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Trouble during Install
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 7:43 am
by AutoHost
Win98SE, 512meg RAM, AMD XP 2000+ CPU, Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200
During install, (with music playing) VERY slow CD access, 30 minutes to barely install several files. Had to run SETUP2.EXE manually to install (without music playing).
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 10:37 am
by LarkinVB
Either the CD or your drive seems to be broken. Slow install is usually a sign of a scratched CD were the drive tries several reads with error correction.
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:46 pm
by LarkinVB
Sometimes the backside of the CD has some dirt or grease on it which can be cleaned with a very soft cotton wool.
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:37 pm
by AutoHost
It was straight out of the box.
I have a Optorite DVD writer and a LiteOn CD writer installed. Used the LiteOn drive to do the install from.
I also have Daemon Tools installed, which create virtual cd drives.
Before I tried the setup2.exe file, I was only able to install (mostly)-successfully by using CloneCD to make an image of the cd, mount it, and install from that. For some reason, that made several zero-length files in the images dir (hence the original subject line for this thread).
As I said, running setup2.exe fixed it for me, installed everything correctly with no zero-length files.
No idea why I had problems with the normal install program.
Anyway, in the end it works fine! Thats the main thing.
Great game! Thanks for creating it!