yener90 installer stuck at 0%

[PenaPP]

Recently I've been trying to install converted StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm (conversion and installer based on yener90 script http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=94783) to some older PC and I got stuck just at 0% (after installing DirectX and Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package).
There is no error, CPU is at 100% and it doesn't progress. I tried to let it run for whole night, but it was still at 0% with no more files extracted to hard drive.
Does anybody have the same problem or even better the proper solution? Please let me know ;)

[pakrat2k2]

how much ram & what OS in that PC? I don't think the OS ( XP, Vista, Win7 ) will make any difference, but ram definitely. And close any/all background programs not essential for PC to run.

[REV0]

how much ram & what OS in that PC? I don't think the OS ( XP, Vista, Win7 ) will make any difference, but ram definitely. And close any/all background programs not essential for PC to run.

He'using Intel Celeron 3,2GHz and 1GB RAM, we've talked through PMs and i advised him to open a specific thread about it, since there are others who are having same problem with their rigs.

[PenaPP]

pakrat2k2: Specs are like REV0 has written. All non-system services and processes were stopped - it is nearly clean Windows installation.

[pakrat2k2]

1GB RAM !!!!

that's barely enough for OS to run properly. Nevermind adding anything else that requires RAM for processes.

He could goto ControlPanel / system, and bump up his virtual memory ( swap file ) to 4GB if that hasn't been done already. Might give a little more breathing room.

[PenaPP]

pakrat2k2: I've even tried to use ReadyBoost to move swap file to a flash drive, but the memory usage didn't exceed the physical memory after all.

[pakrat2k2]

add to arc.ini & in compress.bat for each file ( data#.cab )

-lc1024 -ld1024 ( to reduce memory requirements for the old pc )

IE: arc.ini

[External compressor:srep]
;options = l%d (minimal match length, default=512)
header = 0
packcmd = srep {options} -m3f -l512 -c256 -a4 -lc1024 -ld1024 $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp
unpackcmd = srep -d -s -lc1024 -ld1024 $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp $$arcdatafile$$.tmp


compress.bat ( multiple lines )

arc a -ep1 -r -w.\ -msrep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d128m:fb128:mc1000:-lc1024 -ld1024

Test to see if it compiles properly first. ( move cabs you've already created elsewhere, then recreate using above changes ) I don't have game to test this out.

[PenaPP]

pakrat2k2: I've already tested that even with -ld128mb and it reduced memory usage, but didn't help with progress in installation - after a few hours still at 0.0% :(

[Razor12911]

I'm pretty sure that there is an unarc.dll failure.


Because this happens if an incorrect unarc.dll library is loaded. which you can replace but if the conversion works on other computers then it's not it.
Unarc.dll or other programs which are involved in unpacking like precomp, srep and isdone maybe unable to start for the following reasons, it can be be detected by an anti-virus which is false.
precomp requires half of computers cpu performance so make sure that all other programs are closed which are using cpu a lot.
srep requires at least 512mb memory with tweaking it's decompressing and compression memory so make sure you got enough.
CI and CIU or any other Inno Setup Advanced installer requires an additional memory of 200mb.


I think having 1GB RAM may be the problem. because Inno Requires about 200megs, and srep requires 512MB and loading operating system is another story.

[sentinelks]

I think I will try a compression uharc, I think it best to outdated systems ..

[HellRazor]

I had the same issue with SCII HotS conversion but the only difference is that, while progress bar seems frozen and "Estimated time" keeps rising up to 90 hours, game slowly (really slowly) gets installed. And it does takes some time to install the game (Like 3-4 hours). I didn't test again after I installed Win8.

It was tested on:
AMD Athlon64 X2 4000+ 2.10Ghz
3GB Ram
GeForce GT440
Windows 7

While on friend's PC, installation went fine (though his hardware is far superior)
Intel i5 3.9GHz
8GB Ram
GeForce GTX680 (I think)
Windows 8

[PenaPP]

Razor12911: Maybe I should have noted that the same converted installer works fine on the similar PC (Intel Celeron 2.66GHz, 1GB RAM, Windows XP SP3) - it took approximately 3 hours. I know Windows 7 is greedy and "eats" more memory, but it should run at least really slow with usage of swap file instead of getting stuck at zero. Or maybe some error message would be great, but without that I'm lost and don't know where exactly the problem is :(

sentinelks: Are you suggesting something or is it just some kind of soliloquy?

HellRazor: My estimated time is stuck at 0 seconds as well as percents ;)

[sentinelks]

I only say that I have only compressed with that kind of compression on PC dated, with the systems of the forum you must have a pc 200 $ ;) lol :D
then why do conversions with pc so old, no game works 95% :p

[PenaPP]

sentinelks: According to what you have written and my experiences the installer has higher HW requirements than the game itself - I can run the game on low details smoothly, but the installer is stuck :(