Game doesnt install right....

[Dracornis]

I am a bit confused..
This game is supposed to be stand-alone, right?

When I hit install, it tells me that it needs 33 GB.. so far, so good...
Download starts
After 2.6 GB the download says that its finished... and the game wont start, error message talks about missing files... (You dont say?)

Any ideas whats wrong here?

[Zyddie]

Hey Dracornis.

On what platform do you own the game?

//Zyddie

[Dracornis]

A family member of mine owns it on steam, PC. I was trying to play it over our shared library

[Zyddie]

Hey Dracornis.

Sounds like there might be an issue with your windows permissions or firewall permissions could you make sure that you are running steam as an admin and that your anti-virus fully allows steam through.

//Zyddie

[Dracornis]

Hello,

started Steam as an admin: No change.
The download also says it has only 2.58 GB on the Download page after calculating the space on the hard drive, it is not like the download would abort or something like that...

To describe it in more details:
I hit install. Popup, that tells me that 33 GB are needed, I click next...
Steam starts calculating the required space, the download starts...
Steam tells me that there are 2.58 GB to download and download these files.
Download finished and tells "Ready"

[Zyddie]

I have a feeling you are installing Versus client instead of fallen god, not sure how to fix that.

Please put a ticket in our redmine system here - https://redmine.thqnordic.com/projects/spellforce-3-fallen-god-community/issues/new

So we can get QA to take a closer look.

//Zyddie

[Dracornis]

Hm..
I see.

Yeah I guess I will write a ticket then, thanks so far.

[EsotericOdyssey]

I'm having the exact same problem. specifically, I think it's doing the thing where it's installing Spellforce 3 Versus instead of Fallen God, since that game was not on my account it all but it went and added it when I tried to install FG, and I think FG is trying to treat it like an update???

[Farlon]

Originally posted by EsotericOdyssey:

I'm having the exact same problem. specifically, I think it's doing the thing where it's installing Spellforce 3 Versus instead of Fallen God, since that game was not on my account it all but it went and added it when I tried to install FG, and I think FG is trying to treat it like an update???

Fallen God and Versus use the same directory.

[EsotericOdyssey]

Originally posted by Farlon:

Originally posted by EsotericOdyssey:

I'm having the exact same problem. specifically, I think it's doing the thing where it's installing Spellforce 3 Versus instead of Fallen God, since that game was not on my account it all but it went and added it when I tried to install FG, and I think FG is trying to treat it like an update???

Fallen God and Versus use the same directory.

I've tried installing them both, but neither of them run. it keeps trying to install microsoft vc redist, but the bar just stays stuck at 0 forever, and if I exit out of that it'll run for a brief moment but then close before any window even pops up, until I exit steam and restart it, at which point it will attempt to install ms vc redist again. this is the case for both versus edition and fallen god. the library tab says it's running "install script (mic)". maybe this is what's getting stuck?

[EsotericOdyssey]

... I don't see any sort of redist files in the steam folder or the my games folder. gonna try manually updating my vc redist.

[EsotericOdyssey]

well now that I've got the microsoft 2015-2019 vc redist installed, it doesn't even try to "perform first-time setup", even if I exist steam and restart it

[Zyddie]

EsotericOdyssey could you upload your Dxdiag here https://redmine.thqnordic.com/projects/spellforce-3-fallen-god-community/issues/new including a report so we can take a look.

And Dracornis are you family sharing the game?

//Zyddie

[Dracornis]

Yes, it is shared TO me from another person of the family, so i am not the sharing one, i am the "receiving" one

[EsotericOdyssey]

Originally posted by Zyddie:

EsotericOdyssey could you upload your Dxdiag here https://redmine.thqnordic.com/projects/spellforce-3-fallen-god-community/issues/new including a report so we can take a look.

And Dracornis are you family sharing the game?

//Zyddie

done

[EsotericOdyssey]

okay so, additional information:

-trying to launch it from the spellforce 3 steamapps folder doesn't work. At first it said I was missing "msvcp140.dll", which a cursory google search told me was the VC Redist (I'd installed it last night but then uninstalled it because I was trying anything I could think of to get it to work). Installed that on my own, but now trying to launch from the folder just does nothing.

-trying to launch the Debug client just returns a window that says "failed to start the game", which opens another error window saying "failed to initialize steam api. make sure steam client is running".

-... I can open the level editor, data editor, and asset tool just fine, for some reason

-the installscript.vdf in the steam folder looks like this

"InstallScript"
{
	"Firewall"
	{
		"SpellForce 3 EXP1 Beta"		"%INSTALLDIR%\\SF3ClientFinal.exe"
	}
}
"kvsignatures"
{
	"InstallScript"		"ab44112dec74fdc399ede4022e827d70b5a21bd794f7bd4bbcdc77335f9ee12775eed551eb0d3d7c7a8b6ed151897621766e79e64aaad4f88899c77b7faf7b853b556aa9126ceb3d69466e5a46ccbdaa565b8cef6177fc49d7a236757fb5fd7ea629536bd50b0cc12c220d29503155d0f0219a5ce32455dfe87faa34310fc7ff"
}

isn't Fallen God the *second* expansion? why would it say "EXP1 Beta"?