Half life 2 msiexec problem

[SpookySystems]

I'v just installed cedega 4.2 and i was trying to install Half Life 2 in my fedora but i got a "Could not execute the external program msiexec.exe" Does anyone have a solution? I have tryed to run instmsi and instmsiw notting works.

Please help...

[Knudson]

Originally Posted by SpookySystems

I'v just installed cedega 4.2 and i was trying to install Half Life 2 in my fedora but i got a "Could not execute the external program msiexec.exe" Does anyone have a solution? I have tryed to run instmsi and instmsiw notting works.

Please help...

Same problem here...googled a bit but i couldn't make it

if anyone has a solution i'll be glad too

[Knudson]

ok i made it !!!

my problem was that i had misconfigured cedega, actually, it's working dir was the wine drectory!!! so some applications ran, but not all. All i had to do was just uninstall wine & cedega, delete all config files, and reinstall both of them. Not it works like a charm!! ( i am trying to install PES4 now, which gave me the same problem and seems to be working!)

hope this helps!

EDIT: ok PES4 doesn't work, but at least i could install it :P

EDIT2: i tried HL2, it works great !

[SpookySystems]

Hi !
That is great ! what did u do exactly? i'v tryed what you said and the problem remains
Can you tell us step-by-step what you did? and what versions you installed.
Thanks !

[Knudson]

remove wine
remove cedega

install wine (i have the last package)
configure wine
install cedega (i have 4.3.1 but on transgaming site they say that the best is 4.2.1)
configure cedega

now check that your cedega config doens't point to ./wine

this is my cedega config file :

WINE REGISTRY Version 2
;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config

;;
;; MS-DOS drives configuration
;;
;; Each section has the following format:
;; [Drive X]
;; "Path"="xxx" (Unix path for drive root)
;; "Type"="xxx" (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network')
;; "Label"="xxx" (drive label, at most 11 characters)
;; "Serial"="xxx" (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number)
;; "Filesystem"="xxx" (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
;; This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain
;; directory structure.
;; Recommended:
;; - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
;; - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly recommended)
;; DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib !
;; "Device"="/dev/xx" (only if you want to allow raw device access)
;;
[Drive C]
"Path" = "/home/knu/.transgaming/c_drive"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Dos Drive"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive D]
"Path" = "${HOME}"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "My Home"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive E]
"Path" = "/games"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Games"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive F]
"Path" = "/tmp"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "tmp"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive G]
"Path" = "/"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "root"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive K]
"Path" = "/media/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "/media/cdrom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/hdc"

[Drive L]
"Path" = "/media/cdrecorder"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "/media/cdrecorder"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/hdd"


[wine]
"Windows" = "c:\\windows"
"System" = "c:\\windows\\system32\\"
"Temp" = "e:\\"
"Path" = "c:\\windows\\;c:\\windows\\system32\\"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default.
; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole
; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself.
;
; Note: The WINESHELLLINK Environment variable will override this setting.
; (which is set in the winex startup script)
;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
"ShellLinker" = "/usr/lib/transgaming_cedega/winex/bin/wineshelllink"
;
; Browser to be used by winebrowserlink.
; Note: The WINEBROWSER Environment variable will override this setting.
;"Browser" = "/usr/bin/konqueror"
;
; Use the mozilla control as the IE control where available
;"MozillaControl" = "Y"

# <wineconf>

[DllDefaults]
"DefaultLoadOrder" = "native, builtin, so"

