Nightlife Nightmare
ZiggyDoodle:
Nice to have found this oasis of information; a refreshing contrast to the inanity of the Sims BBS.
Against my better judgment I purchased Nightlife; thought I'd wait for the Uni patch first, but my curiosity got the better of me.
Am running a Dell Dimension 8400 with 1GB Ram, Pentium 4 processor (3.2GHz), 80 GB HD (half empty) 128MB ATI Radeon PCI Express X300SE video card, and Windoze XP Home Edition. No hacks, no downloaded custom content. HD is defragged and the firewall, a.v. software, and backround tasks are turned off during my attempts to install.
That said, Nightlife won't install. Disk #1 runs fine, then when I remove the first disk and insert disk #2 in the CD/DVD-ROM drive, nothing happens. The last file shown on the installation window is TsData/control/control.dat At 51% of the install, it stops. Have waited for as long as 30 minutes for it to do something before cancelling the installation.
Since TS2 and Uni EP installed and run just fine, I exchanged the disks thinking they were defective. Same issue with the second set. Cleaned the disks to make sure they were spotless. No luck.
Am I being impatient? Does it take several hours for this EP to install? Or do I have lousy luck and got another set of defective disks?
Thanks
J. M. Pescado:
I'm going to lean towards "lousy luck". But have you tried the usual percussive maintenance procedures first?
ZiggyDoodle:
Okay, I'll bite: what's "percussive maintenance"? My first thought was using the CDs as finger cymbals but they'd clunk.
Renatus:
Whacking the computer a good one is percussive maintenance. *g* I'd suggest making sure that the lens of the CD drive is clean as well, although you'd have to google to find out how to do it properly. The drive could also be crapping out, or it may be that that drive has problems with this game, for no particular reason. If there is any way you can attach an external CD drive to try...
dizzy:
Quote from: ZiggyDoodle on 2005 September 24, 22:22:12
... and the firewall, a.v. software, and backround tasks are turned off during my attempts to install.
You probably have a virus/worm/trojan. In fact, you can be 99% certain that this is your problem. A little advice:
Never turn off your firewall. In fact, unplug your modem, just to be certain that you cannot be hacked again.
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