can someone help

[thin merlin]

im going to bed i thought id ask before tho so ill try it in the morning

[molten hinge]

how are you trying to convert them to a .vpk?

[thin merlin]

im trying to use the vpk.exe in the tf2 bin and i have tried using the vpk.exe on halflife 2 @molten hinge

[molten hinge]

have you just been trying to drag a folder on top of the vpk.exe?

[thin merlin]

yes

[molten hinge]

hmm

[thin merlin]

i tried to open hammer.bat and nothing

[molten hinge]

have you verified the game's files?

[thin merlin]

yes

many times

i tired to use half life 2 vpk.exe and the same thing

[thin merlin]

do you have any other ideas?

lmao

[molten hinge]

Install DirectX Redist, all versions of Visual C++ and .NET Framework 4.x (4.8/4.8.1 recommended)
This would solves many issues with not only missing DLLs, but also game crashes related to DirectX 8/9 files not installed or it is outdated. This is also included from Steamworks Shared.
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Missing_required_DLLs

could try that

[thin merlin]

can you walk me through it idk what im doing

[molten hinge]

but i've never personally encountered this issue, nor do i mess with hammer or much of the game's tools, so i'm unfortunately not of much help outside of googling

[thin merlin]

im not veru tech savvy

[molten hinge]

1 sec

[thin merlin]

thank you

[molten hinge]

so i believe the files they're referring to can be found here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet-framework/net481

and i'm searching for the visual c++ files to download atm

[thin merlin]

can i dm you

[molten hinge]

sure