Steamworks Common Redistributables?

[RendCycle]

This morning, all of my installed games suddenly got download updates. I let them finish processing and then I exited Steam. When I was shutting down my PC, I was prompted to update Windows. So I did and then turned off my computer. Tonight, I left Steam and my PC run for a while and when I came back, I noticed Steam made another update: Steamworks Common Redistributables which downloaded about 592MB file. This is strange and I cannot find any info about it. When I click the image, it just redirects to my Library. Is this normal and what is the Steamworks Common Redistributables?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1654423940

[Russell]

So...

This "Steamworks Common Redistributables" that's waiting to download isn't a virus that will brick my PC? And it is from Valve?

Every so often Steam updates itself and asks to restart and I just do it without questioning, I've never seen this thing before and therefore I'm suspicious.

So it's fine (I should download and install) and Valve are just bad at communicating what this thing is?

[ronfino]

just got the download for the first time

[Meltman]

It just installed for the second time for me, although in this instance it was a 0mb installed. Huh.

[sp33d]

THIS THING IS A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! I WAS DOWNLOADING HOTLINE MIAMI. THE DOWNLOAD OF HOTLINE MIAMI IS FINISHED AND STEAM COMMON REDISTRIBUTABLES FINISHED TOO. BUT THAT SNEAKY ♥♥♥♥♥ TRIED TO DOWNLOAD SECOND TIME. I DELETED IT BUT NOW HOTLINE MIAMI DELETED TOO. WHAT A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ PROGRAM.

[Kaldaien]

For future reference, don't delete dependencies and expect software to work.

[Dreadjaws]

引用自 sp33d：

THIS THING IS A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! I WAS DOWNLOADING HOTLINE MIAMI. THE DOWNLOAD OF HOTLINE MIAMI IS FINISHED AND STEAM COMMON REDISTRIBUTABLES FINISHED TOO. BUT THAT SNEAKY ♥♥♥♥♥ TRIED TO DOWNLOAD SECOND TIME. I DELETED IT BUT NOW HOTLINE MIAMI DELETED TOO. WHAT A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ PROGRAM.

Honestly, what did you expect? Our complaints here aren't merely that this thing is being downloaded. It's that it's constantly being downloaded even though its purpose is to reduce the amount of downloads needed. But the fact remains that it's still necessary, so deleting it is counterproductive.

[KiddoIsGone]

The issue I have with this, and I keep uninstalling it for this very reason is that when ever I go to launch STEAMVR steam it's self crashes and freezes and then I have to force it to end task.. It only does this when Steamworks Common Redistributables in installed. When it's not installed everything works fine, I can play games and so on, would be really awesome if it'd stop installing it's self every time I get on Steam. I really hate it.

[bat27man]

引用自 sfnhltb：

This isn't part of Steam as such, it is a number third party installers used by lots of games/software, such as the Microsoft C++ Redistributable runtime files (which allow programs written entirely or partly in C++ to run on a system).

Previously to this every developer that needed to install one of them as part of their game had to write the script to install it, and it would have to be downloaded for each and every game you had that needed it, and the install run (the second and all subsequent times it would presumably work out nothing needed changing, although this can still take a little while as it has a lot of files to check are the right minimum versions).

Now the first game you download that uses a particular version of a shared component will download and install it, just as before, although it is downloaded to a different place, but later games that need it will not download it or install it again, saving disk space, download capacity and time.

Okay but my game files I've noticed are downloading without all of the C++ in them and none of them will run now. Spent hours trying to fix and redownload and verify files. You guys talk about opening your pubg file and finding those redistributions in the game file itself and the only place I have those is in that Steamworks folder now. Nothing works

[R3plicant34]

Title: World of Warships downloading/installing - Steamworks Common Redistributable - BC2 launch failure - error code 0xc000007b - will it likely solve the BC2 launch failure issue?

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Guys n girls, could this SWCR install (my Steam just installed it after I went to download/install World of Warships) help me launch Bad Company 2 after it refused to launch yesterday (it's refused to launch for several months)?

I'm kinda sat here now hoping this Steamworks Common Redistributable install gives my Bad Company 2 the kick it needs to properly launch.

If I tried to launch BC2 from Steam, it just didn't launch, OR, if I tried to launch the BC2 application itself, I got the 0xc000007b error code.

I'm reinstalling BC2 after this World of Warships installs - I hope BC2 launches now that Steam has installed the SWCR files!

[VanderOZ]

引用自 aiusepsi：

It looks like this is a sort of edge case they probably didn't consider when they made Steamworks Common Redistributables visible. Whoops. Hopefully this will get fixed.

Right now, it looks like the best thing to do is to hide it from your library. Unfortunately, you do this via the window where you set categories, which is missing from the context menu for tools. Luckily, if you go into the detail view you can set categories from the list of links on the right, and tick the checkbox which hides it.

this worked.

[R3plicant34]

引用自 _Vander_OZ_：

引用自 aiusepsi：

It looks like this is a sort of edge case they probably didn't consider when they made Steamworks Common Redistributables visible. Whoops. Hopefully this will get fixed.

Right now, it looks like the best thing to do is to hide it from your library. Unfortunately, you do this via the window where you set categories, which is missing from the context menu for tools. Luckily, if you go into the detail view you can set categories from the list of links on the right, and tick the checkbox which hides it.

this worked.

Worked? What did it do? I assume you mean it helped make the launch of BFBC2 successful after previously getting the BFBC2 launch failure / the 0xc000007b error message? I don't understand,... Thanks. Or are you referring to something else? :) Just to reiterate,. installing the SWCR didn't cause my BFBC2 to fail launching,.. BFBC2 was failing to launch LONG before I installed it at the time I posted my message.

[.Ashes]

引用自 aiusepsi：

It looks like this is a sort of edge case they probably didn't consider when they made Steamworks Common Redistributables visible. Whoops. Hopefully this will get fixed.

Right now, it looks like the best thing to do is to hide it from your library. Unfortunately, you do this via the window where you set categories, which is missing from the context menu for tools. Luckily, if you go into the detail view you can set categories from the list of links on the right, and tick the checkbox which hides it.

Came to say this is all I wanted to know.

I don't care what it is or what it does, but it is obviously not a game so it shouldn't be showing in my game list. I understand it only shows under the "Installed" filter, which technically is correct, but I'm not a developer, I prefer grid view because it's more fun to see the big game icons, and I only want to see installed games.

Anyway, thanks!

[Aemony]

The reason it shows up under "Installed" (if it wasn't clear) is that "Installed" shows all installed games, software, and tools on the system.

[62]

Gotta love being forced to download redist crap that you already have before you can play your game. I just launched the game exe manually from it's folder and let steam do its pointless download that my game apparently needed while I playing the game perfectly fine

[mARTEEEEEEEn]

CLAAAARO