Hi! I was trying to install the Joint Task Force game, which was packaged as a bonus with my new graphics card. The game itself seems to install well using the standard InstallShield, but then it tries to install a PhysX driver/library, which is necessary to run it. The PhysX package is provided as a single executable on the CD. When the executable (called PhysX_2.5.1_SystemSoftware.exe) is run by wine, it immediately pops a dialog saying "The installer is already running" and pressing its OK button terminates the installation. The game then complains that the PhysX driver is not installed and requires reinstallation (for anybody who would like to try this too, the game itself has to be patched by nocd crack first, otherwise it chokes on SECDRV.SYS). The dialog appears not only when the PhysX installer is launched from the game installer, but also when the executable is run directly from the command line. Intuitively I was trying to discover more about it by running wine with WINEDEBUG=+file, and it has shown that the installer created some files in c:\windows\temp first, then it played with explorer.exe (tried to run it ?), there was a search for a lot of fonts, libs etc., win.ini was consulted several times, and the dialog then appeared. Possibly all the stuff starting with explorer.exe was there to display the dialog box ? After accepting the box, it just deleted the stuff in the temp directory and terminated. I didn't find anything related to this in bugzilla. I would like to find the real cause of the problem, but I don't know exactly, how to proceed. Any hints ? It's the current git wine, but the same is observed on 0.9.33 or so.
With regards, Pavel Troller