diff --git a/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge.sln b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge.sln
index 81436fa..897e381 100644
--- a/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge.sln
+++ b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge.sln
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
 VisualStudioVersion = 12.0.30110.0
 MinimumVisualStudioVersion = 10.0.40219.1
 Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "LiveSplit.MirrorsEdgeNoLoads", "LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge\LiveSplit.MirrorsEdgeNoLoads.csproj", "{6F40899A-6B45-4827-A3E7-1344DA09C4B8}"
+	ProjectSection(ProjectDependencies) = postProject
+		{0595D913-5F62-4D51-928C-8742CDE2F243} = {0595D913-5F62-4D51-928C-8742CDE2F243}
+	EndProjectSection
 EndProject
 Project("{002A2DE9-8BB6-484D-9802-7E4AD4084715}") = "menl_hooks", "menl_hooks\menl_hooks.visualdproj", "{0595D913-5F62-4D51-928C-8742CDE2F243}"
 EndProject
diff --git a/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/GameProcess.cs b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/GameProcess.cs
index 9445b69..562248a 100644
--- a/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/GameProcess.cs
+++ b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/GameProcess.cs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class GameProcess
 
         private Task _thread;
         private CancellationTokenSource _cancelSource;
-        private const string GAMEDLL = "menl_hooks.dll";
+        public const string GAMEDLL = "menl_hooks.dll";
         private const string PIPE_NAME = "LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge";
         private bool _pipeConnected;
 
diff --git a/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdgeNoLoads.csproj b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdgeNoLoads.csproj
index cc18160..e3b4efb 100644
--- a/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdgeNoLoads.csproj
+++ b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdgeNoLoads.csproj
@@ -50,8 +50,19 @@
     <Compile Include="MirrorsEdgeComponent.cs" />
     <Compile Include="MirrorsEdgeFactory.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Properties\Resources.Designer.cs">
+      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>
+      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>
+      <DependentUpon>Resources.resx</DependentUpon>
+    </Compile>
     <Compile Include="SafeNativeMethods.cs" />
   </ItemGroup>
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <EmbeddedResource Include="Properties\Resources.resx">
+      <Generator>ResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
+      <LastGenOutput>Resources.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
+    </EmbeddedResource>
+  </ItemGroup>
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
   <!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it. 
        Other similar extension points exist, see Microsoft.Common.targets.
diff --git a/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/MirrorsEdgeComponent.cs b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/MirrorsEdgeComponent.cs
index ddffb3e..01087a9 100644
--- a/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/MirrorsEdgeComponent.cs
+++ b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/MirrorsEdgeComponent.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-using LiveSplit.Model;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Security.Cryptography;
+using LiveSplit.Model;
 using LiveSplit.TimeFormatters;
 using LiveSplit.UI.Components;
 using LiveSplit.UI;
@@ -26,9 +28,11 @@ public string ComponentName
 
         public MirrorsEdgeComponent(LiveSplitState state)
         {
+            this.ExtractGameHooksDLL();
+
             this.ContextMenuControls = new Dictionary<String, Action>();
 
-            this.InternalComponent = new InfoTimeComponent("Without Loads", null, new RegularTimeFormatter(TimeAccuracy.Hundredths));
+            this.InternalComponent = new InfoTimeComponent(null, null, new RegularTimeFormatter(TimeAccuracy.Hundredths));
 
             _cache = new GraphicsCache();
 
@@ -46,6 +50,41 @@ public void Dispose()
                 _gameProcess.Stop();
         }
 
