Do you have any software installed that prevents the game from writing to your registry????
This will happen when the game cant load the nescesary stuff that is supposed to be written in your registry when it installs.
Also try to apply the
Latest Patch See if that will force it to continue....
If you have anything that monitors your regis try, disable it during the install, or configure it to accept the changes to your registry.
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