Sad Panda: Gothic 2 Gold won't install

Games
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Steps

  1. Insert Disc One
  2. Proceed through Install process

Result:
This beautifully message appears within 1 second of file transfer and kills the install dead:

I bought the game a couple years ago and haven’t got around to playing it until now. I’m kinda bummed out since it’s apparently awesome sauce.

2

Do you have some kind of antivirus running that might be interfering? If so, try disabling it temporarily while installing.

3

Try copying the cd to a temp folder on your hard disk and see if it installs from there.

4

Doesn’t work.

“Fucking thing sucks!”

5

Get it some ‘different’ way?

6

It refers to a file on F drive. Is that your CD/DVD drive? If so, my guess is the disk is bad. Try disk repair, or something similar and see if that helps.

7

Lo Google, puta!

8

Hey! I have the same problem and I was wondering if you managed to solve it. I didn’t find much anything via Google, so yea.

Thanks in advance :D

9

Maybe try and run the setup program in a compatibility mode? Might have to make a shortcut to the real setup.exe. Probably won’t work, but I can’t think of anything else to try.

10

You mean safe mode (or something else :o)? Hmm, I guess it’s worth a try.

By the way: I noticed that it starts the installation normally, first copying the Uninstall thingie and gets stuck immediately upon reaching the Gothic2.exe. I dunno, maybe it helps somehow.