tolosthemagician@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > update: > > for whatever reason, setting windows version to windows 98 for > photoshop 7 fixes the mini windows from going invisible. > > > now to just figure out how to manually extract the world of warcraft > patch... actually switching to windows 98 didn't fix the problem. and I found out, it's not really a problem. Apparently what happens, is in stead of the mini-windows being contained in photoshop, they're contained in my virtual desktop. So what would happen is they would be pulled underneath my photoshop window where I couldn't find them. So I got that worked out. I still don't have a fix for why my drives are being reported incorrectly, but I think I found some useful information: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-bugs/2004-October/010906.html Sun Oct 10 03:49:12 CDT 2004 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2506 Summary: Fallout installer reports incorrect disk space Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: wine-kernel AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org ReportedBy: wsapplegate at myrealbox.com Executive summary : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fallout is an old (circa 1997) RPG, published by Interplay. The game doesn't use a standard installer (like InstallShield or similar). Rather, Interplay did write a custom installer. While recently trying to reinstall this game, I was confronted to a weird problem : the reported disk space was about 268 MiB instead of 2147 MiB as previously reported. Both values are in fact incorrect (the hard disk has much more than 2 GiB), but the latter allows for a complete installation, while the former only allows a limited installation, the remainder being read from the CD-ROM. Analysis : ~~~~~~~~~~ A quick investigation shows that the problem only occurs since WINE 20040505. Not coincidentally, this version contains changes to the GetDiskFreeSpace* functions. Tracing the _SETUP.EXE function calls, it indeed appears it makes calls to GetDiskFreeSpaceA(), which in turn calls GetDiskFreeSpaceW(). This functions returns values capped at 2 GiB, with the following parameters : 4096 bytes per sector, 1 sector per cluster, 524287 clusters. From the behaviour exhibited by the installer, it unfortunately appears the programmers used a 16-bit sized variable to store the clusters value, thus generating incorrect results when this number is above 65535, as reported by the new GetDiskFreeSpaceW(). How to reproduce : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You need (1) a HDD with more than 2 GiB free space and (2) a copy of Fallout. Then, execute the following steps (assuming your CD-ROM is mounted as D:) * run "wine 'd:\\_setup.exe'" * notice the free space reported for the hard disk is incorrect Solutions and workarounds : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I personally solved the problem by kludging the GetDiskFreeSpaceW() function in dlls/kernel/volume.c to report a number of cluster below 65535 (for a 2 GiB disk, it reports 512 bytes * 64 sectors * 65535 clusters), but it's most probably incorrect (these values are not consistent with the values reported by NtQueryVolumeInformationFile()). If you run an affected version, a possible workaround is to install the game partially, copy the missing files manually, then edit the file fallout.cfg in the installation directory, and edit the paths by hand. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
