"Installing: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.cmd (step 1 of 2)" PLEASE HELP

[Mr Gamer]

LIke the title says, I cant play this lovley game because this keeps going and going and never actually installs
should i wait over night? or should i delete system 32?

[Kuro]

Don't delete system32, please.
And try running .NET 4 standalone first: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17718

[Kuro]

Also, moving this to bug reports.

[Grunt]

It took a surprisingly long time even on a beast rig like mine, and I already have all core frameworks because this is also an active development machine. I can imagine on lesser rigs especially with mechanical drives this process taking an age. Quite strange.

[bobdarooster]

Im having the same problem. Iv'e just installed the game on a new machine. I hit "play" and im getting "Installing: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.cmd (step 1 of 1)" over and over.

[John]

Hey guys. Had the same problem let it run for ~15 minutes and it finished and I can play the game now but it's very unstable, crashing a lot, but that's a separate problem.

Just let it run for a bit longer, worked for me.

[Drui]

Solution:
1. Open the commandline screen (Execute > CMD) then write "net stop wuauserv" (Without the quotes)
2. Press the windows button and write %windir% then press ENTER.
3. Rename SoftwareDistribution into SDold.
4. Open the commandline screen (Execute > CMD) then write "net start wuauserv" (Without the quotes again)
5. Install .net framework 4.
6. Start Space Engineers.
7. ???
8. PROFIT !

7 and 8 are obviously optional, even though I love the 8th point. ;)

[MevNav]

I can confirm that restarting my computer, then following step 1-6 of Drui's steps worked for me. And don't worry, none of those codes or renaming that file will break anything. Of note is that Windows 8 apparently comes with Framework 4 already installed (at least that's what the online framework 8 installer said), so I could skip step 5 and go straight to booting up the game, this time without waiting forever for it to try to download something.

[biosier]

I don't want to keep the disscusion going but what am i missing in this? http://puu.sh/93fNM.png

[Ben]

I believe the %WinDIR% goes into the "Run" box on the start menu.

[SonicBlackFox]

i go to do step 1 but it tell me " System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied."

[professional gamer]

Originally posted by Budder ♥♥♥♥:

LIke the title says, I cant play this lovley game because this keeps going and going and never actually installs
should i wait over night? or should i delete system 32?

Hey dude, i have the same problem and dont know what to do :(.

[professional gamer]

Originally posted by Blackhammer:

Hey guys. Had the same problem let it run for ~15 minutes and it finished and I can play the game now but it's very unstable, crashing a lot, but that's a separate problem.

Just let it run for a bit longer, worked for me.

I waited like 2 hours not a single pop-up showed or ANYTHING.