XSI not starting

So I downloaded the XSI ModTool and here already came the first problem: "The contents of this file cannot be unpacked. The exectuatble has been corrupted... Please optain another copy of the file..."

Alright I thought, the downloader messed up the file. So I downloaded the installer a second time, even from a different source. The exact same problem.

Soooo... I turned the Computer off. Next day, out of curiosity and a bit of frustration I click the installer again. The old one. Suddenly it works. But on installing certain files it gives me CRC errors. So I give up... and re-download the installer a 3rd time, this time from the official site again. Result: "The contents of this file cannot be unpacked...". Maybe my HD is broken, I don't know. But I downloaded a lot of installers in the last few weeks and never happened anything similar. The last time I got a corrupt installer was about 8 months ago and the result of a system crash while downloading.

Sooo.... after another day of angryness I click the second installer I downloaded. And guess what - it works now. It can install the whole thing. It gives me an error, too but this time it's about a jpg in the help files so I hope the best. And on clicking XSI on my desktop it starts, I see the starting window with the apple juice flower but... nothing else happens. I wait for half an hour. No program window shows up. The whole thing crashes before it even starts.

Uhm... any suggestions? :sad:

That sounds really frustrating. Sorry you've had to go through this.

Okay, I'm not sure what the problem is, but I did some googling and explored the XSI wiki page, and while I didn't find an answer this may help us figure out what's wrong:

Installation setup log
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The installation setup log lets you view information about options set and events that occurred during the installation of XSI. The installation setup log file is called install.log and can be viewed by clicking the View Log button in the SOFTIMAGE|XSI User Tools program window. You can also open this file in a text editor. The install.log file is saved in the /Softimage/XSI_5.0/Setup directory.

The installation setup log records the following information:

• Which installation options were chosen.
• Events that occurred during installation.
• Confirmation of system requirement checks and disk space verification.
• Any warning dialog boxes that appeared during installation.

So reaper47, try opening up that log and posting it here. Maybe someone will be able to identify an error.

If you can't get SOFTIMAGE|XSI to work you could try
Blender. Only 10MB download and all
you need to do is to unpack the zip.

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

I might check out Blender some time soon but right now, right now I want to get XSI to start. Just on principle. I downloaded over 600 MB of install files and I want to get a glimpse on the program at least :evilgrin:

[edit] omg, I didn't know the ": E" smiley's a devil here but it fits this time ^^[/edit]

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That's one hell of a list, morph. But here you go:

Starting Installation on 8-1-2006 at 15h19

Destination:
C:\Programme\Softimage\XSI_4.2_ModTool

Shortcut Folder:
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Startmen?\Programme\Softimage Products\SOFTIMAGE XSI 4.2 ModTool

User's preferences :
User's root directory: c:\users\MS

Setting general CoExistence keys
Setting Core CoExistence keys
Setting XSI CoExistence keys

Registering Core components :
ctrls.ocx: Registration succeeded
aafcoapi.dll: Registration succeeded
aafintp.dll: Registration succeeded
aafpgapi.dll: Registration succeeded
afe.dll: Registration succeeded
agcom.dll: Registration succeeded
cts.dll: Registration succeeded
dsbrws.dll: Registration succeeded
dsevnt.dll: Registration succeeded
dsppg.dll: Registration succeeded
dsprsr.dll: Registration succeeded
dssdkco.dll: Registration succeeded
dssync.dll: Registration succeeded
dsuidevice.dll: Registration succeeded
dsuikeyboard.dll: Registration succeeded
dsvwr10.dll: Registration succeeded
fcevw.dll: Registration succeeded
genppg.dll: Registration succeeded
halparsers.dll: Registration succeeded
ifcedit.dll: Registration succeeded
scripthost.dll: Registration succeeded
scripthostui.dll: Registration succeeded
sdkutils.dll: Registration succeeded
siaudio.dll: Registration succeeded
sidiolayer.dll: Registration succeeded
siobjectmodel.dll: Registration succeeded
spdlpop.dll: Registration succeeded
timemanager.dll: Registration succeeded
tloper.dll: Registration succeeded
toolbar.dll: Registration succeeded
wvhal.dll: Registration succeeded

