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| 26 APR 2006 at 6:06am |
Armand1880Sorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 223
Joined: 14 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I can't get the damn game to install!
Here is my problem: I always install my games on to my D: drive, an 80 gig hard drive with about 30 free gigs on it. My C: drive with my important utilities and Windows is an old hard drive with 12 gigs on it, only 4.5 of which are free. With every other game in the world, it lets me select my D drive before the install, Dreamfall on the other hand, when I click the "Agree" check box in the licence agreement, it says, "There is not enough space to install these option(s). Please free up some disk space or modify your selection."
When I click, OK, the error box comes right back and I get the alert ding. I am not given the ability to change my option, so I cannot even install this game. I have to CRTL+ALT+DEL in order to shut down the install shield.
Anyone else have this problem? or is this a unique find?
I am just not happy with the way this installation process is set up, and I am not a happy camper.
UPDATE****
It seems I am screwed. this is an acknowlged bug in the installer, and the solution on the Aspyr website is that the game has to install on the same drive as the operating system and have as least 8 gigs free to do so. With a 12 gig hard drive for my OS, that is quite impossible. My computer runs games like Half Life 2 and FEAR perfectly, but I never thought I'd have to upgrade my hard drive for Dreamfall. I've been waiting 5 years for this game, and now it appears I'm going to have to wait a while longer. Swapping over my main hard drive, that is a crappy situation to be in... I've lost all desire to play this game. And I just played through the Longest Journey in preporation. Seems like I have a long awaited paper weight now.
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| 26 APR 2006 at 6:40am |
| Deleted User | 8 gigs free?
You mean 8 Gigabyte
8.000 Mb?
8.000.000 Kb?
(approx.)
What kinda game is this?
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| 26 APR 2006 at 6:56am |
stinking_dylanIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 33
Joined: 24 APR 2006
Status : Online | I'm sure there is a way around this. You can change the letter naming of your drive and setup temporary aliases. So you just need to rename your C drive to F and your D to C while you install.
I can't remember how to do it though. Google time I think. I'll have a look for you see what I can find.
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| 26 APR 2006 at 6:59am |
stinking_dylanIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 33
Joined: 24 APR 2006
Status : Online | Here you go;
support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307844&sd=tech
Hope this helps.
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| 26 APR 2006 at 11:16am |
BunnyFuFuSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 270
Joined: 11 FEB 2003
Status : Online | Apparently if you install Dreamfall, and if the drive of your default install directory (usually like c:\program files\) does not have 7 gigs free, it will not even let you get to the screen where you can choose a different drive/partition.
This is pretty annoying, and backwards, since it should let you choose a drive, before it checks to see if there is enough space.
Here is how you can change your default windows install directory to allow it to install your game.
Go to Start -> Run:
Type RegEdit
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
On the right side is something called: ProgramFilesDir
*Write down the current path of the ProgramFilesDir, you'll need to change it back after install*
Change this value to a drive that contains 7+ gigs of space
Install Dreamfall
*Go back into the Registry, to ProgramFilesDir, and change it's value back to what it originally was.*
Don’t mess up your registry by doing anything else.
Cheers.
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| 26 APR 2006 at 11:25am |
MorgausePrivate Detective
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Joined: 2 SEP 2004
Status : Online | Swapping letters might not work, if the installer *requires* to do stuff in the Windows repertory and cannot find the new one elsewhere. It may work if the installer is clever, however. The same goes for actually playing the game afterwards.
You might also wish to keep an eye out on the boot.ini file (normally located on C). It should not use drive letters anywhere, instead naming partitions in an absolute manner (drive 0 partition 2 is the idea, though I don't know the actual naming scheme used in English). If you don't see any call to C:\Windows, you should be fine, and that's how it should be on a default installation. If the file were keyed to a particularly letter, changing letters could leave you with a Windows that will not boot.
I definitively agree that the installer could use a bit of reworking - a bit as in "scrap the whole thing" or nearly so.
Okay, a fair part of my post is now obsolete. The other method above sounds safer to me, though there might still be the problem of system files.
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| 26 APR 2006 at 12:27pm |
BunnyFuFuSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 270
Joined: 11 FEB 2003
Status : Online | doh.
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| 26 APR 2006 at 1:10pm |
krkdnosePrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By BunnyFuFu (26 APR 2006 12:27pm)
doh.
Don't you just feel invisible sometimes?
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| 26 APR 2006 at 1:53pm |
BunnyFuFuSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 270
Joined: 11 FEB 2003
Status : Online | Ah well, I understand most ppl do not have time to read all the answers :
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| 26 APR 2006 at 5:27pm |
SusanGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Eeek! RegEdit! I wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole!
Except for the one time I did do so on someone else's computer to get rid of some spyware. [smiley=whistle.gif]
Anyway, I'm glad (?) to see this problem posted, as something I've been thinking of doing is getting another hard drive, since games these days are getting bigger and bigger, and I could use more gigs. I've already got a good hard drive, it's just running out of space, so all I need is another one for the additional things I download and install. Gotta know what sort of problems I might run into.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 26 APR 2006 at 10:40pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Sir Funkenstein jr. (26 APR 2006 6:40am)
8 gigs free?
You mean 8 Gigabyte
8.000 Mb?
8.000.000 Kb?
(approx.)
What kinda game is this?
8 gigs is fairly common these days:
Myst Revelation
Half-Life 2 (maybe I'm wrong about this, though, never played it, just think I have read/heard that)
Tomb Raider: Legend
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| 27 APR 2006 at 6:06am |
BunnyFuFuSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 270
Joined: 11 FEB 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Sweet -n- Sour Susan (26 APR 2006 5:27pm)
Eeek! RegEdit! I wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole!
Except for the one time I did do so on someone else's computer to get rid of some spyware. [smiley=whistle.gif]
Anyway, I'm glad (?) to see this problem posted, as something I've been thinking of doing is getting another hard drive, since games these days are getting bigger and bigger, and I could use more gigs. I've already got a good hard drive, it's just running out of space, so all I need is another one for the additional things I download and install. Gotta know what sort of problems I might run into.
The size of the hard drive does not really matter: if you partition your C drive to small, you will still have this problem, whether your harddrive is 200Gig or 10 Gig.
Messing with regedit is not such a big deal, as long as you write down the things you change
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| 31 OCT 2006 at 4:13am |
SuperTortoiseIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 31 OCT 2006
Status : Online | I'm having the same problem. I tried changing the registry setting and changing it back, but during the dreamfall install, directx9 got installed and now when i try to run the game, it can't access Direct3D.
Guess we're both screwed. :-/
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| 31 OCT 2006 at 12:32pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SuperTortoise (31 OCT 2006 4:13am)
I'm having the same problem. I tried changing the registry setting and changing it back, but during the dreamfall install, directx9 got installed and now when i try to run the game, it can't access Direct3D.
If DirectX is the problem, try reinstalling DirectX 9.0c directly from Microsoft.
You may have to change your video card drivers. What video card do you have and what version of the drivers are you using?
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