Games For Windows Live Update Problem (Error: 80070643)

Anonymous
2012-03-13T18:12:31+00:00

Hi,

Just installing this month's updates, and I'm having a problem installing one of them. Games For Windows Software 3.5 doesn't seem to want to update and is giving the error code 80070643. Had a quick search round and can't seem to find anything useful. Not sure what's causing this. Anybody else having this issue?

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T22:11:48+00:00

    This "update" consists of an outdated version (v6.5) of Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant and Games for Windows Live 3.5 which was released ages ago (nearly a year).

    If you have the current release of Live Essentials installed you will have the latest version (v7) of the Sign-in Assistant and this update will fail, because it tries to replace it with an older version.

    MSFT needs to seriously improve the QA for Games for Windows Live. The application itself is complete **** and this update clearly received no testing at all. The best bet is to hide the update in Windows Update until MSFT bothers to fix this.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T22:10:26+00:00

    Yeh doesn't work for me either after it seeming to install correctly when I reinstall windows live im prompted to download the update 3.5 again which then fails when I try to install it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T22:09:14+00:00

    Hi Kim

    Uninstalled WL, update installed fine, reinstalled WL, checked 4 windows update, update is now back waiting to install - again - tried installing, failed, back to square one... might be helpful if these updates were tested on real-world PCs b 4 being unleashed on us.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T22:06:48+00:00

    Error status is the same here :)

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T22:02:24+00:00

    Same thing as several other responses, error 1603 ("Fatal error during installation") Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant.

    The tail end of my log:

    MSI (s) (7C:54) [14:49:18:867]: Note: 1: 1708

    MSI (s) (7C:54) [14:49:18:867]: Product: Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant -- Installation failed.

    MSI (s) (7C:54) [14:49:18:867]: Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant. Product Version: 6.500.3165.0. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Installation success or error status: 1603.

    MSI (s) (7C:54) [14:49:18:867]: Deferring clean up of packages/files, if any exist

    MSI (s) (7C:54) [14:49:18:867]: MainEngineThread is returning 1603

    MSI (s) (7C:04) [14:49:18:867]: No System Restore sequence number for this installation.

    === Logging stopped: 3/13/2012  14:49:18 ===

    MSI (c) (E0:90) [14:49:18:877]: Creating MSIHANDLE (100) of type 790531 for thread 3728

    MSI (c) (E0:90) [14:49:18:877]: Closing MSIHANDLE (100) of type 790531 for thread 3728

    MSI (s) (7C:04) [14:49:18:877]: User policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0

    MSI (s) (7C:04) [14:49:18:877]: Machine policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0

    MSI (s) (7C:04) [14:49:18:877]: Incrementing counter to disable shutdown. Counter after increment: 0

    MSI (s) (7C:04) [14:49:18:877]: Note: 1: 1402 2: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Rollback\Scripts 3: 2

    MSI (s) (7C:04) [14:49:18:877]: Note: 1: 1402 2: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Rollback\Scripts 3: 2

    MSI (s) (7C:04) [14:49:18:877]: Decrementing counter to disable shutdown. If counter >= 0, shutdown will be denied.  Counter after decrement: -1

    MSI (s) (7C:04) [14:49:18:877]: Restoring environment variables

    MSI (c) (E0:90) [14:49:18:877]: Creating MSIHANDLE (101) of type 790531 for thread 3728

    MSI (c) (E0:90) [14:49:18:877]: Closing MSIHANDLE (101) of type 790531 for thread 3728

    MSI (c) (E0:1C) [14:49:18:877]: Decrementing counter to disable shutdown. If counter >= 0, shutdown will be denied.  Counter after decrement: -1

    MSI (c) (E0:1C) [14:49:18:877]: MainEngineThread is returning 1603

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