Dungeons & Dragons Online Forum

hey all, any idea why i'd be getting this error, pasted in full below, and the best way to remedy it? tried checking the knowledge base, to no avail. thanks.

[i]The ‘Downloading Platform SDK Redistributable: GDI+’ task failed.

Could not download the Platform SDK Redistributable: GDI+ installer.

The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1100.)
Continuing with the install may produce unpredictable results.[/i]

Some tie files depend on components downloaded from Microsoft. Last week, several older components appear to have been removed from the downloads which Microsoft makes available. We are in the process of addressing this for the supported applications in our AppDB, and will next begin to look at strategies for unsupported apps.

Wine does have a partial implementation of GDI+, so a reasonable thing to do is to just click 'skip this step' during the install and see what happens. However, as the error message says, whoever created the .tie file must have felt at the time that wine's GDI+ was insufficient, so the results of skipping that may not be good.

If you have an older bottle with this game already installed, you may want to 1.) create an archive of it; and 2.) keep that around to restore from in the future, if you need to.

As always, the goal is to have wine's implementation be sufficient that no native dlls are required to run your apps. In the meantime, it is useful for us to know how this app runs without the download.

thanks for the quick reply. i hit skip, so we'll see what happens -- that is, presuming i can get my mac to play nicely with pando. the downloader insists i have a firewall turned on, but that's not the case. sigh.