Tensorflow Error: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found

Question

I've looked through previous answers to similar questions but couldn't find the answer that worked for me.

I've worked with TensorFlow for a long time. Currently trying out Yolov4 which has a requirement to use Tensorflow version 2.3.0, so I decided to install that one.

Anaconda's latest release is 2.1.0 that works great on my computer. So since that was not enough, I created a new environment and installed Tensorflow with pip install tensorflow-gpu which installs version 2.3.0 seemingly without errors.

Then for the import tensorflow as tf I get this error. Any ideas what to try to resolve this?

>>> import tensorflow as tf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\mazat\Anaconda3\envs\tf23\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 64, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python._pywrap_tensorflow_internal import *
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\mazat\Anaconda3\envs\tf23\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\__init__.py", line 41, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python.tools import module_util as _module_util
  File "C:\Users\mazat\Anaconda3\envs\tf23\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python.eager import context
  File "C:\Users\mazat\Anaconda3\envs\tf23\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\eager\context.py", line 35, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tfe
  File "C:\Users\mazat\Anaconda3\envs\tf23\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tfe.py", line 28, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
  File "C:\Users\mazat\Anaconda3\envs\tf23\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 83, in <module>
    raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\mazat\Anaconda3\envs\tf23\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 64, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python._pywrap_tensorflow_internal import *
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

Answer 1

Looks like the problem was the old version of Redistributable for Visual Studio. With the new version from here, it seems to work thus far!

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

Answer 2

I had a similar problem and update Visual Studio ( https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/pt-br/downloads/ ) worked for me.