diff --git a/qrenderdoc/3rdparty/pyside/Win32/PySide2/Qt5Qml.dll b/qrenderdoc/3rdparty/pyside/Win32/PySide2/Qt5Qml.dll
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..31da57981
Binary files /dev/null and b/qrenderdoc/3rdparty/pyside/Win32/PySide2/Qt5Qml.dll differ
diff --git a/qrenderdoc/3rdparty/pyside/Win32/PySide2/Qt5Qml_stub.cpp b/qrenderdoc/3rdparty/pyside/Win32/PySide2/Qt5Qml_stub.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..340c17743
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qrenderdoc/3rdparty/pyside/Win32/PySide2/Qt5Qml_stub.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+typedef unsigned long DWORD;
+typedef void *HANDLE;
+typedef void *LPVOID;
+
+class QObject;
+class QString;
+
+class QQmlData {
+public: __declspec(dllexport) static class QQmlData *__cdecl get(const QObject*,bool) {return 0;}
+};
+
+namespace QV4 {
+struct Value;
+struct ExecutionEngine {
+  __declspec(dllexport) unsigned __int64 __thiscall throwError(const QString&) {return 0;}
+  __declspec(dllexport) unsigned __int64 __thiscall throwSyntaxError(const QString&) {return 0;}
+  __declspec(dllexport) unsigned __int64 __thiscall throwTypeError(const QString&) {return 0;}
+};
+struct PersistentValueStorage {
+  __declspec(dllexport) static ExecutionEngine *__cdecl getEngine(Value*) {return 0;}
+};
+};
+
+extern "C" long __stdcall _DllMainCRTStartup(HANDLE hDllHandle, DWORD dwReason, LPVOID lpreserved) {return 1;}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/PythonContext.cpp b/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/PythonContext.cpp
index c8369ce24..fd5548c54 100644
--- a/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/PythonContext.cpp
+++ b/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/PythonContext.cpp
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ PyTypeObject **SbkPySide2_QtWidgetsTypes = NULL;
 
 #endif
 
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+// for the LoadLibrary call on 32-bit windows
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
+
 #include <QApplication>
 #include <QDebug>
 #include <QDir>
@@ -342,6 +347,14 @@ void PythonContext::GlobalInit()
 // set up PySide
 #if PYSIDE2_ENABLED
   {
+// hack for win32 builds, where our pyside2 accidentally depends on Qt5Qml.dll for no good
+// reason and we ship a stub to allow the dll to load instead of rebuilding the whole of pyside2
+// :S
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && !defined(_M_X64)
+    QString Qt5QmlStub = QApplication::applicationDirPath() + lit("/PySide2/Qt5Qml.dll");
+    LoadLibraryA(Qt5QmlStub.toUtf8().data());
+#endif
+
     Shiboken::AutoDecRef core(Shiboken::Module::import("PySide2.QtCore"));
     if(!core.isNull())
       SbkPySide2_QtCoreTypes = Shiboken::Module::getTypes(core);
diff --git a/qrenderdoc/qrenderdoc_local.vcxproj b/qrenderdoc/qrenderdoc_local.vcxproj
index d92f2f30d..1651661f4 100644
--- a/qrenderdoc/qrenderdoc_local.vcxproj
+++ b/qrenderdoc/qrenderdoc_local.vcxproj
@@ -1712,6 +1712,11 @@ IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 (echo ====================================================
       <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
       <Visible>false</Visible>
     </Content>
+    <Content Include="3rdparty\pyside\$(Platform)\PySide2\Qt5Qml.dll" Condition="Exists('$(ProjectDir)3rdparty\pyside\$(Platform)\PySide2\Qt5Qml.dll')">
+      <Link>PySide2\Qt5Qml.dll</Link>
+      <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
+      <Visible>false</Visible>
+    </Content>
     <Content Include="3rdparty\pyside\$(Platform)\PySide2\__init__.py" Condition="Exists('$(ProjectDir)3rdparty\pyside\$(Platform)\PySide2\__init__.py')">
       <Link>PySide2\__init__.py</Link>
       <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>