[Bug 23324] Need for Speed: Shift installer fails to detect Visual C++ 2005 runtime (Wine doesn't advertise its own VC++ runtime)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23324

Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
            Summary|Need for Speed: Shift       |Need for Speed: Shift
                   |installer thinks we don't   |installer fails to detect
                   |have Visual C++ runtimes    |Visual C++ 2005 runtime
                   |installed                   |(Wine doesn't advertise its
                   |                            |own VC++ runtime)

--- Comment #3 from Anastasius Focht  2011-10-14 15:29:53 CDT ---
Hello,

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Is this a duplicate of bug 25961?
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well this bug is actually for app/game installers that query for Visual C++
2005 runtime installations.
Bug 25961 talks about Visual C++ 2008 runtime.

For discussion and list of VC++ 2005 GUIDs see this blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2007/01/16/mailbag-how-to-detect-th...

Regards