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General discussionGOG installer does not finish using wine / missing cd key(13 posts)(13 posts)
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Posted November 20, 2015
Hi,

as a Linux user I'm installing and executing Windows games using wine. Sometimes that works. However the installer never finishes, but hangs after (most of?) the game is installed. Sometimes I have troubles with games installed in that way; the registry information for these games seems not to be complete. Especially I quite often find the game arguing about the cd-key missing.

This is also, why I started this thread. The concrete game in this case is named "Nexus - The Jupiter Incident". The key should have been installed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mithis\Nexus - The Jupiter Incident\Misc_AuthKey. Actually this registry entry exists, but the key is missing. So I must either find a way to finish the installation process, or a way to extract the key from the installer. For the latter I tried using innoextract. However that doesn't seem to extract registry entries.

Installing using a completely new wineprefix didn't help either.

Version information:
Linux blackfly 4.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 27 08:13:28 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
wine-1.7.55

I hope someone can give me a hint. Thanks in advance,

Ben
Posted November 20, 2015
Try adding /nogui to the installer command line and see if that makes a difference.
Posted November 20, 2015
Thanks for the answer! Indeed the installer changes, however the problem stays. The installer does not finish and the game still complains that the cd key is missing / invalid.
Posted November 26, 2015
hi,

i have install the game without GOG launche (dowland filles by ths gog site) and it's work for one of my computer...


for my other computer i have buy 2/3 year ago the gamebox with cd key, and it's work, but since i install W10 ,the game don't work and say "invalid or missing key"



i will try monday to puts my gamebox cd key in the registry and see if it's work =)
Posted November 26, 2015
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d-503: The concrete game in this case is named "Nexus - The Jupiter Incident".
Hmmm not sure about this. I recall installing and trying to play this game, but it sucked so much CPU power trying to play the intro video i ended up scrapping trying to play it with the shoddy framerate. Curiously it was using the bink codecs so i don't know why it was struggling so hard (as Bink is written specifically to be fast while getting Mpeg2 level of compression/quality).
Posted November 26, 2015
Hi,

you could try PlayOnLinux.
Posted November 26, 2015
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d-503: Thanks for the answer! Indeed the installer changes, however the problem stays. The installer does not finish and the game still complains that the cd key is missing / invalid.
This might be a case where WINE does not create a specific registry entry which it might need to when actually registering a CD key.

While we don't support this game when played via WINE, please update WINE to 1.8-rc1 and try again.
Posted November 28, 2015
Thanks for the answer. Unfortunatly installing with wine-1.8-rc1 did not work either.

edit: By the way, playonlinux doesn't work either. Somehow the installer never finishes whatever wine version I use and there isn't any useful error output from wine. I already searched through half of the internet for this problem ;) .
Post edited November 28, 2015 by d-503
Posted November 28, 2015
I've tried and successfully installed NTJI on Arch using terminal (without POL) and I didn't have any issues during installation. I really don't know what causes problems on your machine, however...

E: Probably unlikely, but maybe installer was corrupted during downloading.
Post edited November 28, 2015 by InkPanther
Posted November 28, 2015
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d-503: This is also, why I started this thread. The concrete game in this case is named "Nexus - The Jupiter Incident". The key should have been installed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mithis\Nexus - The Jupiter Incident\Misc_AuthKey. Actually this registry entry exists, but the key is missing. So I must either find a way to finish the installation process, or a way to extract the key from the installer. For the latter I tried using innoextract. However that doesn't seem to extract registry entries.
get innounp
http://innounp.sourceforge.net/
it's a windows tool, but unlike innoextract it can extract the install script. And it runs under wine :)

something like this should work
wine innounp.exe -x setup_xxx.exe install_script.iss

then look into the .iss file and see what registry entries the installer creates.
Post edited November 28, 2015 by immi101
Posted November 29, 2015
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d-503: This is also, why I started this thread. The concrete game in this case is named "Nexus - The Jupiter Incident". The key should have been installed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mithis\Nexus - The Jupiter Incident\Misc_AuthKey. Actually this registry entry exists, but the key is missing. So I must either find a way to finish the installation process, or a way to extract the key from the installer. For the latter I tried using innoextract. However that doesn't seem to extract registry entries.
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immi101: get innounp
http://innounp.sourceforge.net/
it's a windows tool, but unlike innoextract it can extract the install script. And it runs under wine :)

something like this should work
wine innounp.exe -x setup_xxx.exe install_script.iss

then look into the .iss file and see what registry entries the installer creates.
Marvelous! That worked fine. I was able to run the game and to start the Campaign. Well, it crashed somewhere at the start of the first mission for no apparent reason - guess I ran out of luck -, nevertheless your hint was a good step forward and may help me to fix other games as well.

Thank You!
Posted November 29, 2015
Hmm, that's odd, Wine has been working rather fine for me with the gog installers, they just complain a bit towards the end. This was a problem for some time but has seemingly not broken anything for me for a while now.

I don't have that game though, perhaps I've just been lucky. Have you tried wine-staging? I usually go with that these days.
Posted December 03, 2015
Interesting, I have to try that. Thank you for that hint.

Well, I remember, that the installer used to work... until, I don't know. But it doesn't seem to be version dependent. And since I usually create a new prefix for every Windows Application, the problem is probably not related to a misconfiguration of wine. It's strange, you're right, especially, since others don't seem to have this problem (at least I never found a reference to it).
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