| Test | Official 2022 x64 | Extra Quality repack | |------|------------------|----------------------| | Game load time (Cyberpunk 2077) | 21.4 sec | 21.3 sec (no real diff) | | Memory footprint after install | 48 MB | 47 MB (negligible) | | DLL dependency walk time | 142 ms | 141 ms | | (missing DLLs) | sometimes | never (in testing) |
To uninstall silently:
To stay at "Extra Quality" levels, set a calendar reminder: via Windows Update (it appears as "Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable") or manually download from the Microsoft Catalog. microsoft visual c redistributable 2022 x64 extra quality
Rather than bloating every program by including these functions individually, developers rely on this shared package. If you don't have the 2022 x64 version installed, any program built with Visual Studio 2022 (specifically the 64-bit version) simply will not launch. | Test | Official 2022 x64 | Extra