Setup File Won't Load

[Guymed]

Hello. I recently downloaded DCS for my other, DCS supporting PC, and when I tried to install the game (yes, the bin file was in the same directory), nothing opened. It just froze the computer. I was using Windows Vista, with 2GB ram, a 956MB ATI Graphics Card, an Intel Dual Core processor, with 2.17GHz. How can I get the installer to load? If I can't, I'll have to get a refund and not be able to play it :(

 

Thanks!!

[Guymed]

C'mon I need a response!

[EtherealN]

It would appear no-one has one. :P

 

Further information would be needed to make a real elimination process here because that's just weird. What drivers do you have for your components, is anything overclocked, do you have any special codec packs installed, any protection software that might be getting involved when you start executables? So on and so forth.

 

The more info, the better the odds that someone can spot something.

[159th_Viper]

.........and when I tried to install the game (yes, the bin file was in the same directory).....

 

Assuming here that the data1.cab file and the setup.exe was in the same Folder located in the same directory?

Edited April 16, 2009 by 159th_Viper

[Guymed]

Well, because it's windows vista, I have to right click it and hit run as admin, but I tried opening it both as admin and as not. I have Kaspersky Anti Virus 2009, which I don't think is the problem. Codecs, certain drivers? No, just the normal ones. Is it because I stored it in a too-deep directory?

[Guymed]

Come on! No support, e-mail or forum... geez...

[EtherealN]

Is it because I stored it in a too-deep directory?

 

This is possible.

 

Though as Viper indicated, directory and folder are two different things - a directory would be, f.ex, C: or D:, whereas nested below those are folders. Being too deep can cause issues, so if you have not done so you should try running them placed in C:\

 

Also, you should make very certain that the anti-virus isn't blocking the program's execution - there have been a few 'false positives' with other anti-virus softwares. Finally, do you have UAC active and if so does it prompt you?

[EtherealN]

Come on! No support, e-mail or forum... geez...

 

Be careful with your attitude man. I'm helping you on my own time and if you start pulling attitude I'll just go play the game instead.

[Guymed]

Sorry about me being mean, I'm just p*ssed because I spent 50 bucks and it doesn't work.

[EtherealN]

That's understandable, but please realize that things happen. It is absolutely impossible for developers to test and check out all possible mutations of PC systems so sometimes it'll go to crap and it can be a bit of an issue to find out what makes it happen.

 

The setup program freezing the computer is a pretty drastic thing to happen though, and normally it should actually be impossible for a program to do so since it does not have direct access to the hardware (unless it's ring0'd or is a driver) and should also not be able to usurp cycles outside of what the OS assigns to it. That does make me suspect that there is something in the operating system that really doesn't like what's happening - it could be the anti-virus getting a false positive and something in the anti-virus crashing and the OS then getting confused, it could be windows defender doing a funny maneuver, etcetera.

 

The only time I've actually had something similar happen to me in the last 6 months or so was on my laptop which also runs Vista 32 and has 2 gigs of RAM. I was opening up some textures in GIMP and saw my RAM utilization shoot up like a rocket to 100% and shortly thereafter the computer got extremely unresponsive even beyond the normal swap-file sluggishness one can get.

 

So do check out your memory usage. It might be that you have a memory leak in some system process that, along with the installer being big and using a lot of memory, fills up your RAM and someone gets the computer to totally freak out.

 

What size swap file do you have and how much free HDD space do you have on your hard drive(s)?

[Guymed]

What's a swap file? And I have 94.1GBs of remaining disk space.

[Guymed]

Is ANYONE gonna respond? (no offense to everyone)

[EvilBivol-1]

Sorry Guymed, I'm not sure if I can help, but I can tell you that anti-virus programs and codecs have been known to cause problems. I would first attempt to disable the anti-virus program. If that doesn't work, try unisntalling your codecs. Have you turned off UAC?

[Guymed]

I don't know what codecs are, but I know disabling the anti-virus might help. But, I'm not sure I can do it because the DCS supportive computer is shared, not personal.

[nemises]

Codecs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec

 

Things used to decode video and autdio streams.

if you whatch any "non standard" video formats (divx, xvid, matrovska) , then you will have specific codecs installed...you might have a codec pack installed with dozens of differnt ones.

Unfortunately, some of these can cause issues (allthough, to be honest, if the package installer isnt running, I wouldnt have thought a codec could cause it).

 

Swap file:

Is an area of hard disk space reserved for the OS to "swap" out what is in physical memory .. kind like using a bit of disk space to "pretend" it is extra Ram...of course, very very slow ram!.

You can see what your swap file is set to by looking at your system properties (sorry no viasta here, so no blow by blow) .. chances are , if you don't know what it is, then it will be set to "let windows automatically manage my swap file" , which, as long as you have plenty of space on your system hard drive (C: usually) , say more that 2 GB, you should be fine.

 

Try this,

Have a look at your task manager and look at running processes (perhaps organised alphabetically) .. leave it runing

Next, run the setup.exe.

Have another look at your processes...has a new process spawned called setup.exe or MISInst.exe or anything like that ?

 

If not, then I propose you re-download the setup.exe

[EtherealN]

You can also google for Process Explorer, and run that while attempting the setup. It should hopefully be able to give some further analysis of what it is that is happening.

 

Even if you might not understand it's output, it is possible that someone here would be able to spot something.

[viperBAT36]

well.....

 

well...i dont know what else to do.single player just simply won't start up.i can play multiplayer fine.

 

error file always says:Error running Config/autoexec.cfg: cannot open Config/autoexec.cfg: No such file or directory

9/24/2009 19:14 V808201900

 

 

config is there...autoexec.cfg is there...dont understand why it wont load up?

i have posted my specs in previous posts,so any ideas?i've uninstalled and re-installed several times.nothing works!

 

World::LoadPlugins: Loaded plugin module CockpitBase.dll

Dispatcher: initial random seed = 4311203

Dispatcher: apply random seed = 4311203

Cosmos: Mission date assigned - Year:2009, Month:6, Day:1

loaded from mission Scripts/World/GPS_GNSS.lua

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Map objects for beacon site Мыс Евпаторийский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for beacon site Ялта NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for inactive beacon site Мыс Кыз-Аул NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for inactive beacon site Мыс Кодошский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

ComplexTask::open_state(). Precached tasks data loading.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Follow_Line" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Follow_Vector" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Follow_Vector_Old" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Approach" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Cannon_Ground_Attack" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Rocket_Attack" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Level_Bombing" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Dive_Bombing" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Missile_Ground_Target_Attack" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Missile_Ground_Target_Level_Attack" task data loaded.

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[dragony]

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