Achou pouco provável que seja a leitora porque são três computadores que tinham a versão instalada e após os upgrades do windows os três não puderam instalar mais. Além disso, mesmo passando os arquivos dos CDs pro meu HD pela rede a partir de um computador que o instalou e rodou normal, e executando o setup pelo meu, ele deu o mesmo erro.
O que consegui melhorar foi abrir o arquivo 0x0409.ini do Age of Empires III - War Chiefs (AOEIII-WC) - versão em inglês - e passar esse conteúdo para o arquivo 0x0416.ini do AGEIII, e editando a primeira linha trocando o cabeçalho pra 0x0416. Ele leu e iniciou a instalação, mas parou logo após a mensagem de que estava iniciando o Windows Installer e deu uma mensagem de erro: 1628=Failed to complete installation. Progredi porque ando para um novo erro mas ainda não instala. O AOEIII-WC não da esse erro e vai bem até perceber que o AOEIII não está instalado. Segue código do arquivo 0x0416.ini.
[0x0416]
TITLE=Choose Setup Language
DESCRIPTION=Select the language for this installation from the choices below.
REBOOTMESSAGE=The installer must restart your system to complete configuring the Windows Installer service. Click Yes to restart now or No if you plan to restart later.
ONUPGRADE=This setup will perform an upgrade of '%s'. Do you want to continue?
LATERVERSIONINSTALLED=A later version of '%s' is already installed on the this machine. The setup cannot continue.
OK=OK
Cancel=Cancel
Password=Password:
1100=Setup Initialization Error
1101=%s
1102=%s Setup is preparing the %s, which will guide you through the program setup process. Please wait.
1103=Checking Operating System Version
1104=Checking Windows(R) Installer Version
1105=Configuring Windows Installer
1106=Configuring %s
1107=Setup has completed configuring the Windows Installer on your system. The system needs to be restarted in order to continue with the installation. Please click Restart to reboot the system.
1108=%s
1150=Setup has detected an incompatible version of Windows. Please click OK and verify that the target system is running either Windows 95 (or later version), or Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6 (or later version), before relaunching the installation
1151=Error writing to the temporary location
1152=Error extracting %s to the temporary location
1153=Error reading setup initialization file
1154=Installer not found in %s
1155=File %s not found
1156=Internal error in Windows Installer
1158=Error populating strings. Verify that all strings in Setup.ini are valid.
1200=Restart
1603=Error installing Windows Installer engine. A file which needs to be replaced may be held in use. Close all applications and try again.
1201=Setup needs %lu KB free disk space in %s. Please free up some space and try again
1202=You do not have sufficient privileges to complete this installation for all users of the machine. Log on as administrator and then retry this installation
1203=Command line parameters:
1204=/L language ID
1205=/S Hide intialization dialog. For silent mode use: /S /v/qn.
1206=/V parameters to MsiExec.exe
1207=Windows(R) Installer %s found. This is an older version of the Windows(R) Installer. Click OK to continue.
1208=ANSI code page for %s is not installed on the system and therefore setup cannot run in the selected language. Run the setup and select another language.
1604=This setup does not contain the Windows Installer engine (%s) required to run the installation on this operating system.
1607=Unable to install %s Scripting Runtime.
1608=Unable to create InstallDriver instance, Return code: %d
1609=Please specify a location to save the installation package.
1611=Unable to extract the file %s.
1612=Extracting files.
1613=Downloading file %s.
1614=An error occurred while downloading the file %s. What would you like to do?
1615=hr
1616=min
1617=sec
1618=MB
1619=KB
1620=/sec
1621=Failed to verify signature of file %s.
1622=Estimated time remaining:
1623=%d KB of %d KB downloaded at
1624=Preparing to Install...
1625=Get help for this installation.
1626=Help
1627=Unable to save file: %s
1628=Failed to complete installation.
1629=Invalid command line.
1630=/UA<url to InstMsiA.exe>
1631=/UW<url to InstMsiW.exe>
1632=/UM<url to msi package>
1633=/US<url to IsScript.msi>
1634=Setup Initialization Error, failed to clone the process.
1635=The file %s already exists. Would you like to replace it?
1636=/P password mode
1637=/A administrative installation
1638=/J advertise mode
1639=/X uninstall mode
1640=/F repair mode
1641=/B cache installation locally
1642=Could not verify signature. You need Internet Explorer 3.02 or later with Authenticode update.
1643=Setup requires a newer version of WinInet.dll. You may need to install Internet Explorer 3.02 or later.
1644=You do not have sufficient privileges to complete this installation. Log on as administrator and then retry this installation
1645=Error installing Microsoft(R) .NET Framework, Return Code: %d
1646=%s optionally uses the Microsoft (R) .NET %s Framework. Would you like to install it now?
1648=Setup has detected an incompatible version of Windows. Please click OK and verify that the target system is running either Windows 95 (or later version), or Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 (or later version), before relaunching the installation
1649=%s optionally uses the Visual J# Redistributable Package. Would you like to install it now?
1650= (This will also install the .NET 1.1 Framework.)
1651=Setup has detected an incompatible version of Windows. Please click OK and verify that the target system is running Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (or later version), before relaunching the installation
1652=%s requires that the following requirements be installed on your computer prior to installing this application. Click OK to begin installing these requirements:
1653=Installing %s
1654=Would you like to cancel the setup after %s has finished installing?
1655=The files for installation requirement %s could not be found. The installation will now stop. This is probably due to a failed, or canceled download.
1656=The installation of %s appears to have failed. Do you want to continue the installation?
1657=Succeeded
1658=Installing
1659=Pending
1660=Installed
1661=Status
1662=Requirement
1663=Failed
1664=Extracting
1665=Downloading
[Languages]
0x0404=Chinese (Traditional)
0x0804=Chinese (Simplified)
