I can't get this to work.

[Lord Tony]

The game just shuts down with an error.

[NOCTURNE]

Delete all videos here: Gorky 17/avi. It worked for me.

[Lord Tony]

but then I'll have no cutscenes

[Lord Tony]

Nope not working. My screen goes black for a second and then the game never starts.

[NOCTURNE]

The problem is that they didn't do anything about this game, they just put it to steam and thats all. They didn't do any update or something to make it run ok on nowdays computers. Its working for me, but only without cutscenes.

[Lord Tony]

I'm using windows 8 and I tried compatibility modes and none of that worked.

[VovanVV1982]

сегодня купил. и нормально работало. использовал русский язык. возможно проблема в локализации ( измените язык и перекачайте)

bought today. and worked fine. used the Russian language. maybe a problem in the localization (language change and download)

my win XP

[Lord Tony]

My windows xp compatibility mode didn't work.

[Sui]

Originally posted by Lord Tony:

I'm using windows 8 and I tried compatibility modes and none of that worked.

You know, there are very few examples of compatibility mode actually solving problems, right? If anything, compatibility administrator may help, but I have no idea whatever it's present in Windows 8 or whatever you can install it in Windows 8.

If you find it somewhere, add:
EmulateSlowCPU
EmulateHEAP
ForceDirectDrawEmulation
SingleProcAffinity

for Gorky17.exe. And obviously, remove the bs generic compatibility from exe file as well.

You can also experiment based on this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779583%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

[H 4 Z E]

if it still doesnt work,try adding the game's exe to UAC exception list. it solved the problem for meh

[Czar~<{(o)}>~Loki]

I tried everything to get this to work on my old Nvidia card which was a good card but nothing I did would work. That card recently died and over heated so I had to pull out my old $50 backup which doesnt not even require to be plugged into a powersupply cable, lol. and it plays the game great on all modes.

The guys are invisible on all modes except for software render tho. Anyway moral of the story if you have tried all the suggestions and you still cannot get it to work, then your video card just simply does not know what to do with it.

[Warbarian]

this game aint working for me neither. And Im using windows xp home sp3. I think maybe weve been had, suckered, and bamboozled by steam. This is the second game they sold me that doesnt work. (the first one being "Hitman Absolution")

[Sui]

Originally posted by Warbarian:

this game aint working for me neither. And Im using windows xp home sp3. I think maybe weve been had, suckered, and bamboozled by steam. This is the second game they sold me that doesnt work. (the first one being "Hitman Absolution")

Huh? Hitman Absolution and XP SP3? What?!

Anyway, with the amount of people reporting having problems running the game here and on GOG, it's pretty obvious there should be an additional notification about this game having problems with compatibility.

Then again, you could as well say - that customers should actually be more responsible and stop buying games blindly.

[MisterXis]

In "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Gorky 17", find VERSION folder.
Inside this folder you will found 2 folders with GORK17.exe alternatives.
Try both files. One of them should work for you.

Make sure you have backed up the original file.



S: "alternative2" works for me in Windows 8.1, Geforce GTX 660 (First mode checked).

[Kyce]

Originally posted by Pony Machine:

Then again, you could as well say - that customers should actually be more responsible and stop buying games blindly.

Maybe, but I like to think I can trust Steam since they have a reason to be responsible on my behalf.
Can't get this to work as well on Win7 64bit. Have dual 770s in SLI which is probably the 'issue'.
At least it was pretty cheap but looks like an interesting game and would like to try it.

[Sui]

Originally posted by kyce:

Originally posted by Pony Machine:

Then again, you could as well say - that customers should actually be more responsible and stop buying games blindly.

Maybe, but I like to think I can trust Steam since they have a reason to be responsible on my behalf.

No you shouldn't. In fact - you shouldn't put any amount of trust in any company. No matter if it's Valve with Steam, or CDP with GOG.

Anyway - the version on GOG, seems to be pretty much the same - also causes a lot of problems, its store page doesn't really have much in there as well... thankfully however - for a couple of weeks now, GOG has 30 Day Money Back Guarantee and seeing how Origin already has something similar in place as well, it'd be great if Valve tried to enforce similar policy, at least for old games, like Gorky 17... which just causes waaaaay to many problems on way too many PCs.