Every project that is created with Visual Studio requires the redistributable package to be installed. Thats how it is, I can't change that either.

But it's no problem to include the installation of the redist. into the game installer. laugh
Btw. new computers should already have the package installed.

I will try to add a warning message into anet.h if the .dll can't get loaded.

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