[DllOverrides]
"commdlg" = "builtin, native"
"comdlg32" = "builtin, native"
"oleaut32" = "builtin, native"
"ver" = "builtin, native"
"version" = "builtin, native"
"shell" = "builtin, native"
"shell32" = "builtin, native"
"shfolder" = "builtin, native"
"shlwapi" = "builtin, native"
"lzexpand" = "builtin, native"
"lz32" = "builtin, native"
"comctl32" = "builtin, native"
"commctrl" = "builtin, native"
"advapi32" = "builtin, native"
"crtdll" = "builtin, native"
"mpr" = "builtin, native"
"winspool.drv" = "builtin, native"
"d3d8" = "builtin, native"
"d3d9" = "builtin, native"
"d3drm" = "builtin, native"
"ddraw" = "builtin, native"
"dinput" = "builtin, native"
"dinput8" = "builtin, native"
"dmusic" = "builtin, native"
"dsound" = "builtin, native"
"opengl32" = "builtin, native"
"msvcrt" = "native, builtin"
"rpcrt4" = "native, builtin"
"msvideo" = "builtin, native"
"msvfw32" = "builtin, native"
"mcicda.drv" = "builtin, native"
"mciseq.drv" = "builtin, native"
"mciwave.drv" = "builtin, native"
"mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"
"mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"
"msacm.drv" = "builtin, native"
"msacm" = "builtin, native"
"msacm32" = "builtin, native"
"midimap.drv" = "builtin, native"
"wininet" = "builtin, native"

[Version]
; Windows version to imitate. Valid versions are: 'win20', 'win30', 'win31', 'win95', 'win98', 'winme', 'nt351', 'nt40', 'win2000', 'winxp'
"Windows" = "winxp"
; DOS version to imitate
;"DOS" = "6.22"

[x11drv]
; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
; Number of colors to copy from the default palette
"CopyDefaultColors" = "0"
; Use a private color map
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
;;"ScreenDepth" = "16"
; Name of X11 display to use
;;"Display" = ":0.0"
; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "Y"
; Use a desktop window of the given size
;"Desktop" = "800x600"
; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
; (make sure /dev/mem is accessible by you !)
"UseDGA" = "N"
; Use XShm extension if present
"UseXShm" = "Y"
; Enable DirectX mouse grab
"DXGrab" = "Y"
; Use XVidMode extension if present
"UseXVidMode" = "Y"
; Use XRandR extension if present
"UseXRandR" = "N"
; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
; (useful to play OpenGL games)
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "Y"
; Code page used for captions in managed mode
; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0)
"TextCP" = "0"
; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup
; (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds).
;; "XVideoPort" = "43"
; Use this to make your X server execute all commands
; sequentially rather than buffering commands. Will make
; everything really SLOW but can be nice for debugging.
;; "Synchronous" = "Y"
; Enable the FPS count on the TransGaming HUD (also activates the HUD)
;; "ShowFPS" = "Y"
; Enable memory statistics on the TransGaming HUD (must have ShowFPS activated)
;; "ShowMem" = "Y"
; How much Video RAM does your card have?
"VideoRam" = "128"
; How much AGP memory should be used for vertex data (about 1/2 your AGP aperature size)
"AGPVertexRam" = "64"
; Use NV_VAR (enabled by default)
;;"NV_VAR" = "Y"
; Use ARB_VBO (enabled by default, NV_VAR takes precendence)
;;"ARB_VBO" = "Y"


[d3dgl]
"AnisotropicTextureFiltering" = "N"
"VertexShaders" = "Y"
; type of vertex shaders to use (Hardware/Software/Auto)
; hardware will use whatever the opengl drivers make available
; software will use winex software emulation (will be slow!)
; (has not been implemented yet!)
;; "VertexShaderMode" = "Auto"
"PixelShaders" = "Y"
; Which version of pixel shaders to attempt to use, if available
;;"PixelShadersLevel" = "1.1"
"ClipSpaceFix" = "Y"
; enable software vertex blend weight support (Yes/No/Auto)
; provide software blending fallback if hardware support not available
; (has not been implemented yet!)
;; "SoftwareVertexBlending" = "Auto"
; (dev-only) Maximum number of texture stages that WineX should attempt to use (1-8)
;; "MaxTextureStages" = "8"
; (dev-only) Identify polygons under the mouse cursor
;; "InterceptMode" = "N"
; (dev-only) apply fragment translation in vertex program (No/Tex/Auto/Pos)
;;"FragmentOffset" = "Auto"
; use the fixed function over vertex shader pipeline (Yes/No/Auto)
;;"FixedProgram" = "Auto"
; (dev-only) Provide non power of two texture support using rectangle textures (Yes/No/Auto)
;;"RectangleTextures" = "Auto"

