Updater - Error (checksum) - Frustrating!
By
paxcorpus,
Posted on: 2010-05-28 10:01 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Steam. (to answer your last question)
Looks like a bad download or installation from Steam.
Don't install from Steam.
Don't install to a Steam folder.
Uninstall what you have already tried to install.
Download the installer from the PlayNC website and run it, have it install to D:\Games\City of Heroes
Play the game once it is installed.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Are you 100% sure this will work?|
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Steam. (to answer your last question)
Looks like a bad download or installation from Steam. Don't install from Steam. Don't install to a Steam folder. Uninstall what you have already tried to install. Download the installer from the PlayNC website and run it, have it install to D:\Games\City of Heroes Play the game once it is installed. |
edit: Well I'm doing it right now, we shall see if it does work...
edit edit: Did what you said, downloaded the installer, began installing to the directory you recommended. Got the same error while it was downloading Cityofheroes.exe
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For good measure.
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Originally Posted by paxcorpus
edit edit: Did what you said, downloaded the installer, began installing to the directory you recommended. Got the same error while it was downloading Cityofheroes.exe |
I don't get this, I think it just told me that it's fixing files before they're even downloaded completely. Is it possible that there's a registry file somewhere screwing me up?
This is coming from the freakin' downloader, while it's downloading the dern file.
It's gotta be the exe file, my computer hates it.
Figured it out.
It's NOD 32. I didn't even have NOD running, the kernal was simply being used by the windows protection program and it was stopping the .exe from downloading correctly.
Piece of crap isn't on my computer anymore.
(( before you read this I should mention that I run Windows Vista 64 bit, 4 gigs of ram, plenty of H/D space, a decent dual core processor and what-not. To give you a good example, I can run Modern Warfare 2 on high settings, no problem. Although that most likely has nothing to do with my problem - thought I'd mention it ))
I bought this game via Steam last night to play with a friend. I have until 6:30/7pm EST tonight to get this working.
Here's the problem. I run the launcher after verifying file integrity with Steam (steam usually tells me that 2 or 3 files needed replaced and says they'll be acquired), updater launches and does a checksum. (it'll say checksumming for about 2 gigs or so)
Then it'll acquire the manifest.
Next it'll tell me it's fixing files, these files:
cg.dll
cggl.dll
(both of those files go by no problem)
cityofheroes.exe
and in the middle of fixing cityofheroes.exe, I get the most frustrating and unfixable error in the world:
Updater - Error
checksum error in new file D:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\city of heroes/cityofheroes.exe
I've tried deleting the checksum file. Doesn't work.
I've tried deleting the .exe file. Doesn't work
I've run the updater from the folder in Steamapps, it simply acts as if I don't even have the game installed.
I've run the icon Steam/CoH installed on my desktop, does the same crap.
Does anyone know what the big problem here is and how it can be fixed? For crying out loud, I spent money on this, everything on my computer works fine, except for this.
I'll also mention that before purchasing the game on Steam, I had attempted to simply download it from the PlayNC account page, which gave me this exact error when trying to download it. Figured Steam wouldn't give me any crap - I was wrong!
-Thanks