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The Dark Mod Installer (Not Responding... Responding) During Install

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Garrett2014

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Hi, Ive been taffing away for years but have taken a forced hiatus, due to some over zealous hammers, but am now back. Anyway Im having some issues installing The Dark Mod and last night tryied twice but both times failed with missing 'chunks' ? or some error similair. Toaday it seems to be going along ok , 27 mins left but i notice on task manager that it keeps hanging ! Not Responding !!! but a few seconds pass and its flicks to Responding again, but this is occuring every 10 secs or so... 😕 what gives ?

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Your Windows says "tdm_installer is not responding", but it still refreshes itself occasionally --- that's OK.

The reason is that tdm_installer is completely single-threaded, and it can only handle user input when it is not doing something useful. That's rather poor way of writing GUI applications, but I did it in order to avoid any kind of errors that multithreading can easily bring.

 

Regarding errors: I can't say anything without knowing the exact error.

In fact, the best way to diagnose installer errors is to attach tdm_installer_XXXXXXXX.log file. A new such file is created every time you start the installer. If you are not sure which of these files captures the problem, just zip and attach them all.

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