Vista Installation...

[jackalwi]

So I decided to dust off my Myth 2 Soulblighter CD to get some action on my (newer) laptop.

The thing is, it won't even install.
It runs the Autoplay, when I click on "Install Myth 2: Soulblighter", the aero-glass circle-doodad-thing spins a few times (it's thinking... hard... and it hurts, apparently), then nothing happens. The disc doesn't spin, it doesn't do anything.

So I open up the disc contents, I tried every compatibility mode possible, for both the Setup.exe and Autoplay, and all of them yield the same results - zip, nada, zilch.

Using Vista Home Premium, 32bit, dual-core 1.8ghz proc, more than enough RAM. Please don't just respond with "lol get xp" or whatever.

Also note: i'm 99% sure it's not the disc, I can get it to install on my extremely aged Apple G4 500mhz dual processor 10.1 (or 10.2? i forget) rig. I just want to be able to not have to boot up that ancient computer just to get my Myth fix.

[Myrd]

You can copy over your Myth II folder from the Mac, and then re-apply the Windows 1.6 update.

[jackalwi]

I got it to work, but how/why is beyond me.

I switched the user account from my primary one to a secondary one; log out of a windows session & log into a different user account.

Then the "Install Myth 2" button worked, as I said the how/why of it escapes me, I'm just happy it worked =D

Oh - and when trying to launch Myth 2, I got an error about not having enough free space (despite having 20gigs free, and tons of ram available for it) - fixing that was as easy as switching the compatibility mode to XP (though I suppose Win95/98 would work too).

[tnoyce]

So I decided to dust off my Myth 2 Soulblighter CD to get some action on my (newer) laptop.

The thing is, it won't even install.
It runs the Autoplay, when I click on "Install Myth 2: Soulblighter", the aero-glass circle-doodad-thing spins a few times (it's thinking... hard... and it hurts, apparently), then nothing happens. The disc doesn't spin, it doesn't do anything.

So I open up the disc contents, I tried every compatibility mode possible, for both the Setup.exe and Autoplay, and all of them yield the same results - zip, nada, zilch.

Using Vista Home Premium, 32bit, dual-core 1.8ghz proc, more than enough RAM. Please don't just respond with "lol get xp" or whatever.


For what it's worth, I ran into the exact same issue on Vista 64.

For some reason, the 'setup.exe' program gets 'hung', and fails to copy any information from the CD to the computer. I was unable to try your solution, since I only have one account (default Administrator).

What I ended up doing, was createing a new folder on my PC, copying some folders over from the CD, then finding a copy of the MACKW32.DLL (required for the video clips. Game would not start without it)

I then had to download the 1.6 update, to get a valid main EXE file, so I could actually run the game.

Annoying. I had no problem with either of the other titles in this series. Both Fallen Lords and Wolf Age installed without any issues.



Also note: i'm 99% sure it's not the disc, I can get it to install on my extremely aged Apple G4 500mhz dual processor 10.1 (or 10.2? i forget) rig. I just want to be able to not have to boot up that ancient computer just to get my Myth fix.