I have a top of the line Alienware Area 51 ALX gaming system. It has dual ATI 5970 graphics, Creative X-Fi Tiitanium, 6 GB's of 1333Mhz Ram. All the newest drivers, etc.
I have been looking for some good games for this system and before I just go buying everything off the shelf, I wanted to test some demos. I ran across Demigod on Gamespot and download the demo off of Gamershell. Installed it, ran it and black screen, then system reboot. Then my brand new top of the line system had to it's first unrecoverable system shutdown. I ran the system app to have Microsoft find why this happeend... of course that was no help.
I checked the forums and tried a number of things, I don't have a Logitech webcam, I don't have the Comodo firewall, I have all updated drivers that I had verified by Dell support that they were the newest and checked each support website also. I know this because I had an issue with Microsoft wanting to update my Creative X-Fi driver even though on Creative's support website, they had the newest drivers. So I made sure I had the support websites newest and not OEM or Microsoft's.
No matter what I did, I couldn't get the game to work and not crash my system. BTW... one game shouldn't make everyone have to run around changing everything on their system to get a program to work. I have done a lot of research on troubleshooting this game and I am amazed at how many issues and problems there are on all different platforms with all different types of hardware and the issues are varied and widespread. What happened to quality control? There ARE games that actually are released with hardly any problems- at least not system level crashes that sometimes cause people to have to reload their whole system.
So... I finally gave up and decided this game wasn't worth the demo much less the purchasing. So I went to ADD/REMOVE programs and uninstalled Demigod. It went through what seemed like the normal procedure until at the end it tells me that there is some problem with the Windows Installer and that it cannot finalize the uninstall. I did the same with Impulse and had the same result. So I tried the repair on both programs and the same problem except that when Impulse wants to repair, it asks for the source file for setup. No matter what folder I send it to, it doesn't find this 'source setup file'. I then downloaded Impulse directly from their site and tried to reinstall but first it wants to uninstall the old Impulse and won't do it itself (hmmmm? A program that can't uninstall it's old version of itself?) It tells me to manually do it. So I try and again the error about Windows Installer Service could not be accessed, contact your support personnel for assistance. Funny thing is that I can use the Windows Installer just fine to install anything else so far... so it's obviously Impulse/Demigod that's the issue and not the Windows Installer.
Not only can I not try out the game but I can't get rid of it either... how can something SO buggy be released and who will be responsible for cleaning up this programs mess? I can't stand it when the coding is so poor that a program can't uninstall itself properly. I am on Windows 7 64 bit but I have read that same people are playing just fine on this platform. When I ask who will be responsible, the reason is that like I said, I have noticed SO many issues and people complaining... and almost no official responses and mostly excuses or what everyone has to do to change their system to make a silly game work... but the developers haven't done anything to fix this or give support to people who's systems have been harmed by their program.
Does anyone know how to get Demigod demo and Impulse uninstalled?
