Thanks for the advice.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the problem. OR at at least just a a part of it.
Deactivated my antivirus und my firewall as well, but the setup still loads like crazy and can't be forced quit either.

Another thing i've noticed, when i attempt to install it via the SD central, there are two greyed out buttons, above a "pause" button and a activating button "below".
Because i never used the new SD central for the former betas, i'm not sure if that's a bad sign or not or how it should regulary look like.


Every beta before or other SD games always worked like a charm, i didn't change anything substantial hardware or software-side in the last months, so i'm pretty clueless.

Any further advice ?


edit: i reinstalled SD central. But now when i click install the above mentioned window won't even open itself anymore, just loads and loads like when i double click the setup.exe manually.

Somehow my last attempt was fruitful.

I had ot disable my firewall, antivirus device AND had to run the setup.exe manually while giving it administrator rights (because after loading endlessly on the try before, windows gave me some "you don't have the rights to blablabla" message at last).

Hope i don't have to go through such a process in the future, i'm reluctant to leave my system without any protection during an installation.
And every other (Stardock) product didn't conflict with those before.