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stardog765:
Hello all,  I am new here and just found out I can purchase these great old games so I picked up SF Community Ed and Orion Pirates from the store.

Finally got SF Community Ed ISO extracted and installed, not sure why that has not been fixed yet as it seems that has been a problem for a long time here but thats another topic probably.

But Orion Pirates, while I can actually mount the ISO correctly the setup program runs but it never does anything.  It just sits there resident in memory and I have to ctrl-alt-del it.

Tried running it as admin, tried running it in compatibility mode and even extracted the ISO and tried to run it that way. Same thing.

If someone could maybe point me in the right direction that would be great. 

Thank you.


PS : Do you really have to enter all of these answers to the questions every time you post here? Even with a registered account? Seriously?

TarMinyatur:
Yeah, it's annoying. But I think once you have made 10(?) posts, the anti-bot stuff goes away.

I don't know why OP won't install, but CE will. Make sure the OP .iso isn't blocked by Windows. Right-click it, choose "Properties". Unblock and Apply your choice.

Could be an anti-virus program that freezes the installation. Turn off anti-malware when installing OP. That might help.

ObsidianShiar:
Which mounting software are you using, and which OS? PowerISO on Windows 10 doesn't quite work for installation, for example.

What you can also try (and I've tested it myself) is to extract the content of the ISO to a special folder, get the 32-bit InstallShield 5 (not 3!) executable from here: http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10988 and replace it with the one in the folder you made, then run it as admin. After installing, you can remove the folder and mount the ISO to play.

stardog765:
I appreciate the advice all.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64.  I used MagicISO to extract the ISO into a folder and also mounted it with Daemon Tools.  Both tries same thing setup.exe runs but never does anything and I end up just having to close the process with task manager.

I did also download the v5 setup from that link and same result.

Really weird because SFC from GoG installed fine and the SFC Community Ed installed fine but this one is just a no go.

Ya that verification stuff just to post here I have to say is very very off-putting.  I get that it might go away after a few posts but that is crazy and paranoid.
Sorry no disrespect to the devs meant but thats too much.

ObsidianShiar:
Try setting it to compatibility mode for Windows 98 or XP SP3.

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