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Descent II installer using WineVDM stops in DirectX setup #1163

Open BEENNath58 opened 2 years ago

BEENNath58 commented 2 years ago

Descent II for Windows uses a InstallShield setup program to install the game. When installing the game on an unsupported 32-bit system (such as Windows XP), the installation goes smoothly, but on Windows 11 with WineVDM, it stops at a DirectX check.

The DirectX check should not stop the installation, it should go through and install the game.

This is the place where I encounter the problem. descent2setupstop

I am running on Windows 11 21H2.

I am not able to provide a trace.txt file because the game's InstallShield needs to have the Win95VersionLie shim which I can apply only when the game is launched using the Autorun.exe program (shims get shared in son processes). I am not aware of a method to apply shims on IS files. Thus if I try to trace the autorun.exe file until the InstallShield DirectX installation problem, trace.txt is still empty.

cracyc commented 2 years ago

That error is likely from the win32 part of setup. I doubt there's anything that can be done to winevdm to fix that.

BEENNath58 commented 2 years ago

That error is likely from the win32 part of setup. I doubt there's anything that can be done to winevdm to fix that.

I don't think that it's the case. I ran the same application just now on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 VM with WINEVDM and there was no such error. The installation completed there successfully.