Various Games will not install XP
On Installation of various sierra ie Pharoh and Caesar III. I have found that when the setup shield starts it gets to 99% and then stops. The setup sheield disappears and nothing further happens. It does not even get to the stage of installing files.
On Installation of various sierra ie Pharoh and Caesar III. I have found that when the setup shield starts it gets to 99% and then stops. The setup sheield disappears and nothing further happens. It does not even get to the stage of installing files.
I have all the windows updates and latest drivers for all my hardware.
WinXPpro.
Nvidia Geforce 2mx400
Intel Pentium III 866Mhz
384Mb SDRAM
DirectX9.0
All these games work fine under win 98 SE and on another computer I have. With, Winxppro, AMD Athlon 800Mhz, Leadtek Nvidia geforce 256 32MB DDR Ram, 384 MB SDRAM and both machines have the same Soundblaster live cards.
Any suggestion would be appreciated thankyou.
I have all the windows updates and latest drivers for all my hardware.
WinXPpro.
Nvidia Geforce 2mx400
Intel Pentium III 866Mhz
384Mb SDRAM
DirectX9.0
All these games work fine under win 98 SE and on another computer I have. With, Winxppro, AMD Athlon 800Mhz, Leadtek Nvidia geforce 256 32MB DDR Ram, 384 MB SDRAM and both machines have the same Soundblaster live cards.
Any suggestion would be appreciated thankyou.
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Until someone comes up with s specific answer, I think you should check your system and your hardware: is everything OK? I had a similar problem with Thief2 and AvP2 on my Win2kPro, and the main fault was that Sound Blasters drivers were anything but in order (without me knowing anything about that) and that effected Windows so that it wouldn't function properly. Eventually, the whole harddrive busted
So check your system first; there's probably something wrong with Windows or your hardware/drivers. Having the latest drivers doesn't always mean everything is OK.
So check your system first; there's probably something wrong with Windows or your hardware/drivers. Having the latest drivers doesn't always mean everything is OK.
I seem to remember something in the MSKB about installshield errors. Have you run windows update, installed all latest patches, etc.?
Yes. I have run windows update and I have all the updates availible.
I can install other software that is not a game I have not had any trouble there. I have also been able to install another old faithful game Tomb raider Chronicles, So what I can gather I can install any software(not games) and I can install some games too.
I have even tried installing these games through the compatability wizard but .... ;( it still does not work.
It doesn't seem to be a driver problem as both machines are running the same drivers! and I am sure that both machines have exactly the same services disabled.
Thanks for everyones input, all these replies are appreciated.
If I find the answer to this problem I will post the solution ASAP. I hope you all will do th same.
Kind regards
I can install other software that is not a game I have not had any trouble there. I have also been able to install another old faithful game Tomb raider Chronicles, So what I can gather I can install any software(not games) and I can install some games too.
I have even tried installing these games through the compatability wizard but .... ;( it still does not work.
It doesn't seem to be a driver problem as both machines are running the same drivers! and I am sure that both machines have exactly the same services disabled.
Thanks for everyones input, all these replies are appreciated.
If I find the answer to this problem I will post the solution ASAP. I hope you all will do th same.
Kind regards
Windows Installer is running.
It's not a NTFS problem as I installed Xp using a FAT32 file system.
And No I have not been playing with the registry.
I have isolated the problem to being only sierra games pre 2001( pharoh, caesar III, Zeus), but caesar II which has a DOS installer works fine. I have just also installed Empire Earth which is a 2001 sierra game and I have had no problems.
Still I find this strange as my other computer runs all these games with no problems with WinXPpro.
It's not a NTFS problem as I installed Xp using a FAT32 file system.
And No I have not been playing with the registry.
I have isolated the problem to being only sierra games pre 2001( pharoh, caesar III, Zeus), but caesar II which has a DOS installer works fine. I have just also installed Empire Earth which is a 2001 sierra game and I have had no problems.
Still I find this strange as my other computer runs all these games with no problems with WinXPpro.
IIRC, the 99% error in games is a bug in Installshield. I think it can be fixed by replacing the setup.exe with another setup.exe but It's been about forever and a half since I've encountered this problem and it's happened only once. (I have over 300+ Windows games that I've installer over and over and the 99% has only happened once.)
You might try searching the forums. I believe this has been hashed over before.
You might try searching the forums. I believe this has been hashed over before.
