Beer Good

Hi guys,

Downloaded various driver and game .exe files in the last few days, always get the message 'corrupt download' or similar and told to try again. These files are from trusted sites e.g. ATI home page for Radeon 9800 driver update, e.g. Far Cry demo from various sites (496Mb demo downloaded 4 times, patience wearing VERY thin!).

Concluded my system is at fault, anyone similar experience?

Win XP home, P4 2800 HT.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Also, my video files are playing upside-down! Any ideas? Bad back precludes the obvious answer!

Cheers
Steve

zhastaph

Try increasing the size of your internet cache, it's only 500mb as standard

Tools | Internet Options | General | Temporary Internet Files | Settings

molko

If you are dowloading large files, i would recommend using a download manager, i always use 'FlashGet'......no more corrupt downloads now

what would scooby do

If you are using IE6 I have seen problems with corrupt/full/whatever cache - so I suggest you delete all internet cache files and try again

darlodge

Are you using the built in file extracter in Windows XP or another program (winRAR, WinZip) to extract the file?

Darren

Beer Good

Last file I downloaded I tried as just a 'save as', it was an .exe file, 496Mb, bit of a gamble, but I have a fast connection so it was an hour & a half wait. I ran the .exe file but when it tried to extract the main .cab file I got the same error message.

Very frustrating!

Anyone else had the same problems? Gotta solution?

Cheers
Steve

darlodge

Are you using the built in file extracter in Windows XP or another program (winRAR, WinZip) to extract the file?

I know the last file was an exe (self extracting etc.) but what programs are you using?

Darren

Beer Good

Darren,

I'm using the standard XP extractor, but downloaded trial WinZip & tried on the same file with the same results.

What effect would either have when running an .exe file? Default would always we XP extractor if that helps.

Regards
Steve

darlodge

Try this

Worth a bash, I'm still looking for another solution

Best of luck

Darren

Beer Good

Thanks Darren, tried but to no avail. Let me know if you find another solution?

Cheers
Steve.

Beer Good

The solution to this problem (took a long time to work out) in XP is to go Start>Run , type msconfig, click OK, select BOOT.ini tab, click advanced options, tick the MAXMEM box, and input your memory size (in my case 512), then reboot. In each instance where the problem has occurred - including inability to install a legitimate copy of Far Cry - this has solved the problem.

Hope this helps someone.

If anyone can explain WHY this works, I would be glad to hear it!!

Cheers
Steve.

darlodge

Steve,

Its good to know you got it sorted

Darren