Can't install "Invalid Firewall process image path"

[strider2]

Hello,

I want to try AI War, and downloaded the demo. However, I can't finish the installation. At the end a dialog box appears:

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Invalid Firewall process image path, or file not found:
$PATH\AIWar.exe.
Where $PATH is the given installation path. AIWar.exe exists there, though. After having no option but to press ok, a rollback is commited.

I'm using Windows 7 64bit. What's wrong?

Thanks.

[x4000]

It sounds like there is somethig wrong with the firewall on your install of windows; this isn't something that has popped up before. I am assuming that you don't want to rejigger your firewall just to try a demo, so my suggestion would be to download the raw files via the zip package in the 3.120 news post in the news forum here. It's not as elegant, but when windows is doing funky stuff that's all that is really possible outside of getting the demo from someplace like steam. Hopefully by the next release we will switch to a non msi installer, which then would bypass messed up windows components -- msi is really sensitive to windows issues.

Hope that helps!

[strider2]

Thank you for your reply, x4000.

The ZIP Package would have worked but I had a hunch since you said that didn't pop up before. My System is quite clean, but since I am more the poweruser/admin type a few things are quite different on my system then at "standard" installations.

First things first: other games have no difficulty configuring the windows firewall, and the service is running.


So now I have the solution for you, so you can put in in a FAQ / known issues and hopefully fix it!
As you can see in the screenshot, I like to install my games in the directory c:\spiele (Games in German). The unusual thing here is that this directory is a different mounted partition which seems to be the problem for your installer.
I can install in another directory (which I don't want but.. at least it works) just fine. I suppose there might be an issue how you're addressing the directory, so windows looks on the physical C:\ partition for this path/file, and of course can not find it, since the logical path is on the other partition.

My second post and first bug report . Heh, this always happens to me, I should be beta tester. Too bad it doesn't pay well .

If you need more information, don't hesitate to ask.

I'd be very happy if this could be fixed.

[x4000]

(please exuse any typos, typed on my iPhone)

Thanks very much for the info! That is great to know. I think I mentioned before that we are using Msi installers at the moment -- out instructions to it are basically an XML "open a port to this directory" and that is it. The whole premise of msi is that it uses the internal "windows installer" to actually do the installing.

However, that premise is bad broken, because:
- when one runs into a problem like this with one's software, one is pretty much up the proverbial creek.
- if the slightest thing is wrong with windows installer, then new programs can't be installer (what I thought was the issue here, but clearly not in this case).
- prerequisites are not supported, and so much be included in a shim that wrappers the msi file.
- msi installers have a tendency to sits there "preparing" for this and that for seconds on end for no discernible reason.

So we're definitely excited about moving to the new msi-less bitrock installer software that we recently got, but for ai war I simply had not yet had time to do it before 3.120. Your report is the first true bug we have actually run into with msi (outside of when windows installer is corrupt) but that should also be fixed simply by out switch to bitrock for the next official version that comes out in a month or two.

Anyway, thanks again! And I though you might appreciate the details of what is going on there. Most games use installshield, wise, or bitrock, so hence them not having these sorts of issues. Msi was rather a budget choice when we were tinier than we are now.

[strider2]

Oh yes, thanks for the information. I agree, the windows installer (service) is very picky without any reason. I've had my share of pc's with issues you mentioned.

This is always the 'fun' thing with windows: it's got lots of features, but beware using them (here: mounting in directory).

Thanks!

Oh and now I have to find the time to finally try AI War!

[x4000]

Thanks for your support!  I know just what you mean about Windows.  I'm really looking forward to having this on Bitrock installer instead, it should be a big improvement.