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Hey everyone,

it's been ages but I finally dug up the old game to rock the Realms once again. Everything worked fine on my desktop PC, but when I tried to install it on my laptop as well, I encountered some weird problems.

SoA installs and plays perfectly fine. However, when I try to install ToB, it will give me an error message at 7% every single time. The error I get is "Component Transfer Error" and something about "Required Data: GameSpy" and a lot of "?????????????????". Now, I thought at first this would be some sort of CRC error caused by a scratched disc; so I went and cleaned it, tried my desktop again, then my brother's - it installed fine on either. But still, the laptop gave me the same error. So the next thing I did was rip an ISO image of the CD on the desktop, then drag it over LAN onto the laptop and install from a mounted CD image. Again, the same error at the very same percentage, with the same error box.

Now before I run off to a random store and buy a new CD, has ANYONE got any ideas as to what could be wrong? It seems very strange and no forum I could find had anything related.

Thanks a bunch!

Have you tried possibly disabling any kind of anti-virus, firewall, programs in the background, etc.? It's rather weird that the install just isn't working for your particular laptop. Try also cleaning the CD drive in your laptop, perhaps?

I disabled everything remotely dangerous, plus installing shouldn't be affected by a firewall anyway (at least not a game this old). The CD drive is obviously not to blame as I have tried installing from a virtual drive as well, with exactly the same results.

The Bioware page files it all under a vague "general incompatibility" which I think is techspeek for "we have no f-ing clue". Duh.

I'll keep trying and maybe buy a new set of discs later today, it's cheaper than bread anyway.

It could be anything, really. Once there was a sweet deal on a computer in a local store, so I and a neighbour each got one. He installed BG TotSC on his, and I installed it on mine. Same computer, same hardware, same software, same configuration. Only it wouldn't run on mine. Some sort of driver-error with the soundcard, or whatever. Updating the drivers did squat, as usual.

Eventually I borrowed his Windows-disc, formatted my computer completely and installed Windows over again with his disc. Nothing. It still wouldn't run. I switched soundcards God knows how many times. Didn't work, and you would think that if there was a particular error-message with one brand of soundcards, switching to another with new drivers would at least produce a different error-message, but no. I reinstalled the game with my neighbour's BG-discs. Still the same error-message. Returning it to the store did jack.

I ended up not playing BG on that computer. I had it for 3 years, and eventually got a new one. Every other damn game and program worked fine, except for BG. Which, by the way, my neighbour had no problems running on his (supposedly identical to mine) computer.

Blame Windows, not Bioware. That's my motto. Even though it probably doesn't apply to my predicaments or yours.