Wait, what? :)

The files can be ok for almost everybody and corrupt for just a few, since we don't all get the files from the same place in the tubes. It has happened quite a few times already.

If he can download other games without issues it could very well be that the problem is with the files.

I am just replying here.....stop being so assumptive for the sake of being grumpy.

Besides, you are helping them figure it out, while they send a message to Gog to check that vector out. Both points are covered, so there's not much else to do at this point but try and puzzle it out for the rest of us.

By getting the game via torrent, the root cause of the problem is still not fixed, all you've done is delay the potentially lengthy troubleshooting process to another day, nothing more.

Look, we are not helping the guy by going on about this and he has already indicated that he tried that and it was not useful. Time to let this drop.

It doesn't delay anything if you do BOTH at once.....as in this day and age PCs can usually automate tasks and do many at once.

Also I get OP doesn't feel like doing it and it's cool....but you seem awfully angsty about the mention of torrents today for some reason.

Help him out with more suggestions, and hopefully if nothing works Gog will get back to him soon.

In the past that was not traced to GOG's source files, it was traced to the caching of those files on some other machine. That's not to say that it couldn't be caching happening on the GOG distribution server, but even if it is, by now that cache should have cleared and he would be downloading cleanly (at least according to what the GOG guys have said before).

Heh calm down folks :P

Anyway, I tried downloading a game that HAS downloaded in the past, and is a large (1gb) file, Arcanum, and that did not work it came down as Corrupted.

Septerra Core however is only 500mb, and it came down fine on Thursday.

I did read on that thread linked earlier (in regards to that Corruption Correction Software) that if my RAM is faulty it can have issues dealing with large files.

So, to test this theory, I am downloading the games on my wife PC (same net connection). If they come down as corrupt I can assume its either GoG or the ISP. However if they come down as clean and working then I am just gonna have to assume its something specific to my machine, and go from there.

No idea how to fix it or identify it though >.>

Wishing you the best, friend. *crosses fingers, puts on lucky horseshoe amulet, rubs rabbit's foot(fake..;)..), et al*

Hehe, sounds like a plan. I would make sure to run the file as an admin since Win 7 can do some unexpected denials if you don't . . . =)

I think Firek mentioned ISP's caching as an issue specifically in regards to satellite connections but imay have misunderstood him.

In any case, be it ISP caching or file gone bad on some node when gog is warned about the issue they usually solve the matter relatively quickly. But it seems the op is having problems with 3 or 4 files now, so yes, it's starting to look like it could be something at his end.

How is this for interesting?

Downloaded the file on my wifes PC and it worked, not corrupted.

Transferred the file to my PC from the wifes via our network, and it gets CORRUPTED.

Network card maybe?

If it's the network card, then it's transport, which means that ccor would have fixed it (unless it's really screwed such that 2 files got corrupted in the same place). So more likely there's a problem with your disk or ram.

I ran CHKDSK yesterday when this all was originally happening and it found nothing, so all thats left is the RAM I guess.

How can I test that easily?

Just for kicks, try moving the setup.exe to a different directory or drive or both, make sure you right click it and run as an admin. I'm still thinking it's a permissions thing . . . =)

You know the file is good so it seems to fail on a file copy (looking at the image) so . . . if you have UAC off and your firewall is not interfering I would move the setup.exe to be sure there is not restrictions on it's current location which disallow copying.

Are you sure you don't have an AV installed ? Maybe one that expired but it's still installed and ticking and messing up your files ?

To test your RAM look into memtest86 or something similar.