The info means that the redist dll should be distributed as-is on all Windows on Windows 10/11, the redist dll itself checks the inbox dll version, and if it's higher, then the inbox dll will be used
It's bad linkage of the game developers, or they are built against the XAudio 2.9 from Windows 10 SDK you can check xaudio2Redist.h or Microsoft.XAudio2.Redist.targets
of course yes directx is still needed in win11 (and newer) the full DX enduser runtime redist on 1st post might be required to run certain games on W11
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Hi Abbodi, look at the Nuget site there is an updated version of XAudio2_9redist.dll that is digitally signed dated January 18, 2023 and the file version is 1.0.2301.18001, while in the Repack it is signed dated October 14, 2021 and the file version is 1.0.2110.14002. I don't know if this is relevant, but according to the Nudget site Microsoft.XAudio2.Redist has been updating.
Yes yes, it's mentionned in the first post, works for W7 and later. For W7 and W8.x however there seems to be very rare occurences where some games might complain https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...r-runtime-june-2010.84785/page-2#post-1812878 Adding a second copy of the file and renaming it to xaudio2_9.dll in system32 folder will fix this problem. This file is already present in W10 and later so it's not needed there.