App Installation Issues

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athomas

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I'm reloading a PC of mine, on Vista Ultimate. Reloading games back on here, pretty much every game I've tried to install (off of cd/dvd) gives some sort of error saying "error performing inpage operation." What's this mean?

Edit: When I install from an iso backup either from an external HDD or thru the network, it works like a charm, no errors installing Vista, and all discs are known working.
 
RAM is 3 gigs. I have the page file set to the default Vista Ultimate uses. In the past (if I remember right) that's worked.

Should I set the page file to double the ram like most do on XP/Server 2003?
 
Well I did what I asked in the last post, and I get this now (not just in this install, but every install). These are all legal copies, all disc 1 of 1, not sure what the problem is.

Corrupt install of Windows perhaps?

I really don't want to reload Windows unless absolutely needed.

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athomas said:
Well I did what I asked in the last post, and I get this now (not just in this install, but every install). These are all legal copies, all disc 1 of 1, not sure what the problem is.

Corrupt install of Windows perhaps?
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always a possability with Win but not always neccisary
athomas said:
I really don't want to reload Windows unless absolutely needed.

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what exactly are you trying to do ?

to answer your previous question
athomas said:
Should I set the page file to double the ram like most do on XP/Server 2003?
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in most cases it is sufficient, however, on XP Win constantly resized the swapfile, so, an increase in performance was achieved by setting the swapfile min & max to the same number (usually twice the RAM) however some apps / games required a substantially larger swapfile (usuall in the manual / documentation) sometimes setting a min & max swapfile to say 8Gb was all that was needed, all sorts of strange error messages suddenly disappear when the swapfile is increased, try it
 
I'm just trying to install games off of cd/dvd's. Legit, OEM copies. Never had these issues before.
 
Don't think it's a memory issue at all. Looks like something might have changed in the way Vista handles the installation script. That or the excessive DRM is getting in your way. Try it in XP compat mode, any change?
 
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Don't think it's a memory issue at all. Looks like something might have changed in the way Vista handles the installation script. That or the excessive DRM is getting in your way. Try it in XP compat mode, any change?
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Didn't know I can run an installer in Xp compatibility mode off of a DVD.
 
athomas said:
Didn't know I can run an installer in Xp compatibility mode off of a DVD.
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Yeah, you should be able to right-click on the executable and change the properties before running. Of course it's not as if I run Vista myself [thankfully], so I can't confirm it works as advertised.
 
Anyone have anything else for this?

Also... I noticed that my CPU is capped at 100% most of the time during software installs. Do I need to just reload the OS? It isn't a HW problem, aside from a possible dvd drive issue...
 
Ahh, sorry about that. This thread kinda dropped off my radar for some reason.

Glad you got it fixed though. Was a Windows problem? Shocking! :chk:
 
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