The other day I launched an old game and got met with an error, something about directX9 and missing a redistributable file or something. Decided not to fuck with it.

Yesterday I launched it again to take a closer look at the error message to see if I could fix it. No error message, game booted without issues.

My confusion.

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It got scared and decided to fix itself.

Don’t forget them cosmic rays flipping bits in your memory.

Did you reboot your PC after installing? Games often included DirectX redistributables which required a reboot to fully install.

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