I am trying to install Dracula The Last Sanctuary onto my XP laptop but once it gets to 43%, I then get the following error message:-

"file D:Install\Unwise.ini could not be opened"

Any ideas, anyone? Is my game corrupted??

Hi Rosaboobie,

This is a tech question so I'll move you across to Glitches forum for advice.

Are you using the 2CD release from Dream Catcher Games? Is your CDROM drive D: ?
If the above is true, can you use Windows Explorer to read CD #1 and find D:\Install\Unwise.ini ?

We need to determine if your CD is damaged before guessing if there are other problems.

We've been trying to get the game to install on her new Windows 7 laptop which will involve using Compatibility Mode, but she gets this same message on both her XP and Windows 7 laptops. She does appear to be able to navigate to the file on the optical drives on both computers.

She didn't mention that she was able to get it to install to 43% on her XP laptop at MM, but now that I read that, I wonder if it is when she is supposed to insert Disk 2, but the prompt for disk 2 isn't showing up?????

Simply navigating to the file might not be good enough to prove that it is not corrupt or the disk is not damaged. If it's an ini file, you can probably open it with Notepad, which could verify that the file is actually readable.

The version that I have of this game does not install anything from CD2. The installation is all from CD1 and is so fast that it is almost instantaneous. That is with an old WinXP system and a 1.82 GHz AMD CPU.

Here is the install.log file.
*** Installation Started 07/30/2011 8:21 ***
Title: Dracula - The Last Sanctuary
Source: E:\Install.EXE
Made Dir: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\4xm_sdk.dll
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\BData1.arn
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\BDataHeader.vit
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Compiler.dat
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Cursor1.gif
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\cursor1.pcx
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Cursor2.gif
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\cursor2.pcx
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\dct.dll
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Dracula.htm
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Dracula2.exe
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Dracula2.ico
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Fleche.pcx
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\FNX_VR.DLL
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\fvr_read.dll
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\H2D.DLL
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\InsertCD.pak
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\InsertCD.tst
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\InsertCD.vr
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\MSVCRTD.DLL
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Retour.gif
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\script.pak
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Signal.gif
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Smackw32.dll
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\UnDracula2.ico
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Unwise.exe
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Unwise.ini
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Wait.pcx
File Copy: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Dream.htm
Icon Group: Dracula - The Last Sanctuary
Icon Name: Dracula - The Last Sanctuary
Icon Cmd: C:\GAMES\DRACUL~1\Dracula2.exe
Icon Group: Dracula - The Last Sanctuary
Icon Name: DreamCatcherGames.com
Icon Cmd: C:\GAMES\DRACUL~1\Dream.htm
Icon Group: Dracula - The Last Sanctuary
Icon Name: Uninstall Dracula - The Last Sanctuary
Icon Cmd: C:\GAMES\DRACUL~1\Unwise.exe
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\index
RegDB Val:
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\index\Dracula2GB2
RegDB Val: C:\Games\Dracula - The Last Sanctuary\Dracula2.exe
RegDB Name: program
RegDB Root: 2

Now that you say that, Robert, I do remember it installing almost instantaneously and that disk 2 was just for play.

Or drag it to your desktop and see whether it copies or gives an error.


Yup. It's fast even on an old computer. The game plays mostly off the CD's.

Thanks for all your kind advice, folks, but nothing worked for me.

So I have bought the game again as a download - Fingers crossed this new version works!

Good luck.
To me it sounded like you had a bad CD.