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Drivers are not an issue for quite some time (but its always good to have latest nvidia ones for example for optimizations focused on given game).

But its trivial to run into some .NET or Visual C++ redistributable hell when you just get a cryptic error during starting and thats it. Just check internet. I have roughly 20 of them installed currently (why the heck?) and earlier versions would happily get installed over already-installed version of same for example as part of game installation process, not a stellar workmanship on MS side. Whats wrong with having latest being backward compatible with all of previous ones, like ie Java achieved 25 years ago?

Talking about fully updated windows 10 and say official steam distros of the games.



> Drivers are not an issue for quite some time

> its trivial to run into some .NET or Visual C++ redistributable hell when you just get a cryptic error during starting and thats it. Just check internet.

Thanks for making my point for me.




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