Painkiller help please

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I've just received Painkiller Black edition from a MM member, and I've run into a bit of a difficulty with it.
It installs perfectly, nothing going wrong there. However, when I try to run it I get the arrow+hourglass icon for a few seconds, and then it goes back to normal. The game doesn't open. I tried watching to see what happens in taskmanager, and that shows that painkiller.exe runs for about 2 seconds then stops. When I tried taking the disc out and running the exe, it gave me the 'wrong disk inserted' error.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can make the game work?

Thanks for any help.
 
is it a legit copy? if it's not it may need a crack exe replacing the one installed in the game's directory. If you do patch it remember to get the crack exe to coincide with the patch version.
 
What graphics card are you running ? Are you on the latest drivers ?

It should just run. Does the black version contain the expansion Battle Out of Hell, if it does its already reasonably patched up. I've not really any idea why its not working. Any DVD cloning software etc on the machine. I think Painkiller has some form of copy protection.

*edit*It also appears that some CD drives just do not like the game.
http://www.painkillergame.com/content/en/faqs/tech_faqs2.php#8
 
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Yes, it's got the expansion with it.
I've got Daemon Tools and Anti-Blaxx on this machine... I'll try closing them and seeing what happens.
I've got a NEC cd/dvd drive which isn't listed on that page, so I don't think that the cd drive is a problem.

Edit: I've uninstalled Anti-Blaxx and I've closed Daemon Tools. Still the same. The strange thing is that there is no 'whir-up' from the CD drive, it just stays silent.
Edit2: I forgot to mention I'm running on a modded GTO2, flashed to x850 XT PE pipes/speeds. Drivers are fairly recent, I haven't updated them for a good month or two but that shouldn't be a problem... should it?
 
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sounds like it's just not reading the disc, and i presume youve cleaned disc and / or if possible tried another drive. I know sometimes I get games that say please insert disc when disc is in, and after a few blows on the disc and put the disc in at different positions it finally reads the disc. So in a nutshell sounds like it's a type of disc compatibility with the disc drive.
 
Hmm... When the disc is not in I get a 'please insert disc' type of error, but when the disc IS in then I don't get any errors, nothing happens. I don't have another drive to try which may be a problem. I've tried ripping the DVD onto my hdd and mounting it in daemon tools, and the same problem still happens.
 
Got the latest video drivers installed and DirectX is up-to-date? There is a Dec 2005 maintenance release for DX9 which might help.

Have you installed patches 1.62, 1,63 and 1.64?

I can't recall if the game also uses DivX to play its videos - you might want to check that and install version 6?

How have you ripped the game onto your HDD? I tried it using Alcohol 120% and mounting in DaemonTools 4 and it works perfectly.
 
I ripped it in DVD decrypter and mounted it in DaemonTools 3.47.
I've installed the 1.61 patch, I'll try the later ones.
I've just updated my video drivers, and directx and that didn't work. I'll try divx in a second - thanks for the help, it's really kind!
 
No, no, no. DVD decrypter is for removing the copy protection on DVD film/video discs, not computer games. The only way to get a computer DVD games image on your hard drive is to use something like Alcohol 120%, CloneCD or BlindWrite.

Try the 30-day trial of Alcohol 120% - it will do the job for you.
 
Doesn't matter anymore, I found the source (and solution) to the problem. Ended up hunting for a LONG time on the interweb, and eventually found someone with the same problems with me who fixed it by removing the nVidia Network access manager software. I did the same, and hey presto, it works!
 
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