My Game Long Name - What the heck is this?!

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Hello,
Today I decided to uninstall some games I play no more, by entering Control Panel ---> Delete Programs. And what do I see? Next to Antichamber (I never wanted to uninstall this) by Alexander Bruce, there is also Antichamber by Epic Games and something called My Game Long Name, also by Epic Games. What the hell are those? If I uninstall them, will the game stop working?

[Californ1a]

My Game Long Name is the UDK engine version associated with each Unreal game you have. I have three "My Game Long Name" becasue I have Antichamber, UT3, and UDK itself. It is just used to direct the game to the correct version of UDK, kind of like when games used to require a CD even when the game was fully installed on the computer.

I've never heard of anyone having problems by uninstalling it though. And also, for Steam games, you're not really meant to uninstall them via the add/remove programs control panel. You can just right-click on the game in Steam and click on "Delete Local Content..." That will also make sure any redists and registry entries are removed as well.

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Thank you!

[Wig Bang]

This is absurd. It's clutter.

[0003c9fe]

!!!!???. eredeti hozzászólása:

yep, it require a fix!

There's nothing to fix.

sharpnova eredeti hozzászólása:

This is absurd. It's clutter.

What are you on about? "Clutter"? It takes up a minuscule amount of space, and you will likely never see it for more Han like 5 minutes. BRB going to remove that one tiny spec of chip from the bottom of the bag that fell behind my bookcase. It shouldn't be able to do that. It's absurd, and it's clutter.

[TLTD]

Bad choice of name. Stupid choice, especially when you're coming through trying to uninstall adware that your kids installed accidentally. Why not "Unreal Engine Resource" or something?

[Californ1a]

TLTD eredeti hozzászólása:

Bad choice of name. Stupid choice, especially when you're coming through trying to uninstall adware that your kids installed accidentally. Why not "Unreal Engine Resource" or something?

It's not a choice. It's inbuilt with the engine, most likely nothing the dev can do about it.

[Pudekcuf]

so if i happened to accidently delete this thinking it was a virus, how would i get it back.

[Californ1a]

Just uninstall and reinstall the game. Right-click it in your Steam library and click on "delete local content" and then reinstall it.

[excelatrate]

Californ1a eredeti hozzászólása:

Just uninstall and reinstall the game. Right-click it in your Steam library and click on "delete local content" and then reinstall it.

...Or you could verify the game files which is way easier and doesnt require a reinstall.
Herp derp.

(Sorry for necro but come on)

[Californ1a]

7X eredeti hozzászólása:

...Or you could verify the game files which is way easier and doesnt require a reinstall.
Herp derp.

(Sorry for necro but come on)

That only verifies the actual files within the "..\steamapps\common\antichamber\" directory, and not the separately installed engine that comes when you initially download and install the game, which is what this thread was talking about.

[noname]

Californ1a eredeti hozzászólása:

7X eredeti hozzászólása:

...Or you could verify the game files which is way easier and doesnt require a reinstall.
Herp derp.

(Sorry for necro but come on)

That only verifies the actual files within the "..\steamapps\common\antichamber\" directory, and not the separately installed engine that comes when you initially download and install the game, which is what this thread was talking about.

Verifying also clears registry flags, that associated with additional software installed with game.

Californ1a eredeti hozzászólása:

TLTD eredeti hozzászólása:

Bad choice of name. Stupid choice, especially when you're coming through trying to uninstall adware that your kids installed accidentally. Why not "Unreal Engine Resource" or something?

It's not a choice. It's inbuilt with the engine, most likely nothing the dev can do about it.

And you can change name of your project, it's not built-in, it's default.

[0rphan]

@Californ1a

Thank you for the meaningful response to the OP's question, as I had the same question.

[0003c9fe]

@0rphan

Thank you for the useless response to this 3 year old thread.

[Kabamaru]

No matter how you uninstall Antichamber, "My Game Long Name" stays there even though all files were removed by Steam. To get rid of it (after Antichamber is uninstalled) you have to fire up good ol' Control Panel (not the standard Windows 10 settings app), go to Uninstall a Program, right click on "My Game Long Name" and click uninstall. It'll throw an error and ask you if you want the entry removed.

Funnily enough, after I did this, I reinstalled Antichamber and no such entry reappeared under installed programs. So I don't know what triggers the bug.

[djcj]

You can change the entry name to "Antichamber" manually in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\UDK-XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
-> DisplayName
The X's in the path are a GUID which can be found in the file Antichamber\Binaries\InstallInfo.xml

If you want the entry to be invisible create a new DWORD entry with the name "WindowsInstaller" and the value "1".

Addendum:
I couldn't find a way to entirely avoid the game to run UnSetup.exe. And whenever the registry entry is missing it's run again. If UnSetup.exe is deleted the game refuses to start. You can however replace it with a dummy exe file that simply returns 0 and closes. But in that case you have to accept starting running the program on each start. A Windows safety mechanism that I haven't figured out how to avoid.