I Am Alive Installer (Inno setup)

[jackstuff]

Originally Posted by Fabioddq

Ubisoft always sucks with updates. I advise you always keep the original installers by Ubisoft for future updates.

This happens because of registry, i damm sure that a correct one of registry is needed for installing the future updates

[prudislav]

so we need to find that problematic registry key.
This time original installer is something really stupit - it extrcat itself 3 times to system disk anad takes my computer hostage ;-)

[pakrat2k2]

installed original game > NO crack installed. took reg shot...
installed v1.01 update installed fine, again took reg shot.

only difference is an 'info' line

reg file before 1.01 update

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ubisoft\IAmAlive]
"Language"="English"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ubisoft\IAmAlive\GameUpdate]
"execPath"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Ubisoft\\I Am Alive\\src\\SYSTEM\\IAmAlive_game.exe"
"installRootDir"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Ubisoft\\I Am Alive\\"
"InstallDir"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Ubisoft\\I Am Alive\\src\\SYSTEM"
"language"="us"
"info"="970ce8e57f8740d18ecc59f85052bb61"

after v1.01 update

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ubisoft\IAmAlive]
"Language"="English"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ubisoft\IAmAlive\GameUpdate]
"execPath"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Ubisoft\\I Am Alive\\src\\SYSTEM\\IAmAlive_game.exe"
"installRootDir"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Ubisoft\\I Am Alive\\"
"InstallDir"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Ubisoft\\I Am Alive\\src\\SYSTEM"
"language"="us"
"info"="a1e6f2494ac64cae9177ee36b8ae9b9e"

[prudislav]

I just cant install update on this conversion - dont know what the problem is - reg. entries seems to be fine. Maybe some Uninstall one like with FC3 and AC3
I have Uplay version of this game but it still uses that horrible installer so thats why i want better one

[Fabioddq]

Try update to 1.01 from original game and make the conversion again.

[prudislav]

it solves nothing :-(
but its probably my only choice since even more skilled people doesnt khow

[Fabioddq]

Yep, here update normally with original installer. I will try search for missing reg entries. But I think are the only entries posted by pakrat.

[pakrat2k2]

went thru namelessone's reg entries in ISS script ONLY lines that are there that i dont see are the 2 Root: HKLM; SubKey: "SOFTWARE\Ubisoft\Launcher"; ones...

remove those 2 entries from your registry and see if update will then install.

[prudislav]

still: Error 1628: Failed to complete installation
EDIT: ok seems like that problem is not with conversion but with the patch itself

[pakrat2k2]

Originally Posted by prudislav

still: Error 1628: Failed to complete installation
EDIT: ok seems like that problem is not with conversion but with the patch itself

no i installed the game, then updated it from ubisoft ( static3.... link )

http://static3.cdn.ubi.com/i_am_alive/IAmAlive_1.01.exe

it updated without issue.

prudislav, tried using launcher.exe to update game directly?
unblock it from firewall if was blocked with game's exe too..

[prudislav]

From what i saw the patching method is pretty similar to the normall installer , which needs for whatever reasons 6GB on system disk(pretty insane for 2GB game). Dont know why devs choosed this sick method of installing/patching.

So I just did repack once again on v1.01 version in the end

[HellRazor]

Originally Posted by prudislav

From what i saw the patching method is pretty similar to the normall installer , which needs for whatever reasons 6GB on system disk(pretty insane for 2GB game). Dont know why devs choosed this sick method of installing/patching.

That's because we got used to the "classic" file replacement Updates. Updates contained changed files and we pretty much needed just to install the Update were Update just replaced old files with updated ones.

From your words, this Update is actually a Patcher update.
It Patches the original files and to do that, it needs to back up the original ones so that, if there is a f*ck-up in the patching, it can easily revert the changes back to the original version in case of corrupted installation due to internet mess-ups.

I don't know if @NamelessOne will update the installer to support further updates but it would be nice if someone can make new conversion with proper reg entries in case OP does not do it...

[prudislav]

the patch is trying to patch the installer itself(a copy of the I Am Alive.msi its stored on a special location on the hard drive) that was used to install the game, after that it will use the new patched I Am Alive.msi to install the game again, its a really idiotic system ;-)
(changed files have 30MB)
- so the problem are not reg entries but original installer/patcher

[NamelessOne]

I will update the conversion. I would do it earlier but I just saw that there is an update for the game

[prudislav]

Originally Posted by Tibi68

The installer works perfect from folder but don't work from ISO or burned dvd. I have Win 7, 32bits.
I have this error:
runtime error (at 307:190):
Access is denied.

Seems like this games conversion is cursed for me :-D Now i am getting this error while running it from ISO :-D
and it was working fine when i tried months ago on same machine :-D
so in the end i just made simple generic installer :-D