Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Technical Problems Help with intallation

I bought Beyond Divinity yesterday, so today, i pop in the cd, and it starts intalling... fun stuff, walk away... come back a while later, and see that the game is stuck 2/3rds into the intall... i keep watching, hoping, that it continues, but the comp crashes, and the intallation, well, failed...

So, I was like, round two... started the computer, put it in... and waited... and waited... and nothing happens... the drive makes funky noices, quite disturbing, and wont let me get the cd... restarting, taking the cd out while its in process, i let the computer start, go to the drives and delete everything with the name divinity in it, go back, and pop in the cd again...

nothing... and it keeps giving me the same problems... What should I do ?

Are you shutting down all non-essential programs (especially anti-virus) before trying to install the game?

You can copy 3 file off the 2 CDs (do not need the autorun.inf file from the first CD) to the same folder on your hard drive and install the game from there.

Tried the closing all programs, still didn't work.

Second cd has two files, and cant install that alone...

The thing is... the first cd... just... wont ... read... it slows the system, slows down the comp at startup, and makes my drive make very strange noises, like if it was getting scratched and such... which it is not...

So what should I do ? is it faulty ? do i return the game to were i bought it ? or do i go and send the cd to Larian ?

With the first CD, try holding down the shift key when you stick it in your optical drive; that will tell Windows to skip the autorun function. Then browse to the optical drive in Windows Explorer and see if you can copy the BeyondDivinity.exe file to a folder on your hard drive. If that fails, there may be something wrong with the CD itself. Problems during the install could be a conflict with an anti-virus program, etc but a simple file copy should avoid that.

It is possible, though not likely, that your optical drive is failing, and this is simply the first CD it has had trouble reading. Some drives just have trouble reading some CDs.

If possible, try a different optical drive. If you have access to another computer you could see if BD will install on it. Did you buy the game at a computer store or a game store? If the file copy fails, a computer store (or a game store with any display systems) should be willing to check the CD. Most places shouldn't give you too hard a time about exchanging the game, though I would try to determine if the problem is with your drive of the CD first.

I had similar problems with one of my optical drives, it wouldnt read the cd correctly. SO i made a plain and ordinarly copy of that CD (you cannot play with a copy, but it installs fine from a coppied cd).

It may be that either the cd rom is failing (as mentioned) or that the lazer is getting durty, or that the lazer is just getting weak

(it happens unfortunately - if you ever had the fun of working with your 4-12x cd roms, remember how the first ones battled to read coppied cd's? mainly because coppied ones were dark blue , where as originals were silver and the lazer was too weak to reflect off the blue. Today's writables is a light greenish colour, which for some weird reason reflect the lazer better than silver)

But yes, whereever you bought the game from, they normally dont have too much hassles replacing the game. (they should only have hassles if you want to replace it with another game - which a lot of people do when they have already coppied and "patched" the game)

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This mistake in operational systems Windows 2000. Windows XP
Do you next 1)Control panel 2)System 3)Device menager 4) Ide ATA/ATAPI controles 5) Also we change DMA mode On Pio Mode

Got windows Pro... can ya repeat that, cause cant understand...


not a problem with my optical drive, that i notice cause its a dvd-rom, and reads everything else i got around perfectly... so I guess ill just go and exchange soonest i can... but if i can solve this without that,then wooo <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I believe Onik was saying that that type of problem reading CDs could be cause by DMA mode, and disabling it could let the drive read the CD (though it would be a little slower and take up more CPU time).

All those who helped me ... thanks!

heh, problem with the cd it seems.. exchanged it, and it worked like a beauty installing...

see you later!

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