diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ad3aa4d..a89341d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "sha1_smol",
  "simple-log",
+ "static_vcruntime",
  "steamlocate",
  "tokio",
  "winresource",
@@ -1501,6 +1502,12 @@ version = "0.9.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6980e8d7511241f8acf4aebddbb1ff938df5eebe98691418c4468d0b72a96a67"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "static_vcruntime"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "954e3e877803def9dc46075bf4060147c55cd70db97873077232eae0269dc89b"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "steamlocate"
 version = "2.0.0-beta.2"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f47c013..00927b4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ indicatif = "0.17.8"
 tokio = {version="1.38.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"]}
 simple-log = "1.5.1"
 
-
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
 openssl = { version = "0.10.64", default-features = false, features = ["vendored"] }
 
@@ -34,6 +33,7 @@ self-replace = "1.3.7"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 winresource = "0.1.17"
+static_vcruntime = "2.0"
 
 [package.metadata.winresource]
 OriginalFilename = "alterware-launcher.exe"
diff --git a/res/build.rs b/res/build.rs
index 8aa9e51..5004d4b 100644
--- a/res/build.rs
+++ b/res/build.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 fn main() {
     if std::env::var("CARGO_CFG_TARGET_OS").unwrap() == "windows" {
+        static_vcruntime::metabuild();
         let mut res = winresource::WindowsResource::new();
         res.set_icon("res/icon.ico").set_language(0x0409);
         res.compile().unwrap();