[Bug 38114] New: Steam doesn't allow to install games in different locations (needs GetVolumePathName implementation)
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 Bug ID: 38114 Summary: Steam doesn't allow to install games in different locations (needs GetVolumePathName implementation) Product: Wine Version: 1.7.36 Hardware: x86 URL: http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/SteamSe tup.exe OS: Linux Status: NEW Keywords: patch Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: kernel32 Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org Reporter: gyebro69(a)gmail.com CC: erich.e.hoover(a)gmail.com Distribution: --- When you are about to install a game on Steam in vanilla Wine, Steam doesn't offer the drop-down menu to choose an install location. Games are always installed in the current prefix under C:\Program Files\Steam. When using the patch from wine-staging the drop-down menu is available and I can select a different partition/directory to install games (if the partition has been set in winecfg's drives tab). https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/blob/master/patches/kernel32-...
fixme:volume:GetVolumePathNameW (L"\\\\?\\C:\\", 0x33df60, 260), stub! fixme:volume:GetVolumePathNameW (L"\\\\?\\D:\\", 0x33df60, 260), stub! fixme:volume:GetVolumePathNameW (L"\\\\?\\E:\\", 0x33df60, 260), stub! fixme:volume:GetVolumePathNameW (L"\\\\?\\Z:\\", 0x33df60, 260), stub!
wine-1.7.36-155-g5cd0457 -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 Béla Gyebrószki <gyebro69(a)gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sebastian(a)fds-team.de -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #1 from Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net> --- Is this a regression since 1.7.36? All my Steam games have been installed outside their wineprefixes using plain Wine, and I still get the dropdown menu to select a download location in 1.7.36. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #2 from Béla Gyebrószki <gyebro69(a)gmail.com> --- (In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #1)
Is this a regression since 1.7.36?
All my Steam games have been installed outside their wineprefixes using plain Wine, and I still get the dropdown menu to select a download location in 1.7.36.
Not a regression, the drop-down menu to select install location never appeared for me when installing games in Steam using plain Wine. The menu appears when using the patch from wine-staging. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #3 from Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net> --- Did you add any locations to Settings, Downloads, Steam Library Folders? The dropdown list doesn't appear unless you have added at least one besides the default. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #4 from Béla Gyebrószki <gyebro69(a)gmail.com> --- (In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #3)
Did you add any locations to Settings, Downloads, Steam Library Folders? The dropdown list doesn't appear unless you have added at least one besides the default.
I didn't set anything in Settings>Downloads>Steam Library. It contains only the default C: drive. When installing a game with the patch applied, Steam shows a drop-down menu and let me create a new Steam Library on drive D: etc., even though nothing is added in Settings>Downloads>Steam Library. This menu is missing with plain Wine. If I add additional drive letters in the settings they're available indeed. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 Robert Walker <bob.mt.wya(a)gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bob.mt.wya(a)gmail.com -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |INVALID --- Comment #5 from Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net> --- I just tried Steam in an XP VM. The dropdown list does not appear there unless additional locations are added first via Settings, Downloads, Steam Library, so the behavior in vanilla Wine matches the behavior in Windows. Steam's Linux client behaves the same way. IMO, the bug is in wine-staging for allowing you to do something you couldn't do in Windows. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #6 from Béla Gyebrószki <gyebro69(a)gmail.com> --- (In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #5)
I just tried Steam in an XP VM. The dropdown list does not appear there unless additional locations are added first via Settings, Downloads, Steam Library, so the behavior in vanilla Wine matches the behavior in Windows. Steam's Linux client behaves the same way.
IMO, the bug is in wine-staging for allowing you to do something you couldn't do in Windows.
Well, I don't have Windows installed so couldn't try it, but the native Linux Steam client does *not* behave as plain Wine: it does offer the drop-down menu even though only ~/.local/share/Steam is present by default in Settings>Downloads>Steam Library. Let it be invalid then... -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #7 from Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead(a)gmail.com> --- I'm not sure it's invalid. Are we talking about "Install Game" menu command? It brings up dialog where you can select existing Steam Library (on particular drive) or use "Create New Steam Library on drive X:". So what doesn't appear? You don't get any items in Choose location to install list? And no, you don't have to add anything in Settings -> Downloads, instead if you choose "Create New Steam Library" it should appear in Steam Library Folders in Settings, that's all. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #8 from Béla Gyebrószki <gyebro69(a)gmail.com> --- (In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #7)
I'm not sure it's invalid. Are we talking about "Install Game" menu command? It brings up dialog where you can select existing Steam Library (on particular drive) or use "Create New Steam Library on drive X:". So what doesn't appear? You don't get any items in Choose location to install list?
And no, you don't have to add anything in Settings -> Downloads, instead if you choose "Create New Steam Library" it should appear in Steam Library Folders in Settings, that's all.
Sorry if I was unclear in the original description of the problem. Yes, I meant the 'Install Game' menu. The drop-down menu to choose install location doesn't appear at all in plain Wine for me. This image shows the difference between plain Wine and a patched Wine: http://i.imgur.com/dxYSueI.jpg -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #9 from Bruno Jesus <00cpxxx(a)gmail.com> --- Different Steam versions? -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #10 from Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net> --- I've tested clicking the Install button for a game, and right-clicking the name of a game in the Library list. Both bring up the same install dialog, and neither includes a "Create new Steam Library on Drive X" option in Windows. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious (it wouldn't be the first time), but I don't see any other way to bring up the install menu. I also just tested this on my laptop, which dual boots with Windows 7, just in case running in a VM made a difference, and got the same behavior as Wine and XP in a VM. I did confuse things by mentioning the native client. I do get the option to create a new Steam Library on the dropdown list in the Linux client, along with the libraries I've already added, and I may have been mistaken in thinking I had to add the libraries via settings to get the dropdown list in the first place. Nikolay, when you say you get the option to create a new Steam Library on X, are you talking about the Linux client, or in Windows? Because I don't see that at all in Windows XP or 7, even after I've added new libraries via Settings. (In reply to Bruno Jesus from comment #9)
Different Steam versions?
