Chronicles of Riddick - Error on installation

[diablo13385]

I am having a problem trying to install Chronicles of Riddick - Escape from Butcher Bay for PC. As soon as I put the install disk in, I get an error message which reads: Starbreeze Autorun has encountered a problem and needs to close. When I click on details, it says the problem is with setup.exe. I took the game back and got a replacement...same problem. There is nothing wrong with my Plexwriter CD-Rom. I am running Windows XP professional with Service Pack 2, ATI Radeon 9600 Video, DX 9.0c, ALL the latest drivers and over 1 gig of RAM. I double checked ALL of the game requirements, and the ONLY possible problem I see is that my CPU is 1.333 ghz, and the requirement is supposed to be 1.8 ghz Pentium 4 or AMD equivalent. That said, the demo worked fine on my PC. I would THINK that this would only cause the game to run a little slow or possibly jerky. But would that cause setup.exe not to start to install at all? Anyone?

[Gotanypop]

Sounds to me like it is a problem specific to the Autorun feature on your CD drive. I wouldn't know what might be causing that.

Did you try to start the Setup.exe manually? Just go to My computer>Left clickthe CD-Drive>right click explore>Double click the EXE.

Worth a shot. Then just disable Autorun on your cd drive I find it a pain in the ass most of the time anyway.

[diablo13385]

Did you try to start the Setup.exe manually? Just go to My computer>Left clickthe CD-Drive>right click explore>Double click the EXE.

Worth a shot. Then just disable Autorun on your cd drive I find it a pain in the ass most of the time anyway.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I tried to start setup.exe manually, but get same error message. Also, I figured out how to disable the Autorun on my Pioneer CD-ROM drive to no avail. Once disabled, I tried again to start setup.exe manually, but still get same error message. This is maddening!

[Specialist-14312]

I have the exact same problem. I tried everything - The setup.exe, copying it to desktop, making a shortcut, everything in my power. The CD is clean, autorun works with any other CD, and I have more than the required specs (Though I'm positive that's not the case since the minimum specs only refer to in-game except the space requirements)

I've been googling around for some kind of CD fix, but my efforts are pretty much in vain.

[dangerousdave]

Exactly the same problem here.

[Fribble]

I had some problems when installing this game as well, not the exact problem you describe but similar - I kept getting errors reading certain files from the disk. Disable DMA on the CD-ROM that you install the game from and try it again.

1. Open the Device Manager. One way to do that is to right click on "My Computer", select the Hardware tab, and Select Device Manager.
2. Expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and double-click on the channel that controls the CD-ROM you will be installing from.
3. Under the "Advanced Settings" tab, change the Transfer Mode to "PIO" Only.

Install and then revert back to DMA. HTH

[pufu]

it's because of the sse incompatibility (procesor lacking sse support). But this will solve all the problems:

http://ftp.vugames.com/vug/riddick/updates/riddick_update_sse.exe


have fun (it worked to me)

[BarryFPD]

it's because of the sse incompatibility (procesor lacking sse support). But this will solve all the problems:

http://ftp.vugames.com/vug/riddick/updates/riddick_update_sse.exe


have fun (it worked to me)
:): It did work for me too THANKS!