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Installation problem Adobe Air
Dakeru
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When Kano pulled out his crystal ball and predicted ESO to go b2p I bought a copy for cheap.
Now that the transition was made I decided to give it a go while the starter zones are probably all lively again.
The installation isn't working however - it keeps telling me:
C:Adobe AIRVersions1.0Adobe AIR.dll is either not designed to run on windows or it contains an error.
So having no idea what Adobe Air is, I googled it - installed the newest version - didn't help.
So I used Sage Google again and found old threads of someone claiming that version 4.0 would work.
I found some archives for this but the older version doesn't want to install. Either it's broken or too outdated, I'm not sure.
The official statement of Zenimax I found about this problem is: download the game instead.
I want to avoid that option cause I live in the middle of nowhere and this would mean 30 hours of downloading with my complete bandwith being sucked up.
My OS is Win7 64bit - any input that is more helpful than "download it" is welcome.
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Did you read through any of this?
https://helpx.adobe.com/air/kb/troubleshoot-air-installation-windows.html
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
No, just like I guess you didn't read my post either.
"Before you begin troubleshooting your problem, get the latest version of Adobe AIR for your operating system."
The newest version installs without any problems - but ESO doesn't accept the newest version.
Well my bad, there's a lot more there than just that, like links to what problems could be, but hey if you don't want folks to try and help don't ask.
I didn't mean anything negative I just asked if you had looked through it, in case you already had... Last time I start doing google searches for people here, that's for sure.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
why a game needs Adobe Air to run properly is beyond me. The only reason i have that crap on my pc is because when i try to uninstall it it warns me that my Rosetta Stone would not work properly without it.
Sigh.... Adobe, go jump off a dry bridge
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ill uninstall Air and see if Rosetta stone still works, i dont like having Adobe stuff that i dont use on my pc. I only use reader for pdf. As for MS Office, i use LibreOffice so i rather buy games with the cost of a MS Office license
. And photoshop's price gives me headaches so GIMP is my choice too 
im cheap when it comes to software i wont use on a daily basis.
Sorry but you didn't read my post either.
*edit*
My bad didn't see you meant him.
I'm just somewhat grumpy at this point. I expect shit like this from companies like StarVault but not from Zenimax.
I know it's not what you want to hear, but you might as well DL the whole thing since it's barely larger than the patch you have to DL anyway for the 1.6 update. That patch is ~ 25GB and if you have an older disk, it's needed.
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Have you tried rebooting in safe mode and run the installation manually?
Hmm no. Would that potentially make a difference?
Yeah thing is I am one of those strange guys who buy something and expect it to work.
It's a weird concept in times of kickstarter I know but I am old fashioned like that.
I'd have to agree with downloading the entire thing. Sounds like you have an older version of ESO and their have been reports that ESO will just D/L the whole thing again if it detects problems when it does update.
Also check your uninstall directory you may have additional versions of adobe air on your computer. Some updaters don't uninstall older versions.
I have win7 X64 with Adobe Air 3.8 running ESO with no problems. My gaming laptop (Win7 x64) doesn't have Air on it at all and is running ESO.
Here's the link to download the installer:
http://elderscrolls-a.akamaihd.net/products/BNA_Launcher/Install_ESO.exe
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In that case I have no choice but I do feel this is fail on a large scale. I don't understand why the discs require this adobe tool and I understand even less how just a year later the discs aren't compatible with the newest version anymore.
Old fashion? You weren't a gamer in the 80s then. Lots of hand tweaking going on back then.
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My C64 never let me down and the discs are still working. Buying dvds which stop working after a year is a new trend.
Weird
I dont have Adobe Air and installed from the discs a few months ago. Never had any issues.