@maddynakedymaddy

On my Windows 8 machine with the 32 bit version of Pd and 32 bit version of GEM I was seeing the "can't load library" message from GEM. The only thing that worked for me was when I added msvcr71.dll to the pd\bin folder. I found this mentioned on the Sourceforge forum for pd-gem in response to someone using Windows 10. . The person there said to put the dll in C:\windows\system but I tried it in [...]\pd\bin first and it worked. I had to download the dll from an online dll repository.

I realize this is an old thread but for others like me who had this problem this might help. Good luck!