Altarian Prophecy Beta Download Problem

December 19, 2003 8:48 PM from

I have a drengin.net subscription but stardock central keeps crashing every time I try to install the beta.
I tried the suggested stardock central download (sdc121_remove.exe) and checked and rechecked my serials etc to no avail.

However I found a solution and am downloading the expansion now. So if your in a similar position try this... Go to the games section, right click on the Altarian Prophecy Beta selection and use the achive -> download and archive option.

Hope this helps anyone who was in my predicament.

~SDC~

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Reply #1 December 19, 2003 8:55 PM from

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I tried that but I couldn't figure out where it downloaded too. That doesn't seem to really download or install it.

~SDC~

Reply #2 December 19, 2003 9:01 PM from

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From the SDC help files:

Archiving and Restoring

Right-click on a component to access the options to Archive a component. If the component is already installed, you will be creating an archive of it at that level. Selecting the Selected App & Extra Files option will also archive any additional skins or themes you may have added for use with the application.

If you have not yet downloaded and installed a component, you can still use the Archive function. In that case, the component will be downloaded and archived, but it will not be installed. You will need to Restore it to have it installed.

End of quote

~SDC~

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Reply #3 December 19, 2003 9:04 PM from

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You can't seem to install it by restoring either, I have 1.12 and 1.13 on my restore list but not the expansion. Even when I highlight the expansion and pick restore it just gives me 1.12 and 1.13

~SDC~

Reply #4 December 19, 2003 9:05 PM from

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Thanks Ray, thats what I'd figured

hopefully It'll work, can't see why it wouldn't...

On dial up so it'll take a while to find out.
~SDC~

Well if it doesn't work hopefully someone will come up with something that does and pass it along.
I'll try it out once its finished downloading and tell you how it went

[Message Edited]

Reply #5 December 20, 2003 2:38 AM from

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I have an archived file though something may have gone wrong.
It has a weird name and is extensionless I renamed it to a .zip and the files inside are all cut off ".ex_" etc. Extracting and renaming these files gave no results whatsoever either.
Using the restore function with either archive (original and renamed) gives the same crash.

I have since unstalled and reinstalled stardock central multiple times with both the stardock central installers.

I'll get my error log with smart exception and post it shortly.

~SDC~

Reply #6 December 20, 2003 2:42 AM from

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Stardock SmartException Logging Information
-------------------------------------------

OS Version : Windows XP
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 002E7266 02:001294F4 $

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00000081
EBX:00000000
ECX:00000000
EDX:0000000F
ESI:73DD8E76
EDI:0012993C
CS:EIP:001B:002E7266
SS:ESP:0023:001298CC EBP:001298F4
DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:0038 GS:0000
Flags:00010202

Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
---------------------------------------------
002E7266 001298F4 0000:00000000
77D4E6DB 00129960 0001:0000D6DB D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D4E54A 001299A8 0001:0000D54A D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D5F3FB 001299EC 0001:0001E3FB D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D43B2E 00129A54 0001:00002B2E D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D47419 00129A84 0001:00006419 D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D5BA3F 00129AA4 0001:0001AA3F D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
73DD20F2 00129AC4 0001:000010F2 D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1902 00129B64 0001:00000902 D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1CEA 00129B84 0001:00000CEA D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1C73 00129BE4 0001:00000C73 D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1BFB 00129C00 0001:00000BFB D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1BBA 00129C2C 0001:00000BBA D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
77D43A5F 00129C58 0001:00002A5F D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D43B2E 00129CC0 0001:00002B2E D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D45E1D 00129CFC 0001:00004E1D D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D50679 00129D58 0001:0000F679 D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll

Debug information for each stardock app follows ....

~SDC~

Reply #7 December 20, 2003 2:46 AM from

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Stardock SmartException Logging Information
-------------------------------------------

OS Version : Windows XP
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 002E7266 02:0211D350 $

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00000081
EBX:00000000
ECX:00000000
EDX:0000000F
ESI:73DD8E76
EDI:0211D798
CS:EIP:001B:002E7266
SS:ESP:0023:0211D728 EBP:0211D750
DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:0038 GS:0000
Flags:00010216

Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
---------------------------------------------
002E7266 0211D750 0000:00000000
77D4E6DB 0211D7BC 0001:0000D6DB D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D4E54A 0211D804 0001:0000D54A D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D5F3FB 0211D848 0001:0001E3FB D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D43B2E 0211D8B0 0001:00002B2E D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D47419 0211D8E0 0001:00006419 D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D5BA3F 0211D900 0001:0001AA3F D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
73DD20F2 0211D920 0001:000010F2 D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1902 0211D9C0 0001:00000902 D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1CEA 0211D9E0 0001:00000CEA D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1C73 0211DA40 0001:00000C73 D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1BFB 0211DA5C 0001:00000BFB D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1BBA 0211DA88 0001:00000BBA D:\WINDOWS\System32\MFC42.DLL
77D43A5F 0211DAB4 0001:00002A5F D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D43B2E 0211DB1C 0001:00002B2E D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D45E1D 0211DB58 0001:00004E1D D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D50679 0211DBB4 0001:0000F679 D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll

Debug information for each stardock app follows ....

Just another one I did straight after, just in case the different numbers mean anything

.
Hopefully this will help Stardockians...

