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KuRtCoS
1st Sep 06, 8:58 PM
I had a problem installing the demo:

On an AMD64 2GHz, 512Mb DDRAM, the DCDemoSetup.exe used from 0 to 2% cpu time. And ate up 250MB of RAM. Then it opened a msiexec.exe process, that ocuupied from 0-2% cpu and up to 150MB RAM.

It took 40 minutes to get to the EULA screen, another good 10-15 minutes to pass from "initializing" to "copying files", and god knows how much to make the full install(I left it working and went to cinema).

I had no antivirus running, and nothing else working on the computer, just the demo installer.

The game runs 100% perfect (just had to update DirectX to 9.0c)

I tried the same installer on a Intel P4 2Ghz, 1GB DDR RAM, and ram costs were 7-10 megs, the whole installation came up in 5 or 10 minutes (normal).

Both PC's had Win XP SP1.

Is RAM THAT important to installation performance?

Something tells me this isn't supposed to happen, and I can't imagine how much time could it get to install the whole DC DVD if this happens too...

Cheers!

Stormsong
2nd Sep 06, 3:45 AM
Both PC's had Win XP SP1.

That might have something to do with it.

KuRtCoS
2nd Sep 06, 4:22 AM
But, if both had it, why one had problems and other didn't?

The problematic pc is a laptop and can't be updated to because it(SP2) says that my integrated modem, sound card and Graphics DRIVER(not the card(!)) are uncompatible with SP2 and refuses to boot.

Never had this problem in the laptop with DoW or WA, I hope I can get DC working aswell :)

Thx for ur time ^^