Posted February 11, 2013
I am hoping people responsible for gog.com will read this, as far as I know CD Projekt Red are both developers of Witcher and people behind this digital service, so there are no excuses:
Why Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package isn't mentioned on the system requirements page? I was trying to figure out why Adventure Editor didn't launch at all, then found this in event log:
Activation context generation failed for "C:\GOG Games\The Witcher Enhanced Edition Director's Cut\SYSTEM\Djinni!.EXE". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.MFC,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.507 27.762" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
so I realized version="8.0.50727.762" stands for a missing VC++ Redist package, I googled, apparently it is 2005 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5638
The Adventure Editor works now. Every normal publisher in the world includes VC++ Redist packages with the games when they are needed. Why gog.com(CD Projekt Red) are an exception? This very sloppy and unprofessional.
Why Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package isn't mentioned on the system requirements page? I was trying to figure out why Adventure Editor didn't launch at all, then found this in event log:
Activation context generation failed for "C:\GOG Games\The Witcher Enhanced Edition Director's Cut\SYSTEM\Djinni!.EXE". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.MFC,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.507 27.762" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
so I realized version="8.0.50727.762" stands for a missing VC++ Redist package, I googled, apparently it is 2005 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5638
The Adventure Editor works now. Every normal publisher in the world includes VC++ Redist packages with the games when they are needed. Why gog.com(CD Projekt Red) are an exception? This very sloppy and unprofessional.