My game won't install!

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:15 am

I've purchased Divine Divinity, but the blasted thing won't install on my computer. This is the first time ever I've had this problem. In the middle of Wise-Installation preparation it tells me "Divine Divinity has encountered a problem and needs to shut down."

Anyone had this problem before?

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:43 pm

What OS are you running?

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:07 pm

XP Professional.

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon May 03, 2004 8:48 pm

That's bizarre. Do you get any kind of details that look like a memory location? If so, you may have a conflict on your hands.

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Tue May 04, 2004 5:56 am

The only answer the game gives me is:

Error Report:

AppName: divsetup.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.0 ModName: divsetup.exe
ModVer: 1.0.0.0 Offset: 00001e08

looks to my untrained eye like the problem lies in the Wise Installation Wizard itself.

Any suggestions?

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue May 04, 2004 3:06 pm

Or possibly the registry. My old hard drive had something stuck in there that was causing abnormal terminations during any installation. I got around it by doubleclicking the installable executable in TurboBrowser, a WinExplorer substitute that I liked to use on Win98. Oddly enough, it worked. So did (most of the time) copying the entire disk to a temp directory, and trying to install from there.

If it is the registry, I don't know what to suggest. A friend who's pretty tech told me that any installation of Windows, particularly pre-XP, should ideally be scrubbed each year, with a new OS copy and fresh applications installed, just to clean out all the debris left in the registry.

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Thu May 06, 2004 7:48 am

Well, it's annoying me so much I'm actually gonna buy a pc just for gaming, so I can wipe the blasted thing whenever I want to. Use the old one just for work.