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Reply to Cannot install game. Initializer threw an exception in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

Ok. This is resolved now after pouring through the forums and wasting so much time. Essentially, the BITS service needs to be running. ( Background Intelligent Transfer Service ) I got to this by searching on hanging download issue in the forums and someone suggested this. So, if you are having the same issue then see if this helps you. I think Stardock Dev team should put this in their readme or somewhere so people don't waste their time. Another issue

Cannot install game. Initializer threw an exception in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

I bought the game. Installed impulse. After launching Impulse, it accepts my registration info and then says - "There was a problem beginning the download. Please try again. They type initializer for 'em' threw an exception". Rebooted ( Win XP SP2 ), reinstalled impulse to no avail. I'm getting nowhere resolving this and its frustrating. Why can't they simply give me the damn game installation files without this download management layer. Do you know what the probl