Animagladius
04-07-2012, 05:00 PM
Hey guys!
During the decompression process of GRO I get an error at approximately 48% saying that the Patch failed. "Error in patching. Do you want the Launcher to attempt a recovery?"
If I say yes, the whole thing fails again. How do I get rid of this error?
So, I got .NET Framework 3.5 (I had it alread installed, needed it for Visual C#) and I followed this guide here:
I fixed this myself after about 20 minutes, I'll post the problem and the fix here.
The problem is, the installer downloads everything (1.5 something GB on my system), then begins decompression, and right at the end comes up with the error that the OP is having.
I watched the download in resource monitor (the files and locations etc) and didn't find anything, so I went into task manager, and opened the file location for Launcher.exe (the program that does the download / install.)
It's in a very random directory somewhere in the appdata folder.
Anywho, the fix is, lauch the program that installs the game. Open task manager, and in the processes tab, find Launcher.exe. Then right-click, and click open file location. This should open the aforementioned long directory.
Once that's done, close the game launcher, and then right click on Launcher.exe and Run as Administrator.
The launcher then re-downloaded everything, and decompressed and installed it no problem.
Let me know if that works for you.
As a side note, I believe (I guess, I'm not certain) the issue is caused when changing the default install directory. The default is C:\Ubisoft\GRO or something like that, but I changed it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\GRO (purely because I like to keep all my programs in the program files folder lol). Anywho, the laucher runs without administrative privileges it seems, and trying to install or modify files in the Program Files directory requires elevation, so at the end the installer is trying to move the folders from an AppData directory to the install directory, lacks privilegs and fails, causing the error.
Hope this helped.
Didn't fix the problem for me, unfortunately. Anybody maybe got another idea how to fix this? I'd really like to finally get to playing this game. I've been struggling with this patching problem since I downloaded the launcher for the first time about two weeks ago or so... Thanks!
During the decompression process of GRO I get an error at approximately 48% saying that the Patch failed. "Error in patching. Do you want the Launcher to attempt a recovery?"
If I say yes, the whole thing fails again. How do I get rid of this error?
So, I got .NET Framework 3.5 (I had it alread installed, needed it for Visual C#) and I followed this guide here:
I fixed this myself after about 20 minutes, I'll post the problem and the fix here.
The problem is, the installer downloads everything (1.5 something GB on my system), then begins decompression, and right at the end comes up with the error that the OP is having.
I watched the download in resource monitor (the files and locations etc) and didn't find anything, so I went into task manager, and opened the file location for Launcher.exe (the program that does the download / install.)
It's in a very random directory somewhere in the appdata folder.
Anywho, the fix is, lauch the program that installs the game. Open task manager, and in the processes tab, find Launcher.exe. Then right-click, and click open file location. This should open the aforementioned long directory.
Once that's done, close the game launcher, and then right click on Launcher.exe and Run as Administrator.
The launcher then re-downloaded everything, and decompressed and installed it no problem.
Let me know if that works for you.
As a side note, I believe (I guess, I'm not certain) the issue is caused when changing the default install directory. The default is C:\Ubisoft\GRO or something like that, but I changed it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\GRO (purely because I like to keep all my programs in the program files folder lol). Anywho, the laucher runs without administrative privileges it seems, and trying to install or modify files in the Program Files directory requires elevation, so at the end the installer is trying to move the folders from an AppData directory to the install directory, lacks privilegs and fails, causing the error.
Hope this helped.
Didn't fix the problem for me, unfortunately. Anybody maybe got another idea how to fix this? I'd really like to finally get to playing this game. I've been struggling with this patching problem since I downloaded the launcher for the first time about two weeks ago or so... Thanks!