I can't run Painkiller Demo 1

[wmiller421]

All I get when I try to run
Painkiller Demo 1 is
"Error: Can't Initialize VideoDevice: P-O"
What's wrong??

[mffishdog]

i'm getting the same issue... with demos 2 and 3 it tells me it cant start the DirectX renderer.

HELP!

[PeTjA]

What graphiccards do U guys have?

[Peppins]

you cannot play to us why your card video does not support the DX9...:p

[Varus77]

...and PK don't support onBoard-GPU's...

[Peppins]

Yes, ........... :D

[catphone]

no,maybe nVIDIA C51G chipset can run fine

[funkydudes]

Hi, I've tried to run Painkiller but everytime I run the game it shuts my pc down for some reason.

My Setup is

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 2000MHz
ASUS A8V DELUXE MOTHERBOARD
300GB - HARD DRIVE
ATI RADEON 9200 - 128MB GRAPHIC CARD
1GB FOR RAM DRR400

I've tried the NoCd Crack to see if it will bypass the original cd but the same it shuts down my pc, So I tried to install the Addon pack for painkiller and the same again it shutdown my computer

I can play freedom Fighters ok, but not Painkiller - Can anybody help me

maybe its my bios setting

my motherboard is a ASUS A8V DELUXE

[Varus77]

What's your DirectX version?
PK > 9.0b
BOOH > 9.0c

(freedom Fighters needs only 8.1)

BTW...you're talking about the DEMO? ....and you've used noCD and/or BOOH on it?

[Uuber]

Does anyone have a location where some demos of matches are located? I looked at some links on PKEURO but they all seem to be dead. fatal1ty Vs. rocketboy, etc. No files I can find.

[PeTjA]

From the CPL http://demos.thecpl.com/World_Tour/

[Uuber]

Great stash.

Are they any demo commands to pause or slow down play? I'm assuming not.

One of them crashes my PK. The others I tried worked.

Thanks.

[DC-Anthony]

What type of video card do you have??

Are your drivers up to date?

[PeTjA]

Some demos are broken. (I damaged some of mine by "RARing" them).
In this case the comp freezes and U have to reboot. Or U just crash to desktop.
If the demo is different from Ur gameversion U should get a ingame message like :"different Header". Some of them recorded before 1.64 for sure.

Ur able to open some *.pkd with notepad (or sim. prog) and then U will see in the beginning of the first line wich gameversion was used to record the demo.

But U must have the gameversion installed to get them run. (I dont recommend to have too much different PK-Versions installed on the same comp.)

[Uuber]

I have the Radeon x600. Drivers are up to date as of about 4 months ago. I'll check for recent releases.

I tried about 5 demos and 4 worked, one crashed PK. No big deal but I'll check the headers to verify versions.

Would be nice to be able to rewind and slow down some parts in game. And go to spec to see diff angles. And zoom in. And...

If this game ever comes back for tournament play viewing from spec will be needed for TV. Some of the shots from the CGI tournament on DirecTV could have used a lot better viewing enhancements.

[PeTjA]

I think PK++ had a 200% speedcommand (dunno wich). But as far as i know none (orig PK and PK++) have rewind and stuff like that from a movieplayer.
Indeed sadly.
Also sad is that we lasttime in 1.35 were able to spectate in demos and capture frags from different views. Now since 1.5 the broken demorecording only records 1.personview.

[catphone]

i'm very enjoy the 1.35 demo of pk,since 1.5 released do the game S^H^I^T

[blowfish]

This is probably a silly question - but other than demos and netcode - what else in 1.5 is broken?

[SYS]

...a voice from the darkness.....

Erm, the question is good and the answer is easy too: the SinglePlayer... :D Many new bugs and issues came with 1.5 and BOOH (some guys here opened and filled a fat topic about all of these problems about 2 years ago), but fortunately most of them have been solved by an "All In One BugFix" community patch (reachable from Varus' site) and later by PowerMad (by Kalme). So by unofficial ways, because PCF solved only 1 or 2 issues from these many ones (for example They fixed the tarotcard-bug for "Colloseum" by patch 1.61)...