Total War Installation Failure On Vista?

Question

Hi. I'm trying to install Medieval War II: Total War on a brand new supercomp that runs vista(unfortunatelly) and it crashes at medieval2.exe. I get the following error message: Data Error(cyclic redundancy check) and the installation process gets terminated.

I should also note that sometimes it goes beyound medieval2.exe only to crash at another file giving the same error. Has anyone had this problem before? Does anyone know how to fix this?

Edit: I just figured it out by googling "cyclic redundancy check" and it basically means that the CD is corrupted. I looked further into the subject and apparently I'm not the only one with a corrupted Total War CD. I bought a new CD and it worked like a charm

Answer 1

CRC is a checksum to make sure nothing has changed from how it was intended to be. Its either a scratched disk, a none original or a problem with your hard drive. That would be my very rough guess.

Answer 2

Did you make sure this game is compatible with Vista? While most manufacturers were well aware of Vista's soon release, many, many, of them failed to do what additional programming was needed to make their products "Vista compatible", which has left so many in the lurch, wanthing to use hardware and software.

You can go to the Windows Marketplace and check there for compatibility. If all else fails, phone up the games technical support, or go to the website and browse the support section.

Sorry this is going so badly for you. Vista is actually a good OS once you get use to it, and it is an improvement. The vast majoritiy of the issues relates to those who are now use to a stable OS that XP came to be. Well, as stable as any Windows OS can be. lol

Vista has to "grow up" just as XP did. I don't know why Microsoft decided to change the name of some of the major system folders and apps though, that just made it worse.

If you really dispise Vista, consider doing a "downgrade" and installing XP on it. Eventually however, we all are going to be on Vista because Microsoft won't allow anything else. They have already phased out all but the most critical updates for older OSs. Soon, even XP won't be supported any longer. So, we can bite the bullet and get use to the darn thing now, or wait until it matures a bit and jump on them. However, sadly, by the time we are use to Vista, a new OS will be out again, and we will be going through the very same process, all over again. Bummer.

Well, for everyone who wants a mainstream OS, and not Linix or another like it.