Cannot launch: Require NET core?

[onomastikon]

I have been playing D:OS2 for a couple of dozen hours and enjoying it. After coming back from holiday, I tried to launch the game again but was unable: A popup says I need to install NET .core. I have no idea what this is or why I need to install it, since the game had been running well previously. I am not sure if this is some bizarre hack or not, I am not terribly technically inclined. I do have the GOG version, if that does make a difference.
thank you in advance

[jonnin]

this is a microsoft library required for almost all major windows programs. If you don't have it, this message is normal, and almost all games require a version of it.

You can get it from microsoft, but its weird that you don't have it. Maybe part of your disk went bad or something?

[onomastikon]

I don't understand how I can't have it, since I've been playing this game for a while, as well as all other games in my library, without a problem. Can I damage anything by reinstalling it? Or is it safer to reinstall divinity?

[jonnin]

I don't know if uninstall can remove .net or no. It could, I guess, if nothing else is using it.
easiest to just install what it asked for. But I have nothing on how it got damaged/removed/whatever.

[onomastikon]

Thanks. It sounds more like a bug with the Larian launcher than anything else, since if all other games require it and I can launch every single non-larian game in my library, I guess it is a problem with the launcher recognizing that I actually have it installed. I just don't want to ruin all my other games by trying to fix this, do you know what I mean? I'm too ignorant of these tech things to be able to weigh the risks properly

[Stormfox]

As the others said, for some reason or another, the game or its launcher requires a .net component that you do not seem to have. Usually they come packaged with the main game installers because different games use different variants of it.

The easiest two ways to troubleshoot this:

- Simply launch the game directly (by using the game exe instead of the launcher exe to start) instead of the launcher. If the issue was with the launcher alone, that circumvents not only the issue but also the completely superflous launcher.

- Completely uninstall and reinstall the game. It *should* provide the missing libraries and other third party thingies it might require in the installer. This will not affect your savegames, since those would have to be manually deleted - the uninstaller does not even know they exist.

On Steam, you could try "verify integrity of game files" before doing the latter, which usually works and is much quicker.

[onomastikon]

OK thanks.
As mentioned, I have the gog version. The "verify" version of the gog did the trick and my main problem is solved. Apparently, Larian patched the game since I had last played it and introduced a brand new launcher, I thought when people mentioned the superfluous launcher they had been talking about the one I was used to, but no: there is now an additional one on top of that one, much like the publishers of Stellaris made.
I don't really "need" it now, since I found a workaround, but I wouldn't mind bypassing this new launcher, yet I cannot find the .exe to the game itself. When I click on "show folder" from the .gog library, I get led here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Divinity - Original Sin 2
and in this folder, there is just some "launch" shortcuts, and clicking on "properties" takes me here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Divinity - Original Sin 2\bin
but I cannot find the game .exe. The only .exe are game support tools, driver version checker .exe, and something called cefsharpbrowsersubprocess.

Does anyone know what the .exe is called and where I can find it to bypass the "new" launcher (in the .gog version) ? Is the "support tool" -- the shortcut in the "bin" folder the launcher icon shortcuts to -- the real game .exe ?
thank you

[Xmerwynd]

EoCAPP.EXE is the exec file for the game

[Zionus5]

My antivirus thought the new launcher was virus and quarteened it before i could click add expection now I;ve redownloaded my favoirte game twice and it won't start.

[LaeLena]

Played the first game a couple of months ago, no additional launcher or account needed. today wanted to start this one and there seems to be no way to start the game without making an account. I don't care about "managing online functionality" when I have 0 plans to play with other people. I'm so getting so tired of having to make account for single player for games that didn't need one for years.

[cronuss]

Go to \steamapps\common\Divinity Original Sin 2\DotNetCore and run the msi installer there manually