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More info?)
Well, Warty, you may be right, but not according to the game's listed requirements. The Gforce4 MX480 should be OK, however slow it may be. An I/O error with no explanation is not polite, it's confusing. Do you have certain knowledge about this or are you just trying to be funny?
"Warty" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:4165f98b$1_4@alt.athenanews.com...
> Maybe during the install it picked up your graphics card and pissed itself
> laughing!!!!!
>
> The I/O error is just a polit way of letting you know this.
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> Warty
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> "swingman" <victorsacco_nospamers@highstream.net> wrote in message
> news:10mat0s84hc2h02@corp.supernews.com...
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>>> I've downloaded the zip a couple of times. The first time I got a CRC
>>> error when unzipping. The second file, which I downloaded from a
>>> different site, unzips OK, but during the install I get an I/O error on
>>> the pk4 file (do they call them wads anymore? <g>). Do I just need to
>>> DL this file again from another site, and can you recommend a reliable
>>> one? Or is there something else going on? I'm running XP with 512megs
>>> RAM, Gforce4 MX480 64meg video card, and plenty of free disk space.
>>
>> Hm. Not sure what your problem could be. Have you tried specifying a
>> different installation directory than the default? As far as download
>> servers go, though, the place I usually download all of my demos are from
>> www.3dgamers.com
>>
>> The indiana server is usually pretty fast if there's not a million people
>> trying to use it at the same time, but that usually only happens the day
>> something new is announced.
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> I downloaded the file again from 3dgamers.com and the install crashed at the
> same point. The pk4 file reaches 100% during the install and then the
> install crashes stating an I/O error. This has got to be a problem with the
> system, but it's happening on two different computers, both running XP with
> 512megs RAM and GIG's of free space. I've tried unloading all resident
> programs before running the install, including antivirus. I'm open to all
> suggestions at this point. Does anyone know where I can download all the
> demo files and install them manually?
>
>
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