Registering XSI components :
dotxsi.dll: Registration succeeded
_3dobject2.dll: Registration succeeded
action.dll: Registration succeeded
actioncore.dll: Registration succeeded
activedata.dll: Registration succeeded
activedb.dll: Registration succeeded
adaptorop.dll: Registration succeeded
altrep.dll: Registration succeeded
altrepctrl.dll: Registration succeeded
animationmixer.dll: Registration succeeded
arghandlers.dll: Registration succeeded
cache.dll: Registration succeeded
camera.dll: Registration succeeded
chanmgr.dll: Registration succeeded
controlobjects.dll: Registration succeeded
converter.dll: Registration succeeded
converterop.dll: Registration succeeded
customdisplayhost.dll: Registration succeeded
customop.dll: Registration succeeded
datahost.dll: Registration succeeded
deformop.dll: Registration succeeded
deprep.dll: Registration succeeded
dopesheet.dll: Registration succeeded
dotxsi_ie.dll: Registration succeeded
dt.dll: Registration succeeded
dynacns.dll: Registration succeeded
dynaops.dll: Registration succeeded
dynaprops.dll: Registration succeeded
dynastate.dll: Registration succeeded
environments.dll: Registration succeeded
expressions.dll: Registration succeeded
fcurve.dll: Registration succeeded
fcurveviewer.dll: Registration succeeded
fieldeffector.dll: Registration succeeded
filter.dll: Registration succeeded
filtermgr.dll: Registration succeeded
forces.dll: Registration succeeded
fxcore.dll: Registration succeeded
fur.dll: Registration succeeded
fwk3d.dll: Registration succeeded
gap.dll: Registration succeeded
generatorop.dll: Registration succeeded
generatorop_v2.dll: Registration succeeded
gl4emult.dll: Registration succeeded
gppgcmdlauncherctrl.dll: Registration succeeded
graphic.dll: Registration succeeded
graphicogl.dll: Registration succeeded
grouptask.dll: Registration succeeded
imageclip.dll: Registration succeeded
imageclipeditor.dll: Registration succeeded
objectview.dll: Registration succeeded
imageclipfx.dll: Registration succeeded
implicitgeometry.dll: Registration succeeded
kinechain.dll: Registration succeeded
kinecns.dll: Registration succeeded
kineinfo.dll: Registration succeeded
kineoper.dll: Registration succeeded
kinestate.dll: Registration succeeded
lightrig.dll: Registration succeeded
loadersi3d.dll: Registration succeeded
manipmgr.dll: Registration succeeded
manipulators.dll: Registration succeeded
metashader.dll: Registration succeeded
mcp.dll: Registration succeeded
moaudio.dll: Registration succeeded
modeltasks.dll: Registration succeeded
mogeometry.dll: Registration succeeded
moglyph.dll: Registration succeeded
mohelper.dll: Registration succeeded
molattice.dll: Registration succeeded
molight.dll: Registration succeeded
monurbs.dll: Registration succeeded
moplanar.dll: Registration succeeded
mopnet.dll: Registration succeeded
mopolymesh.dll: Registration succeeded
moshader.dll: Registration succeeded
netview.dll: Registration succeeded
nlesdk.dll: Registration succeeded
opcore.dll: Registration succeeded
ophost.dll: Registration succeeded
optasks.dll: Registration succeeded
pathanimtask.dll: Registration succeeded
phencore.dll: Registration succeeded
pickmgr.dll: Registration succeeded
plugincore.dll: Registration succeeded
prefs.dll: Registration succeeded
primtasks.dll: Registration succeeded
propertytasks.dll: Registration succeeded
props.dll: Registration succeeded
rendertree.dll: Registration succeeded
richtextedit.dll: Registration succeeded
rlcore.dll: Registration succeeded
rlmngr.dll: Registration succeeded
rlproxy.dll: Registration succeeded
rltool.dll: Registration succeeded
sceneexplorer.dll: Registration succeeded
schematicview.dll: Registration succeeded
scnmgr.dll: Registration succeeded
scriptedopeditor.dll: Registration succeeded
selectionmgr.dll: Registration succeeded
shadertasks.dll: Registration succeeded
si3dobjectmodel.dll: Registration succeeded
si3dobjectmodel10.dll: Registration succeeded
siclustertasks.dll: Registration succeeded
sicurvetasks.dll: Registration succeeded
simath.dll: Registration succeeded
simeshtasks.dll: Registration succeeded
simulationop.dll: Registration succeeded
sitaskcore.dll: Registration succeeded
siuitasks.dll: Registration succeeded
siviewtasks.dll: Registration succeeded
sparks.dll: Registration succeeded
spreadsheet.dll: Registration succeeded
weighteditor.dll: Registration succeeded
texlayereditor.dll: Registration succeeded
suminfo.dll: Registration succeeded
synview.dll: Registration succeeded
tasks.dll: Registration succeeded
textureop.dll: Registration succeeded
timeline.dll: Registration succeeded
toolbarobj.dll: Registration succeeded
toolmanager.dll: Registration succeeded
topologyop.dll: Registration succeeded
transformmanager.dll: Registration succeeded
traverser.dll: Registration succeeded
triangulation.dll: Registration succeeded
uishelf.dll: Registration succeeded
uiut.dll: Registration succeeded
variousop.dll: Registration succeeded
viewcontrol.dll: Registration succeeded
viewcore.dll: Registration succeeded
viewinteraction.dll: Registration succeeded
vm.dll: Registration succeeded
vmpane.dll: Registration succeeded
xsidial.dll: Registration succeeded
xsiutils.dll: Registration succeeded
xsipluginhelper.dll: Registration succeeded
xsievents.dll: Registration succeeded
xsipaint.dll: Registration succeeded
xgs.dll: Registration succeeded

