Skyrim Unplugged (by stoppingby4now)

[stoppingby4now]

Skyrim Unplugged has been released on The Nexus and is available at the Skyrim Unplugged project page.Further information is available on the Description view. In short, Skyrim Unplugged allows you to enforce the Automatic Updates setting in Steam, allowing you to choose when you want to update Skyrim.

[stoppingby4now]

The last report I received was over a week ago, or so. I have no additional information on exact files, but in my case I was missing TESV.exe, Update.esm, and Update.bsa.

[frihyland]

Yeah its probably a stealth drm service that's doing it, it would be nice to track it down but not easy.

[stoppingby4now]

I'll know what process does it once it actually happens to me again. Still waiting.

[stoppingby4now]

FYI

 

Just saw today that my TESV.exe has been REMOVED. It is not present in the Recycle Bin either. I DID NOT delete the file; however I cannot say what application or event was responsible.

 

Any other reports of this behavior? I simply restored a backup of this file (the ONLY file missing BTW)

 

Also, double check the file size of your Update.bsa file. Version 1.5.26 is ~13MB. Version 1.6 is ~16MB.

[z929669]

FYI

 

Just saw today that my TESV.exe has been REMOVED. It is not present in the Recycle Bin either. I DID NOT delete the file; however I cannot say what application or event was responsible.

 

Any other reports of this behavior? I simply restored a backup of this file (the ONLY file missing BTW)

Also, double check the file size of your Update.bsa file. Version 1.5.26 is ~13MB. Version 1.6 is ~16MB.

I did not verify anything under my Data directory, so I'll take a look thi evening and report back. 

 

... I hated Steam before 2011, and I still hate Steam :yucky:

[stoppingby4now]

No attempt to update my files still. The waiting is becoming excruciating!

[frihyland]

Yeah who knows what the trigger is, it took a couple weeks for mine to finally delete and attempt to update my stuff, was even longer for Z and you. Watching water boil is just so damn exciting though :P

[stoppingby4now]

Nothing has tried to upgrade my Skyrim installation, so I'm beginning to think that whatever did it the first time remembers that it tried to upgrade and thus doesn't attempt to do it again. With patch 1.7 looming, I'm going to update SU to fix the exceptions (going to trap them all even if they should never be encountered), fix the remaining issue with uninstalling Skyrim before enabling updates, and apply an extra DACL to the skyrim folder itself.

[stoppingby4now]

In trying to determine path information in a consistent manner, I have a small test program that I would like folks to run if they are willing. It will attempt to determine wither Skyrim and Creation Kit are installed from most preferred source to least preferred source, and spit out some information in two different text boxes.

 

If you do run this, please reply (or PM me) and paste the information that you received as well as if you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit OS (I need this information as it determines the registry path that is taken). The purpose is to determine if the most preferred source of install information is consistent or not.

 

SkyrimInstallTest.exe

 

Thanks.

[Neovalen]

Skyrim is installed.

PATH: d:\tools\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim

Install Source: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 72850

TESV.exe exists.

 

Creation Kit is installed.

PATH: d:\tools\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim

Install Source: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 202480

CreationKit.exe exists.

 

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit

[Farlo]

Skyrim:

Skyrim is installed.
PATH: c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim
Install Source: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 72850
TESV.exe exists.

Creation Kit:

Creation Kit is installed.
PATH: c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim
Install Source: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 202480
CreationKit.exe exists.

[stoppingby4now]

Are you 32 or 64 bit Farlo? I can't remember.

[Farlo]

Are you 32 or 64 bit Farlo? I can't remember.

x64, my bad :P

[stoppingby4now]

Hoping to have a beta version ready tonight for testing. It now also shows version information of TESV.exe and CreationKit.exe.

[frihyland]

I'm getting an unhandled error on Win 8 32bit

 

 

 

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Dispose(Boolean disposing)
   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Close()
   at SkyrimInstallTest.Form1.Form1_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.17626 built by: FX45RCREL
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
SkyrimInstallTest
    Assembly Version: 1.0.4590.29216
    Win32 Version:
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Fri/Downloads/SkyrimInstallTest.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.17626 built by: FX45RCREL
    CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0

 

 

 

Skyrim i installed.

PATH: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim

Install Source: Software\Valve\Steam

 

No path data found for CK (it is installed and works fine), I guess that's where the error occurs