This game doesn't run.

[Rex Totalus]

I have a high end computer, why can't I get this game to launch?

[Rex Totalus]

Tried your fixes, wrace, because you actively neckbeard rage anyone on here, i've seen your suggestions, none of them work on my razer blade 15.

[KitsuneSama]

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM:
OS:Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7
Processor:1.8 GHz Processor
Memory:512 MB RAM
Graphics:3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7
DirectX®:7.0
Hard Drive:2 GB HD space

[Eagle Eye 559]

Yo Rex bit of a late reply, but hopefully this helps. Something to keep in mind with newer versions of Windows, is that they commonly cannot boot games due to "DirectPlay" issues.

This isn't anything to do with PC specs, so you can ignore what wrace said.

DirectPlay is an antiquated API library that was a component of earlier DirectX versions. However, Microsoft sidelined DirectPlay in favor of Games for Windows Live. As DirectPlay is obsolete, it’s no longer required to update Windows games.

However, DirectPlay is still more essential to run games that predate 2008 in Windows 10. Consequently, some older games don’t run without DirectPlay.

Step 1: Open Windows Features.

(Type feature in the search box on taskbar, and choose Turn Windows features on or off from the list.)

Step 2: Double-click Legacy Components to expand it, then select the DirectPlay checkbox.
Step 3: Restart your system for the change to take effect.

After that, you may also want to try the usual compatibility settings for the Gane's Exe, but I'd also enable "Disable Visual Themes" and "Disable Desktop Composition" since those can also muck up older games.

[Eagle Eye 559]

引用自 wrace：

All you (Eagle Eye) wrote above are just theoretical things that have nothing common with real problems of SR1 (and solution of them) that some small amount of players had.

DirectPlay legacy settings, is a exceedingly well documented problem for legacy software & games.

[Booster]

If you right click the exe file and select "troubleshoot compatability" and then go through the wizard to say it worked on Microsoft XP, it seems to fix the issue of not opening.

[Beezered]

I had an issue where it would crash after the "BINK SUPPORT" screen (hard wired-not wireless) and this worked for me.

Right clicking on the game in Steam
going to properties
browse in folder
find kain2 application
right click and run as admin

Probably doesnt work for everything, but it may be worth a shot.

[KitsuneSama]

You know what the real problem is? I mean I have had this game for PC since 2002 and I remember even back then it was a pain to get it running on several PC's using windos XP, all old games were usually like that altho a couple of months later several patches would be made by the devs to fix many issues with the game running on different GPU's or sound devices. Some specific GPU's like the voodoo would cause a ton of issues with some games. Thing is people these days think that it will be fine trying to run this game on a GTX 1080 or an RX 5700 and USING WINDOWS 10... when the game was never designed for that, in fact nowhere on the Steam store page does it read WINDOWS 10, it does not read that anywhere. I'm using Windows 7 and the game runs like a charm for me. And I have an i7 and an RX 5700 so yea I think just using Windows 10 might be the huge problem here most of the time.

[spawnderski]

hi my problem is that when i play the game it send me back to my home page