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Wow. Tried to install this one yesterday, it is still one of my all time favorites! HAH! Win 7 does NOT like the Auto Run program that this game uses. Trying to install it gives an error "Type Lib Not Registered" Then Win 7 pops up with "The Program Might Not Have Installed Correctly" and offers to send an error report to MS. MS actually replies saying to install the latest Flash Player. Ummm, I already got that, D'Oh! But I installed it again just for shits and giggles.

Still no go. So, I browse to the CD and manually run Setup, which worked finally. But, then, right at the end of the install, I got another error pop up saying "The Splashscreen Has Stopped Working" And cancelling that error message window started a cascade of error windows going from mid-screen down to the bottom right corner and into infinity! And the only way to kill that was to go into Task Manager and kill Quake 4 which was running.

Now I'm gonna have to disable Auto Run for the DVD drive because I don't want to get this fraking error every time I want to play the game. I can't just leave the CD in the drive. *sigh*

At least, once I got it installed and dialed in, the game ran like new! Played for about 2 hours. Sure is a great game! Chris.

Mr. Chris wrote:Wow. Tried to install this one yesterday, it is still one of my all time favorites! HAH! Win 7 does NOT like the Auto Run program that this game uses. Trying to install it gives an error "Type Lib Not Registered" Then Win 7 pops up with "The Program Might Not Have Installed Correctly" and offers to send an error report to MS. MS actually replies saying to install the latest Flash Player. Ummm, I already got that, D'Oh! But I installed it again just for shits and giggles.

Still no go. So, I browse to the CD and manually run Setup, which worked finally. But, then, right at the end of the install, I got another error pop up saying "The Splashscreen Has Stopped Working" And cancelling that error message window started a cascade of error windows going from mid-screen down to the bottom right corner and into infinity! And the only way to kill that was to go into Task Manager and kill Quake 4 which was running.

Now I'm gonna have to disable Auto Run for the DVD drive because I don't want to get this fraking error every time I want to play the game. I can't just leave the CD in the drive. *sigh*

At least, once I got it installed and dialed in, the game ran like new! Played for about 2 hours. Sure is a great game! Chris.

Run the install as Administrator, run in Computability mod if need be, as well. Chris~

I'll install it and see if I have the same issues, I doubt it. Also what is the UAC set at? Just put in on low

or better yet, try TwaekUAC as John and I do, works great in Vista, and John uses it in Win7 I think.

If I can run any game, you should be able too, bottom line.

Then again I have not tried Q4, when I get a moment Ill try my method or experiment with it, what have you, ok.

Movie time now Never Back Down, ever heard of it?? We'll see?

HJ will know for sure what the issue is.

Blue

BlueMonster wrote:
Run the install as Administrator, run in Computability mod if need be, as well. Chris~

I'll install it and see if I have the same issues, I doubt it. Also what is the UAC set at? Just put in on low

or better yet, try TwaekUAC as John and I do, works great in Vista, and John uses it in Win7 I think.

If I can run any game, you should be able too, bottom line.

Then again I have not tried Q4, when I get a moment Ill try my method or experiment with it, what have you, ok.

Movie time now Never Back Down, ever heard of it?? We'll see?

HJ will know for sure what the issue is.

Blue

Good suggestions Blue, as far as TweakUAC goes I haven't used it in Win7, I just set the UAC slider on the second notch from the bottom. I'll see if I can dig-up anything on the problem when I get a moment. Need my beauty sleep right now.

lol UAC ? in vista when i do a format of vista that is the very 1st thing i kill so it doesnt ever bother me ever. and then i install all of my drivers and stuff. but i do 1 at a time and do a reboot between each driver install as well. and i do it in a certain order to and the last driver that gets installed is my gfx driver.

but this does want me to install win7 build 7600 more and more now since i do have it though... and yeah i like quake 4 and doom3 as well which are sitting in there box yet.

As far as I can tell it's not a UAC thing. And it's not an issue with running the game, it's the Installer! Game runs just fine without changing to XP Compatability Mode.

Here's the cascading errors:


And this is the "Splashscreen has stopped working" :


As long as I keep the CD in the drive it's fine. eject the CD, reinsert it and the errors pop up again. But now I disabled the Auto Run so I hope this little problem won't Pop Up again. Chris.

Mr. Chris wrote:As far as I can tell it's not a UAC thing. And it's not an issue with running the game, it's the Installer! Game runs just fine without changing to XP Compatability Mode.

Here's the cascading errors:

And this is the "Splashscreen has stopped working" :

As long as I keep the CD in the drive it's fine. eject the CD, reinsert it and the errors pop up again. But now I disabled the Auto Run so I hope this little problem won't Pop Up again. Chris.

Chris, have you checked for a NO-CD Crack for the game so you don't even need to use it? I use quite a few so the kids don't have to use CD's for most of their games. I usually get them at GameCopyWorld.

Disabling Auto Run fixed it. Chris.

Mr. Chris wrote:Disabling Auto Run fixed it. Chris.

Now why didn't I think of that. I hate autorun and usually disable it anyway. Glad you fixed it.

Mr. Chris wrote:Disabling Auto Run fixed it. Chris.

w00t w00t I knew i'd be something very simple, I have Win ask me each time what to do with every CD, DVD.

Another Method that would probably would do it is, Copy and Paste the Whole Dick on your HDD in a folder, and try
the install form there that way, I've done this in the past and always had good luck with it.

Anywho, you got it installed, and running correct? Chris.

It's a Cool A$$ game so is Doom3,



Best of Luck!!

Blue

You Gotther Done!! Yee Haa!!

Here's some Great info about it in XP, Vista and Win7::

http://www.lostintechnology.com/windows ... in-windows



Check it out aye.

Yep, Blue, installed and running fine! Now on to the next Win 7- doesn't work game! Chris.