Bioshock 2 - DLL problem during installation

[tgeer43]

Hello folks,

First post here - hoping for some help.

I'd really like to give BioShock 2 a go under Wine/Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit but I'm getting stumped early on. After selecting the installation language the InstallShield Wizard loads quickly then exits with the following error dialog:

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Unhandled Exception
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Error Number: 0x80040703
Description: Failed to find DLL function: Shell32.IsUserAnAdmin

Setup will now exit.

I did some research and it seems that the function call: IsUserAnAdmin in Shell32.dll is not present in all versions of the DLL. The details were vague but I gathered that the versions included with XP and Vista were ok. Tried configuring Wine to run the installer under both XP and Vista profiles but no luck. I then tried overriding the libraries to run a native version of shell32.dll. Actually I tried several different versions but none of them will even allow the installer to run.

So here I sit scratching my, er.... head.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

tgeer

[tgeer43]

Duh...

Updated Wine to v1.1.42 and the problem dissapeared.

Just goes to show - read the FAQ before posting questions.

tgeer

[dj--alex]

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=11104

cannot run but problem is xlive dll
(games for windows installed but not helped)

al@al-desktop:/media/D/Games/BioShock 2/SP/Builds/Binaries$ wine Bioshock2
err:module:import_dll Library MSASN1.dll (which is needed by L"E:\\Games\\BioShock 2\\SP\\Builds\\Binaries\\xlive.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library xlive.dll (which is needed by L"E:\\Games\\BioShock 2\\SP\\Builds\\Binaries\\Bioshock2.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"E:\\Games\\BioShock 2\\SP\\Builds\\Binaries\\Bioshock2.exe" failed, status c0000135
al@al-desktop:/media/D/Games/BioShock 2/SP/Builds/Binaries$

[vitamin]

Don't hijack thread!