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[Solved] 1.05 trial installer fails

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x4000:
Hi Mark,

Thanks for the notes, I'm glad that it was as simple as Windows Installer 4.5.  Some machines -- seemingly all on XP SP3 -- seem to have trouble with patches if they don't have the WI4.5 installed.  So I think that was what was going on when you tried to patch from 0.940 up to the later versions.  Thanks very much for all the added info about what did and did not work for you, I'm sure that will be quite helpful for anyone in the future who has a similar issue.

And, of course, thanks again for your interest in the game!

Chris

x4000:
Update:  The new 1.006 version of the game now includes the installers for WI4.5 right inside it, so it will take care of that as a prerequisite if need be.  I've also reverted the game to using the older version of Advanced Installer again, so installs using even older versions of Windows Installer should now work (I just did is successfully this morning on WI3.1).  Patches will still not work if you don't upgrade to WI4.5 through the prerequisites (that's the issue people were having with 0.940), but if you just follow through with the installer everything should be a-ok now.

This was a challenging issue for us, largely because a lot of it was outside our control.  We couldn't get the issues worked out with the Advanced Installer folks with their newer software version, so doing a revert was our way of making sure that things would be fully functional for the 1.006 version.  Thank you everyone for your patience and assistance in terms of bug reporting with this issue.  The strangest thing with this was that not even all machines pre-WI4.5 were seeing this issue, only about 10% of them were.  The Advanced Installer folks couldn't duplicate it, even.  We'll be sticking with the current version of Advanced Installer for the foreseeable future, so hopefully we will not run into any such issues again.  This is not something we want to go through again, anymore than anyone else does!

Again, thanks for your patience and your interest in AI War.

Chris

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