Impulse is far to buggy to rely on for patch installs

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I run Vista Ultimate x64 SP1. I've been able to make patches from all osrts of games work which the developers say would not work. This is because I have access to the installer. However Impulse takes away any attempt I could make to try to fix the problem and instead repeatedly corrupts my install of Sins of a Solar Empire. By repeatedly I am talking about roughly 30 tries to get it to patch properly. In some cases when I found out I would not be able to get a game to patch at all it is readily obvious and I don't wasted 10 hours trying to do it.

I checked the forums and did what some posts said to by trying another server or the alternate download method. The only difference now is it would download the patch then once again corrupt my install making it unplayable. Repeatedly. The last few times it would tell me it patched to 1.09b then say it is still 1.05 and it just corrupted it again.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
This should be in the Impulse forum, not the Beta Feedback.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Might have been because you left your AV/anti-malware software on whilst trying to install. Most installers request that you have your AV software DISABLED during the installation process.

Try it. I'm betting it works!  :p 


the Monk
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
No Dice. I can't even get the game to install. It keeps complaining of missing the XML file with the SoaSE file list to do the install.

EDIT: Got the game to install again. Going to try the patch with AV turned off.

EDIT2: The patch installed this time when I forced it to run under my admin account + turned AV off + alt download method. If I don't post again it means the game worked.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I am also running Vista Ultimate x64 SP1, and I had no trouble at all, even running everything under standard user privileges.

So far Impulse is *much* more vista-friendly than Steam.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
I'm sorry Stardock but I'm sick of Impulse too. I've tried all the fixes but nothing seems to work. For some strange reason, Impulse does update itself but will not update SINS. Just errors during the updating. I'm tired, I'm going to bed! :^(