[Bug 17536] DirectX 9 launcher causes Atari Scrabble Online installation to fail

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17536





--- Comment #7 from Ken Sharp <kennybobs at o2.co.uk>  2009-04-18 03:56:37 ---
Interesting/amusingly the same error occurs on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
x64 and Windows Vista.
Googling around suggests it's a change in how those OS handle copy protection,
but I can't imagine Fahrenheit has copy protection on its demo, but it is
possible.

Workaround for Scrabble Online.

1. Download Orca MSI Editor (needs MFC42).
http://www.technipages.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/orca.Msi

2. Copy CD to hard drive.

3. Add write permissions to "Scrabble Online.msi" and open in Orca.

4. Find InstallUISequence and remove the line which reads
DX9_Launcher.A545835B_7768_4D96_A5BC_930949616C2D

This should work with other apps affected, depending on what kind of copy
protection is initiated during install.

Can I nominate this for 1.2?  Although it's not major, a user moving from 1.0
to 1.2 without this bug fixed would see this regression.


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