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When i try to install PyLotRO via crosstie I get an error message saying:

"Setup files are corrupted" and have to either cancel or skip installation.

Please tell me I am doing something wrong.

I am getting the exact same message. Just bought the CrossOver Game program and so far I have not been able to get it to do anything but give me error messages when I run it on LORO "Gold" installs from the web site. I was hoping the PyLotRO install would help but it does not install either. Disappointing!

John wrote:

When i try to install PyLotRO via crosstie I get an error message
saying:

"Setup files are corrupted" and have to either cancel or skip
installation.

I don't see any problem when I attempt to install PyLotRO by itself into a new bottle, using the "Install via Crosstie" button and accepting the defaults.

I assume from your posting, that is what you are attempting to do. If it is not, please detail what steps you are doing.

Please include:
What version of CXG are you using? ... note that the current version of CXG is 10.2.1
What OS are you using?
Step-by-step listing of any changes you make to the default parameters.

If you are using an existing bottle, (i.e. not allowing The CrossTie Installer to create a new one...
What kind of bottle are you trying to install into ... XP, W2K, etc.
What was previously installed in that bottle (and under what version of CXG.).

Douglas M Holbrook wrote:

I am getting the exact same message. Just bought the CrossOver Game
program and so far I have not been able to get it to do anything but
give me error messages when I run it on LORO "Gold" installs from
the web site. I was hoping the PyLotRO install would help but it
does not install either. Disappointing!

1- you should post this on the LOTRO forum, not PyLotRO...
2- What OS/Hardware are you running.
3- What is the version number of CXG (from the about box).
4- What is happening/not happening?

I run both DDO and LOTRO in CXG 10.2.1 under Lion on a 27 inch iMac with no problems.

I restarted my iMac and quit all applications not necessary to get to the PyLotRO download page, just before attempting the download. At some point I did have a "Driversmith" application appear and try to run. I am assuming the Driversmith application must have come with the download because I did not purchase it. Driversmith suggested I hit some button I think to update drivers but the button did nothing. It looked like Driversmith wanted me to purchase the app. I put Driversmith in my trash to see if it was preventing the download from working but the download still did the same thing.

Could there be a real or perceived driver problem?

IMac, 8GB, 1067 MHz DDR3: OSX 10.6.8, CrossOver Games version 10.1.2.

I have a 27" iMac too. If you are running Lion maybe there is a problem with "older" versions of the OSX introduced from enhancing for Lion? I have not purchased Lion yet as I understand some apps/games have a problem with it?

Douglas M Holbrook wrote:

I restarted my iMac and quit all applications not necessary to get
to the PyLotRO download page, just before attempting the download.
At some point I did have a "Driversmith" application appear and try
to run. I am assuming the Driversmith application must have come
with the download because I did not purchase it. Driversmith
suggested I hit some button I think to update drivers but the button
did nothing. It looked like Driversmith wanted me to purchase the
app. I put Driversmith in my trash to see if it was preventing the
download from working but the download still did the same thing.

Could there be a real or perceived driver problem?

I don't know how you got it, but (I"m fairly certain) a Driversmith pop-up is NOT a legit thing... i.e. its a virus.
None of the CodeWeavers CrossTie "stuff" has any Driversmith links or code.

Are you working with a newly created bottle or is this a bottle which has/had something installed in it previously?
Is it a W2K bottle or a XP bottle?

Douglas M Holbrook wrote:

I have a 27" iMac too. If you are running Lion maybe there is a
problem with "older" versions of the OSX introduced from enhancing
for Lion? I have not purchased Lion yet as I understand some
apps/games have a problem with it?

There are several issues surrounding "upgrading" -- not just to Lion.

I have run into "strange and unsolvable" problems before which are "fixed" by doing a complete virgin install of the OS.

Basically, each older version of the OS, is fairly clean in its own upgrade process... however, all those applications, especially third-party apps, are a different story.

There were tremendous issues with apps in the Upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard. Major changes internal to OSX caused many third-party apps to fail. Many of those apps eventually came out with "fixed" versions which ran on Snow Leopard... However, many of the "exotic" third-party apps, especially of software not originally written for the Mac install "crap" all over your system, and rarely remove any of it, let alone all of it.

I tried to run CXG and DDO on my MacBook Pro which had been upgraded from Tiger to Leopard and then to Snow Leopard.... The MacBook ran virtually all the apps I wanted with no problem... except for CXG. After about 3 months of some seriously heavy debugging, I bit the bullet, whipped the disk and re-installed Snow Leopard from scratch .. and haven't had a problem with it since then.

Both my iMac's were virgin installs of Snow Leopard and I had no problems with CXG. Similarly, when I upgraded to Lion, the upgrade was a breeze an CXG (DDO and LOTRO) has not had any problem.

So put another way... While Lion does have issues, many of the problems folks see have to do with "what has gone before," not what is happening now, i.e. with the upgrade.

One thing, which I know has been an issue .... if you have an old copy of X11 installed -- the one from the distribution disks, NOT the copy included as part of Xcode -- there are issues. (I think the last time that copy was around was on the Leopard disks.) And that X11 install is not trivial to remove... but the Xcode version installs over top of it without any issues, masking the underlying "leftovers."

In my Places> Home file I find a folder called "Applications" which contains a folder called CrossOver Games which in turn contains a DriverSmith folder containing: DriverSmith, Uninstall DriverSmith, driversmith-3.

