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Company of Heroes Installation Problem

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FrontlineWarrior

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I have my hard drive partitioned so that my Windows drive has about 3 GB of space. After windows and the pagefile, I have about 700mb left.

CoH tries to extract its files to the C drive where I don't have much space left. How can I get it to extract to my other partition?
 
you may be out of luck and it's in the installation script since the files are probably compressed and need to be extracted somewhere before being put in the right directory

send an email to tech support since it may also be a setting in the registry that their installer is using

personally i don't think the 3GB thing is a good idea. i used to do it and it drove me crazy. it also drives me crazy with 9GB drives on some of our old test SQL servers even though we have 500GB or more space on other volumes. your best bet is to have 2 HD's, install everything and then ghost it to the second HD or burn to DVD for extra safety
 
I HATE programs that use the C: as the temp dir for installs. If I tell it "install to D" it should use D for temp too. I know it's not wise to have a super small OS partition, but I use to find myself constantly using Partition Magic to add a lil space to it for suck ass programs like this that need temp space. Or even worse, programs that give you no choice where to install and default to C: I don't see that anymore, but a lot of damn programs use to do it.

alent1234 is right, you should email them, this is something they could easily fix, and I don't see why they wouldn't want to. Probably an oversight on the programmers part.

Wouldn't it make sense, for any proggy you install, it checks all your partitions for free space, and since it's only temp space, uses the one that has the most? or at least one that has enough. Couldn't possible be tough to implement in all install scripts, and would make Frontline Warrior's problem and anyone like him, nonexistant.
 
I remember coming across something like this before for another game. There is a regedit that you can temporarily do that will point to a different directory.

Now these are the instructions to install another program, but it should work.

"Click start button and select "Run"
Type "regedit" (w/o quotes)
Navigate to - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Micrsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
In the right hand panel, double click the entry "ProgramFilesDir"
The default value is, "C:\Program Files." What you want to do, is change it to a drive that has at least 3 gb of free space.
e.g. "E:\Program Files"
Just make sure the directory is on the driver you're changing this too.
After the install, just go back to the reg entry and change back to "C:\Program Files," and you're all set. "
 
Why not set the swap file to use the other partition. It might free up enough spance to install.

I have my hdd setup the same way but I leave the primary partition at least 10gb. I don't think vista would install on 3 BTW.
 
if you got the dvd version I think the game is simply uncompressed in it's own directory.

You can also simply install it on another computer then copy it over. The only thing you will need is a direct 3d file that will be on the machine it was installed on.
 
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