+        public void ExtractGameHooksDLL()
+        {
+            // if an IO exception is thrown anywhere in here, the component will fail to load. this is intended.
+
+            string path = Path.Combine("Components", GameProcess.GAMEDLL);
+            if (!File.Exists(path))
+            {
+                File.WriteAllBytes(path, Properties.Resources.menl_hooks);
+                return;
+            }
+
+            byte[] installedVersion = File.ReadAllBytes(path);
+            using (var md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider())
+            {
+                string installedVersionHash = Convert.ToBase64String(md5.ComputeHash(installedVersion));
+                string currentVersionHash = Convert.ToBase64String(md5.ComputeHash(Properties.Resources.menl_hooks));
+
+                if (installedVersionHash != currentVersionHash)
+                {
+                retry: // ?v=fiVr34QCF_c
+                    try
+                    {
+                        File.WriteAllBytes(path, Properties.Resources.menl_hooks);
+                    }
+                    catch (IOException)
+                    {
+                        if (DialogResult.Retry == 
+                            MessageBox.Show("Couldn't update " + GameProcess.GAMEDLL + "! Close the game and click Retry.", "Error",
+                            MessageBoxButtons.RetryCancel, MessageBoxIcon.Warning))
+                            goto retry;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
         public void Update(IInvalidator invalidator, LiveSplitState state, float width, float height, LayoutMode mode)
         {
             this.InternalComponent.TimeValue =
diff --git a/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..795a870
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// <auto-generated>
+//     This code was generated by a tool.
+//     Runtime Version:4.0.30319.34014
+//
+//     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
+//     the code is regenerated.
+// </auto-generated>
+//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+namespace LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge.Properties {
+    using System;
+    
+    
+    /// <summary>
+    ///   A strongly-typed resource class, for looking up localized strings, etc.
+    /// </summary>
+    // This class was auto-generated by the StronglyTypedResourceBuilder
+    // class via a tool like ResGen or Visual Studio.
+    // To add or remove a member, edit your .ResX file then rerun ResGen
+    // with the /str option, or rebuild your VS project.
+    [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.Resources.Tools.StronglyTypedResourceBuilder", "4.0.0.0")]
+    [global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
+    [global::System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CompilerGeneratedAttribute()]
+    internal class Resources {
+        
+        private static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager resourceMan;
+        
+        private static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo resourceCulture;
+        
+        [global::System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute("Microsoft.Performance", "CA1811:AvoidUncalledPrivateCode")]
+        internal Resources() {
+        }
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        ///   Returns the cached ResourceManager instance used by this class.
+        /// </summary>
+        [global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
+        internal static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager ResourceManager {
+            get {
+                if (object.ReferenceEquals(resourceMan, null)) {
+                    global::System.Resources.ResourceManager temp = new global::System.Resources.ResourceManager("LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge.Properties.Resources", typeof(Resources).Assembly);
+                    resourceMan = temp;
+                }
+                return resourceMan;
+            }
+        }
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        ///   Overrides the current thread's CurrentUICulture property for all
+        ///   resource lookups using this strongly typed resource class.
+        /// </summary>
+        [global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
+        internal static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo Culture {
+            get {
+                return resourceCulture;
+            }
+            set {
+                resourceCulture = value;
+            }
+        }
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        ///   Looks up a localized resource of type System.Byte[].
+        /// </summary>
+        internal static byte[] menl_hooks {
+            get {
+                object obj = ResourceManager.GetObject("menl_hooks", resourceCulture);
+                return ((byte[])(obj));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/Properties/Resources.resx b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/Properties/Resources.resx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79ab174
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LiveSplit.MirrorsEdge/Properties/Resources.resx
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<root>
+  <!-- 
+    Microsoft ResX Schema 
+    
+    Version 2.0
+    
+    The primary goals of this format is to allow a simple XML format 
+    that is mostly human readable. The generation and parsing of the 
+    various data types are done through the TypeConverter classes 
+    associated with the data types.
+    
+    Example:
+    
+    ... ado.net/XML headers & schema ...
+    <resheader name="resmimetype">text/microsoft-resx</resheader>
+    <resheader name="version">2.0</resheader>
+    <resheader name="reader">System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
+    <resheader name="writer">System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
+    <data name="Name1"><value>this is my long string</value><comment>this is a comment</comment></data>
+    <data name="Color1" type="System.Drawing.Color, System.Drawing">Blue</data>
+    <data name="Bitmap1" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64">
+        <value>[base64 mime encoded serialized .NET Framework object]</value>
+    </data>
+    <data name="Icon1" type="System.Drawing.Icon, System.Drawing" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64">
+        <value>[base64 mime encoded string representing a byte array form of the .NET Framework object]</value>
+        <comment>This is a comment</comment>
+    </data>
+                
+    There are any number of "resheader" rows that contain simple 
+    name/value pairs.
+    
+    Each data row contains a name, and value. The row also contains a 
+    type or mimetype. Type corresponds to a .NET class that support 
+    text/value conversion through the TypeConverter architecture. 
+    Classes that don't support this are serialized and stored with the 
+    mimetype set.
+    
+    The mimetype is used for serialized objects, and tells the 
+    ResXResourceReader how to depersist the object. This is currently not 
+    extensible. For a given mimetype the value must be set accordingly:
+    
+    Note - application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64 is the format 
+    that the ResXResourceWriter will generate, however the reader can 
+    read any of the formats listed below.
+    
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized with 
+            : System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+    
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.soap.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized with 
+            : System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized into a byte array 
+            : using a System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+    -->
+  <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
+    <xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" />
+    <xsd:element name="root" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
+      <xsd:complexType>
+        <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
+          <xsd:element name="metadata">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" use="required" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="assembly">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:attribute name="alias" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="data">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+                <xsd:element name="comment" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="2" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="3" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="4" />
+              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="resheader">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+        </xsd:choice>
+      </xsd:complexType>
+    </xsd:element>
+  </xsd:schema>
+  <resheader name="resmimetype">
+    <value>text/microsoft-resx</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="version">
+    <value>2.0</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="reader">
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="writer">
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <assembly alias="System.Windows.Forms" name="System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
+  <data name="menl_hooks" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms">
+    <value>..\..\bin\menl_hooks.dll;System.Byte[], mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </data>
+</root>
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