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There seems to be an issue with the installer but I don't know what it is. Application hangs everytime I try to launch the installer. I'm going to assume it is corrupt as others have had issues with and try downloading it again.
The downloaded EXE is a self-extracting 7z archive that'll run/extract and kick off the actual setup program. If it's hanging during the self-extraction, check for an anti-virus app specifically scanning it. Because it has "setup" in the filename, Windows 7/Vista will automatically request elevation for the self-extractor (which will carry over to when the setup.exe starts).
File size for beta1 is 2,453,096,484 bytes and the md5 checksum is 4c4055c6d1bb738344f6b73b37328d56. If it's the correct filesize, but the wrong checksum, I would run the built-in memory diagnostics with Windows 7/Vista. Past experience has shown that memory errors which could otherwise pass unnoticed can get shown more readily in corruption of large downloads.
Kris
I am running XP with SP3 and Kaspersky anti-virus. Closing Kaspersky yields the same results. I've downloaded the installer twice with the same result. Each time I start the program it locks up the file window and sits in task manager taking up 72k and doing nothing. When I force close I get the following error:
Nevermind, it was Kaspersky. It didn't close when I thought I disabled it. I had to go into kaspersky and disable protection while leaving it running.
All i know is i've been spending all day downloading it over and over and it won't work. I may not be able to even try the beta. I have no idea how to fix this. I just hope this won't be a problem with the actual game when it comes out.
Dwolf63 it has nothing to do with the file you are downloading. Maybe you could try to describe the problem a bit better. Have you tried to disable any virus protection software you have running?
It takes quite a while for the file to extract after you start the installation, have you tried just waiting a while?
^This, my desktop is a pretty monstrous machine, but it still took almost 2 minutes to even start extracting since antivirus scanned the file. I thought my laptop had locked up it took so long, almost 5-6 whole minutes before it even started to get RAM allocated to the process.
Waited and waited. Did what I could to disable virus check. IT finally did seem to start and then i got this message something about not having priveleges or permissions it needed or something like that.
Dwolf are you using an admin account? It probably needs admin permissions.
I am using an admin account. I even tried "run as administrator but that didn't do any good.
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