However, if you are a regular user (not a developer) and a mainstream app or game asks for this file, treat it as a warning sign. Reach out to the software vendor’s support team or find an alternative program.
Nothing halts your momentum quite like a cryptic DLL error message in the middle of launching a game or a piece of software. One of the more frustrating ones you might encounter is the "MSVCP140D.dll was not found" error. msvcp140d.dll was not found