Error during Steam installation + missing sound

[madoar]

I'm currently writing a new script for the game Alien Swarm, which can be found here.
When testing the new script I stumbled over multiple problems:

1. When installing steam I get the following error message:
   
   Luckily this message is ignorable, and can be closed without terminating the installation.
2. Afterwards I've discovered, that I had no sound in the game. This lead me to the wine configuration and Regedit to take a look at the sound configuration of wine, which looks like this:
   
   
   As far as I know, the wine configuration should at least show a selected driver, which in my screenshot is none (Kein).
   In addition, as far as I understand https://wiki.winehq.org/Sound, a registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Drivers should exist, which should contain at least the sound driver settings.

Do you have any idea how to fix these issues?

[plata]

Is there any bug report on winehq about this? At a first glance this looks like a Wine problem to me (wouldn't know how Phoenicis should cause this).

Regarding the webhelper: Can you solve it if you run steamwebhelper.exe with winxp?

[madoar]

I don't know of a bug report regarding sound problems in combination with wine and alien swarm.
Maybe you could test if you stumble over the same problem? I mean the game is free and I believe you don't even need to completely install it, because the wine settings in my case show, that no drivers are available...
Regarding webhelper: Here it seems like a change to winxp helps.

[plata]

Just tried. I have sound. Driver is set to winepulse.drv.

[madoar]

Kk, then it seems to be my setup.
Do you have an idea how to elegantly fix the webhelper problem? I'm not sure if it's a good idea to completely set the windows version to winxp inside the script.

[plata]

We could set webhelper to winxp in the SteamScript directly.

[madoar]

Can you do a PR? I have no idea how to do this specifically for webhelper.

[plata]

I have no time to test this currently. But in the end it's pretty easy. Compare e.g. in the Rocksmith 2014 script:

wine.setOsForApplication().set("Rocksmith2014.exe", "win7").do();

[plata]

Do you still have this? I just installed Steam and Hexcells and both worked without problems.

[madoar]

@plata I'll test it tomorrow.

[plata]

@madoar can we close this?

[madoar]

I have no clue, I also don't have the game installed currently.
But I think it is possible that the reason for this were some missing system dependencies at the time.
So let's close this for now.