Doom 3

**Sypher** · August 4th, 2004, 02:15 PM

Well i just went out and purchesed doom3 today, after installing it it said "1628 failed to complete install." and i can't get it to play or uninstall, only way for me to reinstall is by the cd (i think) or hack my registery.

System specs:
Asus A7N8X (not deluxe)
BBA Radeon 9600xt
2500+ barton @ 2.2ghz
512mb of GEIL ram (2x256 in duel channel)

**hokie64** · August 4th, 2004, 02:18 PM

why don't you reinstall then?

**Martoch** · August 4th, 2004, 02:19 PM

Quick thoughts...do you have admin rights?
Is your Windows Installer up to date/good to go?

**Sypher** · August 4th, 2004, 02:21 PM

I did try to reinstall a few times and no success, yes I have admin rights but im not completely sure about windows installer. I did go to the windows update page and got the latest things, so I will try to reinstall again.

**Martoch** · August 4th, 2004, 02:26 PM

What OS? You may have to hit the registry...
This link gives an example of how to do it with a different program, but I'm sure it can't be that much different than doing it for Doom 3...well, I'm not positive, but it's a start. You will look in the same registry location to remove Doom 3 installer leftovers, but you'll have to look through each string to find it.
Clear as mud?

**Sypher** · August 4th, 2004, 02:30 PM

Running Windwos XP. The install didn't work again so im gonna delete my doom3 directory and hack the registery. Also theres no screen shots of doom3 while its installing, just black.

**soot** · August 4th, 2004, 02:33 PM

does this help ? http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q110740

**Sypher** · August 4th, 2004, 02:36 PM

I've tried that page and no luck, it says that with Windows XP that it already comes with windows installer version 2.0.

**soot** · August 4th, 2004, 02:37 PM

did you do the clean the temp dir and such?

**vass0922** · August 4th, 2004, 02:39 PM

do you have the latest directx 9.0b?

you can run start --> run 'dxdiag' to find out.

**Sypher** · August 4th, 2004, 02:40 PM

Yes i've deleted everything in the temp folder.

sorry didn't want to double post, i have Directx 9.0c

**Sypher** · August 4th, 2004, 04:37 PM

Well my brother got it working, but there are still major issures witht his game. For one theres no sound in this and two the game crashes aftering getting scanned.