[0.950] Can't install the beta

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I tried downloading it from the Stardock page and via the SD central multiple times, but when i double click on the setup.exe nothing happens (it hogs all my RAM though and sometimes even refuses to be quit forcefully).
The longest time i waited for something to happen was more than 40 minutes, i guess it isn't silently unpacking.

All my drivers are up to date and nothing else prduces any visible conflicts.

Please help.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Your antivirus app may be trying to scan the file while it unpacks, which can make it go extremely slowly.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

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 :pout: ?


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.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I am having the same issue. After being unable to update to Beta 4 (even though I had applied all previous beta upgrades), because the upgrade wouldn't recognize FE as installed in the system (yet it was installed and operational), I downloaded the full beta 4 setup. After executing the setup, it takes a couple of minutes to start up, then UAC pops up asking for confirmation and then, once confirmed to proceed with installation, a "File is corrupt" message pops up. So I tried to download it for three more times but I keep getting the same "File is corrupt" error.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

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.

 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm sorry for this rather shameless necro, but this very same issue struck me again with the 1.0 executable.

Shut down my firewall and my virus scanner, tried it via direct download or  automated SD central installation several times, but this time nothing seems to work.

Everything else runs fine, drivers up to date, more than 20 GB free disc space, i really don't know why the FE installer gets stuck and hogs almost all of my system resources without doing anything.