Will I get better fps if I install the latest visual c++ and remove the old ones?

[Steve McGrossi]

Hello,

So 1st of all I have this build:

Pentium D 925
ASUS GeForce GT640 1GB GDDR5 (Yes yes I know I have bottleneck)
2GB RAM DDR2 667 mhz
MSi 0a48

and, because I get some low fps in games, some people told me to install the latest version of visual c++ (2013). I looked to the forums and it said that if I uninstall the old ones, some games linked with those versions of visual c++ might not run correctly or nor even open. So I thought if I removed the old versions of visual c++, uninstall every game I have and then install it again, will it link to the newer version of visual c++ and get better frames?

Thanks in advance and sorry for the long thread 😛

 

[RaDiKaL_]

No, at most it might give you 2fps in very specific titles.

 

[Pinhedd]

Hello,

So 1st of all I have this build:

Pentium D 925
ASUS GeForce GT640 1GB GDDR5 (Yes yes I know I have bottleneck)
2GB RAM DDR2 667 mhz
MSi 0a48

and, because I get some low fps in games, some people told me to install the latest version of visual c++ (2013). I looked to the forums and it said that if I uninstall the old ones, some games linked with those versions of visual c++ might not run correctly or nor even open. So I thought if I removed the old versions of visual c++, uninstall every game I have and then install it again, will it link to the newer version of visual c++ and get better frames?

Thanks in advance and sorry for the long thread 😛

You will need to install the latest revision of each major MVCR release, which are 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2013. There are 32-bit and 64-bit versions of each.

Minor revisions typically just include security and bug fixes. Minor improvements to the worst cases and edge cases for some algorithms are occasionally included, but it's exceedingly rare for a patch to include performance improvements to the common case. In other words, updating the distributable (and removing the older revisions) may improve performance if performance is hampered by bugs, but that's about it.