I was attempting to install a copy of Terraria that I had downloaded on the offline installers, as it was installing it had passed just over half way and then it would stop, i have been waiting about 2 hours and it doesn't work. I can download and install other games fine just not this one.

P.S. I have tried reinstalling the installers and starting again and restarting my system before i start an install, it doesn't work

Maybe it's corrupted. Did you downloaded the installer again?

Have you, and this sounds like a shot in the dark, tried another directory?

Or to a further point; see if you can't get a console open while the installer is running to see what problem it reports?

yes, plenty of times

Is it one file, or several files?

If it's several files, then one of the other files (not the exe itself) can be missing or corrupted.


If that's not the problem, check free space on your computer. It could be a problem of the computer running out of disk space, especially if you are trying to install on C drive.

Temporary installation files (which go through C:\) sometimes can be the culprit too.
Don't remember what game it was, but I once had the offline installers unpack one of said temporary installation files which was around 15 or so GB.

I don't own the game, I can't DL it and check.
Do you overwrite the files?

+1. GOG offline installers use C drive even if the game is being installed to another drive. If C is close to being full, the installer will fail. Also, do check the verify installation files during setup when retrying to eliminate bad files.

Since you've been downloading and installing other games besides that one without issues, it would seem (but double check anyway) this is not a lack of space problem.

Downloading and installing other games would indicate there are no visible problems with download servers (I had to re-download yesterday a game that was corrupted due to constant closing of connections on Gog's end and which badly affecting downloading speed as well that lasted almost 2 days a few days ago. I stress that yes that's what corrupted the game as I had absolutely no issues with anything else).

Unless you've sorted it out since, if no download/space issues, there is a possibility of file corruption on Gog's end and you could either contact Support (but which could be slow responding due to heavy workload) or PM directly a Blue and ask them to pass on a request for the games' files to be checked/tested.

To all:

The Terraria offline installer is one file and only 417MB, so I would be surprised if it was a problem with too little space in either C: or elsewhere. Anyway, anything is possible I guess...

I'll try the installer in a minute to just check there is no generic problem with it.

That's always possible. Some installers will check file integrity and some won't, might be the size of the game (often games in multiple parts get checked while single-installers aren't)

Beyond space, could also be a drive issue, if you haven't done it in over a year, i'd do a sector check, maybe scan for bad sectors. Long delays could be when the drive's internal CRC checks and the sectors don't match for one reason or another. Or maybe the drive itself is having issues. Who knows, maybe rebooting the computer could clear something that removes the issue.

I'll download the game and do an integrity check and give my 2 cents from my end.

Though if this file was downloaded a while ago and not the current version, verifying it's a gog courrupt file is less likely...

edit: MD5 sum
9461944dc47338e614b9961abeb313a4 *setup_terraria_v1.4.1.1_(41973).exe

Didn't see an option to do an integreity check. Nor asking the executable options gave me anything for integrity checks.

Installing, halfway through it's seemingly paused... but then it probably is trying to install DirectX and other runtimes as no doubt half the package is dependencies. Given another 2 minutes and it finished.

That's my gut feeling too, and without extracting the installer to see what the dependencies are. Since dependencies are their own exe files it can only update when the files are finished working.

edit:
So i extracted the installer, found DotNet 4, XNA 4.0 and ISI script interpreter as the dependencies. DotNet 4 probably takes a while.

When the installer stalls, pull up Task Manager and take a look at the Performance tab. If you see some amount of CPU, memory and/or disk activity then that's a good indication that the program is still doing SOMETHING. You may want to let it run overnight, just to see if it finally works its way through. But if you go for 10+ minutes with virtually no CPU, memory or disk activity at all then that's a good indication that the program either stalled out or is stuck on something.

Always have more than 200GiB of free space on C.