Steam automatically updates itself. The one I just tested in Windows 7 was installed fresh today, the ones in the VM and Wine say they are up-to-date. All my tests were in 32 bit; I don't have 64 bit Windows to test. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #11 from Erich Hoover <erich.e.hoover(a)gmail.com> --- (In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #10)
I've tested clicking the Install button for a game, and right-clicking the name of a game in the Library list. Both bring up the same install dialog, and neither includes a "Create new Steam Library on Drive X" option in Windows. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious (it wouldn't be the first time), but I don't see any other way to bring up the install menu. ...
Just to be sure, do you have drives other than "C" that it can install to? If "C" is the only writable media it probably won't give you options for other drives. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #12 from Erich Hoover <erich.e.hoover(a)gmail.com> --- (In reply to Erich Hoover from comment #11)
.. Just to be sure, do you have drives other than "C" that it can install to? If "C" is the only writable media it probably won't give you options for other drives.
^^ confirmed (http://www.ghacks.net/2012/12/06/steam-alternative-installation-locations-no...): "Please note that you only see the option if the system has another partition or hard drive that is accessible under its own drive letter. You won't get that option if you only have one partition on the system." -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead(a)gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID |--- --- Comment #13 from Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead(a)gmail.com> --- (In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #10)
I've tested clicking the Install button for a game, and right-clicking the name of a game in the Library list. Both bring up the same install dialog, and neither includes a "Create new Steam Library on Drive X" option in Windows. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious (it wouldn't be the first time), but I don't see any other way to bring up the install menu.
I also just tested this on my laptop, which dual boots with Windows 7, just in case running in a VM made a difference, and got the same behavior as Wine and XP in a VM.
You have to make sure you have several partition, doesn't matter on same HDD or not. It allows you to create on Library per partition as I understand it. So if you have only C:, there's nothing to choose from.
I did confuse things by mentioning the native client. I do get the option to create a new Steam Library on the dropdown list in the Linux client, along with the libraries I've already added, and I may have been mistaken in thinking I had to add the libraries via settings to get the dropdown list in the first place.
Nikolay, when you say you get the option to create a new Steam Library on X, are you talking about the Linux client, or in Windows? Because I don't see that at all in Windows XP or 7, even after I've added new libraries via Settings.
I'm talking about Windows client of course, it doesn't make much sense to compare to Linux native client. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #14 from Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net> --- (In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #13)
You have to make sure you have several partition, doesn't matter on same HDD or not. It allows you to create on Library per partition as I understand it. So if you have only C:, there's nothing to choose from.
I tested XP and 7 with a flash drive plugged in and recognized by Windows in both cases as E:\. I was able to add a Steam library to that drive through Settings, and once I did, the dropdown menu did appear in the install dialog with that location as an option to install to. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #15 from Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead(a)gmail.com> --- It could be that fixed drives only are listed automatically. USB stick doesn't appear for me either on Windows 7, but other partitions did and I didn't have to do anything. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #16 from Erich Hoover <erich.e.hoover(a)gmail.com> --- (In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #15)
It could be that fixed drives only are listed automatically. USB stick doesn't appear for me either on Windows 7, but other partitions did and I didn't have to do anything.
They probably use some other way to detect the drive type then. I can resubmit the patch for this if people are ok with it (a quick look over it would be appreciated). I wrote it for my own personal drive configuration for Windows Steam a while back and after it dropped off the list a few times I stopped sending it in. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 Michael Müller <michael(a)fds-team.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |michael(a)fds-team.de -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #17 from Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net> --- One minor problem I encountered with the patch is that it adds drive letters D through H to the list of drives available to install to from the Settings>Downloads>Steam Library Folders>Add Folders dialog, even though I haven't mapped any such drives in winecfg. It won't actually let me create a folder in any of those phantom drives, and having them listed there does force me to scroll down to find Z: (which is mapped by default in and does appear to work as expected in the dialog). -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #18 from Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net> --- Ignore my last comment; those nonexistent drives also appear on the list in plain Wine. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 Saulius K. <saulius2(a)gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |saulius2(a)gmail.com -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 Anastasius Focht <focht(a)gmx.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |download Status|REOPENED |NEW CC| |focht(a)gmx.net Summary|Steam doesn't allow to |Steam client doesn't allow |install games in different |to install games in |locations (needs |different locations (needs |GetVolumePathName |kernel32.GetVolumePathName |implementation) |implementation) --- Comment #19 from Anastasius Focht <focht(a)gmx.net> --- Hello folks, confirming again. Still present with Wine 1.7.44 Regards -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 --- Comment #20 from Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead(a)gmail.com> --- Erich's patches were committed today, starting f6c7e247add306e757c6b75e99dd23eba087f9f8. Please retest. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 Béla Gyebrószki <gyebro69(a)gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed by SHA1| |f6c7e247add306e757c6b75e99d | |d23eba087f9f8 Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |FIXED --- Comment #21 from Béla Gyebrószki <gyebro69(a)gmail.com> --- Selecting install location in Steam works in wine-1.7.45-195-gda5151f, marking fixed. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114 Alexandre Julliard <julliard(a)winehq.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED --- Comment #22 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard(a)winehq.org> --- Closing bugs fixed in 1.7.46. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
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