is there some way to manually install elemental? I decided to do a clean install (after I couldn't get ranged weapons to work right no matter that patch/mod I tried to use) but the installer on the disk sucks ass! it takes hours to install the game, at first I was like "oh well" but then I noticed that it's just unpacking zips. sure enough when I looked, the games files are just compressed and oh, look 7zip is sitting right there.
game installer = hours.
7zip = 10 freaking minutes!
oh, and the game runs fine from the .exe in the stardock\elemental directory. I can live without system registration entries and having to manually create a desktop shortcut but I do need the patches. impulse isn't acknowledging the game files and tries to download the whole damned thing without first checking to see what files are present (same thing with the installer, I checked to so what it would do when I ran it after manually unziping the files).
I'm in a rural location so: no, downloading if from impulse isn't a viable option as it would just take longer than the installer.
is there some way I can tell impulse to check for existing game files or something?