Already running...or not?

[Orly]

Well, I guess mine is the weirdest troubleshooting ever. I used to play Painkiller and never had any problem, but then gave it a brake and when I "came back" about 2 or 3 months later, it doesn't work anymore!!!

My pc is the same. In this 2 months I just got the latest patch, some windows updates and a stereo driver for my videocard. Of course I re-installed the game without the patches and uninstalled the stereo driver, but nothing happens.

I almost forgot: when I click on the desktop icon a second time, it says painkiller is already running (later when i try to shut the computer off it tries to finish painkiller).

I've never heard of anything like that anywhere, so please help!!!!

[Varus77]

Stereo driver...hm...have you reinstalled your graphic driver too? Try it.

If PK is running (you can see it in taskmanager > processes) then you haven't it minimized in the task bar?

At all it must be a driver problem.

BTW - you can test the PainEditor.exe too...load a level and start..maybe we'll get a clue

[Orly]

Thanks! It's running now! In fact I don't know what happened, but it works!

Here's what I did:
-clicked paineditor.exe and recieved the following message

script error
[string"../DATA/LScripts/Main/Cfg.lua"]:341:attempt to call global 'IspkInstaled' (a nil value)
press "retry" to debug

-Then i reinstalled the driver and when i clicked paineditor.exe OR painkiller.exe I started recieving the same message above! (I haven't tried paineditor before, but it wasn't happening with painkiller.exe for sure)

-Later I uninstalled and installed the game for the 6th or 7th time and...it worked!!

I haven't installed any patches yet, but it's great to play it again!

[Varus77]

Oh...at least I guess your trouble was caused by your PK installation, maybe something in your registry because of
if not IsPKInstalled() then

that means on the other side that you haven't a problem with your drivers.
Anyway...happy fragging... :D

BTW: if you'll try to patch and it shouldn't work...remember the option of a rollback with your "system recovery" option (don't know the exact words) You can make an individual recovery point before. Or copy your whole PK-folder in a Temp.

[Bjossi]

The computer was fooling the game, making it think the game is unInstalled. :p