[Arryn]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
On install? I dont think anyone has come up with anything to stop an install on a new machine. Even if it was a re-install such blocks on Windows machines tend to be registry blocks

If an app/dll that is called by the installer fails to run, the install *will* fail. I have seen this happen. Amongst the many years of software experience I have, 5 years of it is in writing installers for Windows systems. I assure you that installs can and do fail, under the right (wrong?) circumstances.

As a for-instance, suppose the installer were to check for an active net connection via network API calls. If the user does not have a working net connection (say, for a registration code or copy-protect check), the net API call will return false or fail. Depending on how the installer was written, the install could fail. And fail with an error message not dissimilar to what Tuskerlove is reporting.

I suspect that only the folks at IW are going to be able to definitively answer his question. All we can do is guess.