Ridiculous PC game installations

[JammyD]

So I'm testing a PC game install today, and it's a ****ing nightmare trying to get the thing to install. 3 disks and just for fun they make you swap disks several times in a row every half-an-hour or so of a 4 hour install.

Insert disk 3...Insert disk 2, Wrong disk, insert disk 3, disk 1, Wrong disk

Then there's randomnly missing files...

There's a great shortcut which involves copying the files on to the hard drive and installing from there but I can't do that today. Does it tell you this in the help file? does it hell

I know that most PC installs are okay but the bad offenders are reaching shocking new lows.

[Super Stu]

wtf game takes 4 hours to install and on what spec pc?

[JammyD]

P4 260 megs ram. Not nice as it tends to lock up the system sometimes as well.

[Super Stu]

So what game took 4 hours to install on a P4? SWG is 2gig, that went on in a few minutes.

[JammyD]

Simpsons Hit & Run. I've changed to mimimum install now, I am supposed to ascertain whether it installs sometime today, like .

[rjpageuk]

Come on Super Stu, I think we can all appreciate the point JammyD is trying to make.

[Inertia_]

I think the fact that the copy of Simpsons Hit & Run you paid good money for doesn't work is your secondary concern.

[JammyD]

I think the fact that the copy of Simpsons Hit & Run you paid good money for doesn't work is your secondary concern.

Actually, I'm being paid to test it. I do worry for those who might buy it on PC though

[Super Stu]

edit and rethink - Surely if testing it, it's just a beta? I can't see how a full retail copy would have files missing, unless the CD has read errors.

Come on Super Stu, I think we can all appreciate the point JammyD is trying to make

Last umpteen games I installed went on flawlessly and took very little time (certainly less time than it takes to HDD install an xbox game). So no sorry, I can't.

[JammyD]

Well there's a three of us testing the install and no language version is better than the other. About to go gold.

CD was hot and steaming first time I completed a full install

[DjSatansfury]

Jedi Knight 3 was a ****er. I actually had to crack it, to be able to play it. Wouldnt read my disks for some reason

Personally, i think it has something to do with the new disc protection on it


As well as that MGS2 is the worst game on the pc ever (to install and play)

[Super Stu]

Aye, to be fair, those copy protected discs are getting a bit daft. CM4 was the same, I heard. Case of devs/pubs owning themselves, there.

edit - not having a go btw, was just genuinly amazed as to why a game could take 4 hours to install.

[*PrYzM*]

Longest i ever had to wait for a game to install was few mins tops.
Never had any problems installing games on my pc, pretty effortless really.

[DjSatansfury]

mine was 2 hrs, for Emperor: Dune by Westwood

to be fair though, it was a copy

[Afterbirth]

CMR3 was massive, although not as bad as FS2K4. Some games just don't warrent comming on 3 or 4 CD's (FS is an exception as its filled to the brim).
But CMR3? For what. It can't be the Bink files as they're no better quality then anything else.
You'd have thought a 120 Gig drive would sort you out for life, but thats proving not to be the case.