I've just bought Beyond Good & Evil and tried to install it for several times, but every time when it gets to ask for the third CD a failure shows up with the following message:

Componenttransferfailure

Component: GameDataBeta
Filegroup: GameDataBeta
File: E:\data3.cab
Failure: Datafailure

Has anyone met this problem before, or does anyone know how to fix this?

Do you have a CDRW or DVDRW drive? Is your antivirus/firewall running during installation?

My system:

AMD 64 3400+ @ 2.30Ghz
1 gig of Corsair TwinX DDR PC3200 RAM @414Mhz
Radeon 9800 Pro video w/TV out core @450, mem @735
Windows XP SP 1
Microsoft Directx 9.0b
Antec TruePower TrueBlue True480 PSU
LiteOn DVD+/-RW drive
Plexwriter CD-RW
Maxtor Diamond 9 160GB SATA hdd
Westerndigital 40 gig harddrive
Westerndigital 100 gig hdd
Asus K8T800 mainboard
Creative 5.1 surround system
Swiftech liquid cooling system

Additional PC version help:

http://www.pcgamessource.com

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'Do you have a CDRW or DVDRW drive? Is your antivirus/firewall running during installation?'

That doesn't make any sense. We all know perfectly well that it is not your computer to blame, but UBI SOFT. The disks are broken, faulty manufactured during the production. There is no way to repair or avoid the problem. Ubi finally admitted their error and they told us to return you copy to the shop where you bought the game. You should ask for a refund and wait (and wait and wait) for the day that Ubi replaces the faulty Dutch batch with an UK batch.

Actually CDRW's and DVDRW Drives are unsupported with most UBISoft games and BG&E actually says it's not recommended for use with a CDRW, so gnogtr has a valid point in asking.

Antivirus scanners can interfere with the installation and it's always best to disable them during install.

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"Actually CDRW's and DVDRW Drives are unsupported with most UBISoft games and BG&E actually says it's not recommended for use with a CDRW"

Well that's very nice to hear. I've tried to discover a notice on the case wich says that having a CDRW may cause any problems with this game, but it seems that there isn't any.

In game manual it says you won't need anything but a mouse, a keyboard and a pair of brains. Even in game manual there is no such thing as some kind of notice for the problems that virus scanners or CDRW's may cause.

To play Beyond Good & Evil, your computer must meet or exceed the minimum requirements below:


Supported OS: Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 /XP (Only)
Processor: Minimum 700 Mhz Pentium III,Celeron, or AMD Athlon (1 GHz recommended)
RAM: Minimum: 64 Mb, 256 MB for XP users (Recommended: 128 Mb)
Video Card: DirectX9 compatible 32 MB Video Card (please see supported list)
Sound Card - DirectX9 compatible
DirectX: DirectX9 provided on the disc is required
CD-ROM - minimum CD-ROM x4 (Not recommended for use with CD-RW's)

Supported Video Cards


ATI Radeon 9700 and Pro
ATI Radeon 9000 and Pro
GeForce 4 Ti 4600/Ti 4400/MX 460/MX 440
GeForce 3 and Ti500
GeForce 2 GTS/MX400/MX

There, taken from the BG&E F.A.Q.

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most cdrw/dvdrw drives are unsupported? ... a more accurate statement is that most ubisoft games are unsupported by pcs