suggestion and a reply which said it didn't help, but now I noticed it was from a different user. It suggested installing the Windows Feature Pack if you have an N version of Windows (which I have) and indeed it works now.

TLnative

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/42412#Comment_42412

This was the thread. The instructions how to install are withing the Microsoft link:

https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/dll-file-error-while-opening-maschine-2-is-starting.416683/

Jeremy_NI

@TLnative Great to hear that it works now, but to help future users maybe you can share the link and solution of that other thread.

TLnative

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/42412#Comment_42412

This was the thread. The instructions how to install are withing the Microsoft link:

https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/dll-file-error-while-opening-maschine-2-is-starting.416683/

Jeremy_NI

@TLnative Thanks for sharing!

TLnative

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/42574#Comment_42574

"withing"... Oops. Why can't posts be edited past a few hours?