Descent 3 setup failure

EngDrewman · Post by **EngDrewman** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:22 am

I'm trying to help a friend setup D3 on his computer, but the installer won't start. He is running XP sp3. The game works fine on my computer, also running XP sp3. Any ideas?

QuestionableChaos · Post by **QuestionableChaos** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:54 am

by \"the installer won't start\" do you mean that autorun simply isnt loading up the setup? if so you can just open up the disk with explorer (my computer), and start the set up directly

if thats not the case, can you be a tad bit more specific with whats going on?

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:10 am

Set up D3 with your favorite levels, mods, and other stuff, and then burn the folder. No need to ever re-install. Last time I installed D3 was...1999.

Sedwick · Post by **Sedwick** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:26 am

Testiculese wrote:Set up D3 with your favorite levels, mods, and other stuff, and then burn the folder. No need to ever re-install. Last time I installed D3 was...1999.

X2. I'm running the same installation I had one computer and 2 hard drives ago. I'm even able to run my original D1 installation from 3 computers ago (quite the comedy act; I'll post some video sometime!).

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:42 pm

Descent 3 should install on Win XP SP3 with no problems. I know. I was doing exactly that on Friday.

I'm betting you've got either scratched disk or problems with your CDROM drive.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:04 pm

what version of D3 does he have? As i recall, there was a later release that didn't work quite right. The jewel case set I think.

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:04 pm

Use \"Compatibility Mode\"

EngDrewman · Post by **EngDrewman** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:32 am

The computer that it won't install on is my roommate's computer. My computer is also running XP sp3 and the game works fine. It isn't an autorun issue- tried manually running autorun.exe and also setup.exe and nothing happens. I'll try bypassing the installer and copy the Descent 3 folder from my computer to his.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:43 am

EngDrewman wrote:I'll try bypassing the installer and copy the Descent 3 folder from my computer to his.

This should work but with one caveat, if you have Mercenary installed you will need to enter in some registry entries or you will probably get an error about "guidebotred" when D3 starts up. Only if you have that problem, download this file: http://krom.sploitz.com/temp/Descent3Fix.zip, extract the registry file inside and double click it, it will make Mercenary work properly without reinstalling.

EngDrewman · Post by **EngDrewman** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:06 pm

Worked! Thanks guys!

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