There is nothing else in this "Applications" folder in Home. There is still the regular Applications folder in Places which contains an application CrossOver Games (version 10.1.2). I have driversmith-1.exe, driversmith-2.exe, driversmith-3.exe, driversmith.exe in my trash file.

Searching in my Finder for DriverSmith I find only the folder and three files mentioned above, Last Opened August 8, 2011, 9:55>10.01 AM which I believe was the time I was attempting to load LotRO and then PyLotRO. I did not buy DriverSmith. It showed up while I was running the download for either LotRO or PyLotRO. I tried to put it in the trash from my desktop when it seemed to lock up before running. Googling Driver Smith I find an app which claims to: "Update all required system drivers in only 2 minutes",..... "Fix your video card driver problem to enjoy latest games".....The site offers free scans....free trial...
http://www.driversmith.com/
I found some reviews of this software product one review says DriverFinder is a better product. I am not even sure whether these apps are suppose to run on a Mac. If they are Windows only apps I suppose that could be the issue.

I did try to download an update for the ATI Radeon HD 4850 video card on my 27" iMac-2.66 GHz Intel Core i5 computer. I tried to run a copy of Diablo II I bought and it would not run. The installer suggested there might be a problem with the video card driver. I had this issue a few days before I bought CrossOver though. This would not explain why Driver Smith would be in a CrossOver Games folder though...

Douglas M Holbrook wrote:

In my Places> Home file I find a folder called "Applications" which
contains a folder called CrossOver Games which in turn contains a
DriverSmith folder containing: DriverSmith, Uninstall DriverSmith,
driversmith-3.

There is nothing else in this "Applications" folder in Home. There
is still the regular Applications folder in Places which contains an
application CrossOver Games (version 10.1.2). I have
driversmith-1.exe, driversmith-2.exe, driversmith-3.exe,
driversmith.exe in my trash file.

I don't recognize your terminology ... "Places>Home" are we talking about a Linux installation, OSX installation or BootCamp installation here.

Douglas M Holbrook wrote:

Searching in my Finder for DriverSmith I find only the folder and
three files mentioned above, Last Opened August 8, 2011, 9:55>10.01
AM which I believe was the time I was attempting to load LotRO and
then PyLotRO. I did not buy DriverSmith. It showed up while I was
running the download for either LotRO or PyLotRO. I tried to put it
in the trash from my desktop when it seemed to lock up before
running....

I found some reviews of this software product one review says
DriverFinder is a better product. I am not even sure whether these
apps are suppose to run on a Mac. If they are Windows only apps I
suppose that could be the issue.

Correct, DriverSmith is a legitimate product for the PC. Not only is it not useable on a Mac, but any updates it provides are guaranteed to "screw-up" any CrossOver(WINE) installation as they have their own drivers which have to be integrated with the rest of the package.

I have no idea how you might have gotten a copy of DriverSmith installed without your having installed it. From all I understand, DriverSmith does NOT "automagically" install itself as a virus does. However, It would not surprise me to discover some virus masquerading as a popular program.

Douglas M Holbrook wrote:

I did try to download an update for the ATI Radeon HD 4850 video
card on my 27" iMac-2.66 GHz Intel Core i5 computer. I tried to run
a copy of Diablo II I bought and it would not run. The installer
suggested there might be a problem with the video card driver. I had
this issue a few days before I bought CrossOver though. This would
not explain why Driver Smith would be in a CrossOver Games folder
though...

This may have been your problem...

It is NOT possible to download drivers from Vendors for Apple products. Period. Even when the Vendor claims they are "updates" to/for Apple products, those claims rarely prove valid. (Epson is notorious for it. Patches to their Printers themselves are fine, but their attempts to patch OSX software are dismal failures.... they simply don't get it.)

In general, Apple buys the technology from a 3rd party (in the case of ATI, they buy chips, not cards) and design their own hardware around them. Similarly, with software, they license the software and then modify it to integrate with OSX. Those modifications (either hardware or software) are proprietary to Apple and, it seems from past experience, are NEVER communicated back (or shared) with the original vendor. Even Open Source software which Apple supports, CUPS and X11 come to mind, are often YEARS behind in the ability to integrate the "latest version" with Apple's OSX.

As for where the DriverSmith software came from... it probably came as part of the ATI driver update. However, there is no ATI driver update for the HD5750... the chipset used in MY 27 inch iMac ... ATI does not even recognize its existence.

http://www.amd.com/US/PRODUCTS/DESKTOP/GRAPHICS/ATI-RADEON-HD-5000/HD-5750/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-5750-overview.aspx

Lots of other sites do, but Radeon (AMD) itself does not.

At this point, short of re-formatting your disk(s) and re-installing OSX, I don't have any good ideas for how to clean-up your problem(s). And, in general, when things get this confused, when you do the wipe and re-install, everything just magically works the way it's supposed to. It's a painful thing to do, but some problems get so imbedded in the OS that they are virtually impossible to find.

One last thing... Diablo II is an ancient game. (first release was in 2000 for the Mac.) And from what I read, it was written for OS9, not OSX, so I doubt that it will run under OSX Snow Leopard, let alone Lion, at all.

http://blog.weaverling.org/2009/07/05/diablo-2-intel-mac/

That was written in 2009, later comments from 2011 at the end bare me out...