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Posted January 22, 2020
Is there a way to install the dependencies for games installed on an external hard drive without running the full installer, dependencies like C++ 2005 redistributibles
Posted January 22, 2020
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ThePassingVoid: Is there a way to install the dependencies for games installed on an external hard drive without running the full installer, dependencies like C++ 2005 redistributibles
it's for Windows? you can open installed game folders and look for dependencies in redist or similar folder, run everything you see.
or, you can close this question once and for all games, install everything by yourself, vc++ from 2008 to 2015 (at least) both 32 and 64 bit, full stack of DirectX 9 (especially if you're on win 10), openAL, .NET at least 46
everything can be downloaded from M$ except openAL which is open technology. Do it once and it will save time for every game install in future.
Post edited January 22, 2020 by djoxyk
Posted January 22, 2020
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ThePassingVoid: Is there a way to install the dependencies for games installed on an external hard drive without running the full installer, dependencies like C++ 2005 redistributibles
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djoxyk: it's for Windows? you can open installed game folders and look for dependencies in redist or similar folder, run everything you see.
or, you can close this question once and for all games, install everything by yourself, vc++ from 2008 to 2015 (at least) both 32 and 64 bit, full stack of DirectX 9 (especially if you're on win 10), openAL, .NET at least 46
everything can be downloaded from M$ except openAL which is open technology. Do it once and it will save time for every game install in future.
Risen 2 and 3 require Phyxs system software to run and ty for the tip I will try it
Posted January 22, 2020
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djoxyk: it's for Windows? you can open installed game folders and look for dependencies in redist or similar folder, run everything you see.
or, you can close this question once and for all games, install everything by yourself, vc++ from 2008 to 2015 (at least) both 32 and 64 bit, full stack of DirectX 9 (especially if you're on win 10), openAL, .NET at least 46
everything can be downloaded from M$ except openAL which is open technology. Do it once and it will save time for every game install in future.
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ThePassingVoid: Risen 2 and 3 require Phyxs system software to run and ty for the tip I will try it
ah, that's different thing. more likely your GPU is too new for this game and uses new version of physx. you need to install legacy version of physx in your system (it will work side by side with new one). I recall other games need same approach (Silverfall for example)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/physx/9_12_1031/physx-9-12-1031-legacy-driver/
Posted January 22, 2020
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ThePassingVoid: Risen 2 and 3 require Phyxs system software to run and ty for the tip I will try it
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djoxyk: ah, that's different thing. more likely your GPU is too new for this game and uses new version of physx. you need to install legacy version of physx in your system (it will work side by side with new one). I recall other games need same approach (Silverfall for example)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/physx/9_12_1031/physx-9-12-1031-legacy-driver/
Is there a way to look up the dependencies for each game?
Post edited January 22, 2020 by ThePassingVoid
Posted January 22, 2020
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djoxyk: ah, that's different thing. more likely your GPU is too new for this game and uses new version of physx. you need to install legacy version of physx in your system (it will work side by side with new one). I recall other games need same approach (Silverfall for example)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/physx/9_12_1031/physx-9-12-1031-legacy-driver/
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ThePassingVoid: Can I install the dependencies through steamworks common redistributables?
why steamworks? it has nothing to do with steam, this driver distributed by Nvidia, physx is technology exclusive to Nvidia, so it is better to grab installation file from Nvidia site directly. or you can check game redist folder for file with physx name on it, installing it also can solve this issue.
Posted January 22, 2020
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ThePassingVoid: Can I install the dependencies through steamworks common redistributables?
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djoxyk: why steamworks? it has nothing to do with steam, this driver distributed by Nvidia, physx is technology exclusive to Nvidia, so it is better to grab installation file from Nvidia site directly. or you can check game redist folder for file with physx name on it, installing it also can solve this issue.
what if the game doesn't have a redist folder?
Posted January 22, 2020
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ThePassingVoid: Is there a way to look up the dependencies for each game?
I'm not sure. I'm Linux person, on Linux box it is easy, just use ldd on game executable and it will list all modules this game needs and which ones already loaded. For Windows you will have to research game requirements
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djoxyk: why steamworks? it has nothing to do with steam, this driver distributed by Nvidia, physx is technology exclusive to Nvidia, so it is better to grab installation file from Nvidia site directly. or you can check game redist folder for file with physx name on it, installing it also can solve this issue.
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ThePassingVoid: what if the game doesn't have a redist folder?
then you should look better
https://steamdb.info/depot/40394/

it has :)
Post edited January 22, 2020 by djoxyk
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