[opengl]
; Report a truncated list of OpenGL extensions to the application
;;"FixedGLExtensionBuffer" = "N"
; list of additions (+) or deletions (-) to the list of extensions
; reported when FixedGLExtensionBuffer is enabled. Note that extensions
; cannot be enabled if they are not supported by your video card/drivers
;;"GLExtensionBuffer" = "+GL_ARB_imaging,-GL_ARB_depth_texture"

[dinput]
; dead zone for joystick input from 0 to 10000. 1000 is 10% of range.
"DefaultDeadZone" = "1000"

;continues next post

[Knudson]

[joystick]
;; Configuration of the function of joystick axes
;; The joystick name and axis functions can be determined with jstest.
;; The available axis types are:
;; "none", "X", "Y", "Z", "RX", "RY", "RZ",
;; "slider", "hat", "POV", and "ball"
;; "hat" and "POV" are synonymous. Hats use two axes.

"Logitech Inc. WingMan RumblePad" = "X,Y,slider,Z,RZ,hat,none"

[fonts]
;Read documentation/fonts before adding aliases
"Resolution" = "96"
"Default" = "-adobe-times-"
; Use new improved fonts (uses FreeType and XRender libraries) at user request.
; Defaults to "Y".
;"FreeType" = "N"


[FontPatterns]
"Pattern0" = "-adobe-times*"
"Pattern1" = "-adobe-helvetica*"
"Pattern2" = "-adobe-courier*"
"Pattern3" = "-misc-fixed*"

[FontDirs]
;"0"="/path/to/extra/fonts"

[FontAlias]
;; Add font aliases here. On the left put the name of the windows font family
;; that you want to fake, on the right put the a similar font family that you
;; have installed. These will override the fontconfig and the WineX builtin fallbacks,
;; but may look better (if you choose them correctly).
;; Alias' may refer to other alias' that have been defined above them.
;; These alias' are the first that WineX loads.
;;
;; Serif Fonts
"Times New Roman"="Times"
"MS Serif"="Times New Roman"
;;
;; Sans Serif Fonts
;"Arial"="Helvetica"
"Helv"="Arial"
"MS Sans Serif"="Arial"
"System"="Arial"
"Tahoma"="Arial"
;;
;; Mono Space Fonts
;"Courier New"="Courier"
;"FixedSys"="Courier"

[memory]
;; Attempt to make memory allocation more windows like.
;; Not for use with all applications. Best used in app default section.
; "MemoryLayoutOverride" = "0x10000000"



[serialports]
"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"
"Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"
"Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2"
"Com4" = "/dev/modem"

[parallelports]
"Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"

[spooler]
"LPT1:" = "|lpr"
"LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"
"LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"

[ports]
;"read" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"
; "write" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"

[spy]
"Exclude" = "WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;"

[registry]
;These are all booleans. Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
;Defaults are read all, write to Home
; Global registries (stored in /etc)
"LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "n"
; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)
"LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
"LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "n"
; TRY to write all changes to home registries
"WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
; "PeriodicSave" = "600"
; Save only modified keys
"SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"

[Tweak.Layout]
;; supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98'
"WineLook" = "Win98"

[Console]
"Drivers" = "xterm"
;"Drivers" = "tty"
"XtermProg" = "konsole"
;"InitialRows" = "25"
;"InitialColumns" = "80"
;"TerminalType" = "nxterm"

[Clipboard]
"ClearAllSelections" = "0"
"PersistentSelection" = "1"

