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The new installer doesnt seem to do anything, MTA is running in the background, if that makes any difference and is terminated when i close out the single player game. I'm currently using a folder on my secondary drive with full rights access,x:\MTA the SA install is located x:\MTA\GTASA (as far as windows sharing and security tab is concerned) I have also tried installing MTA to program files (x86), as well as the normal steam\steamapps\common\GTASA for the SA install (switched to the aformentioned x:\MTA after some time troubleshooting the issue) I'm running the steam version using the nocd 1.0 exe. I can run either single player location using the cracked exe with or without steam running. Not sure if others that are having the issue are running the steam version or the origional 1.0 .

Here's a bit more info, I've also noticed when the installer is running there are files that get skipped, the dialog is too fast for me to see what they are but it happens twords the end of the install process, during inflation or extraction (not sure what the installer is doing at that point) but jsut before setup is complete would you like to launch yadda yadda. http://pastebin.com/uBT6YFiu

I'm having the same issue, I have tried your recomendations excepting the last one MTA/coreconfig.xml, I do not have this file it doesnt seem to be created when installing or after first run. I'm thinking this is some weird permissions issue? I'm running both MTA and SA as administrator. As far as I can tell my folders have the same files as the ones pictured heres a copy of my logfile [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:12 # CCommands::CCommands [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:12 # CCore::CCore [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:12 # CDirect3DHookManager::CDirect3DHookManager [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:12 # CDirectInputHookManager::CDirectInputHookManager [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:12 # CMessageLoopHook::CMessageLoopHook [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:12 # CSetCursorPosHook::CSetCursorPosHook [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:12 # CDirectInputHook8::CDirectInputHook8 [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:12 # CDirect3DHook9::CDirect3DHook9 [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:12 # Direct3D9 hook applied [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:13 # DirectInput8 ANSI Interface Created. [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:13 # CProxyDirectInput8::CProxyDirectInput8 [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:13 # CProxyDirectInputDevice8::CProxyDirectInputDevice8 [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:13 # CProxyDirectInputDevice8::CProxyDirectInputDevice8 [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:36 # Releasing IDirectInputDevice8 Proxy... [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:36 # CProxyDirectInputDevice8::~CProxyDirectInputDevice8 [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:36 # CProxyDirectInputDevice8::CProxyDirectInputDevice8 [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:38 # Releasing IDirectInput8 Proxy... [DEBUG EVENT] 02-29-2012 @ 20:21:38 # CProxyDirectInput8::~CProxyDirectInput8