Sucks when you buy a game, download the game, configure a game load a short cut to the game but instead of launching the game just gives you a microsoft error. XINPUT1-3dll is missing.?,...Yeah it sucks, because I didn't buy it to fix it. I just wanted to play it.


Reinstalled file set, no changed, reinstalled game files, started right up. I'm using Galaxy again. Last time it was disappointing so I uninstalled, but I decided to try it again.

Google DirectX end user runtime download and install.

Or look on the install directory for Redistributables or installers for the directx files.

Ninja'd ^

Don't say that, before they'll include all existing Directx in all installers. O_o'

Gog should just do a simple thing:
add a link to the required packages in the game downloads page

(and do the same for Galaxy)

They already did... back when Witcher 3 was released.

That button isn't clear enough, because dumb users seem to miss it.
Gog should add a galaxy_setup.exe directly among the game files (possibly in a subsection)

And who guarantees that they won't miss it as well?

It would be a good idea to do that, as with cd's and dvd's DirectX and Microsoft Visual C are included as well. Some cd's/dvd's ask then at the end of the installation if you want to install directX or not and other cd/dvd's just run it to look for existing directX and if your version is up to date it does nothing. Steam does this as well.
For Galaxy your concern is valid, as Galaxy is just extra software. But DirectX and Visual C are needed anyway, so i don't see the problem there. Also, some games have even communitypatches in the installer.

If they managed to miss even that, it means that they also missed the entire game.
At that point, Gog will have to send someone to the client's house to install everything. XD

Right, given that most users here like to keep local back-ups of their games collection ( kinda the point of DRM-free games ), I'm sure everyone would be absolutely ecstatic about even more redundant file deadweight on their HDDs.

So, no guarantee at all. Got it.

It would be swell of the game checked your install and then prompted you that you don't have direct x files and that it needs to download them from Microsoft.

I would hate it if every install file had direct in it every time.

At that point do you think maybe... just maybe, and this is PURELY hypothetical, believe me; the end user may just *gasp* not want galaxy installed? *DUN DUN DUHHHHHN*

>.> No, tthey probably just missed the purple bar, the blue button the incessant repeated push to try Galaxy without any indication what it actually is (Here, try our new software that you don't know what it does!)

I keep backups of my games so I can install them and play them anywhere, so having all the necessary bits is pretty important to me.