HGL
harsh-harlequin
Heroic does not install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables
Hi! I recently installed Mad Max from GOG and realized that the FPS was much lower than what my system is capable of. As I have the game on Steam as well, I installed that version to compare the performance with the GOG one and it was over 100%.
Realizing something wasn't right, I checked the prefix for the Steam version. It had installed both "VC 2010 Redist" and "VC 2013 Redist" which weren't installed inside the prefix of the GOG version.
After I installed both VC Redist with Winetricks inside the GOG game prefix, the FPS was the same as the Steam version.
I tested the same thing with Death Stranding Director's Cut: on SteamDB it is possible to see that it has "VC 2019 Redist" as one of the depots. Installing it on my game prefix (EGL version) increased the FPS in around 40% to 50%.
I would like to know if it is possible to automate the installation of these redistributables somehow. I don't know if this information exists and/or is captured by legendary or gogdl.
SteamDB
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correct-apricot•2y ago
GitHub
[GOG]: Refactor almost all GOG components by imLinguin · Pull Reque...
This is massive PR which will take some more time. Most critical parts are practically done.
At this moment it's required to use gogdl binary overwrite, obtainable from https://github.com/Heroi...
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
Automatic installation of redistributables (tested with Mirror's Edge) nice! Does legendary has something like this as well?correct-apricot•2y ago
I have no idea.
Epic does have this concept as well, although I've opted not to run them there since a lot of games actually break if we auto-install them
stormy-gold•2y ago
how could vcrun break a game?
I think we should figure out what's breaking the games
It's not VCRun specifically, but prerequisites as a whole. Fall Guys for example specifies the EAC Installer, which of course won't work on Linux
stormy-gold•2y ago
oh
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
Couldn't you create a blacklist of redistributables, like EAC?
stormy-gold•2y ago
yeah I was thinking along those lines too
but that would have to be part of legendary
not heroic