Physical Copy Usless?

[Moogle]

So i've got a physical copy of the game and when i try to install it, it just hangs on "Updating component registration". Anyone have a fix for this?

[paladin181]

Try to register your CD key on your Steam Client? The dev went out of business, so it's possibly trying to phone home with no one to answer.

[Camar0]

I'm having this exact same issue. The game is a Games for Windows Live copy, thus there isn't any CD key to activate via Steam, nor any other client. I'm currently trying to find a way around this, so anymore information would be a great help.

[Camar0]

Okay, so the game itself seems to be the problem. I'd all but given up after I saw this post and replied earlier. I left the game stuck, went to the store, and just came home about 5 minutes ago. In the meantime, my computer idled itself to sleep mode. When I saw this, I was horrified at first, because I forgot that it does that, as I'm usually not away from it with it on for such a long period.. But, to my amazement, the game has installed and said "finalizing installation" where the "updating component registration" was prior to this.

Now, with that said, that doesn't by any means mean that the game didn't install properly prior to the computer going into sleep mode. It very well could be that the game just needed time to realize it either wasn't going to get a response from whatever it was meaning to do, or it had no reason to require a response to begin with. If your game doesn't install after an hours' time, it wouldn't hurt to let the computer put itself to sleep to see if that's what caused it to by-pass the idiocy of the coding.

[Moogle]

So yours did install? I'll have to try that out too tonight when I go to sleep or before I go to the store or something.

[wufei88]

I had the same problem, and this is the modern era and all, but yeah. Like Camar0 says, I just left mine alone. I really was concerned and thought I would have to buy the steam version, but it seemed like it kicked in after about 10minutes or so. Maybe 15? It's annoying how it doesn't show %'age's but hey.

Even after I installed the game, it fails to run after I start a game on the loading screen when you play the game for the first time. So...I guess that means I just can't play the game anyways. Even runs super slow in terms of the letters popping up one by one, but that might be deliberate anyways. Sure is weird when I gotta PC that can run it super easy. Tried disabling V-Sync and that didn't do any good.