I'm having a similar problem, where I've downloaded and archived Company of Heroes, and when I go to Restore Archive nothing happens. I'm on Windows 7 RC.

Thanks Kendo - from a brief Google search it would appear this problem is really vexing some people at Impulse . . . . . . . for some time now -

My suggestion is that maybe you should just disable it to save people the bandwidth, wasted time and frustration - send everyone straight to the link you gave me. 

My 2 cents worth

Thanks again

I'm having this problem as well, after upgrading to Windows 7 and restoring a bunch of games.  I've been using the "Download and Archive" option for games that I didn't already have an archive for, and it was working fine until just after I downloaded Elven Legacy.  Now I get the same thing where selecting the "Restore Archive" option doesn't actually do anything (i.e., the file selection dialog doesn't even come up).

The 7-zip file manager's test says the .impulse archive is fine, and it still happens if I move the archives out so that the backup directory is entry.  Restarting the client or rebooting doesn't help either.  I haven't tried redownloading it or using Impulse Anywhere yet since I'm trying not to make my bandwidth quota cry too much... 

Edit: I was able to successfully install another small game afterwards, with the regular "Install" option, but "Restore Archive" remains broken.

Edit edit: I seem to have fixed it, by rerunning the Impulse installer without uninstalling it first and choosing the "Repair application" option.

But now it wont update the game . Says it wont work with the currently installed version.

edit: FIXED.

The archive I used to install was the latest version but it still thought it needed to update. So I made an archive of it and then restored the archive and now its working all up to date

I think it was because the first archive wasnt under my username and I noticed elsewhere online some guy couldnt update because he had changed his username.

So it was the exact same files just under a different username. Man this program is really borked

Currently only Stardock titles are available via Impulse Anywhere. Everything else must be downloaded via Impulse.

BattleFella: What you can do is right click on either of those titles and choose the "Download and Archive" option. When you want to restore those archives, you can do that through the Impulse menu accessed from the blue menu button at the top left of Impulse. You can adjust the directory that keeps the archives from the Preferences->Folders section within Impulse.

Mike

No response to the above question?

It seems I'm going to have to make this a weekly routine to pop in here...

FWIW I had the same problem with Storm over the Pacific. Tried to download and archive on 2 different PCs and got the same error when trying to restore. The only solution was to delete the useless archive and just install the game via download.

I am having the same problem. Impulse, instead of spending all your time making stupid movies on impulse tv FIX the bugs in the application. I only bought your games because of the features of the impulse client...I am very disillousioned, would rather give my money to steam or some other competitor.

I have also the issue ... i download Sins of a Solar Empire + 2 Addons, archived it with impulse

and as i want to restore it, the application says: Sins restored, but does nothing and when

i want to start the game impulse start to download the complete package.

So what's going on here?

This thread exist for nearly a year and the only answer is: Download Stardock Titles elsewhere and with another

titles you're fu*** and have to download it everytime?

So, Impulse is a complete waste of time?

I have the same problem. I have just tried to restore an archive on Galactic Civilizations 2 and Space Force : Rogue Universe. The files are create along with registry keys. In addition a sig.bin file is made. However, there are no game files or executables.

My internet connection is not the fastest which is why I archive the files. Is there a solution to this problem?

Here was the response I received from Stardock:

"It sounds like the archive is corrupt. There is a way to trick Impulse into to getting everything installed, though you will need to download some, though not the entire game. Navigate to the install directory for the game. Create a blank text file, and rename it to 'GalCivII.exe'. You'll need to have file extensions showing in order to do this. Then go into Impulse, and click the menu button (blue, upper left), then select 'Detect Application'. Point to the install directory, and Impulse should then recognize that it is installed. Then hold down the 'shift' key, and right click on the entry in Impulse, and select 'Verify Installation'. After a bit, it should prompt you for an update. Once the update is complete, you should be able to run the game."

At the time I sent this I thought I was only missing the game executable, however, I am also missing all the game files. The above will download the ENTIRE game again. I sent an email back pointing to this thread. The problem is that now, I can't even unarchive the games anymore because I am receiving a different error from trying to uninstall the empty directories created by the first time I tried. However, I can still download the games if I want.

I have uninstalled impulse and moved on to other things. I am glad I only bought a couple of games from Impulse. Crap like this is why I don't use Steam, Direct2Drive, and now Impulse. I thought I would leave this message since the above poster wanted the response.