Posted June 05, 2018
Well... this is super weird.
This is my second post in less than 3 days regarding an identical problem on two different games I recently purchased.
PROBLEM
The game installer successfully installs the game, but then the game does not appear where it was installed.
GAME CULPRITS
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and FAR: Lone Sails.
There is already an entry about this on the FAR forums (but at the moment of writing there were no answers to it).
DESCRIPTION
1. Download game.
2. Double-click installer and follow instructions.
3. Installer prompts for a place to install the game.
4. A folder is selected.
5. Installer finishes and declares the installation a success.
6. The game is not in the selected location or nowhere in the whole computer.
7. Space from the hardrive has been used up matching the size of the game.
ATTEMPTED SOLUTIONS
None.
All I've tried are a couple of tests to verify that something had been installed in my computer and that it was not hidden.
I re-installed the game and checked the before and after capacity of my hard drive, and it shows that something of the size of the game in question has been used up.
I revealed hidden files in my computer and there is nothing present in any of the folders I used while installing the games, be that the default Application folder or another one.
I re-installed the game in a specially created folder on my desktop to see if that would change anything. The result was exactly the same: An empty folder.
I installed an older game (Oxenfree) that also has an installer and that I had successfully installed and played in the past, to test if it was maybe some new problem in my computer. The result in this case was different. The game installed successfully AND was also present in the selected folder.
QUESTIONS
I think these are pretty obvious:
Any guesses as to what happened?
Can it be that those two installers are faulty somehow?
Anyone else having this problem with either of these two games (or others)?
Any guesses as to how "uninstall" or "delete" an existent but immaterial game? Because they ARE taking space on my computer.
MY SYSTEM SPECS
iMac 21.5 inch (late 2012)
Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 512 MB
OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
Thanks for any light shed on these stranger things.
:)
This is my second post in less than 3 days regarding an identical problem on two different games I recently purchased.
PROBLEM
The game installer successfully installs the game, but then the game does not appear where it was installed.
GAME CULPRITS
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and FAR: Lone Sails.
There is already an entry about this on the FAR forums (but at the moment of writing there were no answers to it).
DESCRIPTION
1. Download game.
2. Double-click installer and follow instructions.
3. Installer prompts for a place to install the game.
4. A folder is selected.
5. Installer finishes and declares the installation a success.
6. The game is not in the selected location or nowhere in the whole computer.
7. Space from the hardrive has been used up matching the size of the game.
ATTEMPTED SOLUTIONS
None.
All I've tried are a couple of tests to verify that something had been installed in my computer and that it was not hidden.
I re-installed the game and checked the before and after capacity of my hard drive, and it shows that something of the size of the game in question has been used up.
I revealed hidden files in my computer and there is nothing present in any of the folders I used while installing the games, be that the default Application folder or another one.
I re-installed the game in a specially created folder on my desktop to see if that would change anything. The result was exactly the same: An empty folder.
I installed an older game (Oxenfree) that also has an installer and that I had successfully installed and played in the past, to test if it was maybe some new problem in my computer. The result in this case was different. The game installed successfully AND was also present in the selected folder.
QUESTIONS
I think these are pretty obvious:
Any guesses as to what happened?
Can it be that those two installers are faulty somehow?
Anyone else having this problem with either of these two games (or others)?
Any guesses as to how "uninstall" or "delete" an existent but immaterial game? Because they ARE taking space on my computer.
MY SYSTEM SPECS
iMac 21.5 inch (late 2012)
Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 512 MB
OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
Thanks for any light shed on these stranger things.
:)
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This question / problem has been solved by Gydion
