James wrote:Give me one good reason why the game tech issue would be overlooked, in a thread, about the videogame, on a slow moving forum. You're more likely to get a response from us than EA's official help.
Also are you sure you're following the instructions correctly?, you mention burning into a disc, why would you need to do that again?, I can't browse the community forums here.
Well, the forums over at Bioware are showing that many many retail discs were faulty, but users who thought their discs were faulty have found methods to get it to install.
The following isn't quoted as the original posts didn't make sense but these are the methods I've found. Both methods involve making an image of the disc and re-burning or mounting it (perhaps to eliminate physical disc problems? I don't really know)
Method #1: Mount disc 1 .iso, burn disc 2 .iso and leave it in tray, install will continue as normal (for users experiencing "insert disc 2" errors.. so not me, although I can't try this anyway as disc 2 is 7.4gb and I don't have the ability to burn dual layer dvds).
Method #2: Extract disc 1 and 2 .iso files into 2 folders, then copy the contents of the data folder from disc 2 into the data folder of disc 1, skipping any overwrite requests. I have tried this but the installer still fails.
I've made some progress, it is the movie files which are corrupted. I have now found a manual install method which involves extracting all the rar files manually and not actually using the setup.exe (much the same as a System Shock 2 manual install, crap example but its the only game I've done it with).
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I personally don't read every topic these days when things light up yellow for me, as the quality of topics/posts has declined to the point of me just assuming that most of the replies are bollocks. The vast majority of threads seem to go off topic and often go back to the same topic, which quite often is something I don't even know about as I don't follow the news much, esepcially gaming news. I've been guilty of lazily starting threads lately, but I thought since I don't reeeeeally post here much anymore I wasn't hurting as I don't tend to fuck about often. Anyhoo - sorry for being a bitch earlier, and also I have to admit that the vast majority of worthwhile posts/threads I've read on here in recent months have been written and maintained by James. Sorry dude, bad day.
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So yeah... going to try this manual install, but I fear something inside movies.rar is corrupted. How I don't bloody know as the disc itself is in perfect physical condition.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.