Problems Installing Midway Games Area 51

Went to try installing Area 51 on Vista RC1 build 5600, but it always seems
to stop saying:- The Wizard was Interrupted before Area 51(R) could be
completely installed.

Anyone Else had this problem or managed to make it work?????

I know this post is 2 years old, but it was first in google results and
is listed on this wonderful site.

I'm experiencing the same problem Vista Ultimate x64 SP1


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UPDATE:
after googling with a couple keyword search variations i came across 2
potential solutions, the first of which gave me ideas. both URLs are
included below for reference and the working solution is included below
the URLs
http://forums.midway.com/Boards/Mess...start=26796055
'Area 51 - no go - PlanetAMD64'
(http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=7864)


1) Install from CD using msi file & command line, my optical drive is Z
in this example:
start > run
msiexec /i "Z:\Area 51(R).msi" /q

2) Install Area 51 Patch 1.2 (winzip'd exe file; 17,680,384 bytes)


i tested the installation process a few times, the most significant
factor i did find was the use of the /q switch in step 1. I couldn't say
for sure why a silent install worked fine and a normal GUI install
failed even when directly executing the msi file with administrator
privileges (even with UAC disabled) so, I decided to investigate:

1) enable MSI logging
'Windows Installer Team Blog : How do I get a deep view of what Windows
Installer is doing?'
(http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_instal...21/471793.aspx)

2) msiexec /i "z:\Area 51(R).msi" /l c:\Area51.log


The Significant lines in the log file are towards the end:

Action 6:20:40: DX9_Launcher.A545835B_7768_4D96_A5BC_930949616C2D.
Action start 6:20:40:
DX9_Launcher.A545835B_7768_4D96_A5BC_930949616C2D.
Action 6:20:40: ResolveSource.
Action start 6:20:40: ResolveSource.
Action ended 6:20:40: ResolveSource. Return value 1.
Action ended 6:20:40:
DX9_Launcher.A545835B_7768_4D96_A5BC_930949616C2D. Return value 3.
Action 6:20:40: SetupCompleteError.


So, the post on the midway forum with the solution to use the quiet
install is a good solution, however the reason it works is not accurate.
By looking at the log file you can see the entire installation fails
because the integrated DirectX 9 installation routine fails, not because
it can't create the installation target.
The post on planetamd64 that talks about using orca to modify the msi
file to remove the DX9 installation command is a working solution as
well but modifying the msi file is more work than needed... simply
installing the program in silent mode does the trick, WHY it works is
beyond my technical expertise, msi logging when using silent mode
doesn't help much, nor does monitoring the silent install using
Sysinternals' DbgView.


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