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[Frolick]

I installed Hawken a few mins ago on Win 7 x64 and at then end of the install, the installer says that my computer will restart in less than one min. That is not acceptable. EVER. I don't care if you need to install something the requires a restart but you need to give users the final decision on when they want to restart, not do it automatically.

[Elix]

That sounds like something from DirectX or one of the other redistributables, because those mess with the OS. Hawken just installs itself and lets Windows know it's there.

[SmileyBarry]

I doubt it's one of them. Steam has installed countless DirectX & .NET Framework Redistributables without restarts. Plus, after the restart, an installer containing the licence agreements for these redistributeables pops up and stops Windows from logging in until I dismiss it.

This was done with "shutdown -r -t 30" or some other time period under 60 seconds.

[Vaalerian]

I don't know either what caused the restart, but fact is that Hawken was installing in the background while i was doing other things, and suddenly my computer restarted.
Hopefuly i didnt have any unsaved work or stuff, because it seemed like a forced reboot (no "do you want to save" prompts, no waiting for processes to exit properly, etc ...).