It sounds like the quick-and-dirty solution would be to just copy the directory on the CD to your hard drive.

Otherwise, try this wrapper.
Re: InstallShield Wrapper

I tried installing the wrapper, and this time I got an error this time around, which I guess is progress: http://prntscr.com/79dcfc

Did you run it as an administrator?

I did yes, but I got the same result...

To be clear, does the game's CD even have a file named "setup.exe" ? Or is the installer named something else? It's entirely possible the installer is something completely different that is incompatible with the wrapper, of course.

What happens if you run the game's installer without the wrapper in compatibility mode? (You can do that by right-clicking the installer's .exe, selecting Properties, and then clicking the Compatibility tab.)

Jorpho wrote:

To be clear, does the game's CD even have a file named "setup.exe" ?

Yep, although it's in capitals, if that makes a difference... http://prntscr.com/79lv03

Jorpho wrote:

It's entirely possible the installer is something completely different that is incompatible with the wrapper, of course.

What happens if you run the game's installer without the wrapper in compatibility mode?

Nothing happens, except that the task managers shows an instance running, but it isn't doing anything...

Which compatibility modes did you try?

Given how you have file extensions hidden that "SETUP" could be "SETUP.BAT" instead of "SETUP.EXE". Rather a bad idea to have extensions hidden.

collector wrote:

Given how you have file extensions hidden that "SETUP" could be "SETUP.BAT" instead of "SETUP.EXE".

In that case its file type would be "Windows Batch File" and not "Application".

Come to think of it, a more interesting question is, why are there three files with a size of more than 694 MB? That's way over the capacity of a CD. Maybe the disc is bad?

collector wrote:

Given how you have file extensions hidden that "SETUP" could be "SETUP.BAT" instead of "SETUP.EXE".

It's an exe, I just checked.

Jorpho wrote:

Come to think of it, a more interesting question is, why are there three files with a size of more than 694 MB? That's way over the capacity of a CD. Maybe the disc is bad?

Oh yeah, I just noticed that as well, strange...

Well, Good-ish news is that I found that copying the game itself to my HDD and it saves my game. I'd rather have it installed on my PC, though, I don't like having folders just lying around my HDD, I like things to be organised.

I tried the CD on my Linux partition and it installed perfectly! So it works, it just won't on Windows 7 for some reason...

Do you have anything running in the background that could affect access to your CD-ROM drive? Perhaps you installed some CD-ripping tool at one point? (I might suspect a "filter" problem, but I haven't heard of anything like that in Windows 7 in a long time.)

I had Virtual Clone Drive installed, which is a virtual drive, so I tried uninstalling that, but no joy...

To make things worse, now I have 2 other games that are giving me the exact same problem! Daikatana and Colin MaRae Rally (Both "Sold Out" editions), both won't do anything when I try to install them, they simply do nothing... Why isn't my Windows 7 installing any game anymore? I have plenty of space!

Perhaps a virus scanner? Or some kind of exotic backup program?

This is the filter problem fix I was referring to:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/driverssupport/ … sbs.htm#showall

Rather than making edits to the registry directly, it might be best to Google for anything listed in the relevant keys first.

Jorpho wrote:

Perhaps a virus scanner? Or some kind of exotic backup program?

I have Comodo installed, and I tried temporarily disabling that, but I got the same result. Also, I don't have any backup programs other than the windows one built in, unless cloud storage program count?

Jorpho wrote:

This is the filter problem fix I was referring to:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/driverssupport/ … sbs.htm#showall

Rather than making edits to the registry directly, it might be best to Google for anything listed in the relevant keys first.

That looks way too complex for me... 😲
I usually don't like messing around with the registries, for obvious reasons...

Really now, it's no more difficult than browsing to a file in Explorer.

There's an automated "fix-it" available at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/mats/cd_d … _drive_problems that I think accomplishes the same thing, but it would be much more informative to have a look before resorting to that.

Oh right, you're thinking that there may be something wrong with the windows disc driver, right? Well, if it means anything, I tried to install a more modern game: Batman Arkham Asylum (GOTY) and it had no troubles installing... Although that was on a DVD, as opposed to a CD...

Well, I tried the fix it thing, and it detected no problems...