That may well be the case, yeah. I only tried to run winetricks vcrun2022 while still on wine 6 which just complained about invalid arguments so I didn't even think to try again after updating wine. Either way just getting the dll file online was evidently enough. However I have noticed some rather ...

Well now I feel moderately stupid. I was using wine-6.0.3 which appears to have been the issue indeed. I had already resigned myself to accepting that CS6 has already been running without any problems and is really all I need anyway. But as is the brain of a nerd, it wouldn't leave me alone and I up...

First of all, amazing that you took the time to write down the process for others to potentially follow. Secondly, I tried getting PS2024 running like this and ran into a hand full of issues. For one, even after copying all the files you listed it still cried about missing a bunch of additional dlls...