; List of all directories directly contain .AFM files
[afmdirs]
;"1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts"
;"2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm"
;"3" = "/usr/share/enscript"
;"4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

[Wineserver]
"SHMWineserver" = "Y"

[WinMM]
"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv"
"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"

[wineoss]
"UseMMap" = "N"
"FullDuplex" = "N"
;; Specify a mapping for what digital audio devices to use
;"dsp0" = "/dev/dsp0"
;"mixer0" = "/dev/mixer0"

[winealsa]
"UseMMap" = "Y"
;"pcm0" = "hw"
;"ctl0" = "hw"

;; App default settings

;; Battle Field 1942 settings
[AppDefaults\\bf1942.exe\\d3dgl]
"ClipSpaceFix" = "N"

;; Medal Of Honor settings
[AppDefaults\\mohaa.exe\\memory]
"MemoryLayoutOverride" = "0x10000000"
[AppDefaults\\mohaa.exe\\opengl]
"FixedGLExtensionBuffer" = "Y"
[AppDefaults\\mohaademo.exe\\memory]
"MemoryLayoutOverride" = "0x10000000"
[AppDefaults\\mohaademo.exe\\opengl]
"FixedGLExtensionBuffer" = "Y"

[AppDefaults\\moh_spearhead.exe\\memory]
"MemoryLayoutOverride" = "0x10000000"
[AppDefaults\\moh_spearhead.exe\\opengl]
"FixedGLExtensionBuffer" = "Y"
[AppDefaults\\moh_spearhead.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"
[AppDefaults\\moh_spearhead_demo.exe\\memory]
"MemoryLayoutOverride" = "0x10000000"
[AppDefaults\\moh_spearhead_demo.exe\\opengl]
"FixedGLExtensionBuffer" = "Y"

[AppDefaults\\moh_breakthrough.exe\\opengl]
"FixedGLExtensionBuffer" = "Y"
[AppDefaults\\moh_breakthrough.exe\\version]
"windows" = "win2k"

;; SimCity 4 settings
[AppDefaults\\SimCity 4.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"
[AppDefaults\\SimCity 4.exe\\transgaming]
"cmdlineadd" = "-d:software"

;; Civ 3
[AppDefaults\\Civilization3.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"
[AppDefaults\\Civilization3x.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"
[AppDefaults\\civ3conquests.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"

;; Call of Duty
[AppDefaults\\CoDSP.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"
[AppDefaults\\CoDMP.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"

;; City of Heros
[AppDefaults\\CityOfHeroes.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"
[AppDefaults\\CityOfHeroes.exe\\cursor]
"CursorAlphaAlwaysOn" = "Y"
[AppDefaults\\CohUpdater.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"
[AppDefaults\\CohUpdater.exe\\cursor]
"CursorAlphaAlwaysOn" = "Y"

;; Command & Conquer: Generals
[AppDefaults\\Generals.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"

;; Painkiller
[AppDefaults\\Painkiller.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"

;; EverQuest
[AppDefaults\\eqgame.exe\\d3dgl]
"ClipSpaceFix" = "N"
"ForceMaxVertexBlendMatrices" = "2"
[AppDefaults\\testeqgame.exe\\d3dgl]
"ClipSpaceFix" = "N"
"ForceMaxVertexBlendMatrices" = "2"

;; Half-life 2
[AppDefaults\\hl2.exe\\d3dgl]
"ForceMaxVertexBlendMatrices" = "2"

;; Need for Speed Underground
[AppDefaults\\Speed.exe\\d3dgl]
"PixelShaders" = "N"

;; Max Payne 2
[AppDefaults\\MaxPayne2.exe\\d3dgl]
"PixelShaders" = "N"

;; Doom 3
[AppDefaults\\Doom3.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"

;; Far Cry
[AppDefaults\\FarCry.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"
[AppDefaults\\FarCry.exe\\d3dgl]
"PretendGeforceTwoForFixedFunction" = "Y"

;; Sid Meier's Pirates!
[AppDefaults\\Pirates\!.exe\\d3dgl]
"ForceMaxTextureBlendStages" = "8"
# </wineconf>

then do

cedega msiexec.exe (or whatever was it), after the "system update" you should be able to do cedega --monitor-cdrom-eject setup.exe

hope this helps ^^'

let me know & good luck!

