Hi
If I understand you right the gen installer stops responding while installing the mod?

Btw also there is an other way of installing gen by downloading the .zip files. just extract them a "generations" map in your quake 3 folder.
The .zip files are avail further down on the generations download page. http://www.wireheadstudios.org/generations/downloads.php

The install order is .99e, then the .99f patch.  If you're stuck, do the following.

1)  Delete the "generations" folder that's in your Quake III Arena directory.  The path could be c:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\generations or something like that.

2)  Download genv99e.zip.  Unzip it to your Quake III Arena directory.  It will automatically create the generations directory.

3)  Download the FFA Mappack.  Again, unzip it to your Quake III Arena directory.  It will automatically place the map files in the generations folder.

4)  Download the CTF Mappack.  Again, unzip it to your Quake III Arena directory.  It will automatically place the map files in the generations folder.

5)  Download the .99f Update.  Again, unzip it to your Quake III Arena directory.  It will automatically place the update files in your generations directory.

6)  You can also download the optional Wirehead Model Pack.  This includes the new QForcer and Strogg Guard models, and some new bots.  This one you'll have to decide where you want it.  You can unzip it to Quake III Arena\baseq3, or Quake III Arena\generations.  I recommend the second option.

7)  Finally, You will need to create a shortcut with the following arguments to play:

"C:\Quake III Arena\quake3.exe" +set fs_game generations

Substitute the proper location for your Quake 3 executable.

If prompted to overwrite files when installing the patch or map packs, do so.  Once installed and the shortcut created, double-click the shortcut to run Generations.  It should a short video with the Wirehead Studios logo and a railgun effect.  Afterwards, you should see a blue user interface that has the Generations Arena logo.  If so, you're up and running.

This SHOULD fix your problems.  If you get stuck, let us know what's happening and we'll do our best to help.   

uhm seems to me that you lack certain graphical elements there, so it seems to me that you havent gotten gen installed properly, you sure you followed phoenix advice? cuz you pretty much can't fail then

also i know it might sound stupid but..you did extract the files within the zip?

does the problem occur in normal quake 3 aswell?

hmm sounds to me that for some reason your files get corrupted sort of, if so that could indicate that your RAM is broken since you also had problems with the installer it's quite possible.

Thought im sure if anyone knows more about why you get missing textures in the gen menu's it's Phoenix.

That's not a memory issue, that's caused by missing graphics, which means a .pk3 file is corrupt or missing or a shader is broken somewhere.  It's loading the user interface so I think we at least are working out of the right folder.

I need to know a few things.

First, what is the exact path to your "generations" folder?
Second, what is the exact path to your "Quake III Arena" folder?
Third, I need a list of all the files in your "generations" folder that end in .pk3.
Fourth, when you get that screen, I need you to do the following.  Hit the ~ key to lower the console.  Type /condump errorlog.txt and press the ENTER key.  Locate the errorlog.txt file in your generations folder.  Open the file, copy the text, and send it to me in a private message.
Last, with the console down, in the lower right corner, it should report what version of Quake III Arena is running.  Let me know what that says.

We'll go from there. 

well i didnt mean the glitch he has in gen is a bad ram memory issue but his installer not beeing able to install it correctly and since he's missing graphics i meant by his .pk3 getting corrupted due to bad ram ^^

i've seen it numerous times when files get corrupted, some programs doesnt work and it's all related to the RAM beeing broken. thought then stuff should happen outside gen aswell so that doesnt make much sense, oh well

Vista is always a pain in my book. I love XP. My parents should of gave me the back compatible to XP instead of Vista Home Premium. I love XP more then buggy Vista.

I got all the Zip files and selected them all and select "extract to ...\" from my WinRAR and it done the trick for me. I open the folder and saw all files on the outside of gens folder that belongs to basq3 folder and the gens foldr to the Root folder of Quake 3 Arena.

I may have to use 3D Analyser to do this, if my graphics r that bad for Generation Arena.

I tested out al 3 kinds of maps on Generation by using the Console to get there.

q3dm12 - Quake 3 Arena map

q3q2dm8 - Quake 3 Arena Custom map (Quake 2 Deathmatch 8.)

doom2 - Generation Arena Map

The maps r ok. But some of the new objects from the map or weapons r bad and can't be seen. It's messing the Polly structor, or whatever it said, repeatly when I was typing a Quake 3 Arena cheat for the game.

cg_thirdperson (0 or 1) Third person activator.

It kept saying the polly problem when I'm on there. Even if someone did come and said something, I won't see it quickly enough to read it, because of the polly problem.

I also send the errorlog.txt to Phoenix so he can find whati the problem and how to fix it for my Vista.

If it is the Graphics card, I have to use 3D Analyzer to fix the graphics problem.

To be safe so that I won't get stuck from Generation Arean every single time I load Quake 3 itself. I'll copy all the stuff from Q3A at the Program Files and put it on my desktop. and place all the Generation stuff in there. Then rename the Q3A folder to Generation Arena and put that into Program Files. Now that I got 2 different Q3A, I should have no probelms going on Gens with the 3D Analyzer and Q3A without it.

This is a backup idea. If it is indeed the graphics card. I don't think it should be.

Ok. I'll look when I get back to my Apartment.

I'll be there at around 5:30 - 5:45 (depends on traffic.)

Then I'll get on and see what r the files that r outside the folder that I created and what is inside the gens folder at the same folder I created. If any of them r missing because of WinRAR or whatever, then I get a copy of what's missing from u guys. Or try to get out of the zip files.

I didn't get an error from WinRAR when I was extracting them. I don't know why I'm getting this sort of problem.

I'll also get on ustream when I get back at the apartment as well so that anyone can help. If it does continue, then I have no choice to copy the Q3A folder from Program Files and call it Generation Arena and use 3D Analyzer to test it out that way.

If that also fails, then I either have to suffer what I got or delete the mod.

I hope it ain't the second one. I really like the video and looks of it, I like the maps as well.
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Well, I could also try to go in one of ur guy' room as well, but I don't know if the downloading program for it will work as fully as it suppose to be. I try the download program and it took so long, I quit right at PAK0.pk3

Here's how it goes.

All PAK files have 2 kb/sec

PAK3.pk3 - 1 min 30 sec
PAK2.pk3 - 1 min 30 sec
PAK1.pk3 - 1 hr 30 min
PAK0.pk3 - 4 hrs 30 min

I hope it doesn't do the same thing on Generation Arena, if I have to do it that way.

I know I have to turn on both Automatic downloading (from settings) and PunkBuster (from multiplayer) to get this to work.