Bioshock demo not installing...

SK07 · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:11

Basically finally downloaded the Bioshock demo (did it from Xfire so it is reliable). And now when I click the setup it says:

"Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item"

The hell? im administrator and the only one who uses this PC.

Cyber-Mav · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:14

whats the downloaded file look like? a single exe file? i extracted the exe file i had to a seperate directory so all files were decompressed, then i ran the setup.exe file.

SK07 · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:16

Cyber-Mav said:
whats the downloaded file look like? a single exe file? i extracted the exe file i had to a seperate directory so all files were decompressed, then i ran the setup.exe file.

Yeah I just extracted the folder to my desktop. The file .exe is just the default .exe icon. Not an icon of bioshock or what not.

Tried moving the .exe file but it just says it's in use access denied etc.

Cyber-Mav · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:18

thats odd. if you got winrar or something, run a archive test scan on it to see if any files are corruped. failing that, extract the entire exe file contensts to a folder on your hard drive and not desktop since sometimes extracted stuff to desktop has issues.

SK07 · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:21

Cyber-Mav said:
thats odd. if you got winrar or something, run a archive test scan on it to see if any files are corruped. failing that, extract the entire exe file contensts to a folder on your hard drive and not desktop since sometimes extracted stuff to desktop has issues.

Ok no errors found on archive test. Made a folder on C: and extracting to that now. Still says the same crap

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Cyber-Mav · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:25

are you running the setup.exe file once decompressed? this does sound very odd.

Chronictank · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:26

i got the same thing on vista ultimate
Did you download it using a different pc by any chance?

SK07 · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:26

God dammit, I know what it'll be. It's AVG for sure, I remember it did this with Stalker, so I'll unninstall it again.

SK07 · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:29

Yep that's it working now.

Problem = AVG Anti-Virus.

Cyber-Mav · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:38

thats odd, why avg being funny?

spb251272 · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:38

That's weird - I installed it no probs wit AVG running.

Chronictank · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:40

aha AVG thinks its a virus and locks the file, look in the log and it will tell you what its been up to
such sneakiness

Cyber-Mav · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:41

AVG does clamp unreal engine 3 games though for shoddy programming, not really AVG's fault.

Kipper67 · 22 Aug 2007 at 15:58

spb251272 said:
That's weird - I installed it no probs wit AVG running.

So did I but yesterday's avg update and overnight scan quarantined about 3 files all called setup.exe on my machine.

It's just AVG having a bad day for false positives.

SK07 · 22 Aug 2007 at 17:42

Kipper67 said:
So did I but yesterday's avg update and overnight scan quarantined about 3 files all called setup.exe on my machine.

It's just AVG having a bad day for false positives.

Not really it deleted Stalker's game .exe because it thought it was a virus :mad: