Vista game installation – not exactly WoW
A follow-up to my recent headaches with Vista is that operating system’s inability to install software properly. Not to mention that the file operation bug has reared its ugly head again today…
For R4.99 I bought a World of Warcraft trial DVD with the intention of installing it on G2S and to see what all the fuss is about. It’s almost impossible to get WoW to install on Vista, never mind starting to play the game!
A lengthy wait during which the installation program copies many large files to the intended target directory, which oddly enough, is suffixed by .temp. As in C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft.temp.
When the installation finishes, the installer keels over because it’s unable to either rename or move that directory name to something a bit less temporary. Net effect: a good fifteen minutes wasted. Rebooting doesn’t help either.
The error condition is known, though no one seems to have any clue what to do not to make it rear its ugly head. The trick is to boot into Safe Mode, then install WoW.
Then you get to reboot again to actually use the system and fire up the game. Though I hate constantly comparing, the installation process on the Mac worked first time and without any hitches…
