cant remove Hearts of Iron?

[Samrathiel]

I bought a hard copy of hearts of iron, the original one. After installing it, it would not launch. It says, "error in DB." No other information.
The real problem is, I can't get the game to uninstall. I've tried many different things and repairs and manual uninstalls and nothing works. At the end, all I get is : "an error occurred while launching the setup. The remote procedure call failed."

I want this gone. Little help??

[BLACKY THE FOX]

Try to redownload windows?...

[BLACKY THE FOX]

or try to redownload steam

[Hennix]

Originally posted by ZeFox:

Try to redownload windows?...

what a bad advice

[BLACKY THE FOX]

Originally posted by Hennix:

Originally posted by ZeFox:

Try to redownload windows?...

what a bad advice

ik but still...

[Samrathiel]

Originally posted by ZeFox:

or try to redownload steam

the thing is, I didn't buy it through steam. I bought it hard copy, a cd lol

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by ZeFox:

Originally posted by Hennix:

what a bad advice

ik but still...

But still BAD ADVICE.

There is no evidence there is anything wrong with Windows, so it's foolish to suggest such a daft endeavour.


Op, if you can't uninstall it, that suggest to me the install itself was problematic and didn't go properly. As you're using a disc opy, is this known as a working version for Windows 10 (I assume you're using)?

Because if not, that's entirely likely. It won't install properly, and it will get confused trying to uninstall whatever has been installed.

The best you can do is find where the install data resides, delete everything there manually (also look up any registry settings if you REALLY want to go to town for legacy data). Then find out if this version works and installs properly by Googling something like "using Hearts of Iron disc on Windows 10". Someone may have bunged something up about getting it running.

If you really get stuck, places like ModDB are a good start.

[Iceira]

use steam clear Download cache, look like local cache issue with the game.
then validate game files after that should fix this.

[Samrathiel]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by ZeFox:

ik but still...

But still BAD ADVICE.

There is no evidence there is anything wrong with Windows, so it's foolish to suggest such a daft endeavour.


Op, if you can't uninstall it, that suggest to me the install itself was problematic and didn't go properly. As you're using a disc opy, is this known as a working version for Windows 10 (I assume you're using)?

Because if not, that's entirely likely. It won't install properly, and it will get confused trying to uninstall whatever has been installed.

The best you can do is find where the install data resides, delete everything there manually (also look up any registry settings if you REALLY want to go to town for legacy data). Then find out if this version works and installs properly by Googling something like "using Hearts of Iron disc on Windows 10". Someone may have bunged something up about getting it running.

If you really get stuck, places like ModDB are a good start.

hmm its possible, yes im running windows 10. The game itself seems to have installed properly, there are the desktop icons and everything, but then these problems.
So i'll try what you suggest, thanks for the advice.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Ziggymira:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

But still BAD ADVICE.

There is no evidence there is anything wrong with Windows, so it's foolish to suggest such a daft endeavour.


Op, if you can't uninstall it, that suggest to me the install itself was problematic and didn't go properly. As you're using a disc opy, is this known as a working version for Windows 10 (I assume you're using)?

Because if not, that's entirely likely. It won't install properly, and it will get confused trying to uninstall whatever has been installed.

The best you can do is find where the install data resides, delete everything there manually (also look up any registry settings if you REALLY want to go to town for legacy data). Then find out if this version works and installs properly by Googling something like "using Hearts of Iron disc on Windows 10". Someone may have bunged something up about getting it running.

If you really get stuck, places like ModDB are a good start.

hmm its possible, yes im running windows 10. The game itself seems to have installed properly, there are the desktop icons and everything, but then these problems.
So i'll try what you suggest, thanks for the advice.

If you're sure it seems to have installed correctly, then I wouldn't worry about uninstalling it at this stage.

Try the usual things with older games first - going into properties and playing with compatibilitt modes, to see if you can get it to run. From experience thus far, Windows 10 seems to be pretty good at running odler games in compatibility mode - better than previous Windows imo. Again, if you truly get stuck, Google for tips on getting this to run under Windows 10. Sod's law states that if you want to do this someone else will have done it somewhere and likely have posted about it.

Best of luck.

[Samrathiel]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by Ziggymira:

If you're sure it seems to have installed correctly, then I wouldn't worry about uninstalling it at this stage.

Try the usual things with older games first - going into properties and playing with compatibilitt modes, to see if you can get it to run. From experience thus far, Windows 10 seems to be pretty good at running odler games in compatibility mode - better than previous Windows imo. Again, if you truly get stuck, Google for tips on getting this to run under Windows 10. Sod's law states that if you want to do this someone else will have done it somewhere and likely have posted about it.

Best of luck.

lol thanks for teaching me about Sod's Law. I will try those things.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Ziggymira:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

lol thanks for teaching me about Sod's Law. I will try those things.

Not a problem :)