6 years ago
Corrupted Installation? Please help!
Hello, after several months of waiting and savings I've finally bought last day my new laptop Asus gl703gs-e5012t... I have all my Expansions and Stuff packs (and of course Base game from June 2009 first release) in physical discs copies, so I had to bought Asus zendrive u9m external cd drive. All discs from Base game to Master Suite stuff were successfully installed, but when Showtime was *almost* completing the installation, a strange message (that I don't remember exaclty) appear, sorta like "the installation can't continue because files can't be transferred". The only options to select in that specific moment were only "Retry" and "Exit". The installation was stuck to "deltafullbuild12"(or something like this)... i was literally in panic so i click on Retry many times but without success. So I had to renunce and the installation failed... this is really weird 'cause all of my discs are in perfect conditions(except Showtime at this point)... I'm saying this because a couple of months ago I've installed the whole game with expansions/stuff packs on my sister's laptop without problems(she's laptop however have an internal cd drive).
So I had the idea to copy all the files in the Showtime cd to an usb pen with my sister's laptop. Surprisingly even in this occasion the disc stops to "move" (I mean the typical sound when files are transferring) and I noticed that the copying process was stuck on deltafullbuild12... the monitor became completely black and only the cursor was visible. After some seconds all was return normal. I put the remaining missing files manually on the USB... I've controlled maniacally all the files sizes(especially deltafullbuild12), making sure that were the same equivalent as the cd.
*Obviously I first deleted (with hidden files enabled) the Showtime's Installshield folder in the file explorer on my laptop before doing all of these things*
Returning to my laptop, I've insered the usb pen and started the installation .exe
But after a while a new terribile message came out: "CRC Error ecc/.. doesn't match the file in setup's .cab file. The medium from wich you are running the setup may be corrupted; contact your software vendor"
I first click Retry and then Ignore in the second time. The installation become complete and the icon appear on the desktop. I was felt bothered about all that issues (stressed, anxious and afraid), but I continued the same with Katy Perry Sweet Treats cd... in this case the installer Won't update my game so the installation became automatically denied.
My question is... what I have to do now? I'm feeling desperate because a problem like this never happend to me before!
Should I have to unistall Showtime and delete manually all the related registry keys?
I don't want to redone this huge time-consuming thing again by reinstalling the base game and all expansion from scratch!
My game is now on patch 1.31 (because the patch that came with Showtime in the cd was miraculously installed correctly) my intenction is to install all the remaining packs and then manually patching in a gradual way, with 1.66 & 1.67
If i buy a new Showtime physical disc, will work?
And why Katy Perry Sweet Treats disc refuses to install from the very beginning without updating my game?
I have a 512gb SSD with Windows on it so I absolutely don't want to defrag anything or touch something that will ruin my laptop.
Also I don't want to download any packs with Origin (you had probably understand that I want to avoid patch 1.69)
I know, this is an incredible mess. I really need help
Thanks in advance (sorry for my bad english but I'm Italian)
Edit: I currently have the Showtime Katy Perry Collector's Edition... is it indifferent if I buy a standard Showtime edition?
So I had the idea to copy all the files in the Showtime cd to an usb pen with my sister's laptop. Surprisingly even in this occasion the disc stops to "move" (I mean the typical sound when files are transferring) and I noticed that the copying process was stuck on deltafullbuild12... the monitor became completely black and only the cursor was visible. After some seconds all was return normal. I put the remaining missing files manually on the USB... I've controlled maniacally all the files sizes(especially deltafullbuild12), making sure that were the same equivalent as the cd.
*Obviously I first deleted (with hidden files enabled) the Showtime's Installshield folder in the file explorer on my laptop before doing all of these things*
Returning to my laptop, I've insered the usb pen and started the installation .exe
But after a while a new terribile message came out: "CRC Error ecc/.. doesn't match the file in setup's .cab file. The medium from wich you are running the setup may be corrupted; contact your software vendor"
I first click Retry and then Ignore in the second time. The installation become complete and the icon appear on the desktop. I was felt bothered about all that issues (stressed, anxious and afraid), but I continued the same with Katy Perry Sweet Treats cd... in this case the installer Won't update my game so the installation became automatically denied.
My question is... what I have to do now? I'm feeling desperate because a problem like this never happend to me before!
Should I have to unistall Showtime and delete manually all the related registry keys?
I don't want to redone this huge time-consuming thing again by reinstalling the base game and all expansion from scratch!
My game is now on patch 1.31 (because the patch that came with Showtime in the cd was miraculously installed correctly) my intenction is to install all the remaining packs and then manually patching in a gradual way, with 1.66 & 1.67
If i buy a new Showtime physical disc, will work?
And why Katy Perry Sweet Treats disc refuses to install from the very beginning without updating my game?
I have a 512gb SSD with Windows on it so I absolutely don't want to defrag anything or touch something that will ruin my laptop.
Also I don't want to download any packs with Origin (you had probably understand that I want to avoid patch 1.69)
I know, this is an incredible mess. I really need help
Thanks in advance (sorry for my bad english but I'm Italian)
Edit: I currently have the Showtime Katy Perry Collector's Edition... is it indifferent if I buy a standard Showtime edition?