Ok so I bought Icewind Dale 2 and Baldur's Gate 2 this weekend.

I can get neither to download or install.

I either end up with a corrupt download (instantly) or it downloads but will not verify.

I have Win 7 x64, 4 gigs of Ram, 2.3ghz quad core processor, and PLENTY of HD Space (nearly 200gb). I know its those games specifically because I had redownloaded Septerra Core yesterday and IT WORKED FINE. But these 2? Nothing is working.

I have tried both Direct Downloads AND The GoGDownloader, and the results have been the same. Tried IW2 roughly 7 times now, and BG2 2 times.

Someone please help :( I just want to play my games.

Could be a number of things. If you suspect your drive, you might try checking it for errors. If there are some bad sectors on the drive that just happen to be where your downloads are stored, you might end up with corruption. Try this: if you still have your downloaded .EXE file, rename it (don't delete it). Now download it again, this time it will be stored to a different part of your drive. If that is still corrupted, might try it one more time... you're trying to store the file to a different part of your drive.

Or it could be an anti-virus program problem. Try disabling before you download, or disabling before you install, or both.

Just grasping... good luck!

Well I may try downloading the files to a different drive, thats not a bad idea.

I got 2 Harddrives and right now I have been downloading to my primary.
However, I have run a scandisk/error check and found nothing.

Also I have no more Antivirus (but thats another story >.>)

What is "downloads but will not verify"?

And what browser are you using for direct download?

IT downloads the file, but when I run it and it goes through Verification of Integrity it fails.
Or it just fails right after it finishes downloading.

And I am using Firefox.

Like I said though, Septerra Core downloaded and installed fine the day before I tried either Icewind Dale 2 or BG2.

And I just tried having Icewind Dale 2 go to my secondary HD and it still would not install, came up as Corrupted.

This may be a stretch, but try downloading your file as a non .exe file (i.e. save as a DAT file). Sometimes that might fix the problem if your firewall or ISP has some issue with downloading exe files from certain websites.

I need to caveat this post with the note that I have not used this tool, but I have looked at the code, and it seems safe...

There is a tool available that allows you to merge corrupted downloads into a working file. It works on the basis that large files will not be corrupted in the same place several times, so with three downloads then the 2 that agree with the value should be correct. This may work for you if the problem is in transport to your computer. If the problem is with your hard drive then it's likely the output will be corrupted too.

The tool is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccorr/ I assume you need Java installed. It's an old project now that doesn't look like it's supported, but it does the job.

One person reported it worked (if it does then please let me know):
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/psychonauts/corrupt_files_for_windows_7/post6

In theory GOG downloader should be checking integrity at transport time though, so I hold little hope that it's going to work.

Firefox updated itself to 5.0 a day or two ago. So I'm trying to download with gog-downloader and see what happens.
Propably nothing. Well, I mean that propably nothing unusual.

Edit: Usually nothing happens when I push install in that downloader but the setup-files have been working fine in the downloads-folder.

Edit 2: I had no trouble and this time the install-button worked. ^^

Turn UAC off, right click on the setup.exe, click "Run as an administrator" on the resulting dialog. UAC will sometimes cause the verification to fail. Turning it off and running as an admin has eliminated the problem in most cases.

Make sure all the game files are in the same directory and you are running the setup.exe for the game and not a .bin file. If the .bin files are not in the same directory, the verification will also fail.

If it is a corrupted download the above won't help.

Edit: On Vista / Win 7 machines, I suggest installing in a directory outside of Program Files. I use C:\Games as UAC can interfere with disk read / writes causing a partial install. I always disable UAC when installing and turn it back on afterwards. I found that even after the instal, if it's installed in the Program Files directory, it can still interfere with a games ability to read / write to the disk. Putting it out side of Program Files will get around this and let you run UAC as well.

I have had UAC turned off since I got Win 7, but I have not tried running as admin.

However.

I just tried skipping the Integrity check, and the image attached is what appeared.

Also: Trying to do it as a DAT didnt help either.

Contact support so that the staff can make sure the files aren't corrupt at the 'node' you're getting them from.

It looks like you do have a corrupted file. My next step would be to disconnect from the internet and disable my firewall or . . make the ID2 setup.exe a trusted file in the firewall. Firewalls can sometimes interfere with the install the same as UAC.

If still no joy I would open a help ticket with GOG support. There may be a problem with the game file download which they could confirm or eliminate as a problem.

Might be that you got a corrupted download on your first attempt, for some reason, and for subsequent attempts your ISP is fucking it up because it's cached the corrupted data, and just keeps sending you the cached data instead of the real data off of GOGs servers.

Ninj'd me again ol friend . . . =)