Installation Error

Hey all, I just bought Elemental: War Of Magic and I can't get it installed.

It starts installing alright but when it gets to 100% it says error and then stops.

Im running Windows Vista.

Can anyone help?

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Reply #1 Top

the best advice would be to email all details of your computer(hardware, drivers versions and patch/service pack levels) and error messages to [email protected].

hope this helps

harpo

 

Reply #2 Top

I will do, thanks.

In the meantime i looked it up and someone said install it through impulse.

Is there a way to install it through impulse off my disk rather than downloading it through impulse?

Reply #3 Top

the dvd is the version 1.00 without ANY patches,

impulse is the online installer that will download and install the latest version(currently 1.09E.49 meaning there have been 9 (that is right NINE) major patches and three hotfixes to date),

and impulse is NEEDED to download and install the patches anyway,

the only potential hurdle for impulse downloading is the approx 2gb download to install elemental online,

the patches are a lot smaller( from what I remember it is about 30mb to 50 mb for the patch to current from release),

and from what I remember reading the installer apparently unarchives the files one at a time and is very slow about it.

you could look at the disc to check out the 'elemental.7z' which tells me it is a 7zip file and needs the 7zip archive manager(just google 7zip) to extract it manually,

and another bit of info that might help is there is an impulse installer in the support folder of the dvd along with the NEEDED vcredist2005sp1_x86 and an OLD acrobat reader 9.30.

harpo