[SpookySystems]

What do u mean configure wine & cedega ... do you mean the ./configure in a tar.gz normal install? i've installed them from rpm so i don't do that... and i've made a cedega config file just like that and... the same error do i need further configuration? in wine for example?
How do you see if my cedega config doens't point to ./wine? and how do i know if i have uninstalled everything?

Thanks for the help.

[Knudson]

i mean that you have to manually tweak your config file in .transgaming

check this:

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/home/knu/.transgaming/c_drive"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Dos Drive"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

i had it pointing to /home/knu/.wine/fake_windows , so it would use wine dll intestead of cedega's. Also check this :

[Version]
; Windows version to imitate. Valid versions are: 'win20', 'win30', 'win31', 'win95', 'win98', 'winme', 'nt351', 'nt40', 'win2000', 'winxp'
"Windows" = "winxp"
; DOS version to imitate
;"DOS" = "6.22"

if it is set to win98 msiexec gives some problems (at least to me)

try these and let me know!

[SpookySystems]

I've done all that but still the problem remains
I'll keep trying....

[SpookySystems]

Finaly got it to work !!! This is how :

# cat /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout

if you see 1 then skip nest setp if 1 then:

AS ROOT:

#echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout

then ... just to be sure...

#rm -r .transgaming
#rm -r .trasngaming_global

now we can install the instmsi.exe

#cedega /media/cdrom/instmsi.exe

and finaly

#cedega /media/cdrom/setup.exe

the msiexec problem is solved FINALY !
The setup instals STEAM perfectly but when it get's to the part of HL2 instalations it stops and i click the (NEXT) button or (CANCEL) button and nothing appends ... one problem solve to find another one.

Thanks for the help.

[Knudson]

Originally Posted by SpookySystems

Finaly got it to work !!! This is how :

# cat /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout

if you see 1 then skip nest setp if 1 then:

AS ROOT:

#echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout

then ... just to be sure...

#rm -r .transgaming
#rm -r .trasngaming_global

now we can install the instmsi.exe

#cedega /media/cdrom/instmsi.exe

and finaly

#cedega /media/cdrom/setup.exe

the msiexec problem is solved FINALY !
The setup instals STEAM perfectly but when it get's to the part of HL2 instalations it stops and i click the (NEXT) button or (CANCEL) button and nothing appends ... one problem solve to find another one.

Thanks for the help.

i have the multi disc installer, so i had to to

# cedega --cdrom-monitor-eject /media/cdrom/setup.exe

but is strange that it stops during the installation of hl2...

try to launch the setup as root and lets see

[SpookySystems]

I does not work ... steam is correctly instaled but hl2 instalation does not continues
I'm using the dvd version.

thanks

[ghaefb]

With cedega 4.3 you can simply install msiexec installation program, if your hl2 installation does not include this program you can find it on the net..(google)

So install msiexec and then run hl2 setup.exe

[SpookySystems]

but the problem is no longer about msiexec (i think),,, that part works, the problem begins after the instalation of STEAM when the part of game is going to start installing the buttons simply don't do anything

[Knudson]

Originally Posted by SpookySystems

but the problem is no longer about msiexec (i think),,, that part works, the problem begins after the instalation of STEAM when the part of game is going to start installing the buttons simply don't do anything

i don't think it's a msiexec problem now, it should be something else - the problem is, what is it?

maybe it's not only cedega's fault...

which kernel are you using? i'm with 2.6.10-1.770 and works

let me know!