I wish to replay Wither £ Wild Hunt GOTY on my new PC. When I tried to do so it starts to download Galaxy but fails informing me of lots of different files that are apparently missing. I'm guessing that this has something to do with Windows 11 as it worked fine before on previous rig which was Windows 10 I believe.

Can anyone advise? I have no clue as to what to do and any help will be very much appreciated

I would think the installer for Galaxy has no dependencies and includes everything it needs, but Galaxy may install dependencies (especially used by other games/programs) which it may rely on itself.

So what file(s) are missing specifically? It may lead to specific dependencies we can suggest to install.

Worst case i would start downloading the offline installers, they include pretty much everything needed to run the game.

Thank you for your reply. I will try to install again and take note of which files it says are missing. It was a lot of them. Of course now I realise that it would be beneficial to know what files. That makes total sense. As you can probably tell I'm not too hot on this kind of thing. I will put another post on ASAP

mhmm. Probably install the MS Visual Studio C++ redistributables of 2013 and 2015 that most programs seem to use. Might also be .Net, though which version(s) it might be i couldn't know, it's all a mess at this point. Beyond that, identifying missing DLL names a search will say what packages it came from. In the past Office and other programs would fail to run because said DLL's were missing, yet other packages included them.

Just lack of foresight sometimes with these things.

• If you want GOG Galaxy but don't have it installed, download the full installer from the second "downloadLink" which is for Windows (the first is for Mac). Unlike the default installer, this one doesn't need to download components from the Internet. Once GOG Galaxy is installed, you can go to the Owned Games section, click a game, then click the Install button.
• You can download the offline game installer instead. Open your library in a web browser, click the game, then expand the "Download offline backup game installers" section. If you want, games installed this way can be added to GOG Galaxy from the Cog wheel - Add games & friends - Scan folders for GOG games.

When I try to install this is what happens:

1 Click download link for Galaxy 2
2 After downloaded I try to run or run as administrator
3 Everything seems to go fine and files start installing until:

Machine bleeps and a box comes up with message stating missing files

MSVCP140.DLL I click ok button

Then another box comes up about missing files

VCRUNTIME140.DLL I click ok and it repeats 3 times in all

MSVCP140'DLL (again) click ok
VCRUNTIME140.DLL (again) " "
MSVCP140'DLL (again) " "
VCRUNTIME140.DLL (again) " "
MSVCP140'DLL (again) " "
VCRUNTIME140.DLL (again) " "

Then box comes up says install finish but when I try to run the same boxes come up again

MSVCP140'DLL (again) click ok
VCRUNTIME140.DLL (again) " "
MSVCP140'DLL (again) " "
VCRUNTIME140.DLL (again) final click ok

And then nothing at all. That's it absolutely nothing.

Do you guys know how I can fix this? I do not have a clue what to do

I downloaded the files from the dll site but when I went to place them in the system 32 folder I was informed that they already existed in a newer form. I tried the installer again and it still insists the files don't exist.

The only difference I can see is that the files already there are in lower case whereas the ones that the installer asks for are in Caps.

I have now tried:

running scannow which did find corrupted files but still Galaxy doesn't work. I have tried to install the dll files but they already exist in a newer form.

I'm sorry to ask but does anybody have any ideas what I need to do?

I'm going to try this right now Thanking you in advance


It bloody failed again!

Just to double-check, you installed both the following, then restarted Windows?
• https://files.gog.com/support/MSVC2015/vcredist_x86.exe
• https://files.gog.com/support/MSVC2015_x64/vcredist_x64.exe

If so, I don't know what could be wrong. Things get muddled when downloading DLL files off random websites and dropping them into the system32 folder.

You can open a support ticket, if you haven't already. If you're having trouble with the chatbot, supposedly e-mailing support (at) gog (dot) com also works. Be warned GOG support tends to be slow to respond.
You can also post on answers.microsoft.com though I've found that forum to be unhelpful. Maybe try elevenforum.com or superuser.com as well, and reddit.com/r/gog/

Good luck.

I probably will open support ticket because as far as I know I have tried everything. If it comes down to it I’m more than happy to do a complete reboot of my pc if that’ll help.

I would like to say I am extremely grateful to all of you for your help

I'm sorry I couldn't help, but you're welcome. The only suggestion I have left is to install both redistributables from Microsoft, since they could possibly be newer than the ones on the GOG server.
• https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe
• https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
Source: Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable latest supported downloads

Are you aware that you don't even need the galaxy client to access your games.
The best thing to do, is uninstall it and forget about it.

As was mentioned above, download the normal game installers from your account:
https://www.gog.com/en/account
After you've downloaded & installed them normally, don't try to add them to the galaxy client.
Just play them straight from your desktop. Simple!
( :

I wouldn't drop them in the system32 folder, i'd drop them in the same folder as the game exe file. Typically search path includes the local directory when looking for dll files, probably first (as an override) before going to the global/system32 folders.

Installed galaxy but can't open. Help me