I just installed Daikatana off the CD in Windows 7 x64 just fine.

I don't know what your SoldOut edition does. There is no 16-bit stub to deal with either.

Windows 7 has a quite rare issue that e.g. older InstallShields just won't appear but are showed in the task manager. This also occurred on my older system. I actually don't know how to solve this, because I eventually upgraded to Windows 8. Afterwards, the issue disappeared.

As far as I remember, killing as many as non-system relevant tasks could solve your problem.

By any chance, are you using any Logitech products? Have installed SetPoint or any other Logitech program? Kill it on the TaskManager and installation should begin.

It is probably related to the problems you are having in your other thread.

If you look at the contents of the CD in Explorer, do the file sizes make sense, or do you have things that couldn't possibly fit simultaneously on a 700 MB CD?

F2bnp wrote:

By any chance, are you using any Logitech products? Have installed SetPoint or any other Logitech program? Kill it on the TaskManager and installation should begin.

Nope, I'm not.

Jorpho wrote:

It is probably related to the problems you are having in your other thread.

If you look at the contents of the CD in Explorer, do the file sizes make sense, or do you have things that couldn't possibly fit simultaneously on a 700 MB CD?

This time, everything seems normal: http://prntscr.com/7qf5mu

Cobra! wrote:

When I click the setup, nothing happens, it shows the process on task manager, but it doesn't actually display anything.

Does the name of the window appear in the taskbar?

Also, are you clicking setup.exe directly? What happens if you use autorun.exe ?

Jorpho wrote:

Does the name of the window appear in the taskbar?

If this is what you mean (The windows are grouped sometimes), then yep: http://prntscr.com/7qfli9

Jorpho wrote:

Also, are you clicking setup.exe directly?

I've tried both that, the autorun, and the menu that usually comes up when the disc is inserted (which, strangely, isn't "Autorun.exe"... 😕 ), but no joy on either.

Jorpho wrote:

What happens if you use autorun.exe ?

This menu pops up: http://prntscr.com/7qfmbw
However, I get the same thing when I click "Install Daikatana" than if I clicked "setup.exe" directly, the process showing on task manager, but nothing actually displaying...

Cobra! wrote:

Jorpho wrote:

Does the name of the window appear in the taskbar?

If this is what you mean (The windows are grouped sometimes), then yep: http://prntscr.com/7qfli9

That's the Explorer window, isn't it? I mean, when setup.exe appears in the task manager, is there any corresponding item in the taskbar at all? I'm thinking the window could conceivably be appearing offscreen (but that's a long shot).

Oh right, sorry about that... Well, the setup itself shows nothing on the taskbar...

Well, when all else fails, Process Monitor can be useful. It's slightly tricky to use, but if you filter out everything but disk accesses (and then exclude disk accesses from any other process that might be running in the background), sometimes you can see what a program might be trying (and failing) to access and make the necessary adjustments.