Seriously.

The only reason I know about this fix path is that I had to go through a similar fix for a missing C++ dist for another game a couple of months back. Had I not just randomly had to fix a similar problem recently, I’d have been clueless. And casual users are just NOT going to know about these kinds of fixes, and will just be stuck with a game that doesn’t launch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