Software Deployment

I suggest you remove the game from your computer then reinstall the game fresh and apply the patches.

I already tried that. I did a repair to windows to see if it would help, but it didnt. I also checked in the registry and erased a bunch of stuff related to farcry, but when I installed the game I could still install the v1.1 but not the v1.3 patch. It gives me the same error. "Transform paths not valid." It seems to create a .msi or .mst file (not sure which one) and its like it doesnt reckognize its there.

Do you have the required patches installed to accomodate this patch...some games require you to install all patches and do not allow the skipping of patches...

For patches the effects of the Version Relationship setting have changed - actually it now works as intended. If you have created a patch that targets multiple older versions, and have accepted InstallShield's default of "New version >= previous version" it is likely to fail! Users have reported error 2768: "Transform in patch package is invalid" when they tried to apply such a patch. It is highly recommended to use "New version = previous version" instead. The wording in the patch wizard is misleading, actually the meaning is "Existing version = base version", where base version is the version that the patch targets. Suppose you have a patch that should update version 1.0.1 of your product to version 1.0.2, then the base version would be 1.0.1. This patch should only be applied to a system where version 1.0.1 is currently installed, not on higher versions. This is all very confusing, as it had been documented incorrectly in earlier versions of the Windows Installer SDK, and also never worked as documented until MSI 2.0.

I know this above excerpt is confusing, but I gather it says what I said. You could also try installed MSI version 3.0

I understand what your saying but my friends installed from 1.0 to 1.3 without any problem. There is a new patch out, 1.31. But in that case you do need the 1.3 patch. Patch 1.2 was recalled so I dont have many more options. I have tried loading the patch from safe mode, and from the command prompt but I have had no success. I am currently trying to create the transforms paths from the command prompt but I am not too familiar with this so I am trying.

I solved the problem using a program called windows installer clean up. Apparently there was an error in the registry. You can get the programs from Microsoft's page, this is where I got it from: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301