The most common problems for a lot of games on PC is that some people don't actually install all the drivers needed to running them, as either they assume they did, have forgotten to do so from either new builds, fresh installs, or just never though of doing it ever for whatever reason.

You want both x86 & x64 install of Microsoft Visual C++ from 2005 to 2020. Can find it all here from microsoft website.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-GB/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

Next you want to google search for the latest version of Nvidia physx, yes this can work with AMD GPU's as well, some games uses it such as the batman arkham asylum, or etc where you can't get far in the game due to missing physx support it rely on, or to fix the visual effects.

Now you want to install .NET Framework you want both 3.5 version and 4.8 or newer than 4.8, as 3.5 can work with older games, and 4.8, or higher is for newer games. DOWNLOAD ONLY THE RUNTIME, not the dev kit/pack.
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet-framework

You want DirectX installed if you don't have that done yet, normally should be downloaded inside of your Steam folder when download games, can be find here Steam\steamapps\common\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist\DirectX all have to do is run DXSETUP.exe, and click install, that about it.

Lastly is Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=20914

Once have all that installed, you're basically cover for almost any games to run, now to fixing Paladin move onto Step 2.

So this is a problem for games using certain verison of OpenSSL which got fixed in later version as this is around time release of intel 10th gen, any new updates for OpenSSL that got used by devs in their game fix the issue.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/troubleshooting/openssl-sha-crash-bug-requires-application-update.html

You got two options, pick only one below.

This is very simple, and easy to do, just right click on game in steam library > click on properties > then in the launch options, just copy, and paste command below, this will open your Command Prompt everytime you launch the game, to inject this command to help run the game, so don't freak out if you see CMD pops up. Also thanks to Extensiionblu3 for pointing that out.

cmd /c "set OPENSSL_ia32cap=:~0x20000000 && %command%"


This covers basically any games, or software that has this problem, without needing to think, or remind yourself doing this as it just a set, and forget, unless you reinstall windows.

1. Open your windows search, and look for "Environment Variables" without quotes. You see "Edit the system environment variable" click on it.
   
2. Press "Environmental Variables" button can't miss it.
   
3. Click on "new..." button the BOTTOM ONE!!! As you see two buttons that say new you want the bottom, not the top.
   
4. Enter the following into the Variable name box: "OPENSSL_ia32cap" <--- copy, and paste without the quotes.
   
5. Enter the following into the Variable value box: "~0x20000000" <--- copy, and paste without the quotes. Then click ok, and you're done, may need to restart pc for it to take affect. Hope this works for all of you.

Here screenshot if reading too hard.