Freya Walsh

oof a virtual machine with an older Windows version, or a project like winevdm (otvdm) that runs 16 bit programs on 64 bit Windows, can help with stubborn installers. hope that helps :)

@avaa371 thank u this worked!! cant believe it was that simple lol

Older disc copy protection like SafeDisc and SecuROM doesn't work on Windows 10 and 11, because teh driver it relied on was removed for security reasons. If the game uses it, the original disc won't work even after install.

Does it fail on other profiles too, or only yours??

If the download is an EXE, many installers support extraction, e.g. running it with extractdrivers <folder or a similar switch documented on the support page. Otherwise, 7 Zip can often open it directly. worked for me anyway 🤷