X-Men Legends II Rise of Apocalypse - 1603 Error during installation

[FrastratedGamer]

Hello everybody i'm having trouble when trying to reinstall X-Men Legends II Rise of Apocalypse. During the latter stages of the installation process i get the following message "Error - 1603 Fatal error during installation." Consult Windows Installer Help (Msi.chm) or MSDN for more information.

Keep in mind that i've already tried to fix the issue with Microsoft's Fix It Installer. But it failed to detect anything that might be causing the problem. So i'm not sure what else i can do to sort this out.

 

[COLGeek]

Are you installing from retail media or from a downloaded source?

 

[FrastratedGamer]

Are you installing from retail media or from a downloaded source?

I'm installing from retail media.

 

[COLGeek]

When you started the install, did you install as Administrator?

Also, what flavor of Windows are you running?

 

[FrastratedGamer]

When you started the install, did you install as Administrator?

Also, what flavor of Windows are you running?

Yeah, I tried that, but I was still getting the same error.

I'm using the 32-bit version of Windows 10: The Home Edition.

 

[COLGeek]

Given that this is a 12+/- year old game, it is likely just not compatible with Win 10. BTW, why are you using the 32-bit version of Windows 10?

 

[FrastratedGamer]

Given that this is a 12+/- year old game, it is likely just not compatible with Win 10. BTW, why are you using the 32-bit version of Windows 10?

I'm not sure that's the problem because it was working on this operating system before. The problem is that I uninstalled it from my computer when I thought that I didn't need it again. I then had a video idea for YouTube so I decided to reinstall it, but as I've mentioned I couldn't complete the installation process. I had a similar problem when trying to reinstall Marvel: Ultimate Alliance but I somehow managed to get that working again. The difference with reinstalling MUA and this is that I was getting the 1608 error with MUA.

This is the 1608 error if you've never heard of it "Unable to create InstallDriver instance. Return code: -2147221021."

No reason in particular, it's just something that I've been using for a while now. I rarely have any problems with this operating system.

 

[COLGeek]

Check your DirectX install to make sure it is current. Since you removed the game previously, some of the old libraries may have been removed for use with older versions of Windows. Now, they are missing and Win 10 doesn't know how to handle that.