First time setups are so annoying

I think it's necessary since many important things that are too complicated for me to comprehend are installed and checked. In other words, DA MAGICZ.

I like to collect all the versions of C++. :D

You know, that "setup" is there for a reason - and it's not only to annoy you.

just hit cancel and start the game again, it works for me

If you ask me, what's even more annoying is when you launch your game and with basic graphics configurations all at max. I can't understand why it is made taht way insted of the reverse, all at mini.

As you said it is a first-time setup. You only have to do it once and it takes less than a minute. Thirty years ago you'd have to wait about half an hour to boot up games, every time.

Actually, that problem is very easy to avoid.

Since first time setups only happen the first time you play the game, skip the first time and start with playing it the second time right away.

simple solution, buy a freaking console

I hate that too, I can't recall how many times Direct X has been installed on my pc from installing games.

The annoying thing comes when the game attempts to run the first time setup EVERYTIME coughThe Witcher 2cough

Everytime I have installed a new steam game - my pc is like : Oh noes...not another Direct X 9 setup..who needs this crap.."?

I hate installing games from DVDs too. They should be waiting already in my pc when I come from the store I just bought them

Edit the installscript.vdf, and delete all contents, save, and make read only. Or just delete it. Never be bothered by first time setups again(for that specific game) I'd make sure you do it at least once just to make sure you have everything you needed installed from it, but if it keeps doing first time setup everytime you start the game, do the installscript.vdf trick.(which is located inside the specific games folder).

deal with it, simon. :P

This it that way:
Installers are made to make things work by people much more intelligent than you. Let them do their work.

Only takes a minute usually, I dont mind it honestly.

once the actually little loading bar loads you can cancle the installation and steam continues to launch just a little tip

Yeah, it is a little annoying. I did a web search for info recently and found some article that said it's because of some helper library (or something) of DirectX, not the main app itself. Apparently there are lots of different versions of that library, and there's no guarantee that a game developed with one version of it will work properly with another version, so they have to install whatever version the game used the first time you run it. I guess it makes sense, but doesn't really explain why games are so sensitive to the version of this library. shrug