Installer unable to delete/overwrite EXE files during updates
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Every single update when the game is installing a new update every single EXE file in the game main directory that has to be replaced, blocks the update with an error message (something like "cannot download file xyz.exe").
To progress I have to manually delete the old EXE file involved, and if there is a new file TMP created for it, rename its extension from TMP->EXE. With the update 3.15.2 for example I had: - delete PathOfExile.EXE and rename PathOfExile.TMP->EXE at the first error and restart - delete Client.EXE at the second error and restart - delete PathOfExile_x64.EXE at the third error and restart - delete PackCheck.EXE and restart All those files have been double checked in my Recycle Bin. My os is Windows 7 with the last update available. The game wasn't in execution (anyway you can kill the application automatically and restart as many other installers do) The issues is mostly annoying, but it's peculiar for PoE only, so I think you can find an easy way to solve it (with the solutions other installers use successfully on any Windows version, included 7) Last bumped on Aug 18, 2021, 8:19:30 AM
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" that's normaly either a "security software" problem or a "rights" problem. Did you try to run the installer as "an administrator" ?? |
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You can't run the installer as admin because there is no installer for us to launch. we just launch the game that updates itself on the way. so you are telling me to launch the game as admin every time and that's a bad suggestion in general mate. The only security in place is the antivirus (Avast) and there is no actions in its history log. For what i can deduce is the procedure they use to update the game that differs from all other software that update without any issue (chrome, tor, brave, adobe, ms office, ..). Consider that this is a peculiar problem that hardly happens and i'm not the only one experiencing it with PoE if you check the Support forum for this exact issue, so it's rare but recurrent unluckily for other players like me.
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" I think you misunderstand the Windows'10 "rights control system" and what have been done to it in the reason windows patches. So again, what user right do your windows user have and are they enough to do the needed things in the PoE folder and so on...... I am running PoE on a Windows'10 system with "correct" rights settings for the active user session that runs my programs and I have never ever had problems like these. You are also using 3 party security software and I am not. GL exile. |
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" If only your knowledge of how windows account and/or admin rights worked, were as b4d4$$ as your user name..... 1.You can throw an issue related to a broken stick within the tech forums, and you will find plenty of pinpalls. Take your issue and search for it within any large game's tech section, i guarantee you will find plenty. 2.Depending on who/what has what sort of rights on the account you are using to install PoE, the outcome can change significantly. Just for an example here are 3 major permisions, and either one of them lacking can ruin your day. You can open properties of any file and/or folder and see what you are allowed to actually do with them. Be mindful tho that these permissions can change from folder to folder, file to file and drive to drive, and depending how badly you have messed up your system, or how badly someone else using that system does not want you to do certain things on it, it can also change everything you can do with files within specific locations on your drive. No rest for the wicked.
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