Painkiller help please

the_brainaic · 6 Feb 2006 at 17:37

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.

the_brainaic · 6 Feb 2006 at 17:55

I don't have a dual core, and nope I haven't patched it. I was hoping I would be able to play without the 300+ meg download!

the_brainaic · 6 Feb 2006 at 18:06

I've just checked and the samething happens with the PainEditor.exe program - I take it that this is the map editor. I don't really know whats going wrong here...

the_brainaic · 6 Feb 2006 at 18:28

Yes, it's a legit copy - I purchased it off a guy in the members market.

the_brainaic · 6 Feb 2006 at 19:07

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?

the_brainaic · 6 Feb 2006 at 20:10

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.

the_brainaic · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:13

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!

the_brainaic · 9 Feb 2006 at 19:53

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!