[BUG] Launching Chromium on Windows complains about missing libraries

Context:

• Playwright Version: 1.3.0
• Operating System: Windows 7
• Node.js version: 12.18
• Browser:Chromium

Code Snippet

const { chromium } = require('playwright');

(async () => {
  const browser = await chromium.launch();
  const context = await browser.newContext();
  const page = await context.newPage();


  await browser.close();
})();

Describe the bug Chromium doesn’t work, but other browsers seems to work fine

Console Output:

G:\GitHub\quran-api>set "DEBUG=pw:api" && node dircheck.js
(node:16052) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: browserType.launch: Host s
ystem is missing dependencies!

Full list of missing libraries:
    api-ms-win-core-winrt-error-l1-1-0.dll

Note: use DEBUG=pw:api environment variable and rerun to capture Playwright logs
.
    at validateDependenciesWindows (G:\GitHub\quran-api\node_modules\playwright\
lib\server\validateDependencies.js:78:11)
    at async validateDependencies (G:\GitHub\quran-api\node_modules\playwright\l
ib\server\validateDependencies.js:47:16)
    at async Object.validateHostRequirements (G:\GitHub\quran-api\node_modules\p
laywright\lib\server\validateDependencies.js:34:5)
    at async Chromium._launchServer (G:\GitHub\quran-api\node_modules\playwright
\lib\server\browserType.js:154:13)
    at async Chromium._innerLaunch (G:\GitHub\quran-api\node_modules\playwright\
lib\server\browserType.js:76:61)
    at async ProgressController.run (G:\GitHub\quran-api\node_modules\playwright
\lib\progress.js:75:28)
    at async Chromium.launch (G:\GitHub\quran-api\node_modules\playwright\lib\se
rver\browserType.js:62:25)
    at async G:\GitHub\quran-api\dircheck.js:4:19
(node:16052) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This
 error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch
 block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To termin
ate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandl
ed-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejecti
ons_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:16052) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are depr
ecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate th
e Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

[aslushnikov]

@fawazahmed0 can you please try now with npm install playwright@next?

[egadsthefuzz]

Just ran into this and the newest version that worked was 1.2.1. As others in the thread have said, same everything installed, same dependency walker on latest version. Here is the dependency walker for the version that works