Shibathedog Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 This is really starting to aggravate me, Every damn time i try to install a game that uses installshield, there is always some random file on the disc that it cant read the games I've tried are Scarface and Need For Speed: Carbon. It used to do this with UT2k4 too but it works now. I just did a complete clean install of windows. This makes no sense. I even tried ripping it as an image and mounting it in a virtual drive, and still same thing, cannot read some random stupid file. flock installshield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Ever since I uninstalled->re-installed visual studio 2k5 (during the spring) the *.msi installers I have with windows have been taking a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong ass time to set up. It would take maybe 10 minutes before I'm asked where I want an app to be installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esoteric Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 I've never had this problem, I wonder wat you're doing wrong? I know we don't support warez here, but have you tried torrenting the disk images? Maybe that might work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 What is the name of one of these random files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 I had the same problem as Weirdy a while ago. Didn't matter if I was installing or uninstalling, Microsoft Installer initialization took ages. ... Then the problem went away, just like that. I still have no clue why it behaved like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 yeah i did try pirating it, same thing and it has trouble with random compressed package files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 lol same thing happened a couple of hours ago except that I was applying SP1 to VS2k5. It took around 90 minutes! (and no, it's not pirated) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 i remember there was some app you could use to manually extract all the files in installers, maybe i could do that to play the game? with some luck it wont check for registry entries or anything. Anyone know what app that was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 i remember there was some app you could use to manually extract all the files in installers, maybe i could do that to play the game? with some luck it wont check for registry entries or anything. Anyone know what app that was?I forgot what it was called, but it is made by M$. It looks through a certain directory that is full of *.msi installers and uninstallers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esoteric Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Have you tried doing it on other computers? It might be some strange problem with your system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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