Anyone know what this scriptinterpreter.exe software is for exactly and why it needs to be installed with games?

I can't find any information from a search engine. It's a GOG published redistributable included with games but I'm running a clean Windows install on which I'm not installing any software that requires admin rights to make mystery changes to the system. Especially as publishers are freely installing rootkits with game updates (see Doom: Eternal).

Even with GOG's excellent DRM-free stance I still have to be wary that a gog installer with admin rights might install something like an anti-cheat always running in the background processes (e.g. Far Cry 2's Punkbuster).

My best guess is that it may be tied to Galaxy integration for achievements etc. though I'm using the non-Galaxy download files.

You will need to be more specific, what title is installing this? I have a lot of games here, and have never seen that, so it’s likely a game specific thing. It’s not galaxy integration as far as I know, there are components in the offline installers (which I assume you use), but these are galaxy.dll and a few other things. There shouldn’t be any games which install anti cheat by default, but I may be wrong as it’s been a while since I last installed far cry 2.
So I very much doubt it’s anything to be worried about, even with their heavy galaxy focus, drm free is still their only selling point, so jeapodising that is probably quite far from their minds

Edit, at a very rough guess, a fair few up games use things like Lua as scripting does in game logic, so from the name of it, it sounds like one of those compiling the logic on the fly. Just guessing from the name.

Thank you.

I went ahead and ran it as Admin anyway and it appears to be the installer within the installer. Its placement in the redistributable folder alongside the usual MS VC installs that a game might depend on seemed odd to me.

As far as I know that's a component of the Inno installer that GOG uses. So not of any game and nothing that gets installed, but it runs so the installer will know what to do. I mean, have a look through the scripting commands in the help.

sorry for my very late reply , i just noticed this topic , i just downloaded the Rosewater Demo , seems it needs it and it is inside the folder.


Anyway as far as i remember it was never included in the installers of the old games and new games i bought when i first joined so i guess it is added (much) later.

Every single game brings up my outbound firewall alert on first install within Galaxy with scriptinterpreter.tmp wanting to access the net. I do allow it otherwise the cloud sync and game can't install properly. I use Kaspersky in this case with outbound connection alerts enabled.

For some mostly graphical adventure games that were ported from old dos versions this is part of the runtime.
I think it's based on the ScummVM core, but don't quote me there.

Nice necro-post Bavanity...

More information on scriptinterpreter can be found here.

LOL

But in fact this helped me finding this thread on Google (as it is newer than other topics) - so thanks for necroing this ^^