gaming compatiblilty

street011 · Post by **street011** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:52 am

Hey tzuk,

I install a lot of games on my pc, just to remove them again after a few days of trial... often those are demo's...
anyway, i think most of us know how dramaticaly windows slows down after a huge amount of installs/uninstalls...
a lot of junk is left behind.

It would be great if most if not all games would be playable inside sandboxie so all junk can be REALY removed.

Maybe it's a bit too risky or to hard to make it all work together, security/playability...
then maybe a "gaming mode" is some sort of an option...

i'd love to hear more ideas on this.

tzuk · Post by **tzuk** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:38 pm

Well I have no magic answer except that I would also like to Sandboxie compatible with as much stuff as possible. But I'm glad that you say demos, it means I can easily download them and try to get them to install. Any link for a game demo that doesn't work sandboxed?

street011 · Post by **street011** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:22 pm

tzuk, try steam (www.steampowered.com) it fails to start anyway...

in case you don't know steam, it's a platform on wich a lot of games run (like counter-strike)

and in case the platform doesn't run, the game isn't even close to being able to run

gl! love to see results here

tzuk · Post by **tzuk** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:01 pm

Works fine for me. First it updated itself, when it was done with that, I got a gray login window. I tried first installing into a sandbox, when that worked, I installed it outside, still worked.

SnDPhoenix · Post by **SnDPhoenix** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:06 pm

Yep works here too, ive also tried some small demo games from Reflexive.net and BigFishGames, and those demo games work too, only think i havent tried (and wont do to the size of the games) are my "big" games like F.E.A.R, BattleField 2142, GTA:SA, Half-life series, Flatout 1&2, etc.. but im sure those would work too.

street011 · Post by **street011** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:25 am

when i start steam sandboxed i get

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ERROR

Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to start Steam Engine: *SteamStartEngine(0x12e8b8) failed with error1: Failed create pipe, Win32 Error 2 "Cannot find the specified path."

SnDPhoenix · Post by **SnDPhoenix** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:37 am

failed with error1: Failed create pipe....

Hmm, gives me an idea, try doing a PipeTrace and see if/whats blocked, cause it seems a certain resource is blocked and thats why it wont work for you.

street011 · Post by **street011** » Wed May 16, 2007 6:53 am

here's the pipe trace, after this the error pops up

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(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 00000001.0F.FFFFFFFF \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) C0100080.01.00000040 \Device\NamedPipe\lsarpc
(003084) SBIE (FA) 80100000.01.00000020 \Device\NamedPipe\_Sandbox_Administrator_DefaultBox_Session_0\

i used:
OpenPipePath=*

to test if it works if pipe is fixed, and indeed it works, i can even play counter strike, BUT...
i dont have any sound... any idea?

tzuk · Post by **tzuk** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:12 pm

I don't know about sound, but the last line in your trace, shows access to a pipe but without actually a pipe name. This is probably the problem, especially since you're getting an error about pipes. Almost certainly caused by a bug in Sandboxie, but if I can't reproduce it, I can't fix it.

street011 · Post by **street011** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:30 pm

alright... what now?

it's a clean windows install, just a few days old... no special software installed...

tzuk · Post by **tzuk** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:02 pm

Ah.. Which Windows?

street011 · Post by **street011** » Fri May 18, 2007 9:40 am

tzuk wrote:Ah.. Which Windows?

Windows Server 2003 SP2 Enterprise

tzuk · Post by **tzuk** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:12 pm

As it turns out this is an important piece of the puzzle. On Server 2003 (Standard R2, in my case) I get this same error. I will investigate.

street011 · Post by **street011** » Fri May 25, 2007 5:17 pm

another one failing: Colin McRae: DIRT (DEMO)

download links available on this site:
http://games.fok.nl/news.php?newsid=18046

(just the list of mirrors in the article)

SnDPhoenix · Post by **SnDPhoenix** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:45 pm

Dont know if this really matters or not, but i found some more mirrors
http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?f ... =874393513
Now i would test this out myself and see if i get the same problem, but im running XP and you said the problem only occurs with Windows 2003, i do have 2003 enterprise r2 though, but i have barely any free space left on my HD, so i cant install 2003 on a seperate partition

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