Installer running every time I run the game

[Neon Kitten]

Windows 7 x64.

The familiar permission dialogue box for the "Steam buildbot" thing happened when I first ran Chime. It then executed the usual DirectX setup, then another couple of setups I wasn't around to see. Game ran fine.

But every time I run it now, that "buildbot" permissions dialogue comes up again, and then the "Performing first-time setup" dialogue appears, telling me it's "installing self-extracting cabinet".

The download size of the game quoted on unlocking was 99MB. The folder size the game sits in is 99MB. Steam, however, thinks the game's files take up 173MB.

Something might possibly be wrong :)

[Hatschi18]

This is because something cant be installed. Go in the game folder and install all the things manually to see what installer produce this problem

[Neon Kitten]

This is because something cant be installed. Go in the game folder and install all the things manually to see what installer produce this problem

I don't need to install things manually - Steam takes care of that. The initial install routine ran fine, the game works fine. It's just that on every subsequent run of the game I get the "buildbot" system dialogue and then the game does the self-extracting thing again. It doesn't take long, but that's not the point - it shouldn't be happening.

Download size is 99MB, installed size is 99MB, Steam says it's 173MB. What seems to be happening is that the decompression stage of the installation is being run every time I run the game.

I could give admin permissions to the Chime folder to stop the Win7 alert (but not the Steam dialogue box), but I'd much rather this was properly fixed.

[Neon Kitten]

Bit of investigation and file comparison later and I think I may be on to a possible cause of this.

The admin-access alert Win7 throws up mentions the execution of "installscript.vdf". Looking at that file in the Chime folder and comparing it to other Steam "installscript.vdf" files, I see that the Chime one is missing header text and is completely lacking line breaks.

My guess is that it is this script file causing this problem.

[mrlint]

KItten, thanks for the pointer over here. I didn't relize that was the installer. I though the function of the steam service was to take care of these things.

[Neon Kitten]

KItten, thanks for the pointer over here. I didn't relize that was the installer. I though the function of the steam service was to take care of these things.

It's the script that Steam uses to execute needed one-time install routines (as Steam's own dialogue box tells you, it's a "first time install"). It appears to be for the setting up of support installs such as DirectX etc.

In the case of this particular install script, it's executing every time you launch Chime and running the setup program "wmfdist11.exe" - the Windows Media runtime component installer, which probably isn't needed on Win7 anyway).

[mrlint]

Alas the fact that this game seems to rely so heavily on MS specific stuff, It'll probably never see the Mac. I'd love to play this on my laptop before sleep:)

[xFadedx]

So is there a fix for this? I'm running on xp and having the same popup each time I play.

[number3son]

So is there a fix for this? I'm running on xp and having the same popup each time I play.

Same here. This isn't a problem with Windows 7. I have XP Pro 32-bit and am getting the same issue.

[Neon Kitten]

So is there a fix for this?
There's a self-help fix ;) here:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1426669