Update 1.7-1.7b searching entire hard drive

[jon_joy_1999]

so. I downloaded the update, and I'm trying to run it, and it says "Searching." and is displaying a huge number of files. I want to know, searching for what, exactly? NORAD launch codes? my secret stash of porn? I'll tell you one thing, it clearly isn't searching for SexSim, because it's completely looking on the wrong harddrive.

When will the updater be properly coded to use the INSTALLATION information that was created when I installed SexSim instead of using DerpMode to scan every drive on my computer?

[Giselle]

No need to get snarky. The patch is properly coded to first search the registry for the Path to Sex Sim. It searches for the sexsim.exe file.

If it can't find the installation path in the registry info it then searches three places on your hard drive for the program. It searches the default install location (C:\Sex Sim), then the Program Files Sex Sim folder, then the Program Files\Ripened Peach Entertainment folder.

If it can't find the info in the registry then there is something wrong. It then tries to find it on your hard drive, but in a proper installation it will find it in the registry.

Do you already have Sex Sim installed? Where is it installed to?

If you have trouble with the installer, then it's probably easiest to download the currently up to date full version and install that.

[jon_joy_1999]

yes, I have it installed to "G:\Sex Sim", and this is searching through more than just three locations. it's searching through my documents, through %appdata%, and through folders that belong to other programs, and through my other drives. I think it went through the G drive but it was a quick flash before it said it could not find Sex Sim on my computer

[Giselle]

I'm looking into it and reuploading the patch to only search the registry. The drive search should not be searching those areas you mentioned. When you run Sex Sim, does it run fine or does it tell you that you need an update?

Also, what version of Windows are you running? You appear to be tech-aware. Do you have any sort of special installation or setup that might give a clue as to why the patch isn't working for you?

[jon_joy_1999]

Sexsim is not telling me there is an update available. I found out about the update via the email sent earlier today. Sexsim is reporting version 1.7, and not 1.7b.

I have installed Sexsim to a TrueCrypt encrypted drive that is indicated as removable in My Computer.

[Giselle]

Sexsim is not telling me there is an update available. I found out about the update via the email sent earlier today. Sexsim is reporting version 1.7, and not 1.7b.

I have installed Sexsim to a TrueCrypt encrypted drive that is indicated as removable in My Computer.

It's the encrypted drive that is probably causing the problem then. Your best bet is to install the full version and that will bring you up to date without having to deal with the possible patch issues. Sorry for the trouble.

[jon_joy_1999]

okay. while I am downloading the full installer, I thought maybe I would try installing the old version (version 1.7) to the standard installation location (D:\Program Files (x86)\Sex Sim) and the installer has the default location set to my current installation folder (G:\Sex Sim). I looked through the registry for Sex Sim and found the installation information for Sex Sim under the HKCU.
In the time to write this post the 1.7b installer finished downloading and ran, and it too indicates the G:\Sex Sim installation location.

[Giselle]

OK that sounds normal. Does everything run now as 1.7b?

[jon_joy_1999]

yes, the full installer worked properly, Sex Sim is now running 1.7b. If the updater worked just as good that would be awesome   

[Giselle]

yes, the full installer worked properly, Sex Sim is now running 1.7b. If the updater worked just as good that would be awesome   

It should and generally does. I think it's just because of the encrypted drive that's causing trouble. I can't think of any other reason why it wouldn't find the path info in the registry.

[whatever0623]

Thanks Giselle! I got everything updated with no problems, you ROCK!!!!

[jon_joy_1999]

hey Giselle, I did a bit of testing by

• attempting to install the 1.7b update over the 1.7b installation
• installing 1.7 over 1.7b (I do understand that not properly uninstalling 1.7b first will probably hose 1.7)
• attempting to install the 1.7b update over the "new" 1.7.

step 1 said 1.7b was already installed and that the installer would do nothing
step 2 completed successfully
step 3 could not find the SexSim installation.

I recorded a 200 MB Process Monitor logfile of the installation, uninstallation, and reinstallation process, and looking through it, the installer completely ignores the G:\ drive while doing the "manual" search. I believe this is because it is listed as removable, not because it is encrypted. My reasoning for this is because the updater also does not attempt to read from my E:\ optical drive, or from my I:\ SD card.

looking through an earlier part of the log file, I find this

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"4:16:23.6200160 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegCloseKey","HKLM","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:23.6200487 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryKey","HKCU","SUCCESS","Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0"
"4:16:23.6201643 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Read"
"4:16:23.6201810 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegSetInfoKey","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim","SUCCESS","KeySetInformationClass: KeySetHandleTagsInformation, Length: 0"
"4:16:23.6201896 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6201962 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6202028 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6202082 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6202151 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6202211 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6202289 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegCloseKey","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:23.6202360 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegCloseKey","HKCU","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:23.6203123 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryOpen","G:\Sex Sim","SUCCESS","CreationTime: 10/7/2013 9:44:07 AM, LastAccessTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, LastWriteTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, ChangeTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, AllocationSize: 4,096, EndOfFile: 4,096, FileAttributes: D"
"4:16:23.6203522 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryOpen","G:\Sex Sim","SUCCESS","CreationTime: 10/7/2013 9:44:07 AM, LastAccessTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, LastWriteTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, ChangeTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, AllocationSize: 4,096, EndOfFile: 4,096, FileAttributes: D"
"4:16:23.6203852 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryOpen","G:\Sex Sim","SUCCESS","CreationTime: 10/7/2013 9:44:07 AM, LastAccessTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, LastWriteTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, ChangeTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, AllocationSize: 4,096, EndOfFile: 4,096, FileAttributes: D"
"4:16:23.6204279 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryOpen","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","CreationTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:06 PM, LastAccessTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:13 PM, LastWriteTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:13 PM, ChangeTime: 11/3/2013 4:16:09 PM, AllocationSize: 212,123,648, EndOfFile: 212,121,388, FileAttributes: A"
"4:16:23.6204518 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CreateFile","G:\","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened"
"4:16:23.6204701 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryNameInformationFile","G:\","SUCCESS","Name: \"
"4:16:23.6204833 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryAttributeInformationVolume","G:\","SUCCESS","FileSystemAttributes: Case Preserved, Case Sensitive, Unicode, ACLs, Compression, Named Streams, EFS, Object IDs, Reparse Points, Sparse Files, Quotas, Transactions, 0x3c00000, MaximumComponentNameLength: 255, FileSystemName: NTFS"
"4:16:23.6204939 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CloseFile","G:\","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:23.6205364 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CreateFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened"

"4:16:23.6205550 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 0, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:23.6205958 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 4,096, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:23.6206236 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 8,192, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:23.6206526 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 12,288, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:23.6206818 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 16,384, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
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"4:16:25.1852605 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 212,119,552, Length: 1,836, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1852817 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","END OF FILE","Offset: 212,121,388, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1853041 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CloseFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:25.1854050 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryOpen","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","CreationTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:06 PM, LastAccessTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:13 PM, LastWriteTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:13 PM, ChangeTime: 11/3/2013 4:16:09 PM, AllocationSize: 212,123,648, EndOfFile: 212,121,388, FileAttributes: A"
"4:16:25.1854363 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CreateFile","G:\","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened"
"4:16:25.1854601 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryNameInformationFile","G:\","SUCCESS","Name: \"
"4:16:25.1854722 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryAttributeInformationVolume","G:\","SUCCESS","FileSystemAttributes: Case Preserved, Case Sensitive, Unicode, ACLs, Compression, Named Streams, EFS, Object IDs, Reparse Points, Sparse Files, Quotas, Transactions, 0x3c00000, MaximumComponentNameLength: 255, FileSystemName: NTFS"
"4:16:25.1854819 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CloseFile","G:\","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:25.1855315 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CreateFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened"
"4:16:25.1855522 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 0, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1855858 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 4,096, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1856127 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 8,192, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1856394 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 12,288, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1856661 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 16,384, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
[......snip about 51781 lines]
"4:16:26.6858287 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 212,115,456, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:26.6858548 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 212,119,552, Length: 1,836, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:26.6858729 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","END OF FILE","Offset: 212,121,388, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:26.6858918 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CloseFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:26.6874305 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKLM","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Maximum Allowed, Granted Access: All Access"
"4:16:26.6874541 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryKey","HKLM","SUCCESS","Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0"
"4:16:26.6874684 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\CTF\KnownClasses","NAME NOT FOUND","Desired Access: Read"
"4:16:26.6876661 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryKey","HKLM","SUCCESS","Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0"
"4:16:26.6876873 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\CTF\KnownClasses","NAME NOT FOUND","Desired Access: Read"
"4:16:26.6879383 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryKey","HKLM","SUCCESS","Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0"
"4:16:26.6879521 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\CTF\KnownClasses","NAME NOT FOUND","Desired Access: Read"
"4:16:26.6896680 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryKey","HKLM","SUCCESS","Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0"
"4:16:26.6897056 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\CTF\KnownClasses","NAME NOT FOUND","Desired Access: Read"
at which time the updater goes into its manual search mode
if there is anything else that could be looked at, (or if the entire log is desired) let me know and I'll do my best.

I was able to .7z the full log down to about 12 MB, but think I would need to upload to an external file hosting service

[Giselle]

Thanks for the report. I've updated the Updates page to have people download the full installer, which is normally how updates to the sim work, and on the bottom of the page is a link to the smaller patch, which may or may not work.

the installer completely ignores the G:\ drive while doing the "manual" search. I believe this is because it is listed as removable, not because it is encrypted. My reasoning for this is because the updater also does not attempt to read from my E:\ optical drive, or from my I:\ SD card.

It's not reading the G drive because as I said above:

If it can't find the installation path in the registry info it then searches three places on your hard drive for the program. It searches the default install location (C:\Sex Sim), then the Program Files Sex Sim folder, then the Program Files\Ripened Peach Entertainment folder.

It doesn't matter if it's encrypted, removable, made of cheese, or whatever, it's never going to see that drive because it hasn't been told to in order to avoid searching everything.

With that said, the newer version of the patch does not have file searching at all. It hasn't since yesterday when we talked about this. I removed it so it ONLY looks in the registry. With a proper installation of Sex Sim the patch should see the registry path info, UNLESS the user has something blocking access to it, such as Norton or something like that.

In any case, this is why we usually don't release patches, we generally release the full install version, as it is easiest for everyone involved. I told Jak I think we should do a smaller patch this time. He warned me of the possible consequences. I did it anyway. Live and learn.

[jon_joy_1999]

I've tried the newest version of the patch installer, and it too says the software is not installed. however the log file I have does indicate that it successfully located the installation:
vpatch reads from the registry and successfully obtains the "G:\Sex Sim" data, and then it successfully reads from G:\Sex Sim and G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets , and it repeats this again, then it reports that the installation cannot be found.
I don't run any sort of antivirus software to avoid precisely this type of issue (although it could be said that I am my own antivirus. I will leave the reader to make of that what they will  ).

I found the update installer's log file, but the only helpful information I can think of is the patch process' return code is 1210

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[11/04/2013 14:14:57] Success Patch started: D:\Users\Dreadnought\Downloads\sexsim-patch_1.7-1.7b (1).exe
[11/04/2013 14:14:57] Notice Patch engine version: 3.5.2.0
[11/04/2013 14:14:57] Notice Product: Sex Sim
[11/04/2013 14:14:57] Success Language set: Primary = 9, Secondary = 1
[11/04/2013 14:14:57] Success Include script: _Global_Functions.lua
[11/04/2013 14:14:57] Notice Start project event: Global Functions
[11/04/2013 14:14:57] Success Run project event: Global Functions
[11/04/2013 14:14:57] Notice Start project event: On Startup
[11/04/2013 14:15:00] Error Could not locate software on system
[11/04/2013 14:15:00] Success Run project event: On Startup
[11/04/2013 14:15:00] Success Display screen: Cannot Locate Software
[11/04/2013 14:20:03] Success Delete image file: D:\Users\DREADN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\_ir_vp2_temp_0\IRIMG1.JPG
[11/04/2013 14:20:03] Success Delete image file: D:\Users\DREADN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\_ir_vp2_temp_0\IRIMG2.JPG
[11/04/2013 14:20:03] Notice Exit patch process (Return code: 1210)

[Giselle]

Yup. No more patches. Thanks again for the info.