Registering SPDLs

Installation ended on 8-1-2006 at 15h23

Everything apparently succeeded :sad:

Gah, that's annoying. Is anyone else having trouble installing XSI?

We'll find out in a minute.

Now I downloaded the installer a fifth time. To another harddisk because I figured it could be broken. Again a file error. Where did you download you copy from, French Toast? Maybe the one on the XSI site is broken? Would be ridiculous but I'm running out of ideas.

EDIT:

something I found searching the web. Seems like certain anti-virus prorams can cause this "error when you try to open a download they have filtered to protect your PC from unknown, unrecognized, and/or "potentially harmful" file downloads"

hmmmmmm

So are you going to disable your anti-virus and try and install it?

No already did that.

In fact, I think I found my problem. My RAM has some error. I checked it with one of those internet tools and put in my old (error free) 512 MB stick. The files still give me the "The contents of this file cannot be unpacked. The exectuable you are attempting to run has been corrupted. Please obtain another copy of the file, verify it's integrity, and try again" error but the two files that actually load don't give any random file missing errors anymore. It still doesn't work but hopefully I can get a clean download now.

Downloading the same file from different sources with different downloaders on different harddisks and getting the same error all the time brought me to the idea to check my ram. Hopefully the warranty holds.

You really want to model something don't you :smile:

I hope that fixes it.

I was just going to suggest that after reading your first posts.

I had a bad stick of RAM for almost a year, it caused all sorts of trouble.. you should get it replaced ASAP. Files will work erratically (Errors sometimes, or sometimes things just work).. you might get corrupted stuff.. things won't install right sometimes (especially if they're big).. etc. Replace it or at least don't put it back.. :smile:

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-- midkay

Do you have a partitioned hard drive? I do, as well as an unpartitioned one, and XSI wouldn't start. I had to install it on my E drive to get it to work, now it does. Could this be your problem?

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

Stadric, thanks a lot, I will try that. For some reason i still doesn't work but I downloaded an error less installer at least.

I'm glad I have an extra stick of RAM I can use. I bought the new stick about half a year ago because I thought my old one was making troubles. Tourned out to be the other way round ^^. It's a good Kingston 1 GB stick. I thought I'm on the safe side buying a more common brand but my old no-name stick works perfectly while the new one is seriously damaged.

reaper47, any update on this situation? Did you get XSI to work?

I gave up on XSI, learning Blender instead. First model imported already :biggrin:

I hope to be able to join the competition soon.

Too bad about XSI, but I'm glad you found an alternative :smile: