Impluse - 'verifying download' and nothing else while patching

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Getting bored of this - 3rd attempt to patch from 1.05 to current. 1.05 patch was manually downloaded and installed from here.

Impulse is sitting there verify download and doing nothing else.

Any top tips outside of uninstalling impulse and throwing my Sins disk out of the window?

I'm XP patched current, all drivers up to date.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Disable your anti virus, and restart Impulse with admin rights. One of those two fixes it. ;)

You won't need to re-download the patch.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Also windows firewall and your router firewall can block updates, while letting you d/l stuff.  When I turned them off, np.  Turn them back on afterwards.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Not the firewall.  Windows one is disabled, other one I just opened up completely.

I'm sitting there with wireshark and no packets are being transmitted.  Do I need to kick it to make it do sommat again?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Well, the verifying step is done after it already downloads, so it's usually either AV scan of the files that freaks Impulse out, or it doesn't have permission from Windows to touch 'em (hence the admin).

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

touché Annatar, was a homebrew thing I have running on my system that stops the execution of scripts and a few other hribbly things that could happen like registry changes.

Gal Civ 1 and II updates weren't bothered by it thou. /shrug

Thanks for your help/

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

No problem, glad it's working :)

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

I had this same problem too. For anyone else with it, I ended up needing to completely unistall AVG (because it is a prissy little program that won't let you temporarily shut it down) in order to successfully verify the download

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

I just had this problem.  In my case, I fixed it by stopping the DL and then starting it again.  The whole DL restarted and it worked fine.  Go figure.