Might be a good idea to hang fire on some of the mods. They might be working ok in the sense that the game runs and doesn't CTD or freeze or do anything unusual, but they may be cancelling out things like the extended horizon in 1.4 etc. Plus using mods not catered for 1.4 might have unforeseen side effects that you could run into later on and may be a royal pain in the backside.

I'll second that one :up::up:


RDP

I've found the hidden folder/file "C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{0D005F09-A5F4-473B-A901-5735C6AF5628}", in which there is a "setup.exe". It does not show the additional " -runfromtemp -l0x0009 -removeonly" extension/comment.

Running that "setup.exe" from this directory gives me the same Windows error message that "Setup.exe has stopped working" which I get when I try to Uninstall thru Control Panel.

Any advice on my next step...anyone?

Additional relevant information:
From other advice I've received over the last two days, I've also previously found the {0D005F9...etc...} folder at two locations in my Registry. One location is in the uninstall folder in the SOFTWARE\Microsoft\...Uninstall folder.

Any advice on registry changing? (Other than to make a backup copy beforehand, of course)

Moderators: I'd like to let this post sit here for a day or so to see if anyone has any additional advice before I take any Registry change action. After that time, I will delete this post so as to unclutter this thread (sorry for somewhat temporarily imposing upon the thread)....


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POST edited/shortened drastically on 4 Dec so as not to further offend anyone else. I will totally delete this afternoon.

finally

Finally what ?

The patch was delivered, as promised, in the time promised ?

Finally someone delved into the registry mysterys ?

Finally you have upped your post count by one ?

We need a little more than one word to go on here.

I think the cat has his tongue. :rotfl:


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Two things to try:

1) The -runfromtemp, etc., are not part of the filename but are command line options passed to setup.exe. To run it with these options:
a) Open an elevated command prompt (find cmd.exe in c:\windows\system32, right click it and select "Run as Administrator").
b) type cd "C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{0D005F09-A5F4-473B-A901-5735C6AF5628}" and hit enter.
c) type setup.exe -runfromtemp -l0x0009 -removeonly and hit enter.

The above probably won't make it work, but its worth a shot first.


2) Use MsiZap.exe to remove the record of this installation in the registry. This doesn't remove the SH4 files on your machine or registry entries used by the game, but it does safely remove the record in the registry that let's Windows Installer itself know that SH4 was installed. I've never used InstallShield, but I'm assuming it uses Windows Installer under the hood.
a) Info on MsiZap.exe is available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370523.aspx
b) To get it, download and install the free Windows SDK at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
c) To run it, open an elevated command prompt as above, cd to the directory msizap.exe is in, and run msizap.exe T {0D005F09-A5F4-473B-A901-5735C6AF5628}.
d) Delete the folder C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{0D005F09-A5F4-473B-A901-5735C6AF5628}

After running MsiZap, the computer won't know you had SH4 installed, even though a bunch of its files will still be around. Go ahead and delete whatever SH4 files are on your machine. I would leave the registry alone at this point since a new installation should write any needed entries. Go ahead and attempt to install SH4 now off the DVD, it should work.

I was referring to how long it takes for them to do anything in relation to this game and as an employee of another gaming company, I find it amazing that for patch 1.3 for instance it took community pressure to even bring that about.