Can't Install Sins or Entrenchment!

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I finally finished my Go Big or Go Home game as TEC and then I finally got the chance to download the full version of Entrenchment.

I heard that it is vital to uninstall sins before installing this update due to the fact that entrenchment is now compatible with sins.

I uninstalled Entrenchment first. When I did that, Sins also uninstalled. When I re-downloaded Sins, it went to 100% but it didn't install. It just stayed like that. I also tried to download Entrenchment, but the same thing happened.:(

 

When I went into control panel (I have Windows XP) I found Sins but not Entrenchment. It said that Sins was installed but I couldn't uninstall it. I clicked on 'remove' but nothing happened.

I can't install using the disk either, it causes an unspecified error for both easy and advanced installs.>:(

 

Also, the impulse icon is missing from the impulse dock. :'(  

I unistalled Impulse. This had no effect. I did a Sytem Restore. Now even Impulse won't work. Now this message comes up: 

"Impulse encoutered an error and must shut down."X(

 

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Anyone?

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Oh and now there is another problem !!!!XO X(

 

"Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

If I click on this box, then a giant white square comes up with a big red cross.

WHAT DO I DO?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Someone, anyone please answer me!

 

Oh wait and there is still more!

there is now a "details box" which has a very very long list called "Exception text" with something about "just-in-time (JIT) debugging. There also seems to be something wrong with my "CodeBase" files for Windows and StardockCentral but I don't have Stardock central!

 

Any help or comments would be highly appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Search your registry and clear it of all entries for Sins, Entrenchment, and Impulse (after uninstalling) and try again. If It doesn't work, try using ccleaner.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

thanks!

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Just make sure to do this AFTER uninstalling, or you will be left with one heckuva clean-up.

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Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Thankyou for the info!

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

You may need to manually remove the game folder, and delete 2 Registry Keys before you'll be able to re-install.

Go to C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire (or where ever you installed the game) and delete the main folder.

Then launch the System Registry (Start-> run, and type regedit)
Look for and delete the following Keys;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\sins
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\sinsentrench

For Vista 64 bit;
HKLM>SOFTWARE>Wow6432Node>Stardock>Drengin.net>sins
HKLM>SOFTWARE>Wow6432Node>Stardock>Drengin.net>sinsentrench

Then, reboot your PC and go back to Impulse and try installing the base game. Make sure it installs to 1.13 version, test it out before then installing entrenchment.