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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Re: Update 1.7-1.7b searching entire hard drive

« on: November 05, 2013, 12:56:38 PM »

I think, the idea using a patch/update instead of every time make a complete new installation of the game, is the right way !

Regarding the update problems:
Why not just pretend that the Update.exe needs to be copied into the SexSim installation-folder and executed there?

Then it would not matter which path was Sexsim installed, no need to search the registry, etc...

this would require moving the updater to the sexsim folder, either manually -which may not be possible without 'administrator approval', and leads to tickets like "I tried moving the updater to the install folder but got access denied"- or automatically which requires the use of the registry to locate the install folder.
however neither one of these methods would fix the problem of the installer not correctly identifying the updater when ran.
another method would be to simply write the data to the current folder without performing any checks, but then someone would say "I installed the update but am still on the old version" (update installed in the Wrong location) or "I installed the update and it overwrote the pictures of my grandma!" (update installed in the More Wrong location).

this sort of highlights one of the problems that software developers deal with, there are many different types of people, and many different types of environments, and building a single thing that works for everyone is very difficult.

a bit like designing a vehicle that can fly in the air, sail on the water, and drive at highway speed

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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Re: Update 1.7-1.7b searching entire hard drive

« on: November 04, 2013, 02:42:12 PM »

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)

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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Re: Update 1.7-1.7b searching entire hard drive

« on: November 04, 2013, 12:04:42 PM »

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"
[...snip about 51781 lines]
"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

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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Re: Update 1.7-1.7b searching entire hard drive

« on: November 03, 2013, 03:39:39 PM »

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

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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Re: Update 1.7-1.7b searching entire hard drive

« on: November 03, 2013, 03:14:37 PM »

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.

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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Re: Captcha problems

« on: November 03, 2013, 02:46:34 PM »

I saw the new captcha in my last post, and I must say it looked beautiful. I do understand the purpose of them, and I do support administrators in their use. I'm sorry if I came off upset, but those six or so captchas were so headdesk frustrating

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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Re: Update 1.7-1.7b searching entire hard drive

« on: November 03, 2013, 02:42:35 PM »

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.

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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Re: Captcha problems

« on: November 03, 2013, 02:35:49 PM »

well, I just failed four more captchas:
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sure, the intention is for humans to be unable to read 60% of the images, it's working fine.

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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Re: Update 1.7-1.7b searching entire hard drive

« on: November 03, 2013, 02:29:21 PM »

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

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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Captcha problems

« on: November 03, 2013, 02:18:05 PM »

hey, I understand the reason for having captchas to stop spam, but I think they cross the line when they're completely unusable. Case and point:


I just got these two captchas (the second one from  this very post)
the first looks like Y or V P O N A N V
and the second looks like X P V N W

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Unofficial Sex Sim Support / Update 1.7-1.7b searching entire hard drive

« on: November 03, 2013, 02:03:48 PM »

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?