Steamworks Common Redistributables....

[lPherion]

(sorry for my bad english) That "program" appear in my library last week, i can't uninstall , i cant delete the manifest of the steamapp folder, etc....
Someone knows how to delete/hide Steamworks Common Redistributables?

[wuddih]

they are required pre-requisite installers(dx/vc/b and other runtimes) by many games.
deleting them would just make them reappear the next time you install a game.

[Ogami]

Dont delete it. Its necessary.
Before, every game you downloaded came with their own set of Redistributables, DirectX, certain drivers and libraries needed for the game to run.
Often it was stuff you already had on your PC but the game still downloaded all of it when you installed it.

NOW, Steam has changed it so you have one automatic Redistributables directory in your library and if a new game install needs any of those files it installs from there.
Saves you a lot of download size and installation space, especially if you have a lot of games.

So dont delete it, if a game needs those files Steam will just automatically reinstall them.
Just leave them alone.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

I argue they should be placed in "Tools" to avoid this.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by AmsterdamHeavy:

I argue they should be placed in "Tools" to avoid this.

Or just download and install them with the Steam client, being a part of it.
Since its needed all the time.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Updates to shared installer content will now be listed under “Steamworks Common Redistributables”

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements/detail/1798531141142819058

[wuddih]

Originally posted by AmsterdamHeavy:

I argue they should be placed in "Tools" to avoid this.

they are already placed in tools but also in library in a forced tools category.

that will probably be changed sooner or later. for now this works and makes people actually aware of that something like this exists.

[Mawthra]

They do need to hide this from your main library... on a Steam Link or in BIg Picture mode on your desktop, it's utterly useless to have this show up as an item you can launch... at least let us right click it, go into Set Category and hide it like any other game... hidden installed games still get updated, etc.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Mawthra:

They do need to hide this from your main library... on a Steam Link or in BIg Picture mode on your desktop, it's utterly useless to have this show up as an item you can launch... at least let us right click it, go into Set Category and hide it like any other game... hidden installed games still get updated, etc.

Wait and see if they hide it when the Library update beta goes live.

[onurguzel16]

Originally posted by wuddih:

they are required pre-requisite installers(dx/vc/b and other runtimes) by many games.
deleting them would just make them reappear the next time you install a game.

Let me ask something. Where is that "tool" automatically installed as location / path? Steam's main folder or my library's folder? I am not asking the content location, I know it resides in "Main Steam folder\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist" location but no idea where the "tool" is itself placed in...

And my last question, are that tools removable from Windows Control Panel uninstall list called Apps & Features (aka Add/Remove Programs or Programs &Features in older Windows versions) just like traditional normal programs?

It seems Valve is trying to get rid of that annoying "0 kb game updates" mess by pushing a mandatory tool called "Steamworks Common Redistributables"?

[Cathulhu]

Yes, and no.
It's a simple change on how it is displayed, the behavior of depencies and how they are stored hasn't changed.

[Satoru]

1) it’s installed in steams install directory Steamworks/common/_steamworks Redistibutsbles
2) you can’t remove it as it’s linked to games and will simply redownload anyway
3) the point of it was to remove the redundancy of having the same tools installed multiple times by every game

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by onurguzel16:

It seems Valve is trying to get rid of that annoying "0 kb game updates" mess by pushing a mandatory tool called "Steamworks Common Redistributables"?

The shader pre-caching updates are not the same as the common redists. So no, it isn't them trying to hide that.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by onurguzel16:

Originally posted by wuddih:

they are required pre-requisite installers(dx/vc/b and other runtimes) by many games.
deleting them would just make them reappear the next time you install a game.

Let me ask something. Where is that "tool" automatically installed as location / path? Steam's main folder or my library's folder? I am not asking the content location, I know it resides in "Main Steam folder\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist" location but no idea where the "tool" is itself placed in...

And my last question, are that tools removable from Windows Control Panel uninstall list called Apps & Features (aka Add/Remove Programs or Programs &Features in older Windows versions) just like traditional normal programs?

It seems Valve is trying to get rid of that annoying "0 kb game updates" mess by pushing a mandatory tool called "Steamworks Common Redistributables"?

.\SteamApps\common\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist

there is no tool, it is just listed in Steam as one.

it is a simple depot of installers for pre-requisities that games can and will require on their first start.
before this every game would ship their own installers, resulting in that when you install 90 games, you have 90 times the directx installer on your drive. doesn't make much sense.
it made so less sense that people made cleanup tools for these files:
https://github.com/jonathanlermitage/tikione-steam-cleaner
https://github.com/Codeusa/SteamCleaner

what Steam does now does takes care of this issue and 3rd party tools are no longer required.

no, the steamworks shared redistributables dont get a registry entry to make them removable via windows because that would make no sense.

0byte updates have multiple reasons, a game switching to steamworks shared redistributables is just one event that causes a 0 byte update and again there is no tool, it is just classified within Steam under tools.

[onurguzel16]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by onurguzel16:

It seems Valve is trying to get rid of that annoying "0 kb game updates" mess by pushing a mandatory tool called "Steamworks Common Redistributables"?

The shader pre-caching updates are not the same as the common redists. So no, it isn't them trying to hide that.

:qr:

I just meant Common Redistributables by meaning above. Game specific "real" updates are seperated and not the subject of that topic.

Also I do not have any Shader Pre-Caching games, though.

[onurguzel16]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by onurguzel16:

Let me ask something. Where is that "tool" automatically installed as location / path? Steam's main folder or my library's folder? I am not asking the content location, I know it resides in "Main Steam folder\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist" location but no idea where the "tool" is itself placed in...

And my last question, are that tools removable from Windows Control Panel uninstall list called Apps & Features (aka Add/Remove Programs or Programs &Features in older Windows versions) just like traditional normal programs?

It seems Valve is trying to get rid of that annoying "0 kb game updates" mess by pushing a mandatory tool called "Steamworks Common Redistributables"?

.\SteamApps\common\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist

there is no tool, it is just listed in Steam as one.

it is a simple depot of installers for pre-requisities that games can and will require on their first start.
before this every game would ship their own installers, resulting in that when you install 90 games, you have 90 times the directx installer on your drive. doesn't make much sense.
it made so less sense that people made cleanup tools for these files:
https://github.com/jonathanlermitage/tikione-steam-cleaner
https://github.com/Codeusa/SteamCleaner

what Steam does now does takes care of this issue and 3rd party tools are no longer required.

no, the steamworks shared redistributables dont get a registry entry to make them removable via windows because that would make no sense.

0byte updates have multiple reasons, a game switching to steamworks shared redistributables is just one event that causes a 0 byte update and again there is no tool, it is just classified within Steam under tools.

Thanks for the nice answer friend. It clarified most of the things that I was aware of, and some of them were partially unclear.

I understood that there is no tool installed in fact and it behaves like a feature shortcut on Steam UI which points and downloads required redist setup files to main SteamWorks Shared\_CommonRedist folder. Just a shortcut of feature listed on UI unlike other installable "tools" in tools section. That's why it has no entry in Windows Control Panel's uninstall section... Correct?

Meanwhile, I found a bug about this feature is not working perfect that Steam Client is NOT fully clearing the space of individual games' "_CommonRedist" folders after downloading same redist content to correct "Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist" folder.

Posted here:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1780513570967074158/?ctp=5#c1798529872639757310

Do you have any clue about it?

I just recommend everyone to check their games' _CommonRedist folders might still be using space...