~SDC~

Reply #8 December 21, 2003 4:52 AM from

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yes I have noticed this myself AP when you use the archive function makes 2 files 1 says galactic civilizations with no extension the other starts with Z and has a few mumbers and thats it

it seems the latest sdc does not archive stuff

~SDC~

Reply #9 December 21, 2003 5:06 AM from

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update

just tried to archive all of the drengin.net games

all of em do cept for AP

again it makes 2 files the Galactic civilizations file with a byte count of zero

and a zia02360 with a byte count of 38,649 kbytes
this is with sdc version 1.21.241 build 37

~SDC~

Reply #10 December 21, 2003 10:53 AM from

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it seems the latest sdc does not archive stuff

End of quote

It does, I got it to archive 1.12 and 1.13 just fine. It just won't archive the expansion.

~SDC~

Reply #11 December 21, 2003 11:04 PM from

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I have formatted/re-installed windows

.

Reinstalled galciv and stardock central and everything works, the great thing was that the archive file works so I didn't have to redownload the file.

~SDC~

Reply #12 December 21, 2003 11:19 PM from

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reinstalling Galciv and Stardock Central didn't do anything for me. I think I'll wait for Stardock to make a fix rather than reinstall Windows

~SDC~

Reply #13 December 21, 2003 11:27 PM from

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My computer needed it anyway, GalCiv was just a good motivational excuse.

~SDC~

Reply #14 December 22, 2003 4:54 AM from

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Hi there,

The are currently 2 problems with GalCiv and trying to install it through SDC. To install the game normally (not archiving it) go into the SDC settings and untick the option to "Prompt to enter an installation directory" under the Installation heading. This option is what is causing SDC to crash. Select OK and go ahead and install the game as normally and everything should now be fine. The second problem is the archiving option, do not use this option at all as the archving name currently uses a character that cannot be used within filenames, thus the operation fails.

Hope this helps,
Brian

Reply #15 December 22, 2003 5:23 AM from

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I'm not sure Brian, your probably correct and that would have fixed the problem. All I know is that now everything works fine. The only problem I have had is with stardock central is with the Altarian Prophecy install part. However the archiving part did actually work.... just it didn't want to install.

Now of course everything is working fine, I am using restored archives of galciv 1.13 and altarian beta. Of course this doesn't help anyone solve the problem but does hint to me that the problem was more then just stardock central.

~SDC~

Reply #16 December 22, 2003 11:44 AM from

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His solution worked for me, though since it crashed in the last second while creating shortcuts Stardock Central doesn't think it's installed. But it is there.

~SDC~

Reply #17 December 22, 2003 12:44 PM from

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Turning off select directory worked for me.

Thanks

JavaCodeToad

Reply #18 December 26, 2003 1:24 PM from

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Hi CariElf,

This is just a copy of my post to another thread before I noticed this one.

My Current Version of Stardock Central = 1.21.241 Build 37

My Current Version of GalCiv = 1.13

Each time that I try to Install the Beta of Altarian Prophecy SDC crashes to desktop. Below is the smartexception file generated.

As usual any help will be appreciated.

Elrikk

Stardock SmartException Logging Information
-------------------------------------------

OS Version : Windows XP
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 002E7266 02:02BCD350 Ž

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00000081
EBX:000203A4
ECX:00000000
EDX:0000000F
ESI:73DD8E76
EDI:00000000
CS:EIP:001B:002E7266
SS:ESP:0023:02BCD728 EBP:02BCD750
DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:0038 GS:0000
Flags:00010216

Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
---------------------------------------------
002E7266 02BCD750 0000:00000000
77D6CDE5 02BCD7BC 0001:0002BDE5 D:\WXP\system32\USER32.dll
77D57137 02BCD804 0001:00016137 D:\WXP\system32\USER32.dll
77D5B763 02BCD848 0001:0001A763 D:\WXP\system32\USER32.dll
77D6CCD4 02BCD8B0 0001:0002BCD4 D:\WXP\system32\USER32.dll
77D45CD6 02BCD8E0 0001:00004CD6 D:\WXP\system32\USER32.dll
77D45CF5 02BCD900 0001:00004CF5 D:\WXP\system32\USER32.dll
73DD20F2 02BCD920 0001:000010F2 D:\WXP\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1902 02BCD9C0 0001:00000902 D:\WXP\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1CEA 02BCD9E0 0001:00000CEA D:\WXP\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1C73 02BCDA40 0001:00000C73 D:\WXP\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1BFB 02BCDA5C 0001:00000BFB D:\WXP\System32\MFC42.DLL
73DD1BBA 02BCDA88 0001:00000BBA D:\WXP\System32\MFC42.DLL
77D67AD7 02BCDAB4 0001:00026AD7 D:\WXP\system32\USER32.dll
77D6CCD4 02BCDB1C 0001:0002BCD4 D:\WXP\system32\USER32.dll
77D456B6 02BCDB58 0001:000046B6 D:\WXP\system32\USER32.dll
77D581F1 02BCDBB4 0001:000171F1 D:\WXP\system32\USER32.dll

Debug information for each stardock app follows ....

~SDC~

Reply #19 December 26, 2003 1:27 PM from

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the answer is just a few posts back, go to tools\settings then uncheck Prompt to enter an installation directory.

~SDC~

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