Installing THE MOVIES? (msiexec problems)

[zcbeaton]

Hi all, wanted to find out if anyone has any idea what might be the problem I'm experiencing when trying to install the Lionhead Studios game The Movies with Wine 1.7.8 on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.

I'm navigating to the root of the disc and doing this: msiexec /i The\ Movies\(TM\).msi

And the result is:

fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"SecDrv" failed to start: 2
fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"UMWdf" failed to start: 2
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ISVerifyScriptingRuntime" returned 1603

Any ideas?

[oiaohm]

zcbeaton copyprotection issue.

http://wiki.winehq.org/CopyProtection it will be safedisk something. I don't know if a existing bug report exists for that application.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=4346 has not been tested recently so we don't have any basic information.

Please try a win32 prefix next. The program could be win64 incompatible.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#32_bit_wineprefix

zcbeaton what version of the program are we dealing with.

[dimesio]

http://wiki.winehq.org/CopyProtection it will be safedisk something. I don't know if a existing bug report exists for that application.

According to http://forum.daemon-tools.cc/gamedb.php?letter=T that game uses SafeDisc 4.60.

Please try a win32 prefix next. The program could be win64 incompatible.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32761

[zcbeaton]

Thanks for the suggestions. I've tried it with a 32-bit Wine prefix and now it throws up the same error but without the copy protection stuff:

fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ISVerifyScriptingRuntime" returned 1603

Any ideas?

I'm just installing the retail DVD version (so 1.0, I assume).

[oiaohm]

zcbeaton please do a "wine --version" to check what version of wine you are using. Most MSI error should not longer be in current versions of wine.

You could try winetricks to install native version of MSI. If you need todo this to get application to install do report bug.

[Simon of Aragon]

My "The Movies" with "Stunts" add on pack will run fine as long as the play disk is in the tray I tried using a no CD fix without any luck. I was running under WINE 1.5.31 but last summer I blew out my Nvidia graphics card and it doesn't seem to care much for the ATI Radeon replacement.

But you won't be able to record the movies since the recorder is "geared" to the Windows Media Player. Other than playing the sim (yeah who does that?) you could use capture software to record the movies you make, such as record my desktop. I have mine shelved for now.