Trouble installing Game

Please Help!

from Stardock Forums

 I purchased Sins of a Solar Empire but I cannot get my pc to install the game. I have tried everything I can think of including turning my virus sanner off, installing from safe mode, double clicking on the install icon etc. I have also updated my drivers. At first I thought it was the cd but this is my 2nd copy so it must have something to do with my computer.
 
Is there anything you can do to help me solve this problem?
 
I have windows Xp and service pack 2.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

What error does it give you? Or what happens?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

nothing happens at all, the blue install box pops up for a split second and disapears before I have a chance to read it and then nothing happens. No crashed nothing. Weird.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Okay, go to http://www.impulsedriven.com and download the Impulse client (it's needed for the updates anyway, the off-the-disk version is absolutely ancient by now).

Once you install it, log in with the same account you use for the forums, click the Impulse orb in the top left and Add Registration. Put in your Sins serial number, and the game will show up as Available in the My Games tab. From there, you can just download it (and re-download as many times as you need to). It'll be the latest version automatically, and it doesn't use the Windows installer so it shouldn't give you any installation issues.

The complete download is about ~900mb, and if you were to patch from 1.0 to the current 1.17 you'd probably be downloading 500 or so :P

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

thanks so every time I want to play the game I have to click on the impulse icon on my desk top then?

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Nope, you can make your own shortcut on the desktop.. Impulse does not need to be running to play, just to patch.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

awesome works good now. unusal how i could not get it to work right off the disk though.

now lets see how long it takes to master the game

 

i have played Homeworld and alpha centauri.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

I don't know, it could be that you don't have the latest Windows updates and the installer is funky. It could be that your drive doesn't like the disk.

Feel free to post on the boards if you have game questions, most of us don't bite much :)

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

much
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...much =P