Two things that irritate me about game installations

[Bateluer]

1) Installations that take up the entire screen. IE, when they throw up a black window over your entire desktop with in-game screenshots in the middle and the installation progress meter on the lower corner. Is it so hard to just have a progress meter in the corner and let me use my desktop so I can do something else while the program installs? This is doubly, triply, quadruply, etc, annoying, based on the number of disks the program needs to install from.

2) Installations that force you to install DX again. I already have DX9C installed. I do not need to reinstall it again, but if I hit cancel on some games (*Cough* Battlefield 2), it undoes the installation and you have to start all over.

Thanks for listening.

 

[igowerf]

The full screen thing is probably to deter most users from doing other things during the install. Doing other stuff might slow things down or screw something up. It's kind of annoying, but I usually just alt tab out if I need to.

Also, I think the DX installer will detect what you have and update accordingly. Even if you accidentally start the setup, I don't think it goes through the full installation process if you already have the latest version.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: igowerf
Also, I think the DX installer will detect what you have and update accordingly. Even if you accidentally start the setup, I don't think it goes through the full installation process if you already have the latest version.

Not true. Some installers will MAKE you install DirectX even if you're already running that version. In some cases, exiting the DX install will abort the game's installation entirely.

BF2 is an example of this undesireable behavior.

 

[igowerf]

I've run DX installers that will seem to go through the installation process, but does it really fast and doesn't ask me to restart. I just assume that it skipped anything that I already had.