rinkyxcv1: I preordered and was very excited for this one... FINALLY I download and get "VCRUNTIME140_1.dll was not found" error. So far no response form tech support. Tried deleting then redownloading; the microsoft windows link recommended in tech support doesn't work..... This is the last time I ever 'pre-order' a game on GOG!

rinkyxcv1: I preordered and was very excited for this one... FINALLY I download and get "VCRUNTIME140_1.dll was not found" error. So far no response form tech support. Tried deleting then redownloading; the microsoft windows link recommended in tech support doesn't work..... This is the last time I ever 'pre-order' a game on GOG!

nightcraw1er.488: You are missing a c++ redistributable. You can download these off Microsoft’s site directly. Normally the installer from GOG will install these for you at the end of the game installation, I guess you either cancelled that part, or possibly gog omitted it by mistake.
Here, took me one second to find on search:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

Make sure you only download from Microsoft, and get the full redistributable. Never download dll’s from third party sites, always go to the M$ site.

nightcraw1er.488: You are missing a c++ redistributable. You can download these off Microsoft’s site directly. Normally the installer from GOG will install these for you at the end of the game installation, I guess you either cancelled that part, or possibly gog omitted it by mistake.
Here, took me one second to find on search:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

Make sure you only download from Microsoft, and get the full redistributable. Never download dll’s from third party sites, always go to the M$ site.

rinkyxcv1: First of all THANK YOU Nightcrawler, you certainly answereed much faster than GoG.
secondly, I tried tat, but I get the error message: "SETUP FAILED" one or more issues caused the setup to fail. Please fix the issues and then retry setup. For more informaion see the log file. Ox80070666 - Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this product cannot contuinue. To configure or remmove the existing versions of this product use add remove on control panel"

rinkyxcv1: PS. I DID at first download it from https://www.dll-files.com - I hope that site is not a problem. I have (I think) deleted that version and downloaded and installed the one from Microsoft. It said successful by Panzer Corps 2 still doesn't launch. Seems no matter what I still get the same error message.

nightcraw1er.488: GOG support will get back to you, remember is it evening time in Europe, and I am sure they are plenty busy with covid and the sales ongoing.

It may be you have a broken instal. You can goto start and control panel. Select add remove programs. You will see a list of redists if you scroll down that list. An example of mine can be seen in the below image.

I don't actually have 2015 one installed, but you may do, you can right click and uninstall from there, then download the installer from the microsoft site and install that. You will end up with loads of these installed x86 and x64, lots of games require them and usually install them automatically. Are you using galaxy? That could be the issue. I always download the offline installers and install them from those.

Eeek, never download dll's from websites! Do a virus scan and malware scan to be sure.
Also, you need to have the specific version for your OS, so if your 32 bit x86, if your 64bit x64. Doesn't matter if you install both. If it still doesn't work, maybe try installing 2017 version.

rinkyxcv1: "Are you using galaxy? That could be the issue. I always download the offline installers and install them from those."
Yeah, I actually PREFER to download WITHOUT Galaxy, how can that be done?

nightcraw1er.488: On website, under your username, select games. Find the game in question and click on it. Under download offline game installers expand that to show the installer files. Thats how. Not sure it will fix your issue though, sounds like the extension has got messed up. Would uninstall that, do system check, then download the files off M$ and install both x86 and x64 ones (and maybe 2017 version).