Dan Kegel wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:12 PM, gnivler <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Final experiment: see if > > > rm -rf .wine > > > sh winetricks vcrun2005sp1 > > > (install the game) > > > makes the game work. I'm not sure you tried that exact combination. > > > > > > > Should I be downloading a new winetricks for this experiment > > > > no, it has not changed > > > > or specifying win2k vcrun2005sp1? > > > > no. That's the point of the experiment, to check whether vcrun2005sp1 was the > important bit, and not the win2k part. > > > > As it stands when I run that exact command it does what it > > was doing before and not putting dlls into system32. > > > > Yes, of course. The question is, does the game install and run then? > > > > I've installed the game successfully again - incidentally it comes > > packaged with vcredist_x86.exe but if it's running, it's silent as I'm not > > even seeing a window pop up briefly. winver has been winxp through this test. > > > > Yeah, the game would probably install vcredist_x86 if we didn't > have our own msvcrt, or something. > > What version is that vcredist_x86, if you run it by hand? > Ok good, I figured you knew what you were asking me to do, so I followed the instructions to the letter :) The .exe just runs silently, no obvious version is presented, so I cracked it open with cabextract and found that every file has a variation of 80 or 8.0.xxx so I can guess it's version 8, if the details are important I can paste a directory listing of what was extracted or upload the file to a one click hoster for you to look at. > > > mason@mason-desktop:~$ rm -rf .wine > > mason@mason-desktop:~$ sh winetricks vcrun2005sp1 > > mason@mason-desktop:~$ ll c/windows/system32/msvc* > > -rw-r--r-- 1 mason mason 2456 2008-05-09 14:57 c/windows/system32/msvcrt.dll > > > > (game install) > > > > mason@mason-desktop:~/c/Program Files/Aspyr/Guitar Hero III$ wine GH3.exe > > fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" > > fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" > > err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Aspyr\\Guitar Hero III\\fmodex.dll") not found > > ... > > > > Well, damn. Guess you need both win2k and vcrun2005sp1, and > I do have to change winetricks after all. > - Dan Yeah I think you're right, while I was using the winver switch the game didn't actually run (with the overrides) until I had the sp1 version installed, before starting again for testing. I didn't get anywhere without changing winver.
