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"Skybuck" wrote in message
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Ladies and Gentlemen.

The story is about to get worse.

I am now on an AMD Athlon 64 2600+ with 10 GB of free space on drive C:
and a cd rewriteable in the cd rom drive containing the installation
program. (windows xp home edition sp2)

Needless to say the (retarded) installation program failed to install
the game.

Error message: "1607: Unable to install InstallShield Scripting
Runtime"

Well I don't have much choice but to copy the executable to the c:
drive again. Thanks for wasting my time once again.

This will be my last installation attempt. So here goes:

Why am I not surprised that it didn't work ? Oh yeah I forgot (not)
it's a retarded installation program.

Same error message:

Error message: "1607: Unable to install InstallShield Scripting
Runtime"

It sure was one hell of an "experience" =D

Thank you microsoft for giving me and thousands of others a hell of an
"experience".

I am now officially done with this demo. It's going into the waste
basket.

I am kinda glad this demo did not work. It proves I was right alllll
along and this is just one hell of a retarded installation program.

(You can expect much more review of demo installation programs because
I have had my share of bad installation experiences and I decided to do
something about it and simply nail these *******s to the wall of shame.
There ya go =D )

Bye,
Skybuck.


Skybuck Flying schreef:

"mike" wrote in message
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"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message
...
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen.

I wanted to play "Ages of Empires 3 Demo/Trial" but I didn't get any
further
than the installation program lol.

So instead of reviewing the game/demo I will simply review the
installation
program since that's more experienc with this game clearly made by
retards
?

The free space before starting the installation program was:

Drive C: 500 MB of free space.
Drive E: 371 MB of free space.
Drive F: 1 GB of free space.

All windows temporarely files/folders/settings have been set to
F:\Tempory
Folder\

I started the installation program which proceded to extract a 365 MB
file
located in
f:\Temporary Folder\_is174\Age of Empires III Trial.msi and some
other
little files as well.

Then it continued to run this file which extracted another *.msi file
located in

C:\Windows\Installer\17ba0c4.msi (357 MB)

(probably an automatically generated file name ?)

The installation program then complained there was not enough free
space.

Available space claimed by program: 145.944 KB

Required space:366.409 KB

Which is in itself pretty confusing.

Then it had some extra listview which added to the confusion:

c:\ available: 142 mb required: 2mb difference: 139 mb
c:\ available: 371 mb required: 0mb difference: 371 mb
c:\ available: 673 mb required: 2mb difference: 671 mb

The program is clearly retarded and doesn't know jacksquat what it's
doing.

It requires a lot more than 2 MB.... etc...

This is as far as I got with this installation program.

The title read: "InstallShield Wizard"

How about renaming that to: "InstallShield Retard"

Another title read: "Ages Of Empires III Trial Installation Wizard"

How about: "Ages Of Empires III Trial Installation Retard"

I am not sure who to blame.

I could blame InstallShield for writing corporate crapware.

I could blame microsoft for granting them a microsoft certification.
Which
would mean: "congratulations it's certified corporate crapware".

In the end the makers of the game are probably to blame... who is
that ?

Oh right microsoft lol =D hahahahahahahah how funny.

Well let's see:

365 MB for the zip file
365 MB for the executable
365 MB for the installer 2
357 MB for the installer 3

Wow 1452 of wasted space.

The zip file could be deleted so that would still requi

1087 space.

the installation program even complained it needed another 357 MB of
free
space on drive C:

So the final space requirement to install this demo could be as much
as:

1444 MB !!!! maybe even more ?!?!?!?!?!!!!

I actually discovered something else.

C:\windows\installer\ is full with junk from previous retarded
installation
programs... like 300+ MB.

Even if I deleted that junk the demo would probably still not install
!

Final conclusion: Microsoft has outdone itself in writing corporate
craw
ware.

My rating:

10+ for retardedness
10+ for wasting space
10+ for wasting time
10+ for confusing installation program

The retardness is off the ****ing retardedness scale lol.

THIS CALLS FOR A BOYCOTT !!!!

I hereby ask all major gaming sites to boycott this demo and/or any
future
retarded demo installation programs.

Bye,
Skybuck.

hmm, i'm not sure i would even attempt installing a game demo anyway,
with
only a few hundred mb left on the drive. it just installed flawlessly
on
my
system, but i haven't had a chance to play it yet.

Actually there was more free space available on the F: drive about 1.37
GB
in total.
( I copied the temporarely extracted installers to see if those could be
installed but nope )

More than enough for the game files.

The retarded installation program prevents a proper install

How much does the installed game require ?

Bye,
Skybuck.