Is this the program?

http://www.nexon.net/NX.aspx?PART=/Download/GameClient

The installer works perfectly if you have Internet Explorer 6 installed.

Does winetricks fakeie6 solve the problem as well?

I confirn this bug
If installing IE6 solves the issue, you should try overriding with windows native dlls. That helps us identifying which dll is the culprit

I think its due to wine unable to load NGMDll.dll

How to install Combat Arms :

1) install internet explorer 6 : http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux
2) install Combat Arms in c:\Nexon\Combat Arms (default) :
export WINEPREFIX="/home/xxxxxxxxx/.ies4linux/ie6"
wine CombatArmsSetup.exe

installer work, but it is not the case of Combat arms ...

WINEDEBUG+=+relay,+seh,+tid wine ~/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Nexon/Combat\ Arms/Engine.exe --> string "Themida Professional" (used by "Hackshield pro" ?) appears in logs.

see :
- http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7923
"At least [Themida] 1.9.3.0 or better 1.9.5.0+ is needed to exclude the protector as immediate cause for game/app crashes in wine."
- http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11969
"Ask the developers of this malware to use at least Themida 1.9.5+ when
bundling. Earlier ones won't get fixed."

(In reply to comment #6)
> How to install Combat Arms :
> 1) install internet explorer 6 : http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux

That makes this bug invalid.

Feel free to reopen if the problem persists without ies4linux.

The bug is about the installer not working, not the program. Installing ies4linux 'fixes' the bug. This is still a wine bug...

If you want to continue, complete installation of IE is not required.
Just copy mshtml.dll (msls31.dll is required), shdocvw.dll and shlwapi.dll (some IConnectpoint function needs to be implemented) from your windows installation.
If you still have issues you might also need urlmon.dll
Add overrides to native, builtin for all the files, mentioned using winecfg.

Installation will start, I could not continue as I dont have enough space.

One more thing is that, I cant see any text in the EULA, and other screens.
I tried overriding riched32.dll, no help

It does not use themida's hackshield but ahnsoft's HackShield Pro

Any new info on this? I installed IE 6 and can get to the point in the installer where it should start copying the files, but it does not copy them.

Please note that I can't see any text and have to press Enter to get through a couple blank screens.

*** Bug 16076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I have installed ies4linux and I still get the bug.

ies4linux is not supported through Wine bugzilla, 'rm -rf ~/.wine' and
try again with wine-1.1.15.

(In reply to comment #14)
> I have installed ies4linux and I still get the bug.
> 

you must have ie6 installed with ies4linux, then

export WINEPREFIX="/home/yourusername/.ies4linux/ie6"
wine CombatArmsSetup.exe

Is this still an issue in current (1.1.29 or newer) wine?

The installer does not work with the current wine 1.1.35 thusly confirming the bug.

URL: http://www.gamershell.com/download_49700.shtml (Combat Arms EU client)
Keywords: download
Component: MSHTML?

Created attachment 25366 [details]
WINEDEBUG=+mshtml,+message trace log AND console messages

confirming.  'winetricks ie6' works around it.
Still present with current version,
http://download3.nexon.net/Game/CombatArms/FullVersion/CombatArmsSetupV37.exe
shasum ca351c5fab0ed5be4393ab2f8c0fc5dc934560a1

The NGMDll.dll problem might happen if you run without ie6 installed.
Don't forget to kill the installer in that case before installing ie6,
I think it hangs around and interferes.

Still present in wine-1.3.0.

I don't know if anyone is active on this anymore but, I have downloaded the full patch manually because the downloader wouldn't work
with pando media booster (the error was pando media booster could not start).
so after i downloaded it, i ran the download through wine 1.3.5. It succesfully
installed correctly, so i then clicked start game. Now with this game when you
click start it brings up a browser (im using chrome) and the browser loads the
home page and there is a GAME START. So i click game start and then the page
will load, and it will ask me to download the Automatic downloader that wouldnt
work. I imagine this isn't a wine error, but i was hoping for suggestions.

(In reply to comment #24)
> I don't know if anyone is active on this anymore but, I have downloaded the
> full patch manually because the downloader wouldn't work
> with pando media booster (the error was pando media booster could not start).
> so after i downloaded it, i ran the download through wine 1.3.5. It succesfully
> installed correctly, so i then clicked start game. Now with this game when you
> click start it brings up a browser (im using chrome) and the browser loads the
> home page and there is a GAME START. So i click game start and then the page
> will load, and it will ask me to download the Automatic downloader that wouldnt
> work. I imagine this isn't a wine error, but i was hoping for suggestions.

EDIT: i managed to start the game manually from the file but after the game
loads and it says version checking then a dialog pops up which is correct. so i
click game start in the bottom right hand corner of the dialog. and the box
will dissapear and nothing happens. i have d3xd9 and gecko i've tried in every
version of windows aswell.

Hello,

still present, adjusting download link.

From a quick glance it seems the embedded mshtml browser control provides a smaller bounding rectangle than the app/UI layout expects (css).
Hence some UI controls are wrapped and become non-visible (buttons).

$ du -sh CombatArmsSetupV37.exe 
913M	CombatArmsSetupV37.exe

$ sha1sum CombatArmsSetupV37.exe 
ca351c5fab0ed5be4393ab2f8c0fc5dc934560a1  CombatArmsSetupV37.exe

$ wine --version
wine-1.5.3-101-g9c19ba6

Regards

Hello folks,

this is fixed now. The EULA and all UI elements are fully visible in embedded browser control window.
Unfortunately the buttons don't respond the events (click does nothing).
This is a different mshtml/shdocvw insufficiency.

All NEXON game installers that make use of the embedded IE browser control (DHTML) are affected.

'winetricks -q ie7' kind of works around - if you remove all native overrides except 'mshtml' and 'shdocvw' after applying the recipe.

Resolving 'fixed'.

Regards

Closing bugs fixed in 1.7.9.