Haveing big problems installing games and game demos that use Installshield

[jonro]

Hi,

Ive lost count of how many game demos ive D/L off of Fileplanet and Game demo sites that use Installshield and give me errors right at the end of the installation the nmost recent one is the Age of Empires 3 Demo, the only infomation the Installshield gives me for the Age of Empires 3 Demo about the error is: 1628: faled to complete installation.

What im wanting to know is there anyway to extract the files from the installer and manually copy them (install) myself or if anyone knows of a possible fix.

Thanks in advance.

[Ind-PC_student]

have you checked the minimum requirments for the game?
IF so go to the file source aka the developer and try and downolad it again it might be a corrupted install file.

another question i have to find out what compression utitity do you use and more important does it have a test archive utility?

i have zipgenius which allows me to test archives to see if they have errors
it works on .exe files as well.

[jonro]

Originally Posted by Ind-PC_student have you checked the minimum requirments for the game? IF so go to the file source aka the developer and try and downolad it again it might be a corrupted install file.

Yes my system meets the games minimum requirments and i have also tryed redownloading the files but im still getting the same errors.

Originally Posted by Ind-PC_student another question i have to find out what compression utitity do you use and more important does it have a test archive utility?

Im useing WinRAR

[pam123]

You could try updating installshield.
Here : http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108322

[Zakk_Wylde]

Originally Posted by pam123 You could try updating installshield. Here : http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108322

Yes try this .. if you have the most resent version reinstall it or revert to an older version

[Baskervore]

If nothing works on trying to get it all fixed, then the demos might just be bad. I downloaded a bunch of demos before, and more than half of them did not work, simply because demos are just not reliable.

Did you download the F.E.A.R. demo? If you did and it doesn't work, then it might be a different problem; that demo is pretty reliable in my experience.

[jonro]

Originally Posted by pam123 You could try updating installshield. Here : http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108322

Ok i followed the the instructions given on the site and updated Installshield and im still getting the same errors.

Originally Posted by Baskervore If nothing works on trying to get it all fixed, then the demos might just be bad. I downloaded a bunch of demos before, and more than half of them did not work, simply because demos are just not reliable. Did you download the F.E.A.R. demo? If you did and it doesn't work, then it might be a different problem; that demo is pretty reliable in my experience.

Ive had these same errors with all 12(i think) demos ive d/l that use installshield so its most likely a problem on my end but ill give the fear demo a try.

And thanks for all the help so far guys.

[Baskervore]

Actually, now in hindsight, see if you can try out the Warcraft III demo instead of F.E.A.R. It's smaller and has lower system requirements, and is just as if not more stable than the F.E.A.R. demo.

[jonro]

Originally Posted by Baskervore Actually, now in hindsight, see if you can try out the Warcraft III demo instead of F.E.A.R. It's smaller and has lower system requirements, and is just as if not more stable than the F.E.A.R. demo.

All i can find on Fileplanet is the Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Demo which requires Warcraft III full game to run the demo which i dont have so if u have any othrer recomendations that would be really good.

EDIT: I want to D/L the Serious Sam II Demo but before i spend 238 megs of bandwith on it does anyone know if it uses Installshield?

Serious Sam II Demo is located here: http://www.fileplanet.com/157037/150...us-Sam-II-Demo

[Baskervore]

You can find anything you want about games at www.gamespot.com.

Just search for your Game (Warcraft III), make sure you select the original version/edition (not an expansion), make sure you select the PC version (if it has a console version), and on the game's first page it has the demo there.

To download a demo or something, all you need is a membership with the website, which is free (you get extra stuff if you pay though, but it's not necessary at all). You don't have to wait in line, and if you have a file downloading program that can segment the file, then you can definitely download at the fastest rate you can (I can download stuff from there at 180KBytes/s, at least.) Even without a downloading program, it still goes pretty fast.

I'm not sure why you would need the full version to try out the demo...that makes no sense! I'm pretty sure I downloaded the demo and that it worked fine for me, and I don't have Warcraft anything.

The Warcraft III page is http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...q=Warcraft+III and the demo is right there. You should try it, I think.

[jonro]

Well ive tryed signing up to Gamespot but it says all 6 email addresses ive tryed are in use.. ...so if you could recomend any other small games i could D/L from somewhere else that would be good.

And if anyone else has any ideas how to fix this problem i have with installshield it would be great.

[jayb1234]

Try this. Disconnect from the internet. shutdown firewall, antivirus,anything else running in your system tray, close all open programs, then try the install. Something else that is running could be causing the problem, Macafee is one thing that will cause install issues with other programs. If it doesn't work just reboot and reconnect to the internet, and nothing lost but a little time.

[jonro]

Originally Posted by jayb1234 Try this. Disconnect from the internet. shutdown firewall, antivirus,anything else running in your system tray, close all open programs, then try the install. Something else that is running could be causing the problem, Macafee is one thing that will cause install issues with other programs. If it doesn't work just reboot and reconnect to the internet, and nothing lost but a little time.

Did everything you said and even tryed to install it in safe mode and im still getting the same error.

Well hey lol if anyone wants a challenge at least this thread is where its at.

[jayb1234]

Here is a link to a list of common installshield errors. 1628 is on there, read through that and it might have something that will help.

[jonro]

Yeah unfortunately ive been to that page and tryed everything there also....so im still at a loss as to what to do.

[jonro]

If anyone else has any idea as to what i can do that would be really great.