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My game won't install!
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:15 am
by Moonbiter
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?
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:43 pm
by HighLordDave
What OS are you running?
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:07 pm
by Moonbiter
XP Professional.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 8:48 pm
by fable
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.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 5:56 am
by Moonbiter
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?
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 3:06 pm
by fable
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.
Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 7:48 am
by Moonbiter
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.