Can't Install The Witcher 2! WTH!

Guys I just finished the 1st Witcher so I went to my PC gaming shelf to unpack, unbox and installmy Witcher 2 copy. I am getting this error:

Feature: Required Files

Component: Data

File: F:\data2.cab

Error: Data Error (cyclic redundancy check).

This error pops after about 5 secs of running the setup. Game of course is original retail copy (the only way its supposed to be) and my DVD drive is a LightScribe HP DVD1170. Can someone please give me a hand here??? Thanks.

BUMP :cry:

Dude I feel you, Ive been trying to get the game installed, activated, and registered, and to work for two days. Yesterday I figured out that the game (discs) do not like my dvd drive at all as soon as it hits the pack0.dzip it would stop installing and I would get the crc error. I used another Pc on my network and shared its dvd drive and install the game off there onto my Pc and it installed just fine. Then after entering my Product code it the patcher wouldnt decrypt the game at all. then I found out today that there is no zeros in the code its an O. So I reinstalled and the patcher then was saying the install wasnt complete or invalid. the I contacted CD and they shot me an email saying to run the setup as admin under compad mode. and use a different patch tool they linked me too. After that the game installed, activated, and registered. But guess what... the dumb game will not even launch, I get a black screen and it goes back to the desktop without no errors or anything. I have never had so much trouble installing a game before in my life......04dcarraher

Just wondering but what resolution do you run at?

Well that doesnot matter Ive tried different resolutions to fullscreen to windowed in the options in the launcher04dcarraher

I'm saying adjust your desktop resolution. The launcher can be anything, including your native resolution.

For example I run 2048x1152 because thats my natural resolution. Everytime I start TW2 I get the same error you do. I have to change my desktop's resolution to 1920x1080 before the game launches. Oddly enough the game works perfectly fine with my native resolution, yet it won't start at all when the desktop is set to my native res.

EDIT: Also make sure its a 16:9 resolution.

WOW... That sucks dude, looks like I'm just beggining the installation ordeal then :( Im just going to borrow a DVD drive from someone tomorrow and see how it goes. Blows my mind how a game of this caliber can have so many issues. robertoenrique

I know its looked down upon, but go find a torrent of the game. Nothing wrong with it since you bought the game and have your own CD-key. I had to do it with Battlefield 2 and Oblivion when I lost their disks.

Well thats a damn shame. Not even 720p would work?

Well thats a damn shame. Not even 720p would work?

ChubbyGuy40

i think you need to have a ntfs drive. check your format

i saw the witcher website. they list a couple of things you can do,

1)your anti virus needs to be disabled

2)your DVD drive may not be compatible with DVD 9 standard. you can try copying the files to your hard disk and then trying to install from there.

3)contact help2start@thewitcher.com

i hope this helps.

if none of this work, take the refund and buy at GOG( digital version)

the solutions i listed is for the CRC problem not the resolution problem.

wait for the patch(v1.1). it should have been up by now but isnt.

What's all this about changing resolution? He has a cyclic redundancy check on one of the data files....last time I checked that meant it can't read the CD. On topic: - try copying all the files to ur HDD and then install - try CD on another PC - try another reader - worst comes to worse, then take it back to shop and exchange for another copyFelipeInside

I was trying to help 04hcarrier since I had the same problem he did with getting it to start, not the TC

And stores don't accept PC returns once its opened, even if it doesn't work last time I checked.

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]What's all this about changing resolution? He has a cyclic redundancy check on one of the data files....last time I checked that meant it can't read the CD. On topic: - try copying all the files to ur HDD and then install - try CD on another PC - try another reader - worst comes to worse, then take it back to shop and exchange for another copyChubbyGuy40

I was trying to help 04hcarrier since I had the same problem he did with getting it to start, not the TC

And stores don't accept PC returns once its opened, even if it doesn't work last time I checked.

[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]What's all this about changing resolution? He has a cyclic redundancy check on one of the data files....last time I checked that meant it can't read the CD. On topic: - try copying all the files to ur HDD and then install - try CD on another PC - try another reader - worst comes to worse, then take it back to shop and exchange for another copyFelipeInside

I was trying to help 04hcarrier since I had the same problem he did with getting it to start, not the TC

And stores don't accept PC returns once its opened, even if it doesn't work last time I checked.

Yeah sometimes. At least with console games you can get them re-wrapped at OfficeMax/Office Depot and return them :lol:

What's all this about changing resolution? He has a cyclic redundancy check on one of the data files....last time I checked that meant it can't read the CD. On topic: - try copying all the files to ur HDD and then install - try CD on another PC - try another reader - worst comes to worse, then take it back to shop and exchange for another copyFelipeInside

I live in Venezuela :(, my sister brought me the game from the states. I'll try that borrowed DvD today and post back. Quick question, after installing the game can I return the borrowed one and use the my DVD that's giving me the problem to actually run the game??

Guys I just finished the 1st Witcher so I went to my PC gaming shelf to unpack, unbox and installmy Witcher 2 copy. I am getting this error:

Feature: Required Files

Component: Data

File: F:\data2.cab

Error: Data Error (cyclic redundancy check).

This error pops after about 5 secs of running the setup. Game of course is original retail copy (the only way its supposed to be) and my DVD drive is a LightScribe HP DVD1170. Can someone please give me a hand here??? Thanks.

[QUOTE="robertoenrique"]

Guys I just finished the 1st Witcher so I went to my PC gaming shelf to unpack, unbox and installmy Witcher 2 copy. I am getting this error:

Feature: Required Files

Component: Data

File: F:data2.cab

Error: Data Error (cyclic redundancy check).

This error pops after about 5 secs of running the setup. Game of course is original retail copy (the only way its supposed to be) and my DVD drive is a LightScribe HP DVD1170. Can someone please give me a hand here??? Thanks.

JKnaperek

Dude relax I meant original non pirated software.

This is why console gaming can be nice

[QUOTE="JKnaperek"][QUOTE="robertoenrique"]

Guys I just finished the 1st Witcher so I went to my PC gaming shelf to unpack, unbox and installmy Witcher 2 copy. I am getting this error:

Feature: Required Files

Component: Data

File: F:data2.cab

Error: Data Error (cyclic redundancy check).

This error pops after about 5 secs of running the setup. Game of course is original retail copy (the only way its supposed to be) and my DVD drive is a LightScribe HP DVD1170. Can someone please give me a hand here??? Thanks.

robertoenrique

Dude relax I meant original non pirated software.

Dude these people are confusing me and I've had and fixed this problem as had many other people. The game hates certain DVD drives. I resolved my problem first by installing the game on my son's computer to make sure the disc's where good, they where. ThenI went and bought a Blue Ray R/W (cause I always wanted one anyway) and the game installed perfectly. But a note that seems to be not mentioned is that after everything was installed and authorised I didn't need a disc in the drive to start the game. Don't know if anyone else tried it but I did mainly to see which disc the game would want in the drive to start. Just sayin'.8)

I remember that redundancy error means that it hasn't been uninstalled on another computer.

This is why I buy most of my games digitally. People complain and worry about games that are bought digitally, but I've had way more problems with games I bought on disk than digital games.