Comments on: RPS Diktat: Death To Install Music

By: Mangumm

Mangumm — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:03:25 +0000

hi all , i read some comments and gettin LMAO ;DD my e-mail is mangummpl@gmail.com , send me pls the name of song in TDU installation , that was “aws“ xD i trying in g00gle but this piece of junk cind find it xD

By: Samuel

Samuel — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:47:00 +0000

I was installing Beyond Good and Evil and i think; what the hell is this music. So i search for Turn of Install music in google. I get this nice article, and the seventh comment explains beyond good and evil. So damn annoying!

Nice article btw!

By: Vagueism

Vagueism — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:17:02 +0000

I recently installed the old adventure game Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars and liked the way they tried to make installation a better experience by letting you play Breakout while the files were copied to the hard drive.

By: THANKYOU SCHAUDENFREUD WHEREVER YOU ARE!!!!

THANKYOU SCHAUDENFREUD WHEREVER YOU ARE!!!! — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:43:45 +0000

Thankyou for the tip about vista volume mixer/I am installing Frontlines,and the game plays the same music over and over,and I want to play a game while it’s installing.Anyways your advice worked.Thankyou.

By: Lachlan

Lachlan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:06:03 +0000

I’ll join the chorus praising the old C&C installers – even though they were often followed by an unskippable intro the first time you played the game, which could get very irritating on a re-install. I remember the first sign that something was wrong with C&C Generals was when the installer popped up a generic progress bar…

Thief 2 put some vaguely helpful tutorial info in its installer. Submarine Titans used the progress bar for a cute little animation of submarines whirring past.

By: ShineDog

ShineDog — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:30:40 +0000

Yeah, I actually want installers that hijack my PC with a song and dance. Just music is lame, I want to get excited about games, and I want the game to do everything it can to get me buzzed. Hence the old CnC installers, those were fantastic.

Also Crimson Skies. because it had a fantastic little prequel radio drama you could listen to.

That always got cut off at the end because the install always beat the audio. stoopid.

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:05:22 +0000

I loved the fact that Red Alert 2 gave you a fake countdown to enter a valid CD Key… I always pondered waiting the 15 minutes to see if the SEAL team really did smash through my window and double-tap me :)

By: Jocho

Jocho — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:55:59 +0000

Yea, Red Alert 2 had a really good installer. Some background story and then these pictures of in-game units with this instructing voice saying “pay attention, commander – you might face some of these units in the field” or something. Really well-done.

But, yea, some way to turn sound/video off or minimize the installer might be a good idea.

And, while we’re at it, I want to mention the multiple disc installers, which in the middle of the process sends this “attention! Switch CD!” with no alert-sound or anything and freezes the whole progress, forcing you to pay attention to the installing the whole time it takes. That annoys me, at least.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:46:57 +0000

Ahh, InvadeALoad! Those were the days.

C&C, Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2′s installers were the best I can think of though.

By: AbyssUK

AbyssUK — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:01:14 +0000

I remember on my old amstrad CPC464 it would have a loading mini game.. now that would be a good idea!
Hows about a mini version of peggle or zuma with the games graphical style for while you wait?

By: inomine

inomine — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:27:46 +0000

@Chemix

Err, no, you’re wrong. Yes MS now requires you not to put uninstall links in the start menu, but you do not have to do anything like use their own installer. Any program can create an entry in the Add/Remove Programs list, regardless of if MS had anything to do with it.

By: Caiman

Caiman — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:56:09 +0000

I tend to like installation music as well, but perhaps I’m playing games with better music than you are! Besides, when I install a game I want to be sure I don’t have a dozen other processes running at the same time to minimise any fragmentation during installation. So no, there’s never any other music playing, and my volume control